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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#201F1E;background:white">Hello,</span><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#201F1E">I am a third-year Ph.D. student in neutrino theory at UCL, and I am organising a reading group for the 2020 CUP book <a href="https://www-cambridge-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/core/books/introduction-to-effective-field-theory/A9CDB35F4AA7921E3A9CFD573EBA8B64" target="_blank" title="https://www-cambridge-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/core/books/introduction-to-effective-field-theory/A9CDB35F4AA7921E3A9CFD573EBA8B64">"Introduction
to Effective Field Theory: Thinking Effectively about Hierarchies of Scale"</a>, by McMaster/Perimeter Prof. C. P. Burgess. As the reading group will be conducted online, and as effective field theory is a tool which finds use across many specialities in physics
and beyond, I would like to invite participants from all institutions to take part.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#201F1E;background:white">If you would like to participate or find out more, please send an email to me at</span><span style="color:#201F1E"> <a href="mailto:ucapgwg@ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank" title="mailto:ucapgwg@ucl.ac.uk">ucapgwg@ucl.ac.uk</a><span style="background:white">.
The group will meet weekly on Zoom, beginning with an (optional) introductions and goals-setting meeting on</span> <b>Thursday 14 October </b><span style="background:white">at</span> <b>16:00 BST</b><span style="background:white">, and embarking properly on
the content on <b>Thursday 21 October </b>at the same time. The session leader role will rotate (flexibly) between all participants, although I will lead these first two sessions. An overview session of necessary QFT prerequisites, in particular renormalisation,
will also be scheduled next week for anyone who would like a review. A first course in QFT covering basic Lagrangian mechanics, Feynman rules up through QED, and renormalisation is likely necessary for understanding the text, and familiarity with any of gauge
theories, generating functionals, or dimensional regularisation will be helpful. Students are encouraged to discuss their participation with their supervisor(s).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#201F1E">This textbook, aimed at the postgraduate level, is both a conceptual and practical introduction to <span class="xmarkvve0zx1wg">EFT</span> methods. In Part I, it develops the theoretical
building blocks such as effective actions, power counting and matching, and nonlinear realisations of symmetry groups, which are common to all <span class="xmarkvve0zx1wg">EFT</span>s. The remaining 2/3 of the text are devoted to systematic overviews of the
most widespread and successful <span class="xmarkvve0zx1wg">EFT</span>s, including relativistic theories (QCD/ChPT, SMEFT, GREFT), nonrelativistic theories (NRQED, PPEFT, HQET), and many-body phenomena (phonons/magnons, superconductivity, quantum-Hall, mean
field theory). One exclusion is Soft Collinear Effective Theory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#201F1E">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#201F1E;background:white">Graham Van Goffrier</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Shirley</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Shirley Wylie<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Department of Physics<br>
University of Strathclyde<br>
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