| lecture# | topic (and link to notes) | Homework |
| 1/5 | Introduction to path integrals | |
| 1/7 | Path integrals, continued | |
| 1/10 | Generating function Z[J] | 9.2a,b (Due 1/22) |
| 1/22 | Z[J], continued | |
| 1/24 | Euclidean space. W[J]. | Homework 2(due 1/29) |
| 1/29 | 1PI diagrams | |
| 1/31 | W[J], and Gamma[Phi]. | |
| 2/5 | More on the effective action | |
| 2/7 | Doing loop integrals | HW 3 (Due 2/14) |
| 2/12 | Loops, continued | |
| 2/14 | counterterms and renormalization | |
| 2/21 | renormalization schemes and RG | |
| 2/26 | Full propagator, spectral function, LSZ | |
| 2/28 | Optical theorem. RG. | |
| 3/2 | RG eqn. Beta, gamma. | |
| 3/5 | RG flows, cont. Compute gamma. Grassmann integrals | |
| 3/7 | Path integral for fermions and gauge fields. Gauge invariance | |
| 3/12 | QED and loop diagrams | HW 4 (Due March 19) |
| 3/14 | QED and renormalization | |
| 3/16 | beta functions of QED and QCD |