Concept

Gifford Lectures

Related lectures (17)

Stability and State Feedback

Covers BIBO stability, Lyapunov stability, state feedback, and eigenvalue assignment.

Asset Pricing: PhD Lecture

Explores asset pricing models, risk-free assets, portfolio choice, and stochastic discount factors in PhD classes.

Expected Utility and Risk-Aversion

Explores expected utility theory, risk-aversion, utility functions, and decision-making under uncertainty.

Magnetic Ordering in Materials

Delves into magnetic ordering in materials, covering neglected spin interactions, Curie temperature, Neel temperature, and the Heisenberg Hamiltonian.

Quantum Field Theory: Dirac Hamiltonian

Covers the quantization of the Dirac field and its Hamiltonian properties.

Quantum Field Theory: Lecture 3

Covers the concept of party wavefunctions and the reduction formulae.

Scattering in Quantum Mechanics

Discusses the scattering problem, differential cross-section, total cross-section, and Moller operators in quantum mechanics.

Quantum Mechanics: Bound States and Tunneling

Explores turning points, quantization, and tunneling in quantum mechanics.

Scattering Amplitude: Born Approximations

Explores Born approximations in scattering theory, focusing on momentum transfer and interaction terms.

Scattering Theory Overview

Explores scattering theory, S-matrix, T-product, perturbation theory, and Schrödinger equation solutions.

Lattice Dynamics: Vibrational Modes and Symmetry Relations

Explores lattice dynamics, lattice vibrations' properties, and their impact on heat, specific heat, thermal expansion, and thermal conductivity.

Anharmonic Effects in Solids

Explores anharmonic effects in solids, including thermal expansion, conductivity, and phonon scattering.

Gravitational Red-Shift and Escape Velocity

Covers the discovery of integrals of motion and the analysis of escape velocity and gravitational red-shift.

Einstein Equations

Explores the Bianchi identity, Einstein tensor, and action principle for fields.

Gravity Waves and Instabilities

Covers perturbation theory, compressible fluids, sound waves, instabilities, energy equations, and gravity waves.

Quantum Mechanics Evolution

Explains the representation for evolution in quantum mechanics and the application of path integrals.

Quantum Mechanics: Wave Functions

Covers wave functions, De Broglie wavelength, and quantization in quantum mechanics.