Savdeep S. Sethi
Welcome to my webpage. I am a professor of physics
in the Enrico
Fermi
Institute and the Kadanoff Center for Theoretical
Physics
at the University of Chicago.
This is me.
My area of research is superstring
theory, and you can usually find me
in the particle theory group.
Publications
My papers can be found on the e-print
archive or from inSPIRE.
My curriculum vitae can be found here.
Events
Great
Lakes Strings 2011 to be held in Chicago April 29 - May 1.
Great Lakes Strings 2018 to be held in
Chicago April 13-15. This is also the first string workshop in our
new building!
CUWiP
Chicago 2020 to be held in Chicago January 17-19.
Teaching
- Fall 2002 - Physics
131B "Mechanics"
- Spring 2003 - Physics
487 "Supersymmetry and Supergravity"
- Fall 2003 - Physics
483 "String Theory I"
- Winter 2004 - Physics 484 "String Theory II"
- Winter 2005 - Physics 487 "Supersymmetry and
Supergravity"
- Spring 2005 - Physics 445 "Quantum Field Theory III"
- Fall 2005 - Physics 330 "Mathematical
Methods of Physics I"
- Spring 2006 - Physics 485 "String Theory III"
- Fall 2006 - Physics 221
"An Introduction to Mathematical Methods of Physics"
- Spring 2007 - Physics
445 "Quantum Field Theory III"
- Fall 2007 - Physics
330 "Mathematical
Methods of Physics I"
- Fall 2007 - Physics
221 "An Introduction to
Mathematical Methods of Physics"
- Fall 2008 - Physics
990 "GRE Preparation"
- Fall 2008 - Physics
221 "An Introduction to Mathematical Methods of
Physics"
- Fall 2009 - Physics
341 "Graduate Quantum Mechanics I"
- Winter 2010 - Physics
342 "Graduate Quantum Mechanics II"
- Fall 2010 - Physics
990 "GRE Preparation"
- Fall 2010 - Physics
264 "Spacetime and Black Holes"
- Winter 2011 - Physics
385 "Advanced Mathematical Methods in Physics"
- Fall 2011 - Physics
341 "Graduate Quantum
Mechanics I"
- Winter 2012 - Physics
342 "Graduate Quantum Mechanics II"
- Winter 2013 - Physics
385 "Advanced
Mathematical Methods in Physics"
- Winter 2014 - Physics
483 "String Theory I"
- Spring 2014 - Physics 484
"String Theory II"
- Fall 2014 - Physics 330
"Mathematical Methods of Physics I"
- Fall 2015 - Physics 341
"Graduate Quantum Mechanics I"
- Winter 2016 - Physics 342
"Graduate Quantum Mechanics II"
- Fall 2016 - Physics 341
"Graduate Quantum Mechanics I"
- Winter 2017 - Physics 342
"Graduate Quantum Mechanics II"
- Winter 2018 - Physics
483 "String Theory I"
- Spring 2019
- Physics 445
"Quantum Field Theory III"
- Winter 2020
- Physics 243
"Advanced Quantum Mechanics"
- Winter 2021
- Physics 243
"Advanced Quantum Mechanics"
- Spring 2021 -
Physics
445 "Quantum Field Theory III"
- Fall 2021 - Physics 341
"Graduate Quantum Mechanics I"
- Winter 2022 - Physics
342 "Graduate Quantum Mechanics II"
- Fall 2022 - Physics
141 "Honors Classical Mechanics"
- Fall 2023 - Physics
243 "Advanced Quantum Mechanics"
- Fall 2023 - Physics
141 "Honors Classical Mechanics"
Personal Stuff
This was the summer I didn't want to travel much but I still
had to attend Strings
2006 in Beijing. A record
of this trip can be found here.
After Strings came Aspen, 2006 and then my first trip to Copenhagen
to participate in the
Niels
Bohr Summer Institute.
No real pictures from Strings 2005 in Toronto. Here is me soaked at Niagara Falls on
one of the hottest
days I've ever experienced.
Pictures from Aspen,
2004 where we celebrated the discovery of anomaly cancellation
by Green
and Schwarz.
Some memories from Strings
2004 in Paris are recorded here.
Pictures from Aspen, 2003, while my first visit to Japan for
Strings
2003 is documented here.
Some pics of our dog, Rebel.
Some of my friends from Princeton visited Chicago around
the 4th of July 2002. We had fun exploring
the city. Check out some pics here.
A visit to the Aspen Center for Physics provides a nice
opportunity to do some physics (and some hiking).
Here are some pictures
from a 2002 hike up Mount Massive. Some older pics from 2001 can
be found here.
My attempt to explain string theory to the public on
npr
(I shudder when I listen to this).
More to come...
Contact Information:
Enrico Fermi Institute
MCP 427
University of Chicago
5640 S. Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: 773-834-4434
Fax:
773-702-8038
sethi at uchicago.edu
The MCP building is physically located at 933 E.
56th St, Chicago, IL 60637.
If
I am not around, you can leave urgent items for me with the particle theory
group
secretary in the director's office on the 1st
floor of the MCP.
Acknowledgement
This material is based upon work supported by the
National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-1720480 and
PHY-2014195.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this material are those of the
author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the
National Science Foundation.