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The aim of physicists is to discover the most fundamental principles of nature. Their tools are mathematics and experiment. The physical world as we perceive it is very complex, yet the principles of Physics are inherently simple. A physicist's forte is the ability to analyze a problem, reduce its complexity, and arrive at an understanding of the underlying patterns of nature in terms of simple relationships among constituent elements. Learning to do this gives Physics majors an intellectual versatility that can serve them well in a variety of future activities ranging from research and teaching in Physics or related sciences to careers in law, the health professions, and high-technology companies.

Papers from 1992 1992

New Discrete States of Strings Near a Black Hole, Jacques Distler and Philip C. Nelson

Possible Néel Orderings of the Kagomé Antiferromagnet, A. Brooks Harris, Catherine Kallin, and A. John Berlinsky

Orientational Ordering of Icosahedra in Solid C₆₀, A. Brooks Harris and Ravi Sachidanandam

Rigid Chiral Membranes, Philip C. Nelson and Thomas Powers

Series Approach to the Randomly Diluted Elastic Network, Jian Wang, A. Brooks Harris, and Joan Adler

Lattice Dynamics of Solid C₆₀, Taner Yildirim and A. Brooks Harris

Scaling of Transient Hydrodynamic Interactions in Concentrated Suspensions, J. X. Zhu, Douglas J. Durian, D. A. Weitz, and D. J. Pine

Papers from 1991 1991

Stress Tensor Perturbations in Conformal Field Theory, Marc Campbell, Philip C. Nelson, and Eugene Wong

Hidden Symmetry in Topological Gravity, Jacques Distler and Philip C. Nelson

Semirigid Supergravity, Jacques Distler and Philip C. Nelson

The Dilaton Equation in Semirigid String Theory, Jacques Distler and Philip C. Nelson

Topological Couplings and Contact Terms in 2d Field Theory, Jacques Distler and Philip C. Nelson

Scaling Behavior in Shaving Cream, Douglas J. Durian, D. A. Weitz, and D. J. Pine

Semirigid Construction of Topological Supergravities, Suresh Govindarajan, Philip C. Nelson, and Soo-Jong Rey

Phase Locking in the Heisenberg Helimagnet, A. Brooks Harris

Ordering by Quantum Fluctuations in a Strongly Frustrated Heisenberg Antiferromagnet, A. Brooks Harris, A. John Berlinsky, and Christoph Bruder

Locking of Commensurate Phases in the Planar Model in an External Magnetic Field, A. Brooks Harris, Enrico Rastelli, and Armando Tassi

Series Expansions for the Ising Spin Glass in General Dimension, Lior Klein, Joan Adler, Amnon Aharony, A. Brooks Harris, and Yigal Meir

Comment on "Orientational Ordering Transition in Solid C₆₀", Ravi Sachidanandam and A. Brooks Harris

The Heisenberg Antiferromagnet With a Low Concentration of Static Defects, C. C. Wan and A. Brooks Harris

The Dilute Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet, C. C. Wan, A. Brooks Harris, and Joan Adler

Papers from 1990 1990

Series Study of Percolation Moments in General Dimension, Joan Adler, Yigal Meir, Amnon Aharony, and A. Brooks Harris

Capillary Behavior of Binary Liquid Mixtures Near Criticality: Rise and Kinetics, Douglas J. Durian, Kumudini Abeysuriya, Susan K. Watson, and Carl Franck

High-Temperature Series for Random-Anisotropy Magnets, Ronald Fisch and A. Brooks Harris

Long Range Order in Random Anisotropy Magnets, Ronald Fisch and A. Brooks Harris

Scaling of Negative Moments of the Growth Probability of Diffusion-Limited Aggregates, A. Brooks Harris and Michael Cohen

Resistance Distributions of the Random Resistor Network Near the Percolation Threshold, A. Brooks Harris, Yigal Meir, and Amnon Aharony

Phase Locking in Heisenberg Helimagnets, A. Brooks Harris, Enrico Rastelli, and Armando Tassi

