Tag: creativity
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Required Reading For Prospective Grad Students
This book is a collection of narratives on the act of creation, but this description does not really do the book justice. It contains a broader perspective on the process of performing challenging tasks through the lens of Art loosely defined. The themes include: This book is now required reading…
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On the Possibility of Electric Dipole Moments for Elementary Particles and Nuclei
Published on this day 75 years ago is the paper by Edward M. Purcell and Norman F. Ramsey that launched search for the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) neutrons, electrons, atomic nuclei, and other elementary particles such as muons. Ramsey recounts the story of how this paper and the first…
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Spinlab Best Practices
This collection of information was on an internal facing wiki page for the group, but I was recently asked to share it with the outside world. There is very little original information here but this post does in one place collect useful insights from others who are much more experienced…
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Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
A few years ago Arthur Obermayer found an essay Isaac Asimov wrote in 1959 on how to foster creativity within a group setting. This essay titled “On Creativity” was published in MIT Technology Review in 2014 and can be accessed via this link. The process of creativity appears to be universal and…
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Claude Shannon’s 1952 Lecture on Creative Thinking
A lecture by Claude Shannon on Creative Thinking is buried deep inside of his Miscellaneous Writings edited by N. J. A. Sloane & Aaron D. Wyner in 1990. It has been rediscovered in some sense by the authors Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman who have just recently published a biography…
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R.W. Hamming On Creativity
In 1995, R. W. Hamming taught a course at the Naval Postgraduate School titled “The Art of Doing Science and Engineering.” The textbook is here and the lectures are here. My notes on his “Creativity” lecture are below: Compare to: This talk is worth comparing and contrasting with Gallagher’s Shannon lecture. Remarkably,…
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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.…
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