Textbooks

J. Polchinski, "String Theory," vols. 1-2.

R. Blumenhagen, E. Plauschinn, "Introduction to Conformal Field Theory, with applications to String Theory."


Topics to be covered

Bosonic string and its quantization, Conformal Field Theory in two dimensions, superstrings, D-branes, string and field theory dualities


HW policies and grading

HW assigned every Wednesday or Thursday, due the next Wednesday. No finals.
Grading will be done on the basis of HW.
Every problem or subproblem of a problem is worth 10 pts, unless indicated otherwise.
A passing grade requires more than 50% correctly solved HW problems.


Fall

HW1     HW1 Solutions

HW2     HW2 Solutions

HW3     HW3 Solutions

HW4     HW4 Solutions

HW5     HW5 Solutions

HW7   

HW9

Winter

No HW1  

HW2   

HW3

HW4

HW5

No HW 6

HW7

HW8