Effective Field Equations for Fermionic Strings, HoSeong La and Philip C. Nelson

Virasoro Model Space, HoSeong La, Philip C. Nelson, and A S. Schwarz

Remarks on Virasoro Model Space, HoSeong La, Philip C. Nelson, and A. S. Schwarz

Wetting Transitions in a Cylindrical Pore, Andrea J. Liu, Douglas J. Durian, Eric Herbolzheimer, and S. A. Safran

Beyond Conformal Field Theory, Philip C. Nelson

First-Order Phase Transition Induced by Quantum Fluctuations in Heisenberg Helimagnets, Enrico Rastelli and A. Brooks Harris

Papers from 1989 1989

Negative Moments of Currents in Percolating Resistor Networks, Amnon Aharony, Raphael Blumenfeld, Pierre Breton, Bertrand Fourcade, A. Brooks Harris, Yigal Meir, and A. M. S. Tremblay

Mean-Field Theory for Interchain Orientational Ordering of Conjugated Polymers, Han-Yong Choi, A. Brooks Harris, and Eugene J. Mele

Temperature-Driven Motion of a Wetting Layer, Douglas J. Durian and Carl Franck

Scaling of the Negative Moments of the Harmonic Measure in Diffusion-Limited Aggregates, A. Brooks Harris

Phase Diagrams for the Randomly Diluted Resistor Network and XY Model, A. Brooks Harris and Amnon Aharony

Flux Phases in Two-Dimensional Tight-Binding Models, A. Brooks Harris, Tom C. Lubensky, and Eugene J. Mele

Dilute Spin Glass at Zero Temperature in General Dimension, Lior Klein, Joan Adler, Amnon Aharony, A. Brooks Harris, and Yigal Meir

How to Integrate the Fermionic String Measure, HoSeong La and Philip C. Nelson

Unambiguous Fermionic String Amplitudes, HoSeong La and Philip C. Nelson

ε Expansion for the Nishimori Multicritical Point of Spin Glasses, Pierre Le Doussal and A. Brooks Harris

Percolation in Negative Field and Lattice Animals, Yigal Meir, Amnon Aharony, and A. Brooks Harris

Self-Avoiding Walks on Diluted Networks, Yigal Meir and A. Brooks Harris

Cohomology and the Operator Formalism, Philip C. Nelson

Covariant Insertions of General Vertex Operators, Philip C. Nelson

Central-Force Models Which Exhibit a Splay-Rigid Phase, Jian Wang and A. Brooks Harris

Cohn’s Theorem for Elastic Networks, Jian Wang and A. Brooks Harris

Papers from 1988 1988

Series Study of Random Animals in General Dimensions, Joan Adler, Yigal Meir, A. Brooks Harris, Amnon Aharony, and José A. M. S Duarté

Transmission of Order in a Correlated Spin Glass, Joan Adler, Aernout C. D. van Enter, and A. Brooks Harris

Fermionic Strings in the Operator Formalism, Luis Alvaraz Gaume, Cesar Gomez, Philip C. Nelson, German Sierra, and Cumrun Vafa

Line Bundles on Super Riemann Surfaces, Steven B. Giddings and Philip C. Nelson

First‐Order Phase Transition Induced by Quantum Fluctuations in Heisenberg Helimagnets, A. Brooks Harris and Enrico Rastelli

Location of the Ising Spin-Glass Multicritical Point on Nishimori's Line, Pierre Le Doussal and A. Brooks Harris

Scaling of Splay and Total Rigidity for Elastic Percolation on the Triangular Lattice, E. W. Marshall and A. Brooks Harris

Equivariant Structure in String Theory, Philip C. Nelson

Introduction to Supermanifolds, Philip C. Nelson

Lectures on Supermanifolds and Strings, Philip C. Nelson

Operator Formalism and Holomorphic Factorization in Supermoduli, Philip C. Nelson

Some Simple Supermoduli Spaces, Philip C. Nelson

Papers from 1987 1987

Bosonization on Higher Genus Riemann Surfaces, Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Jean-Benoît Bost, Gregory Moore, Philip C. Nelson, and Cumrun Vafa

Resistance Fluctuations in Randomly Diluted Networks, Raphael Blumenfeld, Yigal Meir, Amnon Aharony, and A. Brooks Harris

Semi-Off-Shell String Amplitudes, Andrew Cohen, Gregory Moore, Philip C. Nelson, and Joseph Polchinski

