Course

Introduction to Ontological Models (Formalism, Examples, Spekkens' toy theory, maybe excess baggage theorem)

Variational principles: scalar field, Einstein-Hilbert action, Euclidean Schwarzschild geometry

Yukawa interactions, CKM matrix, Fermi theory

Generalized formalism for quantum theory continued

Black holes: Carter-Penrose diagrams, Kerr solution, geodesics, ISCOs and accretion discs

Fermion kinetic terms, Charged and neutral current interactions, Fermion masses

Generalized Formalism for quantum theory (density ops, CP-maps, POVMs, Lindblad eqn.)

Application of Cartan's formalism to spherically symmetric spacetimes

Chiral fermion masses, Standard Model particle content, Higgs mechanism in the SM

Basic Phenomenology: Interference, Mach-Zehnder, Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb, EPR-Bohm, No-Cloning