Masters Degree in Physics/Graduate Advice
Deadlines for Spring admissions close the previous Oct 1st.
Deadlines for Fall admission close the previous March 1st.
For all the university rules and regulations for graduate students, including rules
specifically for the physics department, read "The Physics Graduate Handbook",
available for download below.
The Physics Graduate Handbook
Grads Apply online here
For main CSUMentor page goto: General information about the Cal. State
Univ. (CSU) system for high school students, undergrads & graduates.
http://www.csumentor.edu/
For general Applications CSUMentor page goto:
http://www.csumentor.edu/AdmissionApp/
MS Plans A,B and C explained (word doc)
AJP style guide
Sample AJP paper
Revtex4 explained
revtex4.zip
Choosing a grad school mp4 (~20MB)
Careers to
Science and Engineering: A students Planning Guide to Grad school and beyond
(American Assoc. for Adv. of Science) AAAS: Sciences Next Wave.
(American Inst. of Physics) AIP: Career Services.
(American Physical Society) APS: Careers and Employment.
CAREER PLANNING ON CAMPUS:
See Gloria Simms (extension (3766) in LH 2nd floor, Career Planning and
Placement Center. Gloria is an industrial specialist for science, engineering
and technology. She can critique your resume and give advice on interviewing,
and even give you a mock interview if you like. Before applying for a job in
industry I STRONGLY suggest you go and talk to Ms. Gloria Simms. Her email
and the career planning webpage is below.
Email: gsimms@fullerton.edu
The webpage is:
Careers and planning webpage:
The International Education and Exchange office, UH 244
International Education and Exchnage office, UH 244
California State University Fullerton,
800 N State College Blvd.,
Fullerton CA 92831.
Fax: (714) 278 7292
Phone:(714) 278 2787
Office hours: mon-fri 8:00am until 5:00pm, LA/Pacific time.
Email:
ieoffice@fullerton.edu
The webpage is :
International Education webpage:
AIP 75th anniversary aip75.mp4
Solvay Conference 1927 mp4
Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory Experiments
Eleven Physics Questions for the New Century
There will be 5 talks in this series. The talks are intended for a general audience.
This is a non profit series of talks. The first talk Jan 24th will be
a DVD (Dr Fearn will not be present). I will give a bibliography as before
at the end of this mini-series. There are many interesting books out there
on this subject and also several interesting websites which I will list for you.
To get you started look up these interesting articles:
The stuff of dreams.
Ribbon to the stars.
The Foresight Institute has a special online bookstore for books on nanotechnology, it
is associated with amazon.com, the link is below.
The Nanotechnology bookstore.
Unbounding The Future: book download.
For general articles on nanotechnology see:
http://www.nanotechweb.org.
For more webpages and general books on nanotechnology see word document:
refs-nano.doc
Feynman's 1959 lecture on Nanotechnology brought up to date.
(approx. 45 mins + discussion).
Nanotechnology: Fact from Fiction, what's real and what's not.
(approx. 65 mins + discussion).
Hardware: Real nanobots and nanocircuits. (Carbon nanotubes)
(approx. 1 hour + discussion).
Wetware: Biobots and biological manipulation.(approx. 1 hour + discussion).
Micro Robotics: Robots that swim, fly and walk up walls(approx. 1 hour + discussion).
Physics dept seminar Feb 16, 2005.(approx. 1 hour + discussion).
"Unbounding the Future", book in zip format (opens into word doc)
Intro & Quantum Weirdness (45 mins + NOVA program 1)
Gravity and General Relativity (45 mins + NOVA program 2)
The Standard Model of elementary particles (45 mins + NOVA program 3)
Superstrings and vacuum jitters (what "super" means 1 hr)
moderately hard core
Multidimensional space and Topology (Flatland model and curled up space 1 hr,
audio talk Dr. Yau)
pictures
Quantum geometry and Duality (1 hr 30 mins) hard core
Black holes and elementary particles (holographic principle 1 hr, and audio
talk Dr. Thorne KITP colloquim)
pictures
M-theory (5 different string theories and supergravity? 1 hr, and audio
talk by Dr. Witten KITP colloquim)
hard core
Lec8-audio.mp3 (5.25 MB)
Experiments underway (LIGO, proton decay, sparticle hunt and extra dimensions
1 hr) mostly pictures
Lec9-audio.mp3 (8.34 MB)
Technical QFT talk (Batchelors or higher, in science or math required ~1 hr)
Really hard core!
List of both non-technical and technical references on QFT and string
You should also find a good book on conformal field theory, Springer pubs.
for example. I haven't bothered listing algebraic and differential topology,
since I am hardly an authority in those areas!
