Lectures:

1. Overview and introduction to continuum chiral perturbation theory (ChPT)
   [exercise1]
   Note that lecture 1 ended at slide 42—the remaining material is repeated at the beginning of lecture 2
2. Continuum ChPT continued: Power counting; adding sources; lllustrative results; SU(2) ChPT with a heavy strange quark; finite volume effects
   [exercise2]
3. Including discretization effects in ChPT using Symanzik’s effective theory
   [exercise3]
4. Partially quenched ChPT and applications, including a discussion of whether m_up=0 is meaningful

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