John Cardy

Biographical Summary

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Physics Research

Brief research description

Research papers

• Past year
• Since 1992
• Key Papers
• Nature News item on the a-theorem

Books

Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics, 256 pp, ISBN 0521499593, CUP, 1996.
• Description
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Chapter 11:`Conformal Symmetry' pdf version
• Hints for the Exercises pdf version
• Corrigenda

Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Turbulence, G.Falkovich and K. Gawedski (co-authors); edited by S. Nazarenko and O. Zaboronski, ISBN-13: 9780521715140, CUP, 2008.
• Description

Review Articles

• Boundary Conformal Field Theory, entry in Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics (Elsevier, 2006.)
• SLE for Theoretical Physicists (Annals of Physics 318(1), 81, 2005.)

Lecture Notes

• Les Houches lectures, 1988: Conformal Invariance and Statistical Mechanics (sorry, no figures) pdf version
• Les Houches lectures, 1994: Geometrical Properties of Loops and Cluster Boundaries
• Field Theory and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Lectures presented as part of the Troisieme Cycle de la Suisse Romande, Spring 1999.
• Lectures on Conformal Invariance and Percolation Lectures delivered at Chuo University, Tokyo, March 2001. pdf version
• Stochastic Loewner Evolution and Other Growth Processes in Two Dimensions Lectures at the Newton Institute, Cambridge, March 2006.
• Reaction-Diffusion Processes Warwick, July 2006.
• Les Houches lectures 2008: Conformal Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics.

Selected recent talks

• Earlier talks
• `Time Dependence of Correlation Functions following a Quantum Quench' (Edinburgh, Durham, Paris, 2006)
• `Entanglement Entropy in Extended Systems' (STATPHYS 23, Genoa, 2007)
• `2d Field Theory and Random Planar Sets: past and future' (Conformal Maps from Probability to Physics, Ascona, 2010)
• `The Ubiquitous `c': from the Stefan-Boltzmann Law to Quantum Information' (Boltzmann Medal Lecture, StatPhys24, Cairns, 2010)
• `Logarithmic CFTs as Limits of Ordinary CFTs, and some physical applications' (IHP, Paris, 2011)
• `Renormalisation Group Flows in Four Dimensions and the a-theorem' (Oxford, 2012)

Physics Teaching

Field Theory in Condensed Matter, Hilary Term 2012

• Synopsis
• Lecture Notes 1 Chapters 5 and 6 are most relevant to this course
• Problem Set 1 due Feb 17
• Notes on relation between RG in statistical mechanics and in field theory
• Lecture notes 2 Sections 2, 3-2-3.5, 4 and 5 (and possibly later sections) are most relevant

Previous lecture courses

Other links

• Wikipedia article
• All Souls College
• African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
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