TEACHING

Over the years I have taught courses at all levels, from freshman/sophomore to junior/senior to graduate. However in recent years I have tended to focus more (though not exclusively) on junior/senior and graduate courses.

Since covid-19 altered the educational landscape, I have modified my own teaching methods as well. I now give in-class lectures that can be viewed remotely by students who cannot attend for one reason or another. The lectures are also recorded and posted on the cloud for later viewing. In addition, I continue to post lecture notes and the other material on the course page, just as I did earlier. I am also open to having office hours by zoom when one or the other of us cannot be on campus. Students seem to appreciate all the innovations and so I am likely to continue with them.

In Fall 23 I am going to be teaching PH514 Quantum Mechanics I, the first part of our year long graduate sequence on quantum mechanics. In B23 I will also be teaching PH334X-Intro to Quantum Information Theory. This is the inaugural offering of a new course for students interested in getting a foothold in the subject. Plans for Spring are not yet firm, but I will inform you when I know (and you can also find out by looking up the course schedules on the Registrar's website).

All material for any course I teach is on the Canvas page for the course, to which you will automatically get access once you register for the course. I usually set up the page for any course I am teaching, in preliminary form, in the term prior to the course and try to answer the sorts of questions that students taking the course might have. However the page really only gets going when the course begins.