Courses

Advanced theoretical physics lecture sequence at the Institute for Advanced Study exploring asymptotic symmetries, soft theorems, celestial conformal field theory, and flat-space holography.

Research workshop investigating black hole information, replica wormholes, generalized gravitational entropy, von Neumann algebras in quantum gravity, and holographic spacetime emergence.

Allan Adams's celebrated MIT Spring 2013 lecture sequence introducing quantum superposition, Bell's inequalities, wavefunctions, Hermitian operators, uncertainty relations, and the Schrödinger equation.

Cosmological inflation pioneer Alan Guth develops Friedmann-Robertson-Walker dynamics, cosmic microwave background physics, big-bang nucleosynthesis, dark energy, and inflationary cosmology.

David Tong's celebrated Perimeter Scholars International blackboard course covering classical fields, canonical quantization, interacting scalar theories, Wick's theorem, Feynman diagrams, Dirac spinors, and QED.

Equivalence principle, Riemannian metric geometry, covariant derivatives, Christoffel symbols, Riemann curvature tensor, Einstein field equations, Schwarzschild black holes, and gravitational waves.

Leonard Susskind builds quantum mechanics from two-state spin systems: complex vector spaces, Hermitian operators, tensor products, quantum entanglement, Bell inequalities, and wavefunctions.

Dirac bra-ket formalism, spin-1/2 precession, unitary time evolution, coherent states, orbital and spin angular momentum addition, tensor products, and entanglement.

Classical mechanics taught from the perspective of a modern theoretical physicist: phase-space determinism, the principle of stationary action, Euler-Lagrange equations, symmetries, Noether's theorem, and Hamiltonians.

Exoplanet detection, orbital mechanics, stellar collapse and black holes, general relativistic tests, Hubble expansion, dark matter, and accelerating cosmic expansion.

Ramamurti Shankar derives Newtonian mechanics, conservation laws, rotational dynamics, special relativity, waves, and thermodynamics from first principles on the blackboard.