Teaching (as of July 2010):
Current and future teaching plans
During Spring 2010 I taught Astronomy 3 and Physics 269B (seminar topic: the
Physics of the Large Hadron Collider).
During the 2010-11 academic year, I will be doing research in Geneva, Switzerland :-)
and will not be teaching at UCLA :-(.
Past teaching
In the past, I have taught a wide variety of classes, at both lower- and
upper-division undergraduate, as well as graduate level:
- Astronomy 3: general introduction to Astronomy, a journey from our
own "familiar" Solar System all the way to exotic topics like Supernovas,
neutron stars, black holes, the creation and fate of the universe.
- Physics 1C: Magnetism, light, optics, and Special Relativity,
for physical science and engineering majors.
- Physics 4BL: Laboratory course in electricity and magnetism,
for physical science and engineering majors.
- Physics 6B: Waves, light, nuclear physics, and hydrodynamics,
for Life Science majors.
- Winter quarter Physics 105A
(upper-division classical mechanics for physics majors).
- Spring quarter Physics 105B in Spring quarter
(upper-division classical mechanics continued from 105A).
- Physics 126: Upper-division elementary particle physics
for physics majors.
- Physics 180F: Senior-level particle physics laboratory
for physics majors.
- Physics 226A: Graduate-level elementary particle physics.
- Physics 269B: Graduate-level seminar.
Past topics:
- Higgs and Supersymmetric Particles
- Electronics for Experimental Physicists
Discontinued courses taught
I have taught some courses that are no longer in the course catalog:
- Physics 2BH: Electricity and magnetism (honors),
for physical science and engineering majors.
- Physics 8B (waves/sound/thermodynamics).
- Physics 8BL (laboratory course associated with 8B).
- Physics 8C (electricity and magnetism).
- Physics 8CL (laboratory course associated with 8C).