Teaching

WS 26/27

Quantum gravity and the Renormalization Group

I am teaching Quantum gravity and the Renormalization Group. More information will follow soon.

Recommended literature:
  • Lecture notes from previous years (see below)
  • Asymptotically safe quantum gravity and its phenomenology -- a review by A. Eichhorn (arXiv:2606.21522)
  • Lectures in Quantum Gravity by I. Basile, L. Buoninfante, F. Di Filippo, B. Knorr, A. Platania, A. Tokareva (SciPost Physics Lecture Notes 98 (2025), YT recordings)
  • An Introduction to Covariant Quantum Gravity and Asymptotic Safety by R. Percacci (World Scientific, 2017)
  • Quantum Gravity and the Functional Renormalization Group : The Road towards Asymptotic Safety by M. Reuter, F. Saueressig (Cambridge, 2019)
  • Handbook of Quantum Gravity (Springer Nature, editors: C. Bambi, L. Modesto, I. Shapiro, available from within the university intranet, advanced and extremely broad material)

WS 25/26

Quantum gravity and the Renormalization Group

I am teaching Quantum gravity and the Renormalization Group. Tutorials are held by Dr. Fabian Wagner on Mondays from 14:15 to 15:45, Phil 12, nHS.

Lecture notes:
Lecture 1 (17/10) Lecture 2 (24/10) Lecture 3 (31/10)
Lecture 4 (07/11) Lecture 5 (14/11) Lecture 6 (21/11)
Lecture 7 (28/11) Lecture 8 (05/12) Lecture 9 (12/12)
Lecture 10 (19/12) Lecture 11 (09/01) Lecture 12 (16/01)
Lecture 13 (23/01) 30/01: Q&A session
Exercise sheets and notebooks:     all sheets     Mathematica Notebook Intro to xAct     Mathematica Notebook One-loop divergences     Mathematica Notebook Extra spin two

WS 24/25

Quantum gravity and the Renormalization Group

I am the tutor for Quantum gravity and the Renormalization Group, taught by Prof. Astrid Eichhorn. Tutorials are on Fridays from 14:15 to 15:45, Phil 12, kHS (group 1) and on Mondays from 14:15 to 15:45, Phil 12, nHS (group 2).

The current version of the lecture notes (last update: Feb 04) can be found here.
Exercise sheets and notebooks:     all sheets     Mathematica Notebook Intro to xAct     Mathematica Notebook One-loop divergences (updated 21/11)     Mathematica Notebook Conformal transformations     Mathematica Notebook Extra spin two