I Have to Give A Lecture On Quantum Field Theory

Level 7 Quantum Field Theory boi here. Talkin about some level 9+ quantum field theory stuff.

[dead_ltus]

You should record the lecture and upload it!

[benthayermath]

I had a similar class where I was assigned to introduce the Fourier Transform to everyone. Needless to say, a whole graduating class of physics and engineering majors don't understand Fourier Transforms.

[andrewtran]

Considering how natural and good of a teacher you are, it will be pretty fun for you to lecture. Next Walter Lewin in the making

[bryamayvar]

I'll take one quantum electrodynamics and 2 non-abelian gauge theory for the kids

[PeeterJoot]

Our QFT prof solved the "What can you ask in an hour and a half?", by making the final exam a 24 hr take home exam, and packed it full of problems so obscure that he was confident that if people tried to cheat, it would take them more time to do so, than attempting the problems. It was the hardest exam I ever did.

[aidanharris]

I've just been informed by my current 3rd grade teacher that I need to teach a lesson on Quantum Field Theory too, what a coincidence. :)

[bogdancorobean]

Oh cool I really like this kind of examination, I think it works a lot better with physics than a 2-3 hour test (especially at the graduate level).

[HuntyandBear]

I had to do this in one of my Quantum courses as well. I found it to be very helpful in learning and much more exciting than exams!

[nikkyb]

You’re going to crush your lecture!! Plus having time to really learn and absorb the topic before giving an hour lecture to a grad class is so helpful!

Also happy to know that there’s other grad classes that do this too, my friends thought it was weird when I told them that 50% of my grade for my classes were coming from me giving such a long lecture to the entire class

[magnesiumdrip]

Give a lecture on the critique of comparative feminist literature.

[calderds]

I'm more familiar with groups and stuff, so I'd rather see the qed lecture! We'd love to see a video either as practice or of the lecture you end up giving!

[connordemorest]

I've had this sort of thing in a class in Immunology. My experience was that I'm the resident expert in CAR-T cell therapy (a kind of cancer therapy using special immune cells), but I didn't learn very much from my colleagues that lectured on other things, because most people don't know the best way to present new material in an understandable level. Maybe it would work better in a graduate school setting.

[CanadianWeatherForecaster]

non-abelian gauge theory.... Just the name itself sounds interesting plus it something I feel more people would take an interest in.

[jeremyr]

Andrews pushing it with the end of video credits, I don't think 4 likes is feasible

[duncanw]

Just thonkin'... in 5 yrs I could be lecturing on the Higgs mechanism


Wild

[Fishymen]

The first one sounds cool. A lot of this is over my head though. I’m a bioengineering student but trying to learn QFT on the side starting with Leonard Susskind’s lectures on YouTube. I’m about halfway done.

[ishanvyas]

GO for the first option. You are good at tensors so you can understand the complicated equations and teach them. Tensor equations are really hard to understand and if you teach them well, your fellow classmates can get a grasp on it relatively easy.
P.S. I would personally choose group theory because it is exciting and also because I am not that familiar with the tensor notation.

[EmissaryOfSmeagol]

I'd vote for non-abelian gauge theory.

I had to do something similar at the end of my "Freshman year of physics, " except I had to choose a seminal paper from the 'modern' (lat 1800s to mid 1900s) era, spend the term learning it and give a presentation at the end explaining what the paper said, did, how it was important, so on. My presentation was on Claude E. Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication." It was a good project, good assignment.

[kingdomheartsfan]

You know your shit and I appreciate it that. It encourages me to give it my all in my Electrical Engineering major. I want to study Material Science Engineering in grad school so I looked up a university that I liked and it turns out that some of the physics courses you mentioned taking are required.

[xjuhox]

*Fermionic quantum field inside a black hole.*