Sidney Coleman Lectures Free on the Net

[Mk]

Harvard has now put up streaming videos of Sidney Coleman’s 1975-1976 Quantum Field Theory lectures. Bryan Chen has also transcribed the first eleven lectures to TeX format!.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/Phys253.html
http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~chb/

So, good for anybody that's studying or interested in QFT.

Notes also, here:
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/dt281/qft.html

 

[PrinceOfDarkness]

I suppose these videos can't be downloaded since they are streaming. Anyone know how to download them?

 

[TheRealColbert]

I love how he pauses to light up a smoke a couple minutes into the first lecture. Times have changed! It is right after his joke about stealing library books, where he demonstrates he has a laugh worthy of a world class physicist. I hadn't heard of him before, but it appears he was well loved and had a reputation as a great lecturer. It is beyond my level, but fun to watch.

edit: to download, use Firefox with DownloadHelper addon, to save to .flv file which can be played with VLC or ZoomPlayer

 

[PrinceOfDarkness]

Thanks. I figured that on my own soon after I made that post in march.

 

[vitruvianman]

I used to use opera (i'm a mac user) till I read this topic. Now, just because of that DownloadHelper add-on, I returned to Firefox :D