Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), in partnership with the University of Waterloo, welcomes applications to the Masters level course, Perimeter Scholars International (PSI). Exceptional students with an undergraduate honours degree in Physics, Math, Engineering or Computer Science are encouraged to apply. Students require a minimum of 3 upper level undergraduate or graduate courses in physics. PSI recruits a diverse group of students and especially encourages applications from qualified women candidates. The due date for applications to PSI is February 1st, 2010. Complete details are available at www.perimeterscholars.org.

There’s also a downloadable poster with more information at this link.

– davinci 11855

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The book and its translation are supposed among the most influential books in 20th century physics, since an entire generation of subsequently famous physicists were trained on it. Freeman Dyson, for example, claims to have learned most of the physics he knew at the time from reading the book in English translation. The book is said to be one of the best introductions to “classical” theoretical physics.

Given a reputation like that, I couldn’t pass it up. And it does not disappoint. However, it is very heavy reading, and quite possibly very boring to anyone who is not very interested in the state of theoretical physics in the middle part of the 20th century.

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