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CURRICULUM VITAE

Ramamurti Shankar
Telephone 203-432-6917
Birth April 28, 1947, New Delhi, India
Citizenship U.S.
Website http://pantheon.yale.edu/ rshankar/
Career Highlights
Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engg.) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, (1969)
Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics) University of California, Berkeley, (1974)
1974-77 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
1977-79 J.W. Gibbs Instructor of Physics, Yale
1979-83 Assistant Professor, Yale
1982 Spring: Visiting Associate Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
1982-86 A.P. Sloan Fellow
1983-88 Associate Professor, Yale
1988- Professor, Yale
1989 - Spring Visiting Professor ITP, Santa Barbara
2001- Fellow American Physical Society
2001-2007 Chairman of Physics
2004 John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics
2005 Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize, Yale.
2008 - Spring Visiting Professor MIT
2009- Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society.
2011- Spring Visiting Professor U.C. Berkeley
2013: Distinguished Alumnus Award IIT Madras.
2014: Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2014: Simons Distinguished Visiting Scholar (Fall), KITP, Santa Barbara.
2015-2020: Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Madras.
2019 Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics
Affiliations
Editorial Board, Journal of Statistical Physics 1988-90
Dannie Heineman Prize Committee 1997- and 1998
General Member, Aspen Center for Physics 98-2013
Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation, 1999
Trustee, Aspen Center of Physics, 2004-2010
Executive Committee, Aspen Center of Physics, 2006-2010
Advisory Board, Center for Correlated Electrons and Magnetism, Augsburg, 2007-
Lilienfeld Prize Committee 2011
Advisory Board, Kavli Institute of Physics, 2010-2013
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Books
Principles of Quantum Mechanics (Plenum 1980), Second Edition (Plenum 1994), Polish
Edition (Springer 2006), Indian Edition ( Springer-Prism Books 2007).
Basic Training in Mathematics ( Plenum 1995).
Fundamentals of Physics: mechanics, relativity and thermodynamics, Yale Press 2014, Chi-
nese translation 2017.
Fundamentals of Physics II: electromagnetism, optics and quantum mechanics, Yale Press
2016, Chinese translation 2018.
Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter-An Introduction, Cambridge Press, 2017.
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PUBLICATIONS
1. Feedback Model of Systems Obeying Quantum Statistical Mechanics J. Stat. Phys. 14,
61, (1972).
2. Clarification of Multi-Regge Theory, Phys. Rev. D7, 3513, (1973).
3. Can and Does the Pomeron Occur More Than Once in a Single Process? Nucl. Phys.
B63, (1974).
4. Role of the Pion Mass in Triple-Regge Physics, Nucl. Phys. B79, 126, (1974).
5. Missing Mass as an Alternative to Rapidity in the Experimental Study of Diffraction,
with D.M. Chew, Phys. Rev. D11, 1036, (1975).
6. Electromagnetic Decay of the New Heavy Resonances at 3.1 and 3.7 Gev. with J. Boren-
stein, Phys. Rev. Lett., 34, 752, (1975).
7. Question of Parity Violation in e + e− Annihilation, with A. de Rujula and S.L. Glashow,
Phys. Rev. D14, 752, (1976).
8. More SO(3) Monopoles, Phys. Rev. D14, 1107, (1976).
9. Determination of the Quark Gluon Coupling Constant, Phys. Rev. D15, 755, (1977).
10. Application of Topology to the Study of Ordered Systems, J. de Physique 38, 1405,
(1977).
11. S-matrix of the Supersymmetric Sigma Model, with E. Witten, Phys. Rev. D17, 2134,
(1978).
12. The S-matrix of the Kinks of the (ψψ)2 Model, with E. Witten, Nucl. Phys. B141, 349,
(1978).
13. Exact S-matrices in two-dimensional Field Theory- (Invited talk given at the APS meet-
ing, Washington DC, April 78) YTP COO-3075-199.
14. A General Scheme for the Computation of Instanton Effects, with T. Appelquist, Phys.
Lett. 78B, 468, (1978).
15. A General Approach to the Computation of Instanton Effects, with T. Appelquist, Phys.
Rev. D18, 2952, (1978).
16. On Gauge Theories with Heavy Higgs Bosons, with T. Appelquist, Nucl. Phys. B158,
319, (1979).
17. Some Novel Features of the Gross-Neveu Model, Phys. Lett. 92B, 333, (1980).
18. Bohr-Sommerfield Quantization of Pseudospin Hamiltonian, Phys. Rev. Lett. 45, 1088,
(1980). Reprinted in Coherent States, Editors-J.R. Klauder and B.S. Skagerstam, World
Scientific, Singapore.
19. PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, Plenum Press, New York (1980).
20. Solvable Models with Self-triality in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 46, 379, (1981).
21. A Model that Acquires Integrability and O(2N ) Invariance at a Critical Coupling, Phys.
Lett. 102B, 257, (1981).
22. A Simple Derivation of the Baxter Model Free Energy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1177,
(1981).
23. Self-triality in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory, Proceedings of the XI-Conference
on Group Theoretic Methods, Istanbul, Springer Verlag (1982).
24. On the Solution of Some Vertex Models Using Factorizable S-Matrices, J. Stat. Phys.
29, 649 (1982).
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25. Self-triality of the Ashkin-Teller Model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 787, (1983).
26. Solution of a Factorizable S-Matrix and an Asymmetric Eight-vertex Model, with M.
Doria, J. Stat. Phys. 33, 695 (1983).
27. Response to a comment by de Felicio and Libero, regarding ref. 25; Phys. Rev. Lett.
51, 2230, (1983).
28. Solvable Analog to Quantum Chromodynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 2363, (1984).
29. Commensurate-incommensurate and disordering transitions in an exactly solved model
of uniaxial adsorbates, with M. Kardar, J. Phys. C18, L5 (1985).
30. New Commensurate-incommensurate and disordering transitions in an exactly solved
