{"id":11988,"date":"2020-09-07T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11988"},"modified":"2020-09-07T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T22:10:15","slug":"fall-quantum-mechanics-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11988","title":{"rendered":"Fall Quantum Mechanics Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be teaching a course on quantum mechanics this year here at Columbia, from a point of view aimed somewhat at mathematicians, emphasizing the role of Lie groups and their representations.  For more details, the course webpage is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/%7Ewoit\/QM\/fall2020.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The course is being taught online using Zoom, with 37 students now enrolled. I&#8217;ve set things up in my office to try and teach using the blackboard there, and will be interacting with the students mostly via Zoom.  As an experiment, I&#8217;ve also set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdSEKN94Jo1xjUHVyfEfIjg\">Youtube channel<\/a>.  If all goes well you should be able to find a livestream of the class there while it&#8217;s happening, which is scheduled for 4:10-5:25 Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting tomorrow, September 8.  I&#8217;ll also try and make sure the recorded livestreams get uploaded and saved at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLOaEOh8qMwDLoBJinaH3p31edODHdlb93\">this playlist<\/a>. Unfortunately I won&#8217;t be able to interact with people watching on Youtube, should have my hands full trying to get to know the students enrolled here in the course, with only this virtual connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be teaching a course on quantum mechanics this year here at Columbia, from a point of view aimed somewhat at mathematicians, emphasizing the role of Lie groups and their representations. For more details, the course webpage is here. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11988\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-mechanics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11993,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}