Course

Physical submanifolds: domain walls & cosmic strings

Higgs decays

The conformal bootstrap. The conformal anomaly.

Calculation of Euclidean action & black hole entropy, Israel equations

Hadron and parton-level deep inelastic scattering

OPE, two-, three-, and four-point functions.

Gravitational action: Palatini lemma, Gauss-Codazzi formalism, Gibbons-Hawking term

Accidental symmetries, Deep inelastic scattering

Rotating black holes and black hole thermodynamics

Weak interactions, Fermi theory

The energy-momentum tensor of a CFT. Operators in CFT.

Black holes, horizons, and causal structure