model of adsorbed layers, with M. Kardar, Phys. Rev. B31, 1525, (1985).
31. Statistical behaviour in deterministic quantum systems with few degrees of freedom,
with R.V. Jensen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1879 (1985).
32. Possible tests and improvements for blockspin Monte Carlo studies, with G. Murthy,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1110, (1985).
33. Ashkin-Teller and Gross-Neveu Models: New Results and Relations, Phys. Rev. Lett.
55, 453, (1985).
34. Tests for Monte Carlo Renormalization Studies on Ising Models, with G. Murthy, J.
Stat. Phys. 42, 275, (1985).
35. Redundant Operators for Ising Spins, with G. Murthy, Phys. Rev. B32, 5851 (1985).
36. Dealing with Truncation in Monte Carlo Renormalization Group Calculations, with G.
Murthy and R. Gupta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 1812, (1985).
37. Clear Evidence of Redundant Operators in the Monte Carlo Study of the d = 2 Ising
Model, with R. Gupta, in Rapid Communications Phys. Rev. B32, 6084 (1985).
38. Truncation Errors in Monte Carlo Renormalization Group - A Comparative Study, Phys.
Rev. B33, 6515, (1986).
39. Solvable Case of a Spin-1 Model in a Magnetic Field, Phys. Lett. A 117, 365, (1986).
40. Frustrated Nearest-Neighbor d=2 Ising Model: Exact Results; with G. Murthy, Phys.
Rev. B35, Rapid Communications, 3671, (1987).
41. Nearest Neighbor Frustrated Random-Bond Model in d=2: Some Exact Results; with
G. Murthy, Phys. Rev. B36, 536, (1987).
42. Exact Critical Behavior of a Random-Bond Two- dimensional Ising Model, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 58, 2466, (1987).
43. Superconductivity of Itinerant Electrons Coupled to Spin Chains, with Subir Sachdev,
Phys. Rev. B38, 826, (1988).Also to be reprinted in Interacting Electrons in reduced Dimen-
sions, Plenum, New York, 1990.
44. What is the Lowest Spin for Which Neel Order is Possible in the D = 2 Heisenberg
Model?; with G. Murthy, Phys. Lett. A137, 2652, (1989).
45. Spin 1/2 Antiferromagnetic XXZ Chain : New Results and Insights, with R.R.P Singh
and M.E.Fisher, Phys.Rev. B 39, 2652, (1989).
46. Hole Motion in Quantum Antiferromagnets: New Approach and Exact Results; Phys.Rev.Lett;
63, 203, (1989) .
47. The θ = π Sigma Model is Massless; with N. Read, Nucl.Phys. B.330 , 433, 1990.
48. Holes in a Quantum Antiferromagnet : A Formalism and Some Exact Results, Nucl.
Phys.B130 , 433, (1990).
49. Statistical Mechanics of Random Systems : IXth International Conference on Mathe-
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matical Physics Edited by B.Simon, A.Truman, and I.M.Davis, Adam Hilger, (1989).
50. Symmetry Breaking in Mott Insulators, with D. H. Lee Phys.Rev. Lett; 65, 1490, (1990).
51. A Solvable Model of the Metal Insulator Transition, Intl.J.Mod.Phys.,B4, 2371, June
1990.
52. Renormalization Group for Interacting Fermions in d > 1., Physica A177, 530, (1991).
53. Bosonization: How to make it work for you in Condensed Matter Physics, Lectures given
at the Katmandu Summer School, 1990 in Current Topics in Condensed Matter and Particle
Physics, Editors J.Pati, Q.Shafi and Yu Lu, World Scientific (1993).
54. PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, Second Edition, Plenum (1994).
55. Renormalization Group Approach to Interacting Fermions, Rev. Mod. Phys. 66, 129,
(1994).
56. The Integer Quantum Hall Transition: New Approach and Exact Results, with A.W.W.Ludwig,
M.P.A.Fisher, R.Shankar and G.Grinstein, Phys. Rev. B 50 , 7526 , (1994).
57. Finite Temperature Properties of Quantum Antiferromagnets in a Uniform Field in One
and Two Dimensions, with S.Sachdev and T.Senthil, Phys. Rev. B 50 , 258, (1994). cond-
mat 9401040
58. Coulomb Interaction is Screened in Bosonized Fermi Liquids, with A.Houghton, H.J.Kwon,
and B.Marston, J.Phys. C J.Phys. Cond. Matt., 6, 4909, 1994. cond-matt 9312067,
59. Thomas Precession, Berry Potential and the Meron, with Harsh Mathur. Phys. Rev.
Lett., 73, 1565, (1994). Cond-matt 9403076.
60. A Condensed Matter Analog of QCD with Quarks, Int. J. Mod. Phys. 8, 417, 1994.
61. BASIC TRAINING IN MATHEMATICS - A Fitness Program for Science Students,
Plenum Publishers, New York (1995).
62. Novel phases of planar fermionic systems, with G.Murthy, Journal of Physics - Con-
densed Matter, 7, 9155, (1995).
63. Effective Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics, Invited lecture given at the Con-
ceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, Editor T.Y.Tao, Cambridge University Press,
1998.
64. Encyclopedia articles on Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field
Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Planck’s Constant and Quantization, Macmillan,1996.
65. Phase Transitions in Quantum Spin Ladders, with M.A. Martin-Delgado and G.Sierra,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 3443, (1996) - condmat-9605035.
66. Field Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, with Ganpathy Murthy, Phys. Rev.
Lett , 79 , 4437, (1997) Condmat-9702098.
67. Field Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, in Composite Fermions, editor,
Olle Heinonen, World Scientific. condmat-9802244.
68. Response to comment on Phys. Rev. Lett , 79 , 4437, (1997) by Halperin and Stern,
with Ganpathy Murthy, Phys. Rev. Lett , 80 , 5458, (1998).
69. Scaling relations for gaps in the fractional quantum Hall states, with G. Murthy, K. Park
and J.K. Jain, Phys. Rev.B 58 , 15363, ,(1998).
70. Hamiltonian description of Composite Fermions: calculation of gaps, with G. Murthy,
Phys. Rev.B 59 , 12260, (1999).
71. Hamiltonian description of Composite Fermions: Aftermath, Phys. Rev. Lett 83, 2382
(1999), cond-mat 9903064.
72. Magnetic phenomena at and near ν = 1/2 and 1/4: theory, experiment and interpreta-
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tion. Phys. Rev. Lett , 84 , 3946, (2000) cond-mat 9911288.

