Syllabus

1. Jan. 29th and 31st: Introduction - Elements of Special Relativity Griffiths, Ch.3

2. Feb.5th and 7th: Review of Dirac Equation and Introduction to Deep Inelastic Scattering Halzen and Martin, Ch. 5, Close Section 9.1, Thomas and Weise, Ch.1

3. Feb. 8th and 10th: QPM and Perturbative-QCD Ch. 4

4. Feb 15th and 17th: Phenomenology: Sum Rules and Unpolarized Scattering Sec. 4.4, 4.5; Polarized Scattering Sec. 4.4, 4.5.

5. Feb. 22nd and 24th: Phenomenology: DI neutrino scattering; small x physics Sec. 4.3, 4.7

6. Mar. 1st and 3rd: Elastic Electron Nucleon Scattering Ch. 2.
7. Mar. 8th and 10th: SPRING BREAK

8. Mar. 15th and 17th: Generalized (or Off-Forward) Parton Distributions Sec. 4.8 .

9. Mar. 22th and 29th: Elements of QCD Ch. 5 .

10. April: Non Perturbative QCD Topic TBA

The dates on this Syllabus are tentative and could be varied as the course develops.