This web site is owned and administered by Prof. A.W. Peet of the University of Toronto.
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What I offer here
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Basics
- Contact details
- How to get my name and pronouns right
- Termtime schedule outline
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Research
- About Prof. Peet
- Research interests - layperson overview
(see also: this Nature article by George Musser)
- Research interests - black hole microscopics and AdS/CFT holography [a bit dated]
- Graduate Jamboree presentation for incoming graduate students [04.Sep.2019]
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Teaching
- PHY197F Modern Physics for the Curious
- PHY483F General Relativity I
- PHY484S General Relativity II
- Course deadlines policy
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Advice
- Advice generalities
- Advice for school kids wanting email help with a science project
- Advice for high schoolers/undergrads aspiring to be string theorists
- Advice for undergrads seeking research opportunities in my
lab
- Advice for prospective string theory PhD students
- Advice for students with offers of graduate admission from us
- Recommended non-physics reading for grad students
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Outreach
- A very brief introduction to string theory
- Slides and YouTube video of 2015 public lecture
- News media appearances
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Inclusion work
- Academic decency
- Being transgender
- Being disabled
- Being Kiwi
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Miscellaneous
- A bit about Toronto
- Putting LaTeX equations in webpages
- Quasi-blog
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