73. Luttinger revisited- the renormalization group approach, Invited contribution to the
Journal of Statistical Physics issue in honor of J. Luttinger. August 2000.
74. Hamiltonian theory of gaps, masses and polarization in quantum Hall states, cond-
mat/0009361.Phys. Rev., B63 , 085322, (2001).
75. Hamiltonian theory of the Fractional Hall Effect, Int. J. Mod. Phys. 15, ,2001.
76. Theories of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, cond-mat 0108271. Based on Cargese
Lectures, May 2001.
77. Effects of Landau Level Mixing, with Ganpathy Murthy, Phy. Rev. B 65, 245309, 2002.
78. Hamiltonian theories of the FQHE, with Ganpathy Murthy, Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, 1101,
(2003)
79. ”Quantum Field Theory” for the Encyclopedia of Elementary Particle Physics, Macmil-
lan, 2002.
80. Quantum Dots with Disorder and Interactions: A Solvable Large-g Limit, with Ganpa-
thy Murthy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 066801, 2003.
81. Globalization and Science: A speeded up virtuous cycle, Yale Global on line, March 28,
2003.
82. A solvable regime of disorder and interactions in ballistic nanostructures, PartI:consequences
for Coulomb blockade,with Ganpathy Murthy, Damir Herman and Harsh Mathur, cond-
mat0306529, Physical Review B69 075321, (2004).
83. Renormalization group approach to strongly coupled superconductors, with S.W Tsai,
A.H. Castro Neto and D.K. Campbell, cond-mat/0406174, to appear in Phys. Rev. B 72,
054531 (2005).
84. The Renormalization Group Approach- From Fermi Liquids to Quantum Dots, Springer
Lecture Notes in Physics, 667, (2005), Editor: D.Hess. Based on lectures given at the Fif-
teenth Chris Engelbrecht Summer School, Drakensberg, South Africa. Cond-mat 0407127
85. On the assignment P = −ih̄d/dx.., Mc Graw Hill Encyclopedia of Science, March, 2005.
86. Ballistic Chaotic quantum dots with interactions: a numerical study of the Robnick-
Berry billiard, with G. Murthy and Harsh Mathur, Phys. Rev B 72, 075364, (2005).
87. Deconfinement in d = 1: a closer look, with G. Murthy, cond-mat 0508242, Phys. Rev.
B 72, 224414, (2005).
88. Strong coupling superconductivity via an asymptotically exact renormalization group
approach, with S.W Tsai, A.H. Castro Neto and D.K. Campbell, Journal of Physics and
Chemistry of Solids, 67, 516, (2006).
89. Dots for Dummies, in Festschrift for Pierre Hohenberg and James Langer. J. Stat. Phys.,
125, 1177, (2006).
90. Renormalization group approach to superconductivity from weak to strong electron-
phonon coupling, with S.W Tsai, A.H. Castro Neto and D.K. Campbell, Phil. Mag., 86,
2631, (2006).
91. Large spin-orbit effects in small quantum dots, with G. Murthy, cond-mat 0609460,
Phys. Rev. B 75, 075327 (2007).
92. MECHANIKA KWANTOWA, (2006) Polish Translation of Principles of Quantum Me-
chanics.
93. Hamiltonian theory of the half-filled Landau level with disorder: Application to recent
NMR data with by Ganpathy Murthy, Phys. Rev. B 76, 075341, (2007), arXiv:0704.3210.
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94. Chaotic quantum dots with strongly correlated electrons, Rev.Mod. Phys. 80, 379,
(2008).
95. Flux Hamiltonians, Lie algebras and Root Lattices with Miniscule Decorations, with
Fiona Burnell and Shivaji Sondhi, cond-mat-0802.3466, Annals of Physics, 324, 267, (2008).
96. Fermi surfaces in general codimension and a new controlled non-trivial fixed point, with
T. Senthil, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 046406 (2009).
97. Globalization and science, one Physicist’s view, in The Multiple Faces of Globalization,
BBVA Publication, 2009.
98: Renormalization group for nonrelativistic fermions, Scholarpedia, 5(9):9575June 2010.
99. Renormalization group for non-relativistic fermions Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A July 13,
2011 369 (1946) 2612-2624; doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0385
100. Renormalization group and the superconducting susceptibility of a Fermi liquid, with
S. Parameswaran and S. L. Sondhi, Phys. Rev. B 82, 195104, (2010).
101. Equality of bulk wave functions and edge correlations in some topological supercon-
ductors: A spacetime derivation with Ashvin Vishwanath, Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 106803 ,
(2011).
102. Quarter-Filled Honeycomb lattice with a quantized Hall conductance, with Ganpa-
thy Murthy, Efrat Shimshoni, and H.A. Fertig, arXiv:1108.2010, Phys. Rev. B 85, 073103
(2012).
103. Composite fermions for fractionally filled Chern bands, with Ganpathy Murthy, arXiv:
1108.5501.
104. The last word in strong correlations, Ann. Phys. (Berlin) 523, No. 89, 751, (2011)
105 Dipolar bogolons: from superfluids to Pfaffians with S. A. Parameswaran, S. A. Kivel-
son, R. Shankar, S. L. Sondhi, and B.Z. Spivak, arXive 1202.3444, Feb 17,2012, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 109, 237004.
106. Hamiltonian theory of fractionally filled Chern bands, with Ganpathy Murthy, arXiv
1207.2133, Phys. Rev. B 86, 195146 (2012).
107. Fundamentals of Physics-mechanics, relativity and thermodynamics, Yale Press 2013.
108. Gauge choices in the Hamiltonian theory of fractionally filled Chern bands, with Gan-
pathy Murthy, Phys. Rev. B 89, 195107, (2014).
109. RG for non-relativistic fermions, Ken Wilson Memorial Volume, World Scientific, 2015.
110. The ν = 12 Landau level: half fully or half empty? http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06974,
Phys. Rev. B 93 , 085405 , (2016)
107. Fundamentals of Physics II-electromagnetism, optics and quantum mechanics, Yale
Press 2016.
108. Toplogical insulators-a review, https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06471, 2018.
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Invitations and Seminars 1988-89

