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SidneyFest 2005 QFT & QCD: PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE (March 18-19, 2005) Home | Department of Physics Home | Harvard University Home S Poster | Guestbook | Program & Speakers | Videos | Letters | Slide Shows | The Blog | Harvard Gazette Article | Sidney's Student | Sidney's Genealogy | Sidney's Homepage I D VIDEOS N MOV1: Opening remarks by John Huth and Arthur Jaffe MOV2: Norman Ramsey's Introduction of David Gross followed by David Gross's talk, "The Future of Physics" E MOV3: Lisa Randall's Introduction of Frank Wilczek followed by Frank Wilczek's talk, "Asymptotic Freedom: From Paradox to Paradigm" Y MOV4: Welcome by President Lawrence Summers F MOV5: Greg Moore's Introduction of Paul Steinhardt followed by Paul Steinhardt's talk, "Cosmology in a False Vacuum" MOV6: Leon Cooper's Introduction of Murray Gell-Mann followed by Murray Gellman's talk, "Recollections of Sidney" E MOV7: Howard Georgi's Introduction of Sheldon Glashow followed by Sheldon Glashow's talk, "Small Matrices, Sidney, and Me" S MOV8:Loeb House Dinner Program, part I T MOV9:Loeb House Dinner Program, part II MOV10: Alan Guth's Introduction of Erick Weinberg followed by Erick Weinberg's talk, "Vacuum Tunneling in de Sitter Space--QFT in the Past and in the Future" MOV11: Kenneth Wilson's Introduction of Steven Weinberg followed by Steven Weinberg's talk, "Cosmological Correlations" 2 MOV12: Nathan Seiberg's Introduction of Gerard 't Hooft followed by Gerard 't Hooft's talk, "Symmetry and Sidney" 0 MOV13: Arthur Jaffe's Introduction of Edward Witten followed by Edward Witten's talk, "Emergent Phenomena in Condensed Matter and Particle Physics" 0 The videos are in MOV (Apple's QuickTime) format. If you don't already have QuickTime on your computer, you may download it from: QuickTime 5 QuickTime alternative (for Windows' standard players) For questions and comments, please contact Barbara Drauschke or Arthur M. Jaffe http://media.physics.harvard.edu/QFT/video.htm[2015/1/20 16:19:15] Physics 253: Quantum Field Theory Lectures by Sidney R. Coleman | Harvard University Department of Physics CONTACT VISIT APPLY MAKE A GIFT HOME ABOUT ACADEMICS RESEARCH PEOPLE RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION NEWS & EVENTS Physics 253: Quantum Field Theory Lectures by Sidney R. Coleman Recorded in 1975-1976. The videos shown here were transferred to DVD in 2007 straight from surviving VHS tapes, which were, in turn, copied from the original source tapes. As such, the quality of the image has suffered and is as good as currently feasible without resorting to an expensive remastering process. Made in 1975-1976, the videos were shot using a black and white tube video camera. The black halo or vignette effect you see around the image is caused by the camera's Image Orthicon pickup tube. Harvard affiliates have the option of borrowing DVDs of these lecture from Physics Research Library. Please note, however, that the resolution on the DVDs is comparable - or only marginally better - to that of the online video archive files. Professor Coleman's wit and teaching style is legendary and, despite all that may have changed in the 35 years since these lectures were recorded, many students today are excited at the prospect of being able to view them and experience Sidney's particular genius second-hand. Notes by Brian Hill, typeset and edited by Yuan-Sen Ting and Bryan Chen Gin: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5013 Choose a lecture to watch: lecture 1 lecture 2 lecture 3 lecture 4 lecture 5 lecture 6 lecture 7 lecture 8 lecture 9 lecture 10 lecture 11 lecture 12 lecture 13 lecture 14 lecture 15 lecture 16 lecture 17 lecture 18 lecture 19 lecture 20 lecture 21 lecture 22 lecture 23 lecture 24 lecture 25 lecture 26 lecture 27 lecture 28 lecture 29 lecture 30 lecture 31 lecture 32 lecture 33 lecture 34 lecture 35 lecture 36 lecture 37 lecture 38 lecture 39 lecture 40 lecture 41 lecture 42 lecture 43 lecture 44 lecture 45 lecture 46 lecture 47 lecture 48 lecture 49 lecture 50 lecture 51 lecture 52 lecture 53 lecture 54 back to the Video Archive News and Events: Recent News Science Research Public Lectures Physics Event Calendar Career Event Calendar Faculty Awards Loeb and Lee Lectures Archive Monday Colloquium Archive Room Booking Calendar Video Archive HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD DIRECTORY | HARVie | FINANCIAL FORMS Department of Physics Login | Logout 17 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-2872 phone Connect with us: (617) 495-0416 fax Harvard University | Faculty of Arts And Sciences | Division of Science Copyright © 2015 The Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College https://www.physics.harvard.edu/events/videos/Phys253[2015/1/20 16:11:00] Sidney Coleman For the football player, see Sidney Coleman (American