Module II : INSTANTON PHYSICS
Dates:
December 4-8, 10-13, 2004 (9 lectures)
Lecturer:
Rajesh Gopakumar (Harish Chandra Research Institute,
Allahabad)
Guest Faculty: V.V. Sreedhar
(Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)
Course Guidelines:
- Classical instanton solutions,
- Vacuum structures of gauge theory, tunnelling,
- Anomalies and U(1) problem,
- fermions in instanton background,
- non-perturbative symmetry-breaking,
- sphalerons.