Syllabus
1) relativistic supersymmetric particle;
2) Brink-Schwarz superparticle and kappa symmetry;
3) RNS superstring: 2D supergravity, BRST quantization, bosonization, cohomology, tree level scattering;
4) Green-Schwarz superstring: action and physical spectrum;
5) Pure spinor superstring: ad-hoc introduction, BRST quantization, superfield spectrum.
6) Selected advanced topics (upon agreement with students): heterotic string, string loops, Green-Schwarz mechanism, etc.
Annotation
Introduction to the superstring theory.