1. Some Exact Results in d = 2 Random Bond Models: in Mathematical Physics of order

and disorder, American Mathematical Society, Maine, June 11-17, 1988
2. Some Exact Results in d = 2 Random Bond Models, International Association of Mathe-
matical Physics, IX Congress, Swansea, England, July 17-27, 1988.
3. Exact Solutions in Low Dimensional Electronic Systems, Institute for Scientific Inter-
change, Torino, October 4-9, 1988.
4. Invited to the ICTP workshop on the Physics of Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems,
Trieste, July 1988.
5. Invited to the High Tc workshop at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of
California, Santa Barbara, Jan.-July 1989.
6. Invited to ICTP workshop on “Interface Between Field Theory and Statistical Mechan-
ics”, Trieste, June 1989.
7. Invited to XXI Summer Institute on Toplogical Methods in Statistical Mechanics and
Field Theory at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, August 1989.

Invitations and Seminars 89-90

1. Invited to International Workshop on Strongly Correlated Electrons , ICTP, Trieste, July
1990.
2. Consultant to IBM, T.J. Watson Center, Summer 1990.
3. Lectures on Statistical Mechanics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, July-August
1990.
4. Mott Insulators, Catholic University, Rio. Colloquium on . August 1990.
5. Exact Results on the Metal-Insulator Transition, A.T. & T Bell Labs, Seminar on 26
September 1990.
6. Field Theory of Holes in a Quantum Antiferromagnet, Barnard Columbia seminar on
October, 1990.
Seminars on the Theory of Holes in a Quantum Antiferromagnet at:
1. Technische Hochschule, Aachen.
2. University of Cologne.
3. Harvard University.
4. Florida State University and Supercomputing Center.
5. University of Maryland.
6. Brown University.
7. Ohio State University.
8. IBM Yorktown Heights.
9. University of Sherbrooke, Canada.

Invitations and Seminars 1991

1. Metal-Insulator Transitions, Invited talk, Aspen Workshop in Condensed Matter Theory,

January 13-19, 1991.
2. Symmetry Breaking in Mott Insulators, Invited talk on American Physical Society meet-
ing. Cincinnati, March 20, 1991.
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3. Renormalization Group for Fermions, seminar at MIT on the April 10, 1991.
4. Renormalization Group for Fermions, Colloquium and Seminar at the University of British
Columbia and the Simon Fraser University, April, 1991.
5. A Condensed Matter Analog of QCD with Quarks, Trieste Conference on Quantum Field
Theory and Condensed Matter Physics, Invited talk 13-16 May, 1991.
6. 1991 BCSPIN Summer School, Katmandu, May 1991. Six Lectures on the use of Bosoniza-
tion in Condensed Matter.
7. Renormalization Group for Fermions in d > 1, Invited Talk, International Center for
Theoretical Physics, Workshop on Strongly Correlated Electrons.

Invitations and Seminars 1992

Seminars or Colloquia on Renormalization Group for Interacting Fermions.

1. Boston University Jan 24, 1992.
2. University of Pennsylvania 11 February, 1992.
3. Institute for Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, May , 1992.
4. Rutgers University.
5. Aspen Center for Physics July, 1992.
6. Cornell University September 17, 1992.
7. Indiana University November 23, 1992.
8. Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Brandeis University November 24, 1992.
9. Lectures on Bosonization in Condensed Matter Physics, International Center for Theo-
retical Physics , Trieste, Summer School, May 1992.

Invitations and Seminars 1993

Seminars or Colloquia on Renormalization Group Approach to Interacting Fermions.

1. University of Illinois, September 13, 1993. Seminar.
2. Princeton University, October 25, 1993. Seminar.
3. Invited to lecture at Ninth South African Summer School in Physics. Jan 1994. (Declined
due to conflict.)
4. Brown University, February 10, 1994. Seminar.
5. Columbia University, February 18, 1994. Seminar.
6. American Physical Society, March 23, 1994. Invited Symposium on Fermi and non-Fermi
Liquids.
7. International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, May 3-10, 1994. Lectures in Sum-
mer School.
8. Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, University Paris Sud, May 11, 1994. Seminar.
9. Invited Speaker Summer Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Canadian Association of
Physicists. (Declined due to conflict.)
10. A.T.&T Bell Labs, April 6, 1993.
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Invitations and Seminars 1994

1. United Nations Consultant, visited India as a part of the TOKTENS (Technology Trans-
fer program) and gave lectures on the Renormalization group and Berry Phase at Institute of
Physics Bhubaneshwar, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, Madras over July August 1994.
2. Renormalization Group for Fermions, Institute for Advanced Study, October 12, 1994.
3. Renormalization Group for Fermions, Ohio State University, October 17, 1994.
4. Renormalization Group for Fermions, Stony Brook, March 28, Colloquium.

Invitations and Seminars 1995

1. Renormalization Group for Fermions, Colloquium, Harvard University, April 3, 1995.
2. Renormalization Group for Fermions, Penn State University, Frontiers in Physics Lecture
on April 7, 1995.
3. Lectures on Bosonization. 35-th Jubilee Summer School of the Jagollonian University, at
Zakopane, Poland, June 1-10.
Invitations and Seminars 1996
1. Renomalization Group for Fermions, Center for Theoretical Physics Distinguished Lec-
turer, University of Maryland, February 6, 1996.
2. Effective field theory in Condensed Matter Physics, Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy
of Science, March 1, 1996.
3. Holes in Quantum Antiferromagnets, Renormalization Group for Fermions, Consejo Su-
perior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, 27 March 1996, March 29, 1996.
4. Renormalization Group for Fermions, the Royal Road to Fermi Liquids, Institute for
Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
5. Snakes and Ladders, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, May 1996.
6. Snakes and Ladders, Aspen Center for Physics, July 1996.
7. Snakes and Ladders, Princeton University and NEC October 96.
The following invitations were declined: Review talk on RG for fermions at the Statistical
Mechanics Conference at Rutgers, May 1996, Perturbative Methods for Strongly Correlated
Electrons, Brasilia, Brazil, June 1996, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, in Quantum Coher-
ence in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, RG for fermions, July 1996.

