Teaching

Below is a list of courses I have taught at Durham University 2005 – 2015, courses taught at UC Davis since 2015, and various summer school lectures.  For public talks, please see my Outreach page.

(fq = fall quarter, wq = winter quarter, sq = spring quarter)

Future Courses (2024/25):

  • Phy 260: General Relativity (fall quarter)
  • Phy 9HB: Honors Physics – Special Relativity and Statistical Mechanics (winter quarter)
  • Phy 105A: Classical Mechanics (winter quarter)
  • Phy 233: Topics in Geometry and Physics (spring quarter)

Previous Courses at UC Davis

  • Phy 9HA: Classical Mechanics (fq 2020)
  • Phy 9HB: Special Relativity & Thermal Physics (wq 2021)
  • Phy 104C: Intermediate Methods of Mathematical Physics (sq 2016, 2022)
  • Phy 155: General Relativity (wq 2017,  2018, & 2019)
  • Phy 198: Directed Gp Study (sq 2021, 2023)
  • Phy 200A: Theory of Mechanics and Electromagnetics (fq 2016, 2019, 2021, 2023)
  • Phy 233: Topics in Geometry and Physics (sq 2021, wq 2022, sq 2023)
  • Phy 250: Advanced General Relativity / Black Holes (wq 2016, 2017)
  • Phy 250: Fields, Strings, & Gravity I (wq 2018, 2019)

Previous Undergraduate Courses at Durham

  • Statistical Mechanics III & IV
    (2008/09, 2014/15)
  • Quantum Mechanics III
    (2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14)
  • General Relativity III & IV
    (2005/06, 2007/08, 2009/10)
  • Advanced Quantum Theory IV
    (2006/07)
  • Solitons III & IV
    (2007)
  • Contours & Symmetry II
    (2005)

Previous 3H and 4H Projects:

  • Black holes
    (2014/15)
  • Black hole Membrane Paradigm
    (2012/13)
  • Black holes in higher dimensions
    (2010/11, 2011/12)
  • Strings and gravity
    (2008/09)
  • Black hole uniqueness and higher dimensions
    (2005/06)

Previous Graduate Courses at Durham:

  • General Relativity
    (Michaelmas 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014)
  • Black Holes
    (Easter 2010)

Summer School Lectures:

In addition to the courses taught at Durham, I have given series of lectures in the following summer schools:

Undergraduate Colloquium at Durham:

I have chaired the Undergraduate Colloquium committee 2007 – 2015, which entailed organizing two – three colloquia each term, intended to allow maths undergraduates at all levels to get a glimpse of “real math” and its applications (as well as what lecturers do when they’re not lecturing).