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  Forschungsseminar: Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime  


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  Organized by:

Prof. Frans R. Klinkhamer

,

Dr. Jorge Diaz

and

Dr. Viacheslav Emelyanov

  What:

 the classical book by Birrell and Davies and even more

  Where:

 Physikhochhaus, 30.23, room 11-12

  When:

 every Wednesday starting from 21.10.2015 between 14:00 and 15:30  



  Plan of the seminar

Topic

Pages

Extra

Date

Speaker

1

 QFT in flat spacetime: Basic concepts 

10-20

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21.10.2015

Slava

2

 QFT in flat spacetime: Green functions 

20-28

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04.11.2015

Frasher

3

 QFT in curved spacetime: Basic concepts 

36-62

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11.11.2015

Kumar

4

 QFT in curved spacetime: Concept of adiabatic vacuum 

62-73

18.11.2015

Pascal

5

 QFT in curved spacetime: Adiabatic expansion of Green functions 

73-79

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25.11.2015

Xuewen

6

 Flat spacetime examples: Boundary condition/topology effects 

89-109

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09.12.2015

Pascal

7

 Flat spacetime examples: Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect 

109-118

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16.12.2015

Jorge

8

 Curved spacetime examples: Particle production effect 

118-150

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13.01.2015

Frasher

9

 Stress-tensor renormalization: Regularization methods 

28-36,..

20.01.2015

Kumar

10

 Stress-tensor renormalization: Conformal anomaly 

27.01.2016

Xuewen

11

 Application of renormalization techniques 

03.02.2016

Slava

12

 Quantum black holes: Hawking effect 

10.02.2016

Jorge

13

 Quantum black holes: BH thermodynamics 

17.02.2016

Kumar

14

 Interacting fields 

24.02.2016

Frasher

  Further Literature:

S.A. Fulling,

 "Aspects of QFT in curved spacetime"

R.M. Wald,

 "QFT in curved spacetime

 and black hole thermodynamics"

V.F. Mukhanov,

 "Quantum effects in gravity"

and S. Winitzki

B. DeWitt,

 "The global approach to QFT. Volume I"

 "The global approach to QFT. Volume II" 



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