If you haven’t attended these meetings before, you may need to email Mike in order to get the information needed to join: msg2mw (at) gmail.com
July 2021: We are going to be on break for a while. Likely for the rest of the summer. With luck Tina and I will have relocated to BC by sometime in the fall and we’ll have enough bandwidth to get started again. The presentations, by both Matthew and Wayne this year, provide a wonderful resource for getting a foothold in the book (and in the “beginnings” of QFT). I can imagine that it might be worthwhile to have a few meetings at some point where anyone who’s trying to get through this material gets together and compares notes. In the meantime, if anyone has anything they want to present, just email me and I’ll get it on the calendar. -Mike
Sunday July 11th: Wayne presented the Hubbard Model, which concludes Chapter 4
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-may-23-ch-4-making-second-quantization-work/
Sunday July 4th: Making 2nd Quantization Work V
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-may-23-ch-4-making-second-quantization-work/
Sunday June 27th: Making 2nd Quantization Work IV
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-may-23-ch-4-making-second-quantization-work/
Sunday June 6th: Making 2nd Quantization Work III
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-may-23-ch-4-making-second-quantization-work/
Sunday May 30th: Making 2nd Quantization Work II
Wayne will continue on Chapter 4.
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-may-23-ch-4-making-second-quantization-work/
Sunday May 23rd: Making 2nd Quantization Work
Wayne will continue where Matthew left off in Chapter 3.
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-may-23-ch-4-making-second-quantization-work/
Sunday May 16th: Group Social
It’s been a while since we’ve gotten together just to chat. So let’s do that today. This Sunday would be a good time to say “hello” if you haven’t been coming to the somewhat-more-difficult lectures during the past few weeks.
Sunday May 9th: Quantum Field Theory – Occupation number representation I
Today Matthew will start on chapter 3: Occupation number representation.
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-april-18th-the-simple-quantum-harmonic-oscillator-continued
Sunday May 2nd: The Quantum Oscillator – Algebraic method II
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-april-18th-the-simple-quantum-harmonic-oscillator-continued
Sunday April 25th: The Quantum Oscillator – Algebraic method I
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-april-18th-the-simple-quantum-harmonic-oscillator-continued
Sunday April 18th: The Quantum Oscillator – Power series method II
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-april-18th-the-simple-quantum-harmonic-oscillator-continued
Sunday April 11th: The Quantum Oscillator – Power series method I
Today Matthew will start on the quantum version of the harmonic oscillator.
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-april-11th-the-simple-quantum-harmonic-oscillator
Sunday March 7th: Multiple Classical Ocillators III
https://physicscafe.org/topic/oscillator-series
Sunday February 28th: Multiple Classical Ocillators II
https://physicscafe.org/topic/oscillator-series
Sunday February 21st: Multiple Classical Oscillators I
https://physicscafe.org/topic/oscillator-series
Sunday February 14th: No Meeting
Sunday February 7th: The Classical Harmonic Oscillator, Part III
https://physicscafe.org/topic/oscillator-series
Sunday January 31st: The Classical Harmonic Oscillator, Part II
https://physicscafe.org/topic/oscillator-series
Sunday January 24th: The Classical Harmonic Oscillator, Part I
https://physicscafe.org/topic/oscillator-series
Sunday January 10th: No topic but we will meet
https://physicscafe.org/topic/sunday-january-10-no-topic