The notes have mainly developed over the past two years at Queen's and are targeted to be comprehensive over the course of teaching. Nonetheless, during the preparation of the notes, some additional resources, in addition to the instructor's lecture notes and discussions with a large group of students at different venues, are particularly acknowledged: Applied Analysis

This set of lecture notes covers a general model of adverse selection as well as a leading example— that of a price discriminating monopolist— due to Maskin and Riley (1984). At the end of this unit, students should understand the application of the revelation principal to this class of models, the general solution techniques, and the key economic trade-o¤— e¢ ciency versus information rent sav...

These lecture notes were prepared for the workshop on Adaptive Method, Theory and Application organized

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Preface These are lecture notes for a course taught in Cambridge during Lent 2014 by Jack Button, on a topics in infinite group theory. There are likely to be errors, which are solely the fault of the scribe. If you discover any, please contact me [email protected].

These lecture notes are intended as a pedagogical introduction to orientifolds. Aspects of orbifolds and F-theory are also discussed in brief to provide the necessary background. The emphasis is on the applications of these constructions to duality. The approach is based on simple examples that can be easily worked out in detail but which, at the same time, illustrate the main ingredients of th...

These lecture notes 1 intend to form a short pedagogical introduction to inflationary cosmology, highlighting selected areas of recent progress such as reheating and the theory of cosmological perturbations. Problems of principle for inflationary cosmology are pointed out, and some new attempts at solving them are indicated, including a nonsingular Universe construction by means of higher deriv...