Fall 2008 Congressional Visits Day Focuses on Underfunding

World Health Day 1995 focuses on immunization.

CMS 2008 rulemaking focuses on curbing self-referred imaging.

Fall 2008 COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT

-An advertising agency believes that annoying advertisements will be more effective than more pleasant ones due to their stronger impact. To test their theory, the agency persuades their client to experiment by using annoying ads in several randomly selected cities and more pleasant ads in others. The agency then compared the product sales in the two sets of cities to see if the annoying advert...

Fall 2008 Stephen

In many ways my current research efforts were shaped by my experiences at my undergraduate institution, the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Rose-Hulman is a small, primarily undergraduate, engineering school in rural Indiana. As a result, the mathematics department offerings tended towards the eclectic with courses in the traditional core of research mathematics rarely offered. These cours...

253a: Qft1 Fall 2008

The left-hand side is exactly the kind of time-ordered product we use to calculate S-matrix elements. The Dφ on the right-hand side means integrate over all possible classical field configurations φ(x, t) with a phase given by the classical action evaluated in that field configuration. The intuition for the path integral comes from a simple thought experiment you can do in quantum mechanics. Re...