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