Invitations and Seminars 1997

1. Renormalization Group for fermions, Statistical Mechanics Meeting In Rutgers in honor

of Lifschitz’s 80 birthday.
2. Field Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Indiana University, Feb 97.
3. Field Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, University of Illinois Feb 97.
4. Field Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Aspen Center for Physics, July 1997.
5. Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall States Rutgers Colloquium 24 September 97.
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Invitations and Seminars 1998

1. Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Bell Labs Feb 3 1998
2. Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, UCLA March 22, 1998
3. Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB,
Santa Barbara Invited talk Aug 11, 1998 :
4. The Berry Phase, McMaster University Colloquium, Oct 28, 1998:

Invitations and Seminars 1999

1. Hamiltonian Theory of Composite Fermions, Ohio State University seminar, Feb 8, 99:
2. Hamiltonian Theory of Composite Fermions, Invited Symposium at the Centennial Meet-
ing of the APS, Atlanta, (Talk delivered by collaborator, G. Murthy). March 22 , 1999
3. Hamiltonian Theory of Composite Fermions, Heinz Schulz Memorial Lecture (Paris) May
10
4. Distinguished Lecture series in Technion, Haifa, Israel. May 11-18: Two lectures
on the Renormalization Group, A Colloquium and two lectures on the Hamiltonian Theory
of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.
5. Hamiltonian Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Weizmann Institute of Sci-
ence, Israel, May 19.
6. Hamiltonian Theory of Composite Fermions, Theoretical Methods in Strongly Correlated
Electrons, 1999-2000 Theme Year of Mathematical Physics, Montreal - May 29.
7. Aspen workshop on Integrable models (July 99)

The following engagements were canceled due to conflicts.

APCTP Winter school on ”Quantum Hall Effects and High Tc Superconductivity”, to be
held at Phoenix Park, Korea, during February 8 -13, 1999.
International Center for Theoretical Physics, Lecture Series on the Quantum Hall effect,
(July 1999).
Workshop on Topology, Gauge fields etc., Amsterdam, (July 1999 ).

Invitations and Seminars 2000

1. Retreat Lectures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Renormalization Group for

Interacting Fermions and Hamiltonian Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Jan-
uary, 12-14, 2000.
2. Gaps, masses, polarization and relaxation near ν = 1/2, 1/4: calculation and inter-
pretation of experiments, Invited symposium at the American Physical Society Meeting,
Minneapolis, March 23, 2000.
3.Hamiltonian Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Colloquium, University of
Wisconsin, March 9, 2000.
4. Renormalization Group for Nonrelativistic Fermions, James Frank Institute Colloquium,
University of Chicago, April 25, 2000.
5.Hamiltonian Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Northwestern University,April
27, 2000.
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6. Renormalization Group for Nonrelativistic Fermions, Northwestern University Collo-

quium, April 26, 2000.
7. Hamiltonian Theory of the Quantum Hall Effect, Aspen Center of Physics, July, 2000.
8. Heinz Pagels 2000 Summer Lecture Series: When you come to a fork in the road, you
gotta take it: Yogi Berra’s guide to the quantum world.
9. Hamiltonian theory of the FQHE : What is it and what can it do for you? Princeton
University October 2, 2000.
10. Hamiltonian theory of the FQHE Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras, India.
October 17, 2000.
11. Hamiltonian theory of the FQHE, Saha Institute Golden Jubilee Lecture, Calcutta, India
October 25, 2000.
12. Hamiltonian theory of the FQHE, Colloquium Brown University, November 6, 2000.

Declined Invited talks: Renormalization group for fermionic systems, workshop Stras-
bourg, June 22-23, . TRIESTE 2000: STRONG CORRELATION IN THE HIGH TC ERA
17- 28 July, 2000
Invitations and Seminars 2001

Theories of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Lectures given at the Cargese Summer
school on Trends in High Magnetic Fields Science. May 2001.
Hamiltonian theory of the FQHE, workshop on Flux, charge, topology and statistics, Ams-
terdam, June 25-30, Amsterdam.
FQHE for Dummies, University of Kentucky, Colloquium, October 29 ,2001
FQHE for Dummies Harvard University seminar, December 12, 2001.
Fermi Liquid Theory for Dummies, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bombay India,
Colloquium, December 19, 2001
FQHE for Dummies, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research

Invitations and Seminars 2002

FQHE for Dummies, Second India and Abroad conference on Condensed Matter Physics,
Jan 3, 2002, Bangalore, India.
FQHE for Dummies, Colloquium Penn State, March 28, 2002
Fermi Liquids for Everyone, Boston University Colloquium, October 1, 2002
When you come to a fork in the road take it- Yogi Berra’s guide to the quantum world, ean’s
Lecture Series, In The Company of Scholars, Yale, October 21, 2002.
Dresden Workshop on Quantum Dots, invited speaker Nov 16-23, 2002
FQHE for Dummies, Colloquium, Brandeis University, December 3 2002

Invitations and Seminars 2003

Quantum dots with disorder and interactions, Max Planck Institute, March 15-20, 2003
Introduction to quantum mechanics, Perspectives in Science, April 4, 2003
Dots for Dummies, University of Pennsylvania Seminar, April 24, 2003.
When you come to a fork in the road take it - Yogi Berra’s guide to the quantum world,
Association of Yale Alumni , May 30 and June 6, 2003.
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Renormalization Group for Fermions, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, workshop
on Functional Renormalization Group Methods, Dresden , July 8-16, 2003.
Fermi liquid for everyone, University of Florida, Gainesville, October 16, 2003
Fermi Liquids for dummies, Boston College, December 10, 2003.
Renormalization Group for Dummies, Society of Physics Students, MIT, December 11, 2003.
Fermi Liquids for dummies, Rice University, December 8, 2003.

Invitations and Seminars 2004

Lectures in 15th Chris Engelbrecht Summer school, Drakensberg, South Africa, January 23-
30, 2004.
Renormalization Group for Dummies, Opening Lecture, European Center for Theoretical
Studies, Trento, September 6, 2004.
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, 25th Anniversary, Banquet Speaker, October 8, 2004
Dots for Dummies, 92 Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, December 20,
2004
Invitations and Seminars 2005
Irons Lecture, Rutgers University, January 29, 2005, ”When you come to a fork in the road
take it, Yogi Berra’s guide to the quantum world”
Association of Yale Alumni, May 27, 2005, ”When you come to a fork in the road take it,
Yogi Berra’s guide to the quantum world”
Dots for Dummies, Princeton University, May 26, 2005.
Dots for Dummies, Mottness Conference, Tobago June 13-19, 2005.
”Quantum for Kids”, Aspen Center for Physics, August 10, 2005. Televised on Grassroots
TV, Aspen.
”The strange world of the quantum”, address to 500 Physics students from the Apeejay
Schools, New Delhi on 23rd August, 2005.
”When you come to a fork in the road take it, an informal introduction to quantum mechan-
ics”, Public Lecture, August 25, The 2005 International Conference on Physics Education,
New Delhi, India.
Yale Parents’ weekend, October 7, 2005, ”When you come to a fork in the road take it, Yogi
Berra’s guide to the quantum world”.
Invitations and Seminars 2006
Dots for Dummies, Indian Institute for Science, January 6, Bangalore India.
Dots for Dummies, University of Toronto, Colloquium, January 19 , 2006
Deconfinement in d = 1, a closer look, Rutgers University, February 7, 2006.
COUP at Yale , Workshop on Achieving systemic changes in Physics teaching at leading
research universities, American Center for Physics, MD. June 3, 2006.
Dialog on Quantum Mechanics, Aspen Center for Physics, July 13, 2006.
Hamiltonian theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Max Planck Institute, Invited
Lecture, Dresden, October 4, 2006.
Dots for Dummies University of Oregon, Nov 9, 2006
Dots for Dummies Johns Hopkins University, Nov 16, 2006
Invitations and Seminars 2007
Dirac hamiltonians with disorder, Kavli Institute of Physics, January 15, 2007.
”When you come to a fork in the road take it, Yogi Berra’s guide to the quantum world”,
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Connect with Yale in Los Angeles, February 10, 2007.

