Announcing QM Course: Study Group for JJ Sakurai's Modern Quantum Mechanics

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Hello,

I'd like to announce an on-line study group that will start soon, reading "Modern Quantum Mechanics" by JJ Sakurai. More information can be found here:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/patrick.vanesch/NRQM_main_page.html

people interested in participating can e-mail me.


cheers,
patrick..
 
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Nice to see you posting on PF Patrick. As the old denizens here already know, I am DickT, from the old QFT course. Hope to see more of you in the future. And I got your response over at sci.physics.particle, about the new course. Thanks!
 
This looks great, and MQM by Sakurai is one of my favorite books. The only thing I don't see is a link to the discussion forum for the course. [?]
 
Hi Tom,

Yes, you're right, that's because the web pages haven't yet been set up. It will happen on the site of:
www.superstringtheory.com
but Patricia Schwarz (who is the webmaster) still has to set up the course pages...

cheers,
Patrick.
 
Is Patricia still in the loop Patrick? Do you know if she is aware of the problems with the superstingtheory.com site? Several of the boards are unreachable.
 
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