SUNY at Stony Brook MAT 570: Concepts of Quantum Mechanics
Fall 2010

Syllabus

Textbook: Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians, by Leon Takhtajan. Errata.

Planned syllabus

We plan to cover the following topics:

  • Classical mechanics: Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalism. Symmetries and Noether's theorem.
  • Mathematical foundation of quantum mechanics, including Heisenberg, Schrodinger and holomorphic representations.
  • Stone-von Neumann theorem, H. Weyl quantization and deformation quantization.
  • Schrodinger equation, including harmonic oscillator and hydrogen atom.
If time permits, we will also talk about path integral approach.