Weekly seminar series presented by expert speakers on research topics within condensed matter physics including hard condensed matter, quantum materials, soft condensed matter, and biophysics.
Mathematical and conceptual aspects of the special and general theories of relativity. Lorentz transformations, covariant formulation of the laws of nature. The equivalence principle, curved spaces, solutions of the equations of relativity. Prerequisite: PHYSICS 606.
Angular momentum, time dependent and time independent perturbation theory, semi-classical and quantum treatment of radiation, scattering theory, Klein-Gordon equation, Dirac equation. Prerequisite: PHYSICS 614.
Selected topics with application to physics in linear algebra and Hilbert space theory, complex variables, Green's functions, partial differential equations, integral transforms, integral equations.