Meeting Notes 2024-04-23

Admin Items Feedback Survey Summer Survey   This Week’s Finds We skipped finds this week to allow for a full focus session.   Focus Session: Jim and Joshua presented on the application of this semester’s readings to cosmology, specifically on the...

Meeting Notes 2024-04-16

Admin Items Summer Survey Feedback Survey   This Week’s Finds We had quite a few interesting finds this week. Heaviside Kernels and Physical Solutions Joshua introduced the the question of choice of kernel function, sometimes called a window function,...

Meeting Notes 2024-04-09

Admin Items None   This Week’s Finds We had quite a few interesting finds this week. Greens Functions Two Ways Joshua and Joel discussed two different approaches to solving for Green’s functions. Let’s first recall the basic setup. Given a...

Meeting Notes 2024-04-02

Admin Items Summer plans initial chat (will likely continue seminar series with those who remain in town) End of semester and reading content (may choose new books in summer)   This Week’s Finds We had quite a few interesting finds this week. Locations of...

Meeting Notes 2024-03-26

Admin Items Readings updated New timeline for meeting notes and emails – ideally day-of meeting to give most time for reading.   This Week’s Finds Topics discussed this week are below. Projections on Hilbert spaces and Casimirs Joshua, Christopher,...

Meeting Notes 2024-03-19

Admin Items Reading quantity feedback   This Week’s Finds We had quite a few interesting finds this week. Riemann Tensor Symmetry Group (Again!) Jim presented updated work that describes the symmetry group of the Riemann Tensor fully, without additional...