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Some writings of mine:
- Spring 2009:
- Towards an Analytical 2D Foam Solver: Solving Mancini's Equations and Related Problems After reading an inspiring thesis by Dr. Marco Mancini, I wrote a Mathematica notebook which can create images of 2D equilibrium foams given a bubble topology. The notebook is interactive, in that there are sliders which control the pressures inside each of the cells of the bubble. The novel thing about this program is that it is done all analytically (essentially via solving Mancini's equations). There are still several outstanding issues which I describe in the writeup linked to above. Here is the Mathematica notebook. Here is a version compatible with the free Mathematica player. Please email me with any comments!
- Older writings:
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Links to friends and acquaintances:
These are some young science postdocs and grad students to keep your eye on:
- Jim "Peg Leg" Halverson. A budding string theorist, who I'm honored to share an office with. An all-around great guy and chess player.
- Tiffany Chen. A biomedical informaticist who is currently at Stanford. We've known each other since before we were potty trained.
- Steven Byrnes. A condensed matter physicist at Berkeley. My freshman roommate and teammate from this high school thingy.
- Takuya Kitagawa (北川拓也). A hard condensed matter theorist at Harvard. A dynamic soccer player and celebrity author.
- Carl Modes. A former fellow group member. A mighty softball player and thinker on curved spaces.
- Vincenzo Vitelli. A postdoc in the group who does (a lot of) interesting stuff.
- Sujit Datta. An energetic experimentalist. Once a precocious undergrad at Penn, now a precocious grad student at Harvard. He is a fan of hard ellipsoids.
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Miscellaneous
There are many things which are miscellaneous.
- When I was taking the first semester of field theory, I began TeXing up Sidney Coleman's lecture notes, from the course Physics 253a at Harvard. These notes were written by Brian Hill around 20 years before I took the course from L. Motl in the fall of 2006 (based on these notes, and Peskin and Schroeder). I got around 11 lectures done (out of 28) before the difficulty of doing Feynman diagrams easily made it impossible to continue. Anyone who'd like to continue this project can find scanned handwritten notes in the linked directory, and my PDF and TeX files. You'll need the feyn font, among other packages, if you want to compile my TeX files. Rest in peace, Prof. Coleman.
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