Below is a list of courses I have taught at Durham University 2005 – 2015, and courses taught at UC Davis since 2015.
Current Courses (2020/21):
- Phy 9HA: Classical Mechanics (Fall quarter)
- Phy 9HB: Special Relativity & Thermal Physics (Winter quarter)
- Phy 150: Special Topics – Black Holes (Spring quarter)
- Phy 233: Topics in Geometry and Physics (Spring quarter)
Previous Courses at UC Davis
- Phy 104C: Intermediate Methods of Mathematical Physics (Spring quarter 2015/16)
- Phy 155: General Relativity (Winter quarter 2016/17, 2017/18, & 2018/19)
- Phy 200A: Theory of Mechanics and Electromagnetics (Fall quarter 2016/17 & 2019/20)
- Phy 250: Special Topics in Physics (Spring quarter 2015/16)
- Phy 250: Advanced General Relativity / Black Holes (Winter quarter 2016/17)
- Phy 250: Fields, Strings, & Gravity I (Winter quarter 2017/18, 2018/19, & 2019/20)
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:
- Gauge/Gravity Duality
Asian-Pacific Winter School and Workshop on Gravitation and Cosmology; YITP, Kyoto, Japan; Feb.11-15, 2019 - Black Holes
Formosa Summer School on High Energy Physics
Hualien, Taiwan, Jul.15-29, 2018 (5 lectures) - Gravity Basics
“It from Qubit” summer school
Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, Jul.18-29, 2016 (3 lectures) - Fluid/Gravity Duality
ERASMUS Intensive Program on “Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory”
Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, Apr.15 – 26, 2013 (5 lectures) - General Relativity, Cosmology and Black Holes
Amsterdam-Brussels-Paris Doctoral School
3 years in Brussels, Belgium (2008, 2009, and 2010; 24 lectures each year) - Fluid/Gravity Correspondence
PASI Quantum Gravity Summer School
Morelia, Mexico, Jun.27 – Jul.4, 2010 (3 lectures) - Fluid Dynamics from Gravity
Fifth Aegean Summer School
From Gravity to Thermal Gauge Theories: the AdS/CFT Correspondence,
Adamas, Island of Milos, Sep.21 – 26, 2009 (2 lectures) - The Fluid/Gravity Correspondence
Summer School on Particles, Fields and Strings
at UBC, Vancouver, Canada, Aug.28 – Sep.4, 2008 (4 lectures)
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).
Outreach activities:
- Organized the KITP Teachers’ conference on “Spacetime, Holography, and Entanglement” which consisted of 4 talks on state-of-the-art topics directed at high school teachers (Jan.2020)
- Talk on “Black Holes in Our Cosmos and Beyond” at Astronomy on Tap (May 2019)
- Talk on “Wonders of Black Holes” at the Leonardo Art, Science, Evening Rendezvous (LASER) (Feb.2018)
- PhysX Tech Talk on “Quantum Gravity: Holographic Entanglement” (Nov.2017)
- World Science U course “Illuminating Black Holes”, from public talk + filmed interview, New York City, NY (Jun.2017)
- Public talk “Illuminating Black Holes” at the World Science Festival, New York City, NY (Jun.2017)
- Panel discussion on “Pondering The Imponderables: The Biggest Questions Of Cosmology” at the World Science Festival, New York City, NY (Jun.2017)
- Inaugural lecture of The Winston Ko Frontiers of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Public Lecture series: “Illuminating Black Holes” (May 2016)
- I have 3 Special Topics guest lectures on “Black Holes” at the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS), Davis, CA (summer 2016, 2017, & 2018)