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Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar: Path integral quantization of particles via probability

GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM THEORY

When: September 15, 2026
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Speaker: Dan Freed

This is the beginning of our study of Sourav Chatterjee’s Gauge Theory Lecture Notes, a book-in-progress.  This lecture follows Chapter 1, which covers the path integral quantization of a single particle.  We begin in real time with the free particle and then move on to the Wick rotated version with a potential.  The idea is to introduce probabilistic methods in this construction.