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Syllabus for Freshman Seminar on Extra Dimensions
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Jan 5, 2012. Syllabus for Freshman Seminar on Extra Dimensions. Location: Physics Rm. 432. Time: Tue. Thu. 10:0-10:50 pm. Office Hours: T 11:00-11:50. Web Page: http:/ particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/teaching/FRS/. In addition to the 2 weekly meetings, students will be expected to do weekly reading, mostly from the book "Warped Passages". By Prof. Lisa Randall. Your "tweet" should contain the hashtag #xdim. April 2: Intro. - Chap. 1. April 4: Chap. 2 - Chap. 3. April 9: Chap. 4. April 11: Chap. 5. Chapter 1...
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Supersymmetry
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May 14, 2007. Recently our understanding of SUSY gauge theories has been revolutionized by the work of Seiberg and Witten. For the last two years I have devoted the majority of my time to studying N. 1 SUSY gauge theories with the new non-perturbative tools that have become available. With my collaborator I found a new mechanism for dynamical SUSY breaking. Which can be analyzed using Seiberg duality, and solves the mu problem. 4 SUSY gauge theories we have tested the correspondence. We have also found e...
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Particle Cosmology
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May 14, 2007. Cosmology offers particle physicists a method of testing models that is complementary to accelerator experiments. Particles that cannot be produced easily in accelerators can have drastic effects in the early universe. This can be seen in the new theories of gravity that involve submillimeter extra dimensions. My collaborators and I recently put severe constraints. And the radion must have Higgs-like interactions. We also used string theory techniques. Concentrating on gauge bosons that cou...
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Syllabus for Freshman Seminar: Making a Science Film
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Jan 5, 2012. Syllabus for Freshman Seminar 002-007: Making a Science Film. Location: Physics Rm. 432. Time: Thu. 2:10-4:00 pm. Web Page: http:/ particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/teaching/FRSFilm/. Email: jterning FRS@gmail.com. This course will examine techniques for making movies that explain science to the general public. Students will make their own short movie. Students must provide their own access to a mini-DV. The student will be able to produce and direct a short documentary film. Feb 14: Special Effe...
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Andrew Essin
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Andrew M. Essin. University of California, Davis. Davis, CA 95616.
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John Terning: Teaching
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May 14, 2007.
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Phys 12: Visualization in Science
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Jan 5, 2012. Syllabus for Visualization in Science. Lecture- 3 hours. Production, interpretation, and use of images in physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry as scientific evidence and for communication of research results. GE credit: SciEng SE, VL. Physics 12, UC Davis, Spring 2016). Time: Tue/Thur 10:30-11:50 am. Email: jterning vissci@gmail.com. Office Hours: Tue 9:30-10:30. Web Page: http:/ particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/teaching/12/index.php. Design and visual information. No text book is required.
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Extra Dimensions
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May 14, 2007. There has been a revolution in our thinking about extra dimensions. A new understanding of the feasibility of localizing four dimensional gauge theories in higher dimensional spacetimes has led to a variety of phenomenologically viable models, and even to the possibility of localizing gravity. Unlike older theories of extra dimensions, much of the focus now is on extra dimensions with sizes on the order of one thousandth of a proton width or larger! Again the problem of understanding the hi...
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Dimming Supernovae by Axions
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May 14, 2007. Dimming Supernovae by Axions. Our calculations show that after traversing large intergalactic distances about 1/3 of the light from supernovae would have been converted to axions. The effect actually saturates at this value, so beyond a certain distance there is no additional dimming, as is actually seen in the supernova data. More recently we have found that axions may play a role in ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Also known as trans-GZK cosmic rays). Below for more details. According to t...