Introduction to perturbative QCD

- Basics elements of QCD.
- Running coupling and asymptotic freedom.
- Hadron production in electron-positron annihilation.
- Infrared divergences and infrared safety.
- Deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering.
- The parton model.
- Factorization theorem and perturbative calculations.
- Parton densities and evolution equations.
- Hadronic collisions and the LHC.