Supersymmetry: Lecture Log

Tentative plan for August 26 (Tuesday):

Syllabus and admin: textbooks and notes; prerequisite knowledge; class focus; lectures, homeworks, exams, and logistics.
Why supersymmetry: hierarchy and naturalness; GUTs, etc., exact non-perturbative results; use in string theory.
Supersymmetric Higgs mechanism: each massive vector multiplet eats a whole scalar multiplet; SQED example in components.

Tentative plan for August 28 (Thursday):

Supersymmetric unitary gauge; SQED moduli space.
Intro to non-abelian SYM: the NA vector superfield, the NA gauge symmetry, and the NA W_α and W̅_α̇.