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These are the course titles and outlines of courses
I taught at the University of Toronto, during my two years there.
I really enjoy teaching - not surprising since both my parents are teachers.
Like anyone I'd insert the caveat that I enjoy
it provided there's not too much of it to significantly
interfere with my research!
PHY2205F Special Topics in Quantum Optics I: Graduate course
taught Fall 1998, Fall 1999.
(This was the first course of a two part introduction to quantum information theory)
Introduction to quantum measurement theory, Bell's inequalities, GHZ, Hardy's theorem, no- cloning theorem, interaction-free measurement, quantum teleportation, quantum dense coding, IDP/generalized measurements, non-locality without entanglement, quantum versus classical information theory, measures of entanglement, POVM's.
PHY2206S: Special Topics in Quantum Optics II: Graduate course
taught Spring 1999.
(This was the second course of a two part introduction to quantum information theory)
Introduction to classical cryptography, quantum cryptography,
classical complexity theory and Turing machines, quantum computing:
quantum complexity theory, construction of quantum circuits,
Deutsch's algorithm, Simon's algorithm, Shor's algorithm,
Grover's algorithm, quantum error correction,
experimental progress towards construction of quantum computers.
PHY1486/486S Photons and Atoms:
Undergraduate/Graduate course taught Spring 1999, Spring 2000.
Introduction to quantum electrodynamics, quantization of the radiation field,
states of the radiation field, photon correlation functions,
semi-classical atom-photon interactions, interaction of the quantized
field with atoms, perturbative calculations, non-perturbative calculations:
master equations, the dressed atom model, modern topics.
PHY100F The Magic of Physics: Undergraduate course taught Fall 1999.
This is a course aimed at first and second year humanities students.
It covers: What is Physics and how does it progress?, Scales of the universe,
Understanding big and small numbers: Fermi questions,
Learning physics indirectly: How things work
(microwaves, radios, telephones, fluorescent versus
incandescent lights, lasers, CD players, television,
air-conditioners, automobile engines, aeroplanes),
Newton's versus Einstein's concepts of space and time,
the counter-intuitive quantum world.
PHY2208S Nonlinear Optics:Graduate course taught Spring 2000, shared teaching with H. van Driel.
First half (taught by T. Rudolph): Introduction to some commonly encountered processes in nonlinear optics: Second Harmonic Generation, Sum and Difference Frequency generation, Third harmonic generation, Optical bistability. Perturbative calculations of the nonlinear susceptibility. Non-perturbative calculations of resonance phenomena: Optical Bloch equations, Dressed atom model.
Second half (taught by H. van Driel): Experimental nonlinear optics in condensed matter systems.
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