Thanks. I remember the hell that was my master's defense at Tech as well. And it's my own dang-on fault that I had so much trouble with it. This one actually wasn't so bad, since I was mostly reporting on some of my own reading (as opposed to doing original research), but it's good practice for the big stuff later on.
Unfortunately, I still have a few rounds of testing to do before I'm cleared for dissertation work (comps, oral exams, and foreign-language finals). Test, test, testaroo!
"Wiener measure, generalized Dyson series, and the Feynman operator calculus."
No, I don't understand that sentence, either. The short version is Richard Feynman (super big physics dude when he was alive--Einstein level) came up with a new sort of math for dealing with some problems he was working on in quantum electrodynamics. Problem is, he never quite put it on a rigorous mathematical basis, so there's still a lot of ambiguity as to whether the math he's doing really makes sense, and how we're supposed to interpret it.
Anyway, one of the guys my adviser's worked with wrote a few papers dealing on how to develop and make sense of Feynman's ideas from a more mathematical perspective, so I talked a bit about their approach, the mathematical structures they were developing, and (sorta-since, I still don't really understand it all that well) the physical interpretation that Feynman was thinking of.
Good stuff. I checked out a big book in the library of related topics to help come up with disseration ideas over the summer.
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Rakku hard-oh.
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Congrats MikeE :)
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Unfortunately, I still have a few rounds of testing to do before I'm cleared for dissertation work (comps, oral exams, and foreign-language finals). Test, test, testaroo!
By the way, Danielle and Xian say "hi."
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What did you have to talk for 90 minutes about?
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No, I don't understand that sentence, either. The short version is Richard Feynman (super big physics dude when he was alive--Einstein level) came up with a new sort of math for dealing with some problems he was working on in quantum electrodynamics. Problem is, he never quite put it on a rigorous mathematical basis, so there's still a lot of ambiguity as to whether the math he's doing really makes sense, and how we're supposed to interpret it.
Anyway, one of the guys my adviser's worked with wrote a few papers dealing on how to develop and make sense of Feynman's ideas from a more mathematical perspective, so I talked a bit about their approach, the mathematical structures they were developing, and (sorta-since, I still don't really understand it all that well) the physical interpretation that Feynman was thinking of.
Good stuff. I checked out a big book in the library of related topics to help come up with disseration ideas over the summer.
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I'm SOL then...
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WE NEED TO HANG THE FRICK OUT!!!
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I think I missed this post. Congratulations!! This is a huge accomplishment.
We must celebrate.
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