Sean Patrick Robinson

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This is my [[:Category:Public | public page]].
This is my [[:Category:Public | public page]].
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My [[Special:Listusers | private talk page]] is [[User:Spatrick | here]].
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[[User:Spatrick | '''''Here''''']] is my [[Special:Listusers | private talk page]].
At present, the information here is little more than a brain dump. It will get organized in time.
At present, the information here is little more than a brain dump. It will get organized in time.
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=[[Research]]=
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==[[:Category:Research |Research]]==
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* [[Quantum Insert Algorithm]], the pedagogical version.
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* [[Black Hole Thermodynamics]], anomalous currents, and hawking radiation.
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* Notes on blackbody radiation in <math>d</math> dimensions and spherical coordinates.
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* Casimir Thermodynamics
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* [[Virial Theorem]], conformal symmetry, Callan-Szymanzik, fluctuation-dissipation, and LSZ. Yes, all of them.
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* Nanoscale engineered metamaterials as Maxwell's Demons. theory and applications.
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* [[Asymptotic Saftey | Asymptotically Safe UV CFT]]
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* Field amplitude cutoff regulation in QFT and orthogonal polynomial bases for renormalization group flow.
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* Photonic crystal black holes analogs
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* Why does background field theory fail for 1-loop <math>\beta</math>-function corrections from 1-loop gravitons?
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* Spongiform Encephalopathy and Zombie Invasions, aka ''Biophysical pathodynamics of prion diseases'', aka ''How Now Mad Cow?''
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* [[Time Travel]], initial value problems.
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* [[Pickup Ions]]
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* spacetime swimming
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* constraints on effective non-central forces in systems of classical rigid bodies and particles due to macroscopic and microscopic conservation of angular momentum.
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* Determination of the Lorentz force for the limit of a colored nonrelativistic particle charged under a Yang-Mills force.
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* Energy spectra of particles tunneling through a barrier: whence thermality?
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* <math>u^\nu\nabla_\nu u^\mu=\frac{d^2x^\mu}{d\tau^2} +\Gamma^\mu_{\alpha\beta}\frac{dx^\alpha}{d\tau}\frac{dx^\beta}{d\tau}</math>: that is a check that TeX is working on this wiki.
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=[[Teaching]]=
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==[[:Category:Teaching |Teaching]]==
* 8.01
* 8.01
* 8.13/14
* 8.13/14
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* Course development: Graduate Physics Teacher Training
* Course development: Graduate Physics Teacher Training
* Course development: Quantum Field Theory (Abstract Mechanics) for Undergrads
* Course development: Quantum Field Theory (Abstract Mechanics) for Undergrads
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=From ''Paradise Lost''=
 
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Here's my favorite excerpt, from Chapter I.
 
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:"Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,"
 
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:Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat
 
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:That we must change for Heaven? -- this mournful gloom
 
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:For that celestial light? Be it so, since he
 
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:Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid
 
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:What shall be right: farthest from him is best
 
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:Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme
 
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:Above his equals.  Farewell, happy fields,
 
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:Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,
 
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:Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell,
 
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:Receive thy new possessor -- one who brings
 
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:A mind not to be changed by place or time.
 
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:The mind is its own place, and in itself
 
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:Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
 
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:What matter where, if I be still the same,
 
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:And what I should be, all but less than he
 
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:Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least
 
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:We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
 
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:Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
 
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:Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice,
 
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:To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
 
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:Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
 
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:But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,
 
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:Th' associates and co-partners of our loss,
 
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:Lie thus astonished on th' oblivious pool,
 
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:And call them not to share with us their part
 
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:In this unhappy mansion, or once more
 
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:With rallied arms to try what may be yet
 
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:Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?"
 
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[[Category:Public]]
[[Category:Public]]

Latest revision as of 15:52, 25 May 2011

This is my public page. Here is my private talk page.

At present, the information here is little more than a brain dump. It will get organized in time.

Research

  • Quantum Insert Algorithm, the pedagogical version.
  • Black Hole Thermodynamics, anomalous currents, and Hawking radiation.
  • Notes on blackbody radiation in d dimensions and spherical coordinates.
  • Casimir Thermodynamics
  • Virial Theorem, conformal symmetry, Callan-Szymanzik, fluctuation-dissipation, and LSZ. Yes, all of them.
  • Nanoscale engineered metamaterials as Maxwell's Demons. theory and applications.
  • Asymptotically Safe UV CFT
  • Field amplitude cutoff regulation in QFT and orthogonal polynomial bases for renormalization group flow.
  • Photonic crystal black holes analogs
  • Why does background field theory fail for 1-loop β-function corrections from 1-loop gravitons?
  • Spongiform Encephalopathy, aka Biophysical pathodynamics of prion diseases, aka How Now Mad Cow?
  • Ecology and population dynamics of zombie invasions
  • Time Travel, initial value problems.
  • Pickup Ions
  • Domain wall fermions (and other particle modes) and broken Poincare symmetry
  • spacetime swimming
  • constraints on effective non-central forces in systems of classical rigid bodies and particles due to macroscopic and microscopic conservation of angular momentum.
  • Determination of the Lorentz force for the limit of a colored nonrelativistic particle charged under a Yang-Mills force.
  • Energy spectra of particles tunneling through a barrier: whence thermality?


Teaching

  • 8.01
  • 8.13/14
  • Course development: Methods of Physics
  • Course development: Graduate Physics Qualifying Seminar
  • Course development: Graduate Physics Teacher Training
  • Course development: Quantum Field Theory (Abstract Mechanics) for Undergrads
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