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A survey article for AMS Summer Institute at Seattle in 2005.

These proceedings are a summary of four lectures given at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (TASI) in 2009. These lectures provide a basic introduction to experimental particle physics and the Large…

This is the written version of the opening talk at the symposium "Expectations of a Final Theory," at Trinity College, Cambridge, on September 2, 2005. It is to be published in Universe or Multiverse?, ed. B. Carr (Cambridge University…

We discuss the renormalisation of the ground state energy of massive fields obeying boundary conditions, i.e., of the Casimir effect, and emphasise the role of the mass for its understanding. This is an extended abstract of a talk given at…

Physics has a bad press: it is seen by a majority of people as a boring discipline ever since their High School days. There is no glamour to it, just toil and pain, and for many who engaged in it, the end sight is often unemployment. Could…

Yes. (As this paper summarizes my talk at the Planetary Nebulae As Astronomical Tools meeting [Gdansk, June 2005], I stay as close as possible to the presentation I gave at the Gdansk meeting. Hence, the title is as was given by the…

Lectures presented at the 1st CERN Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, Fukuoka, Japan, 14-27 October 2012. A pedagogical selection of topics in probability and statistics is presented. Choice and emphasis are driven by the…

This essay is based on a physics lecture given at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on May 24, 2006, Hong Kong. It has 5 sections and one page of references and suggested reading. The section titles are: 1. Origin of the…

This is the introductory part of my Ph.D thesis, defended at the Faculty of Science and Technology, NTNU on December 10, 2012.

Notes for the author's MSRI lecture in January 2014.

A brief overview of hep-th/0201028 prepared for NATO Advanced Study Institute and EC Summer School on Progress in String, Field and Particle Theory, Cargese, Corsica, France, 25 June - 11 July 2002.

Talk given at XIXth International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies (LP 99), Stanford, California, 9-14 August 1999.

The European School of High-Energy Physics is intended to give young physicists an introduction to the theoretical aspects of recent advances in elementary particle physics. These proceedings contain lecture notes on quantum field theory,…

These are lecture notes of a course on Calogero-Moser systems and their connections with representation theory and geometry, given by the author in Zurich in May-June 2005.

This is an introductory survey of the theory of $p$-form conservation laws in field theory. It is based upon a series of lectures given at the Second Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics held in Tlaxcala, Mexico from…

These notes are an introduction to General Relativity as a Quantum Effective Field Theory, following the material given in a short course on the subject at EPFL. The intent is to develop General Relativity starting from a quantum field…

Invited presentation on issues at the intersection of science and politics in the United States, delivered at the 150 year anniversary of the French Physical Society on the 6th of July 2023 in Paris.

These lecture notes want to illustrate the close connection between statistical mechanics and field theory not only on the formal level, i.e. that many concepts of one area can easily be taken over to the other one, but also on the level of…

Summary of Quantum Magnetism Conference, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, August 16-20, 1999.

I give a pedagogical and historical introduction to axion physics, and briefly review the present status of axions in our understanding of particle physics and cosmology. This is a contribution to Continuous Advances in QCD 2002/Arkadyfest,…