30.01.2023 (Monday)

LonTI: Introduction to CFT and Conformal Bootstrap

Regular Seminar Andreas Stergiou (King's College)

at:
10:30 Other
room LIMS, Royal Institution
abstract:

These lectures aim to provide a self-contained introduction to the modern conformal bootstrap method. The study of conformal field theory (CFT) will first be motivated and the “old” way of studying CFTs as endpoints of RG flows will be explained. The set of ideas necessary to understand the conformal bootstrap method will then be introduced, and both analytic and numerical implementations of the conformal bootstrap method will be discussed.