Taken from: Ian I. Kogan - Michaelmas Term 2000

His books:

Part of the material is covered in several textbooks. My favorites are ``Gauge Fields and Strings '' by Polyakov (Harwood), ``Superstring theory'' by Green, Schwartz and Witten (CUP) and Polchinski''String Theory'' (CUP) in 2 volumes (see [Joe's Big Book of String ] These books will be used during the course. There are also many excellent reviews available on the net (but do not print all of them ! You may not need all of them, so save time, energy and forests !) Some of them are here (the list is not complete by all means, but my time is , unfortunately, limited):

For general introduction into perturbative string theory and D-branes:

• An Invitation (for very beginners)
• Lectures on brane model-building
• Resource letter on String theory (LOTSA references. more here)
• TASI tachyons and D-branes, another lecture here
• [ WHAT IS STRING THEORY] by Joseph Polchinski
• [TASI LECTURES ON D-BRANES] by Joseph Polchinski ,
• [NOTES ON D-BRANES] by Joseph Polchinski, Shyamoli Chaudhuri and Clifford V. Johnson,
• TASI lectures on brane effective theory
• [TASI LECTURES ON PERTURBATIVE STRING THEORIES] by Hirosi Ooguri and Zheng Yin
• [BUSSTEP LECTURES ON STRING THEORIES]
• Gerhardus T'Hooft page (with lecture notes on strings)

For T-duality

• [Lectures on Strings and Dualities] by Cumrun Vafa
• [TARGET SPACE DUALITY IN STRING THEORY, Phys.Rept.244 (1994) 77,] by Amit Giveon, Massimo Porrati and Eliezer Rabinovici;
• [Dualized standard model], bu Chan and Tsou

For 2d gravity and c=1 strings

• [String Theory in Two Dimensions] by Igor Klebanov
• [Lectures on 2D gravity and 2D string theory (TASI 1992)] by P. Ginsparg abd Gregory Moore and
• [2D Gravity and Random Matrices] by P. Di Francesco, P. Ginsparg and J. Zinn-Justin

For p-branes, black branes, string solitons and string black holes

• TASI lectures on solitons
• CPT violation
• [LECTURES ON SUPERGRAVITY P-BRANES] by K.S. Stelle,
• [STRING SOLITONS, Phys.Rept.259 (1995) 213] by M. J. Duff, Ramzi R. Khuri and J. X. Lu and
• [Black Holes in String Theory] by Juan M. Maldacena.

More about different aspects of D-branes (BPS and Non-BPS, gauge fields, D-branes quantum numbers and K-theory)

• [LECTURES ON D-BRANES, GAUGE THEORY AND M(ATRICES)] by Washington Taylor, IV,
• [BRANE DYNAMICS AND GAUGE THEORY] by Amit Giveon and David Kutasov,
• [LECTURES ON D-BRANES] by Constantin P. Bachas,
• [Non-BPS States and Branes in String Theory] by Ashoke Sen and
• [Constructing D-Branes from K-Theory] by Kasper Olsen and Richard J. Szabo
• Large extra dimensions by Gabadadze
• Intro to large extra dimensions
• Calabi Yau and all that...

For String Dualities and M-theory

• [ Four Lectures on M-theory] by P. K. Townsend,
• mirror symmetry
• [Lectures on Superstring and M Theory Dualities] by John H. Schwarz,
• [A Layman's Guide to M-theory] by M.J. Duff and
• [Itroduction to M Theory] by Miao Li.
• TASI lectures on compactification and duality

For Matrix Strings, M(atrix) Theory and the Light Cone

• [Review of Matrix Theory] by Daniela Bigatti and Leonard Susskind,
• [Matrix Theory] by Tom Banks,
• Matrix models
• [M(atrix) Theory : a Pedagogical Introduction] by Adel Bilal and
• [M-Theory and the Light Cone] by Joseph Polchinski

For AdS/CFT correspondence

• [Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity] by O. Aharony, S. S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri and Y. Oz
• AdS/CfT and confinement, more here
• Topology in field theory. See also defect structures in field theory
• Topology in string theory
• TASI lectures on AdS/CfT
• Gauge/Gravity correspondence
• Strings and Twistors lecture. See also Noncommutative mechanics, Landau levels, twistors and Yang-Mills amplitudes
• QCD reborn in strings

For Cosmology

• [SUPERSTRING COSMOLOGY] by James E. Lidsey, David Wands and E. J. Copeland
• Lectures on the Theory of Cosmological Perturbations (also classic here, new review here)
• Cosmological phase transitions (explains how phase transitions are handled in QFT, why B violated in nonperturbative SM, etc.). See also phase transitions and topology
• Inflation in string cosmology, see review here
• Intro to cosmology
• Cosmic string and superstrings
• Linde's book on inflation
• Intro to string cosmology
• Astro-particle physics
• Cosmic strings

SUSY

• [BUSSTEP lectures on SUSY] by James E. Lidsey, David Wands and E. J. Copeland
• SUSY Gauge theories, Berman,Rabinovici
• SUSY breaking, also here
• A Supersymmetry primer
• Non preturbative SUSY, more here and here
• What is SUSY and how do we find it?
• SUSY: Structure and phenomena
• Non-preturbative SUSY

Loop Quantum Gravity

• primer, also see here for skeptics
• Smolin review
• Perez lectures
• Book by Rovelli
• Lectures and book by Thiemann
• Semi-classical
• Outside view and "inside view" (rebuttal by Thiemann)

Decoherence

• Decoherence and Kaons
• Original paper
• A nice intro to the maths of decoherence

Other stuff

• Weinberg's The Cosmological constant problem, and Volovik's solution
• The spin-statistics theorem
• Book on Quantum Computers and lectures on the relativistic aspects
• Site with resources on non equilibrium stat mech
• TASI lectures on neutrinoes, also see here
• Anomalies, see also TASI lecture
• Brett Taylor's research
• QCD and conformal symmetry
• g-2
• Hawking radiation, see also black hole thermodynamics and how to calculate it in string theory
• GR and Manifolds, also geometric calculus here and Chern-Simons theory Chern-Simons theory here
• Warren Siegel (strings, SUSYes, parodies)
• everything theoretical, see also this
• Symmetries in QFT
• Renormalization... what is it? See also here and here
• Weak interations book by Georgi
• Lepto-genesis
• High TC-Superconductivity (more here and here)
• Variational field theory (QCD)
• A neat "textbook" calculation of the standard model potential to one loop at finite temperature
• Lie algebras and Clifford algebras
• Lotsa articles about 50 years of Yang Mills compiled here
• SO(10) group theory
• Collider phenomenology
• intro to QFT. See also Freeman Dyson's Quantum mechanics lectures and these spin lectures
• Statistical mechanics of a gravitating system
• CP violation in cosmology, see also Baryogenesis lectures by Jim Cline