KIT

Research Seminar

- Winter Semester 2019/2020 -

General Information

Professor:

Prof. Dr. Frans R. Klinkhamer

Assistant:

Dr. Viacheslav A. Emelyanov  

Seminar topic:

We will discuss the book by N.D. Birrell and P.C.W. Davies:

Quantum Fields in Curved Space

Seminar time:

Tuesdays between 14:00 and 15:30

The first meeting is scheduled for October 15, 2019.

Seminar place:

Seminar room 12/01 in the building 30.23

Sign-up:

If you wish to participate in the seminar, you must attend the first meeting, in which the seminar topics will be distributed.

If you cannot make that, then contact Dr. Emelyanov beforehand.

Plan of Seminar

Topic

Section

Date

Speaker

1

Introduction

1

22.10.2019

V.E.

2

QFT in Minkowski spacetime

2.1 - 2.8

29.10.2019

J.Q.

3

QFT in curved spacetime. I

3.1 - 3.2

05.11.2019

W.H.

4

QFT in curved spacetime. II

3.3

12.11.2019

W.H.

5

QFT in curved spacetime. III

3.4 - 3.8

19.11.2019

Z.W.

6

Flat-spacetime examples

4.1 - 4.5

26.11.2019

J.Q.

7

Curved-spacetime examples

5.1 - 5.6

10.12.2019

W.H.

8

Stress-tensor renormalisation

6.1 - 6.6

17.12.2019

V.E.

9

Applications of renormalisation techniques

7.1 - 7.4

21.01.2020

V.E.

10

Quantum black holes

8.1 - 8.5

28.01.2020

Z.W.

11

Interacting fields

9.1 - 9.4

04.02.2020

Z.W.