Sean Patrick Robinson

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This is my [[:Category:Public | public page]].
This is my [[:Category:Public | public page]].
My [[Special:Listusers | private talk page]] is [[User:Spatrick | here]].
My [[Special:Listusers | private talk page]] is [[User:Spatrick | here]].
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=[[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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* [[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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* 8.01
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* 8.13/14
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* Course development: Methods of Physics
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* Course development: Graduate Physics Qualifying Seminar
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* Course development: Graduate Physics Teacher Training
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* Course development: Quantum Field Theory (Abstract Mechanics) for Undergrads
=From ''Paradise Lost''=
=From ''Paradise Lost''=
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:"Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,"
:"Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,"
:Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat
: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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:That we must change for Heaven? -- this mournful gloom
:For that celestial light? Be it so, since he
:For that celestial light? Be it so, since he
:Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid
:Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid
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:Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,
:Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,
:Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell,
:Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell,
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:Receive thy new possessor--one who brings
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:Receive thy new possessor -- one who brings
:A mind not to be changed by place or time.
:A mind not to be changed by place or time.
:The mind is its own place, and in itself
:The mind is its own place, and in itself
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:With rallied arms to try what may be yet
:With rallied arms to try what may be yet
:Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?"
:Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?"
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=[[Research]]=
 
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* [[Black Hole Thermodynamics]]
 
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* Casimir Thermo
 
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* [[Asymptotic Saftey | Asymptotically Safe UV CFT]]
 
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* Photonic BH Analog
 
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* Why does BFT fail for 1-loop <math>\beta</math>-function corrections from gravitons?
 
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* Spongiform Encephalopathy and Zombie Invasions
 
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* [[Time Travel]]
 
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* [[Pickup Ions]]
 
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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>
 
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=[[Teaching]]=
 
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* 8.01
 
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* 8.13/14
 
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* Course development: Methods of Physics
 
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* Course development: Graduate Physics Qualifying Seminar
 
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* Course development: Graduate Physics Teacher Training
 
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* Course development: Quantum Field Theory (Abstract Mechanics) for Undergrads
 
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[[Category:Public]]
[[Category:Public]]

Revision as of 21:19, 1 April 2009

This is my public page. My private talk page is here.


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
  • 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 and Zombie Invasions, aka Biophysical pathodynamics of prion diseases, aka How Now Mad Cow?
  • Time Travel, initial value problems.
  • Pickup Ions
  • 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?
  • 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}: that is a check that TeX is working on this wiki.

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

From Paradise Lost

Here's my favorite excerpt, from Chapter I.

"Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,"
Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat
That we must change for Heaven? -- this mournful gloom
For that celestial light? Be it so, since he
Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid
What shall be right: farthest from him is best
Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme
Above his equals. Farewell, happy fields,
Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,
Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell,
Receive thy new possessor -- one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less than he
Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice,
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,
Th' associates and co-partners of our loss,
Lie thus astonished on th' oblivious pool,
And call them not to share with us their part
In this unhappy mansion, or once more
With rallied arms to try what may be yet
Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?"
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