Theoretical Physics, SUNY, Stony Brook
(631)632-7978 warren@wcgall.physics.sunysb.edu
Strings, supersymmetry, quantum gravity, fields
Publications, preprints, scans, resumé
Stony Brook: Ph.D., YITP jobs
Free graduate textbooks
- Fields
('99, 3rd ed. '05), 885 pp.:
quantum (& classical) field theory.
Pragmatic, not traditional nor artistic. - Intro.
to string field theory ('88),
& local version with better page #ing. - Superspace ('83), with
Jim Gates, Marc Grisaru, Martin Roček. - Courses:
Relativity (408),
Fields (610&1),
Relativity (620), Strings (622&3). - Is your introductory "physics" textbook
really a history book? - Grad.
curriculum for high energy theory?
- Introductory string bibliography (Marolf)
- Free physics books (Assayer)
High energy physics
from easy to hard
- Common misconceptions
- Are you a quack?
- Physics & the rest of science
- Particles vs. strings
- Special relativity made stupid
- Particles
- Strings ('86)
- Developments ('02)
- Strings & other things ('03)
- Research topics
- Preparation for research
- Top string questions
- Strings again ('88)
- My research
- Twistors ('04)
- Reggeons meet partons ('05)
Physics resources
| Papers | Jobs | Conferences |
Computers
- Mac OS X
- TeX hints
- Unicode (math in web, email, TeX)
- Computers for idiots
- HTML (NCDesign)
Physics parodies
- Stuperspace ('83)
[pdf]
- The Super G-String ('85)
[pdf]
- Super G-String Field Theory ('87)
- Theory of More Than Everything ('88)
- How I Spent My Summer Vacation ('89)
- To Be Announced ('90)
- Erratum ('91)
- Negative Physics ('93)
- G-duality for G-strings & G-branes ('97)
- The Nonabelian Names of God ('98)
- Lobotomy ('00)
- The Everything of Theory ('03)
- The Big Seminar ('05)
Star Trek parodies ('90)
- ST:TNG
- ST:TOS
- Get Data!
- ST Trivia Quiz
- These are a few of
My Favorite Klingons - ST meets Monty Python ('96)
- Star Wars meets
Woody Woodpecker ('00) - Humbead's Map of the World (Crabb)