I spend most of my research hours on development and assesment of educational activities in advanced laboratory physics. The nature of this work is that it tends to generate more talks and posters than publications; those are summarized together on the Teaching Activities page. (Students interested in projects associated with Junior Lab should check there.)
I have performed other scientific research in the following fields:
- Computational epidemiology and ecology
- Quantum field theory
- General relativity
- GR as an effective field theory
- Semiclassical gravity / QFT in curved spacetime
- Quantum black holes
- Quantum anomalies
There are a number of subjects which I am interested in enough such that if students were to approach me with a research problem, I’d likely be interested in starting a project:
- Casimir effects, and QFT in non-trivial backgrounds in general.
- Quantum computer algorithms
- Spacetime swimming
- Initial value problems in fluid mechanics and in general relativity
- Asymptotically safe quantum field theories
- Field strength cutoff renormalization group