Teaching
On this page you’ll find materials for courses that I have taught at Cornell.
AEP 4400/5400 Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
A course offered to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students presenting a unified classical and quantum treatment of nonlinear optics. Topics covered include the nonlinear susceptibility and its formal properties, second- and third-order classical nonlinear optics, quantization of the electromagnetic field in nonlinear media, quantum states of light, sub-shot-noise interferometry, and the quantum theory of parametric amplifiers, parametric oscillators, and squeezing via the Kerr effect.
AEP 4230/5230 Statistical Physics
An upper-level undergraduate course on statistical physics, covering thermodynamics, probability, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, interacting systems, and Langevin dynamics. In 2025 we used Kardar’s Statistical Physics of Particles as the text for most of the course. You can find typed lecture notes for the first portion of the course here, with typed notes for the rest forthcoming.