Both in the narrow sense, understood as space and time, stars and galaxies and the entire cosmic history, as in the more broad sense, as the myriad minds and things that populate it. Physics concepts help to elucidate economy and biology, neuroscience, information technology and traffic jams, weather, climate and pandemics, sports, music, arts, the list goes on...
When time permits I try to integrate this conviction in my teaching, start from every-day experience or deep philosophical questions to develop abstract formalism, and try to spark the creativity to adopt this formalism in new and unexpected contexts.
Courses I have taught include
Physics I-IV (Classical Mechanics,
Basics of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Special Relativity,
Electrodynamics, Analytic Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics),
the Mathematics Introductory course,
Theoretical Physics I & II, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Introduction to
Particle Theory, General Relativity, Cosmology, Particle Physics
beyond the Standard Model, and Quantum Information.
I typically teach one or two lectures and one seminar per semester.
In the upcoming winter term 2024/2025 I will give the lecture "Introduction to
Elementary Particle Theory".
During summer terms, I offer the
"Neutrinos and Cosmology seminar"
where we discuss recent research publications in these fields.
During winter terms, I offer the
"Big Questions Seminar"
where we discuss more fundamental problems
that are usually left out in the standard curriculum, including "What's the correct interpretation
of Quantum Mechanics?", "What are Space and Time?", "How are Matter and Information Related?",
"Universe versus Multiverse", "What's the Physics of Consciousness?" or "What is Fundamental?".
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