Dots for Dummies, U Mass Amherst, April 5, 2007
Einstein for Dummies, Yale Bulldog Lecture, April 17, 2007.
Dots for Dummies, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, July 3, 2007
Landau Theory for Dummies, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India, July 12, 2007
Introduction to Theoretical Physics, SCHOLAR program for Career High School Students
of New Haven, July 18, 2007
Renormalization Group for Dummies, Three lectures at the Princeton Center for Complex
Material, Summer School on Condensed Matter Physics, August 13-14, 2007.
Dots for Dummies, Oxford University, October 3, 2007.
Invitations and Seminars 2008
Association of Yale Alumni, Portland OR, April 5, 2008, ”When you come to a fork in the
road take it, Yogi Berra’s guide to the quantum world”
Connect with Yale at Seattle WA, April 6, 2008, ”When you come to a fork in the road take
it, Yogi Berra’s guide to the quantum world”
Lie Groups and Flux phases, Harvard, April 2, 2008.
Renormalization Group for Fermions, three lectures at the Boulder School for Condensed
Matter and Materials Physics, June-July 2008.
”When you come to a fork in the road take it, Yogi Berra’s guide to the quantum world” Pub-
lic Lecture Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, June-July 2008.
”Renormalization group for dummies”, Society of Physics Students, September 24, Yale,
2008.
”Quantum mechanics, does anybody really get it?”, in Intellectual circles and twentieth cen-
tury science, October 31, 2008, Yale.
”The Renormalization Group and the Landau Fermi liquid: what are they and who cares?”,
Physics Club, Yale, November 14, 2008
”Einstein for everyone”, Saybrook College Fellows, November 17, 2008.

Invitations and Seminars 2009

”Dots for dummies, Ohio State University Feb 2009
”Quantum mechanics, does anyone get it?”, Tilde Cafe, Branford, CT (2009).
”Fermions in general codimension and test of Hertz-Millis, Kavli Institute of Physics, UCSB,
March 4, 2009
”Dots for dummies, UC Santa Cruz, March 6, 2009
”New directions for the Fermi liquid”, University of Illinois, April 17, 2009.
”Einstein for the masses”, Connect with Yale in New Haven, May 2, 2009.
”Effective Field Theories in Condensed Matter Physics, 7 Pines Meeting, May 6-10, 2009
Outing Lodge, Stillwater, MN.
”Fermions with varying codimensions”, Aspen Center for Physics, August 26, 2009.
”Dots for Dummies”, Case Western University, Colloquium, September 17, 2009.
”Dots for Dummies”, University of Cincinnati, Colloquium, September 17, 2009.
”Dots for Dummies”, Caltech Physics Research Conference , October 22, 2009.
Invitations and seminars 2010
”Renormalization Group for nonrelativistic fermions”, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle
February 26, 2010.
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”Fireside Chat”, Metro-Gotham Conference, New York Academy of Science, April 9, 2010.
”Einstein for Everyone” , Yale Bulldog Days Master Class, April 20, 2010.
”Einstein for Masses” Alumni Reunion, May 29, 2010.
”Einstein for Masses”, Alumni Lecture , June 5, 2010.
”Zero to c in 60 minutes: A crash course in Einstein using planes trains and automobiles”
Aspen Center for Physics, Heinz Pagels Memorial Lecture, August 3, 2010.
”Dots for dummies”, Physics Department, U of South Florida, Tampa, September 10, 2010.
”Dots for dummies”, Physics Department, Washington University, St Louis, October 13,2010.
”Science at Yale”, talk given to High School Students , Long Island, November 8,2010.
Chairman’s Tea, ”This year’s Nobel Prize: Graphene”, Sloane Lab, Nov 17, 2010.
Invitations and seminars 2011
”Dots for Dummies”, U of California, Santa Cruz, April 22, 2011.
”Dots for Dummies”, U of California, Riverside, May 19, 2011.
”Dots for Dummies”, U of California, Davis, May 23, 2011.
”Einstein for Masses”, Alumni Lecture , June 4, 2011.
”Three lectures on the quantum Hall Effect” Eurasia-Pacific Summer School on Correlated
Electrons, Turunc Turkey, July 4-9, 2011
”Equality of bulk wave functions and edge correlations in some topological superconduc-
tors”, Eurasia-Pacific Conference on Correlated Electrons, Turunc Turkey, July 10-14, 2011
”Equality of bulk wave functions and edge correlations in some topological superconductors:
A spacetime derivation”, Aspen Center for Physics, July 27 , 2011.
”Science at Yale”, talk given to High School Students at the Science and Engineering Forum,
Montclair Kimberley Academy, Montclair, New Jersey, September 14, 2011.
”Lagrangian Field Theory”, Quantum Field Theory Workshop, Center for Philosophy, Oc-
tober Pittsburgh
”A strange equality in some topological superconductors, what and why?”, Conference on
Emergence and Effective Field Theories, The Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, Octo-
ber 26-28, 2011.
”Dots for Dummies”, Brown University, October 31, 2011.
Invitations and seminars 2012
”Zero to c in 60 minutes: A crash course in Einstein”, Master Class during YES-W at Yale,
February 19, 2012.
”Composite fermions for fractionally filled Chern bands”, APS meeting Invited talk, Boston
Ma, March 1, 2012
”Zero to c in 60 minutes: A crash course in Einstein”, May 26 and June 2, 2012, Alumni
Reunion Yale.
”Master Class: Ramanujan, the Tragic Genius”, Bulldog Lecture, April 18, 2012, 10:30-11:20
AM
”Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands”, Indiana University, August 29, 2012
”Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands”, Perimeter Institute, Canada, September
14, 2012
”Science at Yale”, STEM presentation, San Francisco, September 29, 2012.
”Science at Yale”, STEM presentation, San Jose, September 30, 2012.
”Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands”, U Penn, October 4, 2012
”Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands”, Stanford University, October 25, 2012.
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”Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands”, UC Berkeley , October 26, 2012.