Some good websites included (see below also).
List of topics compiled by Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Laureate 1999)
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
"Problems and solutions on quantum mechanics": Edited by Lim Yung-Kuo, paperback (World Scientific 1991 ?)
"Problems and solutions on Electromagnetism", Ed. Lim Yung-Kuo 2002.
"Problems and solutions on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics", Ed Lim Yung-Kuo 2001.
"Problems and solutions on optics" Ed. Lim Yung-Kuo 1991.
Other titles are available for mechanics and atomic and nuclear theory etc.
Also,
"University of Chicago graduate problems in physics with solutions", (Addison-Wesley, 1967).
"Princeton Problems in Physics with solutions", (Princeton press, 1991).
For a set of online problems from the Qualifiers of the physics dept
of Urbana Champaign:
Download pdf exam questions from Illinois
I have not got the solutions to these questions and I would not give them
out if I did! so don't ask me!!
MIT has a webpage with general guidelines for study which I would also
recommend looking at, a list of books is given there also.
MIT general guidelines for PhD Qualifiers
Feynman's thesis has just been published with a couple of his papers.
Very nice, check it out. 
10 unsolved physics problems for the next Millennium
"A First Course in String Theory", by Barton Zweibach.
This is a text book for undergraduate physics students. Cost $60.00, available from
www.amazon.com (linked above). A very new 2004 book on string theory, designed for
undergraduate students. Written by an MIT professor of physics, Barton Zweibach.
String theory: Dr Michio Kaku's website
I would strongly recommend the book by Dr Kaku entitled VISIONS. It is
a physicists view of what technology will be available in the next 100 years.
I have also read "Beyond Einstein" and "Hyperspace"
both excellent! and
of course his technical books entitled, "Quantum field theory.
A Modern Introduction.", and
"Introduction to superstrings and M-branes"
Prof. Joseph Polchinskis
webpage; String theory downloads
Prof. Allen Hatchers webpage; Topology links and downloads
Prof. Brian Greenes webpage; String theory Author of "The Elegant Universe".
The Nova mini-series on superstrings was shown this Fall 2003, hosted by Brian Greene. See their website, view online; NOVA WEBPAGE
Official SuperString theory
website
How to build a Beowulf Cluster
e-prints Cornel Univ. (previously LANL)
Physics resources: the-science-lab.com; A directory of physics related webpages
Heidi's Information:
If you click on the construction icon at the right of this page it
will take you to my JAVA applet construction zone. I have a couple of useful
conversion tools there, one for a few length scales and another for 14
different energy scales.
MS thesis, Projects and paper downloads
Research Interests
My speciality is theoretical quantum optics, which is the study of the interaction of light with matter. I conduct research in a variety of topics which come under that general heading. I am also very interested in quantum field theory and have done work in that area (QED in particular). I am currently reading books and familiarizing myself with superstring theory.
I am a member of the American Institute of Physics, AIP .
My thesis advisor was Prof. Rodney Loudon FRS, Essex University (Physics dept. which no longer exists!) I have worked with Prof Marlan Scully at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching Germany and at UNM, and Prof. Willis E. Lamb, Jr. at the Optical Sciences Center, Tucson Arizona.
Current Professional Associations
I am the graduate advisor for the physics masters degree program. During the summers, I regularly visit Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and conduct research with Dr Peter W. Milonni, and Dr Daniel James in the theoretical division T-DO and T4. Los Alamos . A few years ago I worked on Adaptive Optics. Visit the Starfire Optical Range SOR at Kirkland airforce base in Albuquerque NM.
I have several computers, and enjoy playing about with linux, and attend the Linux Users group at Fullerton whenever I can on saturdays, once a month. For info on the Orange County Linux Users Group, click on the juggling penguin.
KITP Fellowship
I have been fortunate enough to be selected as a KITP Fellow for 2003-05.
This entails three, 2 week visits to the Kavli Institute of theoretical
physics in Santa Barbara CA over a 3 year period. I will be studying string
theory and field theory in general. I hope to add to the expertise at
CSU Fullerton and this experience will, I hope, enable me to conduct
research into a new and exciting area. I also hope to involve Masters
students in string/high energy QED research, for thesis projects.
My contact at KITP is Dr Joseph Polchinski.
He is the author of "numerous" papers on string theory,
M-theory, D-branes, monopoles etc and has also written a two
vol. set on String Theory. See Dr Polchinski's book on the right -
click on it to see its contents.
Santa Barbara has a very pretty campus,
UC Santa Barbara
and the Kavli Institute is affiliated with the campus
KITP Institute .
Physics Courses: I've taught or am teaching
