Professor Olness' webpage is here:
http://www.physics.smu.edu/~olness/www/index.html
and his email is: olness@smu.edu
NSF REU Programs
FYI, some folks asked about summer opportunities. The NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program is designed for undergraduate students,
but you might inquire whether you can "volunteer" to work with the undergrads.
The details are on the NSF website at:
https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/
(Or just Google "NSF REU")
Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)
FYI, some folks asked about the
Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)
being built on Long Island at
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
You can follow the links above, and also checkout the YouTube video at:
https://youtu.be/wQ7hFIfMLp8
The Mechanical Universe on YouTube
The Mechanical Universe is a series from the 1980's, but contains some very useful animations,
especially the later chapters dealing with Special Relativity. Enjoy.
Presentation Slides:
(Click on the slide below for the PDF)
Interesting Books:
-
Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions
A classic--a must read.
There are many editions
, but Dover is $3.
There are more expensive editions, or you can download in free from Project
Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Specifically, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201
- Mr Tompkins in Paperback,
by George Gamow; Cambridge Univ Pr. ISBN: 0521447712.
A classic! Provides an intuitive introduction to relativity, cosmology, quantum mechanics, and more.
https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/tompkins.pdf
or
Mr. Tompkins, about $12.
-
The Shape of Space : How to Visualize Surfaces and Three-Dimensional Manifolds,
by Jeffrey R. Weeks; Marcel Dekker; ISBN: 082477437X.
A wonderful book that helps us visualize higher dimensional curved spaces and nontrivial topologies.
A YouTube video illustrating the concepts.
https://youtu.be/-gLNlC_hQ3M
-
One Two Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
by George Gamow; Dover Pub; ISBN: 0486256642.
From the micro to the macro.
or
1,2,3 Infinity, about $12.
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The First Three Minutes : A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe.
by Steven Weinberg, Basic Books; ISBN: 0465024378.
A non-technical introduction to cosmology and the origins of the universe.
- The Ideas of Particle Physics
by G. D. Coughlan, J. E. Dodd, Cambridge Univ Pr (Short); ISBN: 0521386772.
Contains wonderful explanations of basic particle physics phenomena with simple, non-technical explanations.
