Category: science
Physics Grad School Application “Bootcamp”
It is that time of year when people start applying to graduate school. Some advice, guidance, and insight is given here in a talk I’ll be presenting tonight to MSU students: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5iqy8w6e2ft05d/2021-09-13-Grad-School-App-Bootcamp-JTS-notes.pdf?dl=0 An important part of the process is requesting letters of recommendation. Some guidance along these lines is given here: https://spinlab.me/2018/06/06/the-time-consuming-privilege-of-writing-a-thoughtful-letter-of-recommendation-for-a-student-2018-edition/ Good luck and ...
The Time-Consuming Privilege of Writing a Thoughtful Letter of Recommendation for a Student (2018 Edition)
[Updated from 2017 – JTS] Inspiration It will soon be application season (at least for students considering going to grad school in physics) for graduating seniors. As a consequence, I’ve decided to borrow some useful guidelines from my colleagues regarding letters of recommendation/reference: Ed Brown’s Letters of Recommendation Pawel Danielewicz’s Recommendation Letters Brian O’Shea’s Recommendation ...
The Time-Consuming Privilege of Writing a Thoughtful Letter of Recommendation for a Student
Inspiration It will soon be application season (at least for students considering going to grad school in physics) for graduating seniors. As a consequence, I’ve decided to borrow some useful guidelines from my colleagues regarding letters of recommendation/reference: Ed Brown’s Letters of Recommendation Pawel Danielewicz’s Recommendation Letters Brian O’Shea’s Recommendation letters Shriram Krishnamurthi’s Advice to ...
Kristen’s Guide to Success in Spinlab
Spinlab group alumna Kristen Parzuchowski (MSU ’17, now 1st year graduate student at UC-Boulder now) has written an informal “guide to success in Spinlab.” This document has started to take on a life of its own and has been requested several times since she passed it along to the group. She has kindly given me ...
Fundamental Symmetries of the Early Universe and the Origin of Matter
This week I hosted Prof. Michael Ramsey-Musolf, Director of the Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions, who was visiting from UMass.-Amherst to give the MSU P&A Colloquium on “Fundamental Symmetries of the Early Universe and the Origin of Matter.” Abstract: Explaining why the universe contains more matter than antimatter remains an open problem at the interface of particle ...
Elementary Particles and Weak Interactions [BNL-443 (T-91)]
This technical note by Lee & Yang, first published in October 1957, is based on a series of lectures given in January 1957. Of particular note is “Section III.4 Static Electric Dipole Moment” on page 17 which indicated, perhaps for the first time, that non-zero EDMs would violate not only parity symmetry and but also ...
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