Field Notes

Field Notes on Field Notes: Informing Technology Support for Biologists

Biology fieldwork generates a wealth of qualitative and quantitative information, an unstructured “bag of data,” requiring substantial labor to coordinate and distill. In the interest of furthering research, we present findings from interviews with 15 biologists and analyses of 13 notebooks. We learned that biologists rely on their notebooks as the primary record of observations, plans, measure...

Notes on Quantum Field Theory

UCSB Notes for the first quarter of a QFT course, based mostly on ϕ 3 theory in six dimensions. Please send any comments or corrections to

Quantum Field Theory Lecture Notes

Notes on Topological Field Theory

Introduction The notes give a survey of the basics of the following topological field theories: • The Chern-Simons gauge theory on 3-manifolds, its renormalization, geometric quantization, computation of partition functions by surgery, and relation with Jones Polynomials • Twisted N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on 4-manifolds, its reduction to N = 1 theory with a mass gap, and computati...

Notes on (0,2) Superconformal Field Theories

In these lecture notes, I review the " linear σ-model " approach to (0,2) string vacua. My aim is to provide the reader with a toolkit for studying a very broad class of (0,2) superconformal field theories with the requisite properties to be candidate string vacua.