Professor
Alexander Kusenko
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Professor Kusenko is by far one of the best professors in the department. His midterms and finals are completely open book and open note. He is willing to comprise with students on various issues related to the course. He is extremely nice and easily approachable. He makes lectures interesting and fun. His grading system is also very easy: splits the class into 3rds and and assigns A's, B's, and C's accordingly, you really have to try hard to not pass the class. Highly recommend this professor, if he is available, take him. All in all he is just a great guy.
Professor Kusenko is by far one of the best professors in the department. His midterms and finals are completely open book and open note. He is willing to comprise with students on various issues related to the course. He is extremely nice and easily approachable. He makes lectures interesting and fun. His grading system is also very easy: splits the class into 3rds and and assigns A's, B's, and C's accordingly, you really have to try hard to not pass the class. Highly recommend this professor, if he is available, take him. All in all he is just a great guy.
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Course was based on the classic Mathews and Walker book "Mathematical Methods of Physics" with references to Hamermesh's "Group Theory" and also Georgi's "Lie Algebras in Particle Physics". He alternated the class lectures between PDE's and Group Theory, which I found to be an albeit unconventional yet refreshing way to learn about two different topics. Problems were difficult and time-consuming, but his grading was fair. His teaching style is based on the texts, with particular emphasis put on mathematical techniques that he finds most useful in his research (check out his website for more on that). One of my favorite graduate professors.
Course was based on the classic Mathews and Walker book "Mathematical Methods of Physics" with references to Hamermesh's "Group Theory" and also Georgi's "Lie Algebras in Particle Physics". He alternated the class lectures between PDE's and Group Theory, which I found to be an albeit unconventional yet refreshing way to learn about two different topics. Problems were difficult and time-consuming, but his grading was fair. His teaching style is based on the texts, with particular emphasis put on mathematical techniques that he finds most useful in his research (check out his website for more on that). One of my favorite graduate professors.
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