Next student seminar :
Access to the program
Here you can find information about your internships:
Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
Master ICFP first year Internship
News : ICFP Research seminars
November 14 - 18, 2022 :
All information about the program
Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr
Next student seminar :
Access to the program
Here you can find information about your internships:
Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
Master ICFP first year Internship
News : ICFP Research seminars
November 14 - 18, 2022 :
All information about the program
Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr
Enseignant : Slava Rychkov
Chargé de TD :
ECTS : 3
Langue d’enseignement : Anglais
Site web :
“I wanted to quit physics, but then I learned effective field theory and everything started to make sense”
Nima Arkani-Hamed (speaking at the conference in honor of Joe Polchinski).
The main purpose of this course will be to teach, with examples, effective field theory - the single most powerful organizing principle in the zoo of quantum field theories. Whether you are a cosmologist, a stat-phys, cond-mat, high-energy theorist, or interested in quantum gravity (especially if you are interested in quantum gravity!) a thorough understanding of effective field theory is a must.
Time permitting, we will also discuss other organizing principles and no-go theorems, such as
the Coleman-Mandula theorem, Weinberg-Witten and Vafa-Witten theorems, c- and a-theorem etc.
Depending on the interests of the audience, conformal field theory may also be discussed.
Next student seminar :
Access to the program
Here you can find information about your internships:
Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
Master ICFP first year Internship
News : ICFP Research seminars
November 14 - 18, 2022 :
All information about the program
Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr