LECTURE INFORMATION

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Overview
Aug. 24, 98: Introduction of Particle Physics.
Aug. 26, 98: Experimental Particle Physics Overview.
Aug. 28, 98: Theoretical Particle Physics Overview.
Aug. 31, 98: Discovery of Particles #1.
Sept. 2, 98: Discovery of Particles #2.

Survey
Sept. 4, 98: Special Relativity I (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Sept. 9, 98: Special Relativity II. (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Sep. 11, 98: Lifetimes and Cross-sections. (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Sep. 14, 98: Scattering (Classical case). (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Sep. 16, 98: Golden Rule (Classical case) I. (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Sep. 18, 98: Golden Rule (Classical case) II. (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Sep. 21, 98: Golden Rule (Quantum Michanical case). (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Sep. 23, 98: Particle Exchange. (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Sep. 25, 98: Couplings, Feynman Rule. (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Sep. 28, 98: Couplings(Running) and Color Confinement. (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Sep. 30, 98: Natural Units and Dimensions
Oct. 02, 98: Fundamental Particles
Oct. 05, 98: Non-Relativistic and Relativistic Wave Equations. (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Oct. 07, 98: Dirac Equation and Anti-particles (ps, jpeg, pdf)

Particle Detection
Oct. 09, 98: Particle Interactions with Matter I. (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Oct. 12, 98: Particle Interactions with Matter II (ps, jpeg, pdf)
Oct. 14, 98: Particle Detector I (ps, jpeg)
Oct. 16, 98: Particle Detector II (ps, jpeg)
Oct. 19 & 21, 98: Particle Accelerators I (ps, jpeg)
Oct. 23, 98: Particle Accelerators II, Event Rate (ps, jpeg)

Symmetry Principles
Oct. 26, 98: Symmetries and Conservation Laws (ps, jpeg)
Oct. 28, 98: Space-Time Symmetries (ps, jpeg)
Oct. 30, 98: Discrete Symmetries (Paratiy, Time Reversal) (ps, jpeg)
Nov. 02, 98: Internal Symmetries I (Charge Conjugation, CP) (ps, jpeg)
Nov. 04, 98: Internal Symmetries II (Charge Conjugation, CP) (ps, jpeg)
Nov. 06, 98: P, C, CP Violation Discoveries

Hadron Flavor Physics
Nov. 09, 98: Spectroscopy
Nov. 11, 98: Onia (cc-bar, bb-bar, tt-bar bound states)
Nov. 13, 98: Light Mesons
Nov. 16, 98: Light Baryons (ps, jpeg)

Standard Model Formulation, Beyond Standard Model
Nov. 18, 98: Lagrangians and Euler-Lagrange Equation (ps, pdf)
Nov. 20, 98: Global and U(1) Local Gauge Invariance (ps, pdf)
Nov. 23, 98: Non-Abelian Local Gauge Invariance (ps, pdf)
Nov. 25,27 98: Symmetry Breaking/Higgs Mechanism (ps, pdf)
Nov. 30, 98: String Theory
Dec. 02, 98: Electroweak Theory (Weinberg-Salam Model) (ps, pdf)
Dec. 04, 98: Beyond Standard Model (ps, pdf)


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