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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
• 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 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?
• : 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?"