Physics | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Fisica teorica, modelli e metodi matematici (FIS/02)
Field: Teorico e dei fondamenti della fisica
Type of training activity: Characterising

48 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

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Learning objectives

Get a working knowledge of techniques of Group Theory and Lie Algebras important in Theoretical Physics

Prerequisites

Elementary Geometry and group Theory

Course unit content

Finite groups, symmetries of classical systems, molecules, Lie Groups, Symmetries in Quantum Mechanics, Lie algebras and their representations (Semisimple case), Quark model, SU(3), SU(4)

Full programme

See my lecture notes on
www.fis.unipr.it/home/enrico.onofri

Bibliography

Hamermesh, Group Theory;
Sternberg, Group Theory;
Georgi, Lie Algebras

Teaching methods

Oral presentations, exercises in computing character tables, Mathematica codes for group theory

Assessment methods and criteria

Final oral examinations

Other information

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ADVANCE MATHEMATICAL MODELS cod. 1001044