Explorations in Quantum Computing

Kunjungan Ke Peneropongan Bintang

Fisikawan Muda

Jacob Barnett is currently studying theoretical physics at The Perimeter Institute.

http://jacobbarnett.com/jacob-barnett.html
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/

Sumber Terbuka dari CERN

1. http://public.web.cern.ch/public/
 

2. http://scoap3.org/index.html

A major step forward for open-access publishing

 

 

Representatives from the science-funding agencies and library communities of 29 countries are meeting at CERN today to launch the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) initiative.

At a meeting last week the CERN Finance Committee officially approved the award of contracts for the provision of peer-review, open access and other publication services for the benefit of SCOAP3. The consortium aims to provide unrestricted access to high-energy-physics (HEP) research literature in its final, peer-reviewed form, by sharing the cost of the peer-review service between funding agencies, research institutions, libraries and library consortia, while publishers make electronic versions of their journals open access.

Fokus Penelitian

Divisi: Pendidikan Fisika

Divisi: Biofisika Medis

Divisi: Fisika Teori Murni

Divisi: Teknik Fisika

Divisi: Astrofisika

Divisi: Geofisika

Divisi: Fisika Nuklir

Divisi: Fisika Material dan Nanoteknologi

Divisi: Fisika Komputasi

Divisi: Fisika Energi dan Lingkungan

Divisi: Ekonofisika

An Introduction to the Bosonic String

An Introduction to the Bosonic String 

String Theory

By: Prof. Joseph Polchinski (born on May 16, 1954 in White Plains, New York) is a physicist working on string theory. He graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1971, obtained his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1975, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 under the supervision of Stanley Mandelstam.

After postdoctoral positions at SLAC (1980–82) and Harvard (1982–84) he was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 to 1992. Since 1992 he has been a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara.

http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/joep

Book Description

String theory has advanced rapidly over the last 15 years and is increasingly seen as the best, and perhaps only, route to the complete unification of the four fundamental forces--the so-called "theory of everything". This text provides, in two volumes, a thoroughly modern and comprehensive introduction to strings and superstrings, and brings the reader up to date on the latest developments in string duality, M-theory, D-branes, and the application of string theory to black hole quantum mechanics. The author is one of the world's top string theorists, and is also known as a clear and cogent writer. The two volumes are written at a level appropriate to graduate students in physics. This is the first major textbook on strings since the two volume work of Green, Schwartz and Witten 10 years ago (which sold extraordinarily well, reprinting within a month of publication). The main market for the book is theoretical physicists, particle physicists, astrophysicists, cosmologists and applied mathematicians. However, this is an accessible book on one of the most fundamental questions in physics by a top researcher. It has all the ingredients to be a best seller.

Bagaimana Meningkatkan Kualitas Pendidikan Sains dan Teknologi Kita?

Menurut survei internasional yang komprehensif pada tahun 2003 oleh Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Kualitas pendidikan terbaik di dunia adalah kualitas pendidikan di Negara Finlandia.

 Bagaimana dengan kualitas pendidikan di Indonesia? 

Kualitas pendidikan Indonesia saat ini masih rendah dan bisa dibilang memprihatinkan.

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Bahkan sekolah-sekolah yang beratapkan langit pun masih banyak. Siswa tidak mendapatkan pasokan buku yang memadai. Dan yang fatal lagi adalah mahal-nya biaya sekolah. Padahal kita semua tahu bahwa pendidikan merupakan hak bagi seluruh warga negara Indonesia. Inilah realita yang dialami dunia pendidikan di Indonesia. 

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