Invitations and seminars 2013
”Zero to c in 60 minutes: A crash course in Einstein”, February 2, 2013, Princeton University
Science on Saturday Lecture Series.
”Zero to c in 45 minutes”, February 18, 2013, Yale STEM recruitment.
”Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands”, University of St Andrews, May 8, 2013
”Equality of bulk wave functions and edge correlations in some topological superconductors,
University of St Andrews, May 9, 2013
”Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands”, Cambridge University, May 16, 2013
”Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands”, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, May
23, 2013

Invitations and seminars 2014

”Zero to c in 45 minutes”, February 16, 2014, Yale STEM recruitment.
”Fermi surfaces in general co-dimensions and a new controlled non-trivial fixed point”, Stan-
ford, Workshop on non-Fermi liquids.
”Master Class: Ramanujan, the Tragic Genius”, Yale Bulldog Master Class, April 24, 2014
”Tragic tale of Ramanujan, the mathematical genius”, Aspen Center for Physics, Public
Dialog, July 31,2014.
”Science at Yale”, STEM presentation, San Jose, September 20, 2014.
”Science at Yale”, STEM presentation, San Francisco, September 21, 2014.
Impact of on-line education, Class Speaker, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cam-
bridge MA, October 11, 2014.
”Zero to c in 60 minutes”, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics Public Lecture, Santa Bar-
bara, November 18, 2014.
”Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands”, Colloquium, UC Riverside, November 13,
2014
”Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands”, Seminar, Caltech, December 8, 2014.
Invitations and seminars 2015
”Tragic tale of Ramanujan, the mathematical genius”, Yale STEM Yes weekend, February
15, 2015.
”Dots for dummies”, Colloquium, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, February 16, 2015.
”Royal road to Fermi liquids”, colloquium, IIT Madras, March 10, 2015.
”Crash course in Einstein and applications to GPS”, Techriti Festival, IIT Kanpur, March
21, 2015
”Tragic tale of Ramanujan, the mathematical genius”, Yale Bulldog Days, April 22, 2015.
”Science at Yale”, STEM presentation, San Francisco, September 19, 2015
.The royal road to Landau’s Fermi liquid ”Science at Yale”, STEM presentation, San Jose,
September 20, 2015.
”Zero to c in 60 minutes”, GWPI Distinguished Lecture, Waterloo, October 5, 2015.
Invitations and seminars 2016
”Dots for Dummies”, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Scientific Research, January 6, (2016).
”Fractional Chern Bands”, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Scientific Research, January 7,
(2016).
”Renormalization group”, 6 Lectures, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, January 8-15,
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2016.”Dots for Dummies”, Chennai Mathematical Institute, January 10, (2016).

”Dots for Dummies”, Amherst College, April 19 , (2016).
”Master Class: Zero to c in 60 minutes”, Yale Bulldog Master Class, April 26, 2016
”Equality of certain bulk wave functions and edge correlations in d=2 and 3,”, Technion,
Haifa, Israel, June 20, 2016.
”Tragic tale of Ramanujan, the mathematical genius”, University of Colorado Colloquium,
September 21, 2016
”Equality of certain bulk wave functions and edge correlations in d=2 and 3,” University of
Colorado, Boulder CO, Condensed matter seminar, September 22, 2016.
Invitations and seminars 2017
”Path integrals and bosonization”, 6 lectures given at the Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras, January, 2017
”The tragic tale of the mathematician Ramanujan’, Harvard University Colloquium, Febru-
ary 27, 2017.
”Physics pedagogy”, two lectures at the Conference on Education, Tsinghua University, Bei-
jing, Jun2 1-2, (2017). Release of Fundamentals of Physics I, in Chinese.
”Unusual equality of bulk and edge wavefunctions in a superconductor”, Nordita, Copen-
hagen, August 10, (2017).
”Renormalization group and applications”, 4 lectures at the Nordita Masterclass, Hillerod,
Denmark, August 16-17, (2017).
Invitations and seminars 2018
”Topological insulators”, 8 part lecture series IIT Madras, January, 2018.
”Master Class: Zero to c in 60 minutes”, Yale Bulldog Master Class, April 25, 2018
“The royal road to Landau’s Fermi liquid”, Niels Bohr Lecture, Niels Bohr Institute, Copen-
hagen, MAY 30, 2018.
Keynote address (by zoom) ”Scaling of schools from hundreds to hundreds of thousands-an
innovators’ toolkit to avoid extinction in the digital age”, a conference of hundreds of teach-
ers in India, September 28, 2016. Discuseed Open Yale Courses and their impact.
“Zero to c in 60 minutes”, George Mason University, October 5, 2018.

