Course

Non-abelian Higgs model, Standard Model Higgs sector

Cartan's formalism: connection & curvature

Abelian Higgs model

Why CFTs are important.

Lie derivative and symmetries, Killing vectors, ON basis

Spontaneously broken global symmetries

Review of differential geometry: manifolds, tensors, differential forms

Particle content of the Standard Model, Renormalizability of massive gauge theories

Research in quantum complexity and the emergence of irreversibility

Copenhagenish interpretations and the Frauchiger-Renner argument

Bouncing cosmology 2: the bouncing phase

Averages in the Hilbert space; entanglement typicality