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Current and Past Visitors Name Affiliation Dates Host Office Philip Moll Max Planck Institute April 14-19 Ye Bridge Adam Wills University of Cambridge April 5-9 Preskill Annenberg [...]
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Current and Past Visitors Name Affiliation Dates Host Office Philip Moll Max Planck Institute April 14-19 Ye Bridge Adam Wills University of Cambridge April 5-9 Preskill Annenberg [...]
Faculty Lunch and Discussion Date Speaker Location June 3 Xie Chen 114 East Bridge May 13 Dave Hsieh 114 East Bridge April 29 Jason Alicea 114 East Bridge April [...]
It was the summer of 2008. I was 22 years old, and it was my second week working in the crude oil and natural gas options pit at the New [...]
The night before defending my Masters thesis, I ran out of shampoo. I ran out late enough that I wouldn’t defend from beneath a mop like Jack Sparrow’s; but, belonging [...]
The elementary school I attended hosted an annual book fair, and every year I went with my mother to browse. I would check out the sports books first, to see [...]
Most readers of this blog already know that when it comes to physics, I am faking it. I am a mathematician, after all, and even that is a bit of [...]
Transforming the STEM Pipeline into a River The traditional metaphor of the “leaky pipeline” tracks the number of students entering the educational system and emphasizes points at [...]
First slide, viewed on my laptop. I'm lazy. The only reason I ever do anything is that sometimes in a weak moment I agree to do something, and [...]
Faculty, Topological Quantum Physics
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pktWhH6m_DM?vq=hd720&rel=0&showinfo=0] by Jorge Cham What does it mean for something to be Quantum? I have to confess, I don't know. My Ph.D was in Robotics and Kinematics, so my neurons [...]