Continued Exploration of the Wetting Phase Diagram, Douglas J. Durian and Carl Franck

Wetting Phenomena of Binary Liquid Mixtures on Chemically Altered Substrates, Douglas J. Durian and Carl Franck

Torsion Constraints and Super Riemann Surfaces, Steven B. Giddings and Philip C. Nelson

Field-Theoretic Formulation of the Randomly Diluted Nonlinear Resistor Network, A. Brooks Harris

Random-Anisotropy-Axis Magnet With Infinite Anisotropy, A. Brooks Harris, Robert G. Caflisch, and Jayanth R. Banavar

Potts-Model Formulation of the Random Resistor Network, A. Brooks Harris and Thomas C. Lubensky

Randomly Diluted xy and Resistor Networks Near the Percolation Threshold, A. Brooks Harris and Thomas C. Lubensky

Recursive Enumeration of Clusters in General Dimension on Hypercubic Lattices, A. Brooks Harris and Yigal Meir

Diffusion on Percolating Clusters, A. Brooks Harris, Yigal Meir, and Amnon Aharony

Series Analysis of Randomly Diluted Nonlinear Networks With Negative Nonlinearity Exponent, Yigal Meir, Raphael Blumenfeld, A. Brooks Harris, and Amnon Aharony

A New Topological Term in 2d Field Theory, Philip C. Nelson

Holomorphic Coordinates for Supermoduli Space, Philip C. Nelson

Lectures on Strings and Moduli Space, Philip C. Nelson

Noise Exponents of the Random Resistor Network, Youngah Park, A. Brooks Harris, and Thomas C. Lubensky

Papers from 1986 1986

Reanalysis of "Dilute Random-Field Ising Models and Uniform-Field Antiferromagnets", Joan Adler, Amnon Aharony, Yigal Meir, and A. Brooks Harris

Bosonization in Arbitrary Genus, Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Gregory Moore, Philip C. Nelson, Cumrun Vafa, and J. B. Bost

Spin-1/2 Bosonization on Compact Surfaces, J. B. Bost and Philip C. Nelson

Quantum Percolation in Magnetic Fields, Yigal Meir, Amnon Aharony, and A. Brooks Harris

Series Analysis of Randomly Diluted Nonlinear Resistor Networks, Yigal Meir, Raphael Blumenfeld, Amnon Aharony, and A. Brooks Harris

Modular Forms and the Cosmological Constant, G Moore, J Harris, Philip C. Nelson, and I Singer

Strings and Supermoduli, Gregory Moore, Philip C. Nelson, and Joseph Polchinski

Analytic Structure of Two Dimensional Quantum Field Theory, Philip C. Nelson

Papers from 1985 1985

Dilute Random-Field Ising Models and Uniform-Field Antiferromagnets, Amnon Aharony, A. Brooks Harris, and Yigal Meir

Density of States of the Random-Hopping Model on a Cayley Tree, Yup Kim and A. Brooks Harris

Hysteretic Behavior of the Site-Diluted Ising Antiferromagnet in Uniform Applied Fields, Yup Kim and A. Brooks Harris

Spin-Wave Excitations and Perpendicular Susceptibility of a Diluted Antiferromagnet Near Percolation Threshold, Deepak Kumar and A. Brooks Harris

A Comment on Sigma Model Anomalies, Aneesh Manohart, Gregory Moore, and Philip C. Nelson

The Ætiology of Sigma Model Anomalies, Gregory Moore and Philip C. Nelson

Introduction to Sigma Model Anomalies, in Symposium on Anomalies, Geometry, and Topology, Philip C. Nelson

Bond Orientational Order in the Randomly Diluted Elastic Network, Jian Wang and A. Brooks Harris

Papers from 1984 1984

Percolation in Dimensions d≥4, Joan Adler, Amnon Aharony, and A. Brooks Harris

1/σ Expansion for Quantum Percolation, A. Brooks Harris

ε Expansion for the Conductivity of a Random Resistor Network, A. Brooks Harris, Soobang Kim, and Tom C. Lubensky

Hamiltonian Interpretation of Anomalies, Philip C. Nelson and Luis Alvarez-Gaumé

What Becomes of Global Color, Philip C. Nelson and Sidney Coleman

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