This is a learning seminar for one year (Spring: May-July, Fall: Sep.-Dec.) on BV quantization and related geometric, algebraic approach. Everybody is welcome to these self-contained lectures. The subjects which will be covered are:
- Brief introduction to quantum field theory
- BRST and BV quantization
- Supersymmetry and supergravity
- (Super) conformal field theory
- Strings and branes
- AdS-CFT
- Mirror symmetry with BCOV
- Higher algebra and higher category
- Graph complexes and GRT group
- Factorization algebra
- Algebraic and categorical quantum field theory