Recent content by Elwin.Martin

So this summer, I believe I'll be taking my second senior lab class and I am pretty sure I can work out completing all the necessary labs in about half the semester [I did the labs traditionally assigned for the second semester in my first since I was the odd one out for lab partners]. I'll be...

Yo, I know you asked this a bit ago...but federally it is a *fellowship*. That's how my tax information processed. Realistically? It's basically a research internship, but the money is actually allocated as a fellowship. [At least that's how DOE does it, I'm assuming NSF does it the same...

I suppose I wasn't clear enough, sorry about that: The data should be organized like this: (r,f_1(r),f_2(r),f_3(r),f_4(r),f_5(r),f_6(r),f_7(r),f_8(r)) Currently it is in two forms: 1. A single string of all the numbers with varying white space and no commas or parens. 2. Sets of 16 with a...

Homework Statement This isn't actually a homework problem it's a problem I'm having in research since the fortran code I was given spat out a huge chunk of numbers. I've gotten the new-lines removed and I would like to graph what I have but it should really be organized in like 8-tuples. I...

...huh? After contraction? We still have our indices? So if I started with \sigma_{\mu \nu} F^{\mu \nu}_Z I should end with \sigma_{\mu \nu} (k^{\mu} \epsilon^{\nu} - k^{\nu} \epsilon^{\mu}) where \sigma_{\mu \nu} = \frac{i}{2}...

Alright, this is a pretty low level / silly question but I am having some issues. I would like to get the vertex rule for an interaction that has a field tensor involved like this... \partial_\mu Z_\nu -\partial_\nu Z_\mu do I treat the two Z's as separate fields? For a generic field...

Thank you for your response, I don't have a ton of resources to draw from so any information is appreciated. I would absolutely love to try living in Scandinavia if I could, I'd definitely need a few trial weeks in the winter to make sure I could handle it, though. Let me know if there's...

I know this may have some wiggle room in terms of personal opinions and anecdotal evidence for one thing or another, but I was wondering what people here thought about doing a PhD in another country as an American (United States) citizen. I have been trained in a decent American public...

Apparently I'm subscribed to "APS News," and I think that was just getting tossed by my university...I found a list on the website though: http://www.aps.org/meetings/calendar.cfm Thanks!

Ermmm most of what they mail me goes to my university, I just use my access to Phys Rev D online and I think I checked my member information once while signing up for the conference and I'm not sure if I'm set up to receive emails? I get APS membership through the Society of Physics Students...

Thanks, I'll try to look through it.

Bumping this. Anyone?

(Assuming everything goes according to plan) I have been offered a research assistance-ship this coming fall, and I'll have a certain amount of money that's intended to cover a decent amount of travel to conferences since I do theory work and my mentor has a decent grant. I went to the...

So if we have an extension of E of F, then we can consider E as a vector space over F. The dimension of this space is the degree of the field extension, I think most people use [E:F]. This is correct in most people's books, right? Defining \omega = cos (2\pi /7) + i sin (2\pi / 7) Why...

Hey, I was wondering if anyone had some last minute advice in preparing for a first presentation. I gave presentations in high school and freshman college lit classes and such, but I was never really concerned about embarrassing myself ^^;...usually nothing was all that important...so this is...