Program:

1. Perturbative QCD
   • Basics of Colour
   • Physics of (Photon/Gluon) Bremsstrahlung
   • QCD parton picture and all-order perturbative analyses
   • Multi-particle production in hard QCD processes
   • Dynamics of colour flows and QCD coherence
2. Probing non-perturbative phenomena by perturbative QCD tools: Power-suppressed confinement effects in hard cross sections, and in QCD jet observables
   • Parton multiplication     
   • Leading logarithms: diagrams and physics
   • Probabilistic cascading in Quantum Field Theory: Why?
   • Evolution equation(s)
   • Obvious and no-so-obvious properties of parton splitting kernels
   • Interference effects and proper Evolution Time (DIS vs e+e-)
   • Quark and gluon form factors (and Reggeization)
   • Running QCD coupling in Minkowsky space
   • Review of perturbative advances to non-perturbative phenomena
3. Partons (by Alfred Mueller, starting on April 27th)
   • The Parton Model and the Light Cone wave function of hadrons
   • QCD factorization, hard scattering and the DGLAP equation
   • The Dipole Picture of a high energy wave function
   • Quark and Gluon saturation at small x
   • Evidence for saturation