Quantum Mechanics for the Working Professional : The Live Seminar

Itinerary

The Seminar Schedule

Thursday Night (optional prologue)

  • 7:00p : Pizza Social

  • 7:30p : Complex Numbers and Complex Variables

Friday Morning (optional prologue)

  • 8:00a : Coffee is ready

  • 9:00a : Breakfast and A Lightning Review of Linear Algebra

Break until evening to enjoy the Valley and its trails!

Friday Afternoon (optional prologue)

  • 4:00p : Physical Applications of Probability and Statistics

  • 4:30p : Informal Problem/Working Session

Friday Night

  • 7:00p : Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception

  • 7:45p : Spin and The Stern Gerlach Experiment

  • Q&A and informal discussions

Saturday Morning

  • 8:00a : Coffee is ready

  • 9:00a : Breakfast and The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics

  • Q&A and information discussions

Break until evening to enjoy the Valley and its trails!

Saturday Afternoon

  • 4:00p : Informal Problem/Working Session

  • 6:00p : Dinner and The Harmonic Oscillator

  • Q&A and informal discussions

Sunday Morning

  • 8:00a : Coffee is ready

  • 9:00a : Breakfast and the Ising Model

The Talks

The topics for the talks will be curated and customized, depending upon the interests and backgrounds of those in attendance. Here’s a selection of topics for each of our different Seminars:

The Field Guide to Particle Physics

  • Cosmic Rays and the “Oh My God!” Particle

  • Flavors of Leptons

  • The Solar Neutrino Problem

  • The Helium Shortage

  • Cosmogenic Muons

  • Ultra High Energy Neutrinos

  • Parity Violation and the Weak Nuclear Force

  • The Origin of Mass

The Higgs and Other Bosons

  • The Z, the W and the Higgs Bosons

  • Pions and the Origin of Mass

  • The Electroweak Model

  • Phase Transitions in Particle Physics

Cosmic Inflation

  • Calibrating Distance in the Visible Universe

  • The Friedmann-Lemaître Universe

  • The Standard Model of Modern Cosmology

  • Inflation and the Early Universe

  • The Fine-tuning Problem