Mark Alford

• Main research topic: High density quark matter.
• Publications:
  
  • INSPIRE listing
  • INSPIRE citation summary
  • PDF document.
• Publicity:
  • Interview with Bill Buhro and Kathy Miller on 5 myths about science (Washington University Arts & Sciences Magazine, Spring 2012)
  • Debate with Deepak Chopra et. al. on physics, reality, and consciousness (Washington University News, Feb 2011) (View online video)
  • Exotic behavior of a superfluid superconductor, (Phys. Rev. Focus, July 2008), (Washington University News, Aug 2008)
  • Crystalline surfaces on strange stars, (Washington University News, Dec 2006)
• List of Invited conference talks.
• Curriculum Vitae (PDF).

Current Teaching

• Physics 171, "Physics and Society"

Previous Teaching

• Physics 171, "Physics and Society", Fall 2009-2012
• Physics 217, "Introduction to Quantum Physics I", 2003-2005, 2008.
  My summary notes, "The Essentials of Quantum Mechanics".
• Physics 318, "Introduction to Quantum Physics II", 2004-2006.
  List of corrections for Bernstein, Fishbane, Gasiorowicz's "Modern Physics" textbook.
• Physics 474, "Introduction to Particle Physics", 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011.
• Physics 524, "Graduate Quantum Mechanics II", Spring 2010.
• Physics 551, "Quantum Field Theory I", Fall 2007.
• Physics 552, "Quantum Field Theory II", Spring 2008 and 2012

• A Universe from Nothing (Lawrence Krauss), published in Skeptical Inquirer (Nov/Dec 2012)
• War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality (Chopra and Mlodinow), short review published in Physics Today
• Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist" (Gordon Fraser). Published in Physics In Perspective.
• What's so great about Christianity? (Dinesh D'Souza). Review published by the The Secular Web. (local copy here).
• "The God Delusion" (Richard Dawkins)
• "Guns, germs, and steel" (Jared Diamond)
• "The language instinct" (Steven Pinker)
• "James the brother of Jesus" (Robert Eisenman)
• "The heartland" (Stuart Legg)
• "Who wrote the bible?" (Friedman)
• "Black Athena" (Martin Bernal)
• "The myth of heterosexual AIDS" (Michael Fumento)

• Despair Inc: Do you despise motivational posters and the supposed habits of highly effective people? This is your site. Check out my favorites.
• Zapato Productions . I don't know how to describe this site. Look for yourself.
• "Centuries of Darkness" (Peter James et al)
• Many worlds is a prediction of quantum mechanics, not an interpretation of it.
• World languages. Fun, but not exhaustive.
• All world languages (Ethnologue). Exhaustive, but...
• The eerie remnants of ancient Greek music