Daniel D. Ferrante

Email: danieldf@het.brown.edu
Phone: +1-401-863-3110
FAX: +1-401-863-3697

My publications may be found at SPIRES.
Other scientific writings can be found here.

2004 Brown Summer Courses:

What is Special Relativity?
There is a CHAT room for the courses! It is done using the popular IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol (for more info follow one of these links: IRChelp.org, IRC.org). For those of you running on Windows and/or Mac, IRC clients (programs) can be found here: Downloads. The name of the server to which you should connect is olympus.het.brown.edu and the channel (chat room) name is #summer04.
There is also an emailing list for each of the courses. For more info (subscribe, unsubscribe, view the list archives), follow this link.
The first proposal for these courses is to divide them in 3 "modules": theory, practice and presentation. Each module will have the duration of 1.5 hours, forcing each class to have 2 modules (total of 3h) in it. Basically, theory means the standard "blackboard lecture", while practice means the resolution of exercises and presentation stands for oral presentations given by "you", the students! >;-) Sure enough, the details can be as flexible as possible (groups of students for the presentations, duration of the presentations (15min, 20min, 30min), length of each module (1h, 1.5h, 2h, 3h), etc...) and will be arranged in the very first day of class, e.g., which modules will be on certain days of the week and so on. (Suggestions are welcome! Email me... >;-)
Office of Summer Studies: 4th floor of the Graduate Center on Thayer/Charlesfield St phone 863-7903.

WWW olympus.het.brown.edu

Some CGI's:

Zeus, Providence, Rhode Island.

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