Have you ever wondered how to measure different fundamental constants of nature with a shoestring budget? In this class, we'll be doing some simple but cool experiments which allow us to measure things like the speed of light, gravity of earth (little g), and if time permits Planck's constant (a conversion coefficient between frequency and energy). We'll also cover the physics behind these measurements, which form some of the pillars of modern physics.

In this class we'll be talking about measuring time, starting from our ancestors, pendulum clocks and moving onto quartz clocks and atomic clocks. If time permits, we might even talk about how relativity comes into the picture and about the world's best clocks. Hopefully you'll be able to learn a lot about time in the least amount of time!

Nature is smart. Nature knows how to take short cuts, doing things in the most efficient way. We'll talk about some of these short cuts in physics, such as Fermat's principle, the Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics, and if time permits, Feynman's ingenious path integral recipe in quantum mechanics.

In this class we'll be talking about measuring time, starting from our ancestors, pendulum clocks and moving onto quartz clocks and atomic clocks. If time permits, we might even talk about how relativity comes into the picture and about the world's best clocks. Hopefully you'll be able to learn a lot about time in the least amount of time!

Synchronization phenomena occur all across nature, from fireflies flashing in unison in the great smoky mountains to synchronized clapping in concerts. We shall introduce a simple mathematical model (the Kuramoto model) that describes this phenomenon and give an explanation of how different types of synchronization can occur in a network of weakly coupled oscillators.

In this class we'll be talking about time, starting from our ancestors, pendulum clocks and moving onto quartz clocks and atomic clocks. If time permits, we might even talk about how relativity comes into the picture and about the world's best clocks. Hopefully you'll be able to learn a lot about time in the least amount of time!

Nature is smart. Nature knows how to take short cuts, doing things in the most efficient way. We'll talk about some of these short cuts in physics, such as Fermat's principle, the Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics, and if time permits, Feynman's ingenious path integral recipe in quantum mechanics.

We'll discuss the basic ideas of quantum teleportation and how, in theory, we might be able to "disapparate" something, making it disappear here and completely reconstructing it in another place. If time permits, we will also talk about why you can't clone yourself in teleportation, and some experimental progress in quantum teleportation.