Committee Work at Yale (92 onwards)

1. Office of Foreign Scholars 1992.

2. Term Appointments. Fall 93- Spring 94 inclusive.
3. Math Instruction at Yale. Spring 94- Fall 94 .
4. Steven Manly and Paul Karchin promotion Fall 94
5. Graduate Admissions 94
6. Chairman, Qualifier Exams in Physics 1994
7. Tenured Appointments Committee, 95-96.
8. Divisional Advisory Committee for Physical Sciences and Engineering. 95-96
9. Packard Foundation Selection Committee 94.
10. Packard Foundation Selection Committee 95.
11. Chairman Samson Shatashvili promotion.
12. Chairman Steven Hsu promotion, 95-96
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13. Senior Atomic Physics search 95-96

14. Tenured Appointments Committee, 96-97
15. Divisional Advisory Committee for Physical Sciences and Engineering. 96-97
16. Promotion of Sean Barrett (Expt Cond Matt) 97-98
17. Replacement for Steve Hsu (Particle Theory)
18. Promotion of Robert Grober (Appl. Phys.)
19. Tenured Appointments Committee 97-98.
20. Divisional Advisory Committee for Physical Sciences and Engineering (Director for
second half) 97-98
21. Tenured Appointments Committee, 98-99.
22. Divisional Advisory Committee for Physical Sciences and Engineering. 98-99
23. History of Science Senior Search (Chair Larry Holmes)98- 00
24. Tenured Appointments Committee 99-00
25. Divisional Advisory Committee for Physical Science and Engineering 99-00( Director
Fall and Spring )
26. Physics Undergraduate Committee. 99-00
27. Junior Faculty Fellowship Committee. Fall 99
28. Wilbur Cross Medalist Selection Committee.Fall 99
29. Karin Rabe promotion to Full Professor Spring 99.
30. Nuclear Theory Junior Appointment (Chairman, Spring 99)
31. Search Committee Director of Yale Summer Program, 2000.
32. 2001 Particle Theory (senior) Search Committee.
33. History of Science Ad Hoc Committee (Kevles) 2001-
34. Packard Selection Committee 2001.
35. Chairman, Physics Qualifiers for Fall 2001.
Chairman Physics July 1,2001-
Meeting of leading 25 Physics Chairman, American Center for Physics, College Park, MD,
November 17,2001.
COUP (Committee for Overseeing Undergraduate Program), Member 2001, 2002.
Steering Committee, Yale College 2002-03
Chairman, Quantitative Reasoning Committee, part of Yale’s curriculum revision, 2003-04
Library committee, Yale, 2003-04
Committee to choose new Dean of Yale College, 2004
Committee to choose new Dean of Yale Graduate School, 2004
Porter Prize and Field Prize selection committee 2004.
Member Quantitative Reasoning Committee, part of Yale’s curriculum revision 2004-05.
Steering Committee, Yale College 2004-05.
Committee member, Physics Alumni Weekend, 2008-2009
Chair Particle Experiment Search 2008-09
Spectacle of India, AYA tour Feb- March 2008.
University Budget Committee, 2008-2009
Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty, 2008-09
Committee member, Penultimate year review of Karyn Le Hur, 2008-2009
Chair, High Energy Junior Experiment Search, 2008-09. Yielded 2 appointments: Sarah
Demers and Tobias Golling
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Member, Ad hoc Tenure committee of Priya Natarajan, 2009

Chair, Committee to consider promotion to tenure of Jack Harris, 2009-10.
Committee to consider promotion to tenure of Karyn LeHur, 2009-2010.
University Budget Committee, 2009-2010
Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty, 2009-2010.
Committee on collaboration with NUS Singapore Fall 2009.
(Nordhaus) Committee to Review Process and Metrics Yale 2011
Recruitment for Yale: 2010, 2011
Spectacle of India, AYA tour Dec 2011.
Ad-hoc committee on grades, Yale College 2012-14
Qualifying Exam committee 2011,2012
Academic Review Committee, 2012-2014
Decanal Review 2013-2014
Biological Introductory Sequence Review, 2014.
Diversity Committee, physics 2014-15
Target of Opportunity Committee, physics 2014-
On line education committee, Yale. 2015-
Condensed matter theory search committee, Physics department, 2016.
Jack Harris Promotion to Professor, Physics, 2016-17.
Qualifying committee 2016.
Qualifying committee 2017.
Graduate education committee, 2017 Fall only.
Qualifying committee 2018.
Retirement Savings Program Committee 2018 Fall.
Faculty Standards os Conduce Review committee, 2018-2021
I also designed and taught, for nearly a decade, Physics 301a, which is a one semester
course aimed at our freshmen and sophomores, to bridge the gap between their state of
mathematical knowledge and what the faculty tends to assume. The book I wrote based on
this course, Basic Training in Mathematics, now serves as the next.
In Fall 2007, my Introductory course Physics 200a, was video taped and made available
on line as part of Yale’s Open Courses, funded by the Hewlett Foundation. I had to prepare
auxiliary notes, as well as new problems for weekly use as well as exams since copyright laws
prevented posting the complete solutions of problems from any course book. These lectures
are used worldwide and serve as core material for some courses especially in Latin America.
The second part 201b on electromagnetic theory and quantum mechanics was taped in
Spring 2010 and released spring 2011.
In 2013 I finished a book on part 1 of these lectures to be published by Yale University
Press.
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Committee Work Outside Yale

1. Selection committee Dannie Heineman Prize of the American Physical Society in Mathe-
matical Physics. 1997-1998
2. General Member Aspen Center for Physics. Members run the center choosing programs,
visitors etc. Only condensed matter theorist elected this year. 98-2003
3. Member Division of Materials Research, Triennial Committee of Visitors (COV) 1999.
This important activity, mandated by the National Science Board, ensures that NSF pro-
grams are being managed in a professional and responsible way. The COV is particularly
important this year with the institution of the Government Performance and Results Act.
4. Nomination Committee for Aspen center for Physics: Process renewals, new appointment,
election of trustees and officers. 1999
Nomination Committee for Aspen center for Physics: Process renewals, new appointment,
election of trustees and officers. 2000.
Colloquium committee Aspen Center for Physics.
Chair Nomination Committee Aspen center for Physics, 2004
Trustee Aspen Center for Physics 2004-
Board of Directors, Cogito, Templeton Project, Johns Hopkins, 2005.
Chair Heinz Pagels Summer Lecture Series, Aspen Center for Physics, 2006.
Yale’s Hewlett Project for taping Physics 200 lectures Fall 2006.
Chair, Presidential Selection Aspen Center for Physics, 2007.
Member, Scientific advisory Board, the Center for Correlated Electrons and Magnetism,
Augsburg, Germany . Visited October 1-2, 2007.
Visiting Committee Boston College Physics Department, Dec 10-11, 2009.
Member, Scientific advisory Board, the Center for Correlated Electrons and Magnetism,
Augsburg, Germany . Visited October 4-5, 2010.
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize selection committee, American Physical Society, 2010.
Advisory Board, Kavli Institute for Physics, Santa Barbara 2010-2013
Chair, Presidential Search of the Aspen Center for Physics, 2012-13.
Presidential Search of the Aspen Center for Physics, 2016.