Large N field theories I

Winter '04

Jan 16 Sigma Model Cihan Ackay

Jan 23 't Hooft "A planar diagram theory for strong interactions" Kathryn Zurek

Jan 30 't Hooft "A 2-dimensional model for mesons" Adam Clark

Feb 6 Veneziano and di Vecchia "Large N chiral dynamics for eta' mass" Mike Endres

Feb 13 Witten "Baryons in the 1/N expansion" Daisuke Yamada

Feb 20 Manohar et al. Baryons (paper t.b.a.) Rob Fardon

Feb 27 Loop equations (paper t.b.a.) Ruth Van de Water

Mar 5 Eguchi and Kawai "Reduction of dynamical degrees of freedom in the large-N gauge theory" Andrei Kryjevski or Jae Yong Lee

Mar 12 Yaffe "Large N limits as classical mechanics" Mithat Unsal

Mar 19 Large N matrix models (paper t.b.a.) Andrei Kryjevski or Jae Yong Lee