touched on subnuclear theory…These lectures football). span fourteen years, from 1966 to 1979. This was a great time to be a high-energy theorist, Sidney Richard Coleman (7 March 1937 – 18 Novem- the period of the famous triumph of quantum field theory. And what a triumph it was, in ber 2007) was an American theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann. He is notable for his the old sense of the word: a glorious victory parade, full of wonderful things brought back research in high-energy theoretical physics. from far places to make the spectator gasp with awe and laugh with joy. I hope some of that 1 Life and work awe and joy has been captured here. Sidney Coleman grew up on the Far North Side of Coleman’s lectures at Harvard were legendary. Students Chicago. In 1957, he received his undergraduate degree in one quantum field theory course created T-shirts bear- from the Illinois Institute of Technology physics depart- ing his image and a collection of his more noted quota- ment. tions, among them: “Not only God knows, I know, and by the end of the semester, you will know.” Despite this He received his PhD from Caltech in 1962, and moved acclaim, he did not generally enjoy teaching or mentoring to Harvard University that year, where he spent his entire graduate students: career, meeting his wife Diana there in the late 1970s. They were married in 1982. “He was a giant in a peculiar sense, because he’s not I hate [teaching]. You do it as part of the known to the general populace,” Nobel laureate Sheldon job. Well, that’s of course false ... or maybe Glashow told the Boston Globe. “He’s not a Stephen more true than false when I say I hate it. ... Hawking; he has virtually no visibility outside. But within But I certainly would be just as happy if I had the community of theoretical physicists, he’s kind of a no graduate students. ... Occasionally there is major god. He is the physicist’s physicist.”[1] a graduate student who is a joy to collaborate with. Both David Politzer and Erick Weinberg In 1966, Antonino Zichichi recruited Coleman as a lec- were of this kind, but they were essentially al- turer at the then-new summer school at International most mature physicists. They were very bright School for Subnuclear Physics in Erice, Sicily. A leg- by the time they came to me. In general, work- endary figure at the school throughout the 1970s and early ing with a graduate student is like teaching a 1980s, Coleman was awarded the title “Best Lecturer” on course. It’s tedious, unpleasant work. A pain the occasion of the school’s fifteenth anniversary (1979). in the neck. You do it because you're paid to His explanation of spontaneous symmetry breaking in do it. If I weren't paid to do it I certainly would terms of a little man living inside a ferromagnet has often never do it.[5] been cited by later popularizers.[2][3] The classic particle physics text Aspects of Symmetry (1985) is a collection of Coleman’s lectures at Erice. A quote from his introduc- In 1989, Coleman was awarded the NAS Award for Sci- tion to the book is worth sharing here:[4] entific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sci- ences. That award praised his “lucid, insightful, and in- I first came to Erice in 1966, to lecture fluential reviews on partially conserved currents, gauge theories, instantons, and magnetic monopoles--subjects at the fourth of the annual schools on subnu- [6] clear physics organized by Nino Zichichi. I was fundamental to theoretical physics.” In 2005, Harvard charmed by the beauty of Erice, fascinated by University’s physics department held the “SidneyFest”, a the thick layers of Sicilian culture and history, conference on quantum field theory and quantum chro- and terrified by the iron rule with which Nino modynamics, organized in his honor. kept the students and faculty in line. In a word, Aside from his academic work, Coleman was a prominent I was won over, and I returned to Erice every science fiction enthusiast. He was one of the founders year or two thereafter, to talk of what was past, of Advent: Publishers[7] and occasionally reviewed genre or passing, or to come, at least insofar as it books for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.[8] 1 2 4 EXTERNAL LINKS 2 Contributions to physics 4 External links Some of his best known works are • Sidneyfest - physicists’ celebration of Sidney Cole- man’s life [9] • Coleman–Mandula theorem • Chicago Tribune obituary, November 20, 2007. • Tadpoles • Harvard Gazette obituary, November 29, 2007. • Coleman theorem[10] • Boston Globe obituary, January 20, 2008. • Equivalence of the Thirring model and the quantum • Physics Today obituary, May 2008, written by sine-Gordon equation[11] Sheldon Glashow. • • Semiclassical analysis of the fate of a false vacuum “Quantum Mechanics In Your Face”, A lecture by Prof.
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