Video Lectures — Theoretical Physics

A curated collection of video lecture series and schools for new PhD students in theoretical physics. All links are external; I don’t host the content. Credit to all the lecturers and institutions.

• Atomic and optical physics I (MIT, W. Ketterle)
• Atomic and optical physics II (MIT, W. Ketterle)
• Statistical mechanics of particles I (MIT, M. Kardar)
• Statistical mechanics of fields II (MIT, M. Kardar)
• Geometrical anatomy of theoretical physics (Universität Erlangen, F. Schuller)
• General relativity (Heraeus School, F. Schuller)
• Mathematical physics (PSI, C. Bender)
• Introduction to conformal field theory (T. Osborn)
• Black holes lectures (PSU, A. Ashtekar)
• Black hole thermodynamics (ICTP, R. Wald)
• Black holes and quantum information (Cornell, T. Hartman)
• Infrared structure of gravity and gauge theory (Harvard, A. Strominger)
• Asymptotic symmetries, black holes and holography (IPhT, M. Guica)
• The averaged null energy condition in QFT (ICTP, T. Hartman)
• Particle physics and the structure of RG flows (GGI, R. Rattazzi)
• Holography in general spacetimes (LMU Munich, R. Bousso)
• Celestial holography primer (IPhT, A. Puhm)
• Gravitational waves and binary systems (IHES, T. Damour)
• Effective field theory for gravity (GGI, A. Nicolis)
• Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (ICTS, C. Will)
• Black hole perturbation theory (ICTS, E. Berti)
• Self-force and radiation reaction in general relativity (ICTS, A. Pound)
• Regge physics (EPFL, J. Penedones)
• The analytic S-matrix (IPhT, A. Zhiboedov)
• Motivic periods and cosmic Galois group (IHES, F. Brown)
• Entanglement in QFT (Perimeter Institute, H. Casini)
• Holography, Finite Temperature QFT and Hydrodynamics (MITP, A. Starinets)
• Finite temperature field theory (MITP, G. Moore)
• QCD and collider physics (GGI, J. Thaler)
• Introduction to Lattice QCD (MITP, M. Marinkovic)
• QCD phase diagram (MITP, C. Ratti)
• Geometry of scattering amplitudes (QMAP, N. Arkani-Hamed)