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TIBOR TORMA

Research assistant professor and director of Kennon Observatory

Department: Department of Physics and Astronomy

Work Phone Number: (662) 915 - 5627

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Postal Address: Department of Physics and Astromomy, 208 Lewis Hall, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677

Teaching at OleMiss

Physics:

213-214 (Algebra-based physics for pre-med students); 223-224 (Physics laboratory for pre-med students);

211-212 (Algebra-based physics for engineering students); 221-222 (Physics laboratory for engineering students);

621 (Advanced electromagnetism (Jackson) ); 614 (Advanced quantum field theory).

Astronomy courses:

101 (Large service courses, no laboratory), 103-104 (Large service courses including laboratory);

503 (Practical astronomy for teaching assistants); 504 (Stellar structure).

Astronomy laboratories:

• Coordination of all the 16 astronomy laboratories.

• Astronomical imaging program (honors 104 and extra credit program 103/104).

For details, check out the astronomy course home pages. They look pretty neat!

Teaching-related publications:

• Image Taking with a CCD Camera. Text for honors projects.

• Laboratory manuals for Astronomy 103, Astronomy 104, and Honors Astronomy 104. Text for laboratories, updated every semester.

• Quantization in Loop Quantum Gravity. Review and introduction into the mathematical structure of LQG.

• The Astronomy Teaching Assistant's Handbook. For astronomy laboratory instructors.

Research Information:

 Some of the fields in which I have worked are:

  • Higgs and technicolor phenomenology

  • Quantum gravity as a field theory, infrared divergences

  • The Gauge-Goldstone Equivalence Theorem

  • Taub-Nut spaces in axidilaton gravity

  • Quarkonium physics (B to J/psi, nu+p to J/psi)

  • Nonsupersymmetric extensions to the Standard Model: model building

  • Extraction of new physics from ttbar polarization at the Tevatron

  • The dynamics of chiral symmetry breaking: the role of instantons and four fermion condensates  

  • The cosmological constant and field theory in extra dimensional scenarios

  • Semiclassical states in Loop Quantum Gravity

    Here is a list of all my papers (with citations) on the net.