Condensed concepts

Last night, my wife and I watched the movie, Wit. You can watch the full movie here  (free with ads). I should warn that some of the conten...

 This semester, I am giving four lectures in a third-year undergraduate course on statistical mechanics. Last year, I gave a guest lecture ...

 I am a slow adopter of new technologies. I have recently been playing around with AI at a very basic level on some research problems. Colle...

And why is it so amazing? Surprises [about physics in two dimensions] occurred in the 1980s when it became possible to study Landau levels ...

 A characteristic of emergent phenomena is how novel and complex properties can emerge from apparently simple laws. Quantum ChromoDynamics (...