UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG
INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK
Advanced Seminar on
Quantum Field Theory and Gravitation
Prof. Dr. G. Rudolph, Prof. Dr. Rainer Verch, Dr. M. Schmidt
Winter Semester 2015/16
Magnetic Monopoles
Topics
Matter fields as sections in associated bundles
Fabio Müller, November 2
The Yang-Mills-Higgs system
Islam Onirban, November 9 and 16
The Dirac magnetic monopole
Sebastian Knappe, November 23
Status of the experimental search for magnetic monopoles
Sebastian Knappe, November 30
The 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole
Wu Ruijin and Danylo Uzhogov, December 7 and 14
The Prasad-Sommerfield limit
2 talks (may be skipped)
The Seiberg-Witten model*
Sandesh Bhat, January 4
Times
Monday 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., seminar room 114, ITP, Brüderstr. 16
Scriptum Mathematical Physics II
Tutor
Dr. Matthias Schmidt
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Brüderstr. 16, room 317B
Tel. 9732431
matthias.schmidt@itp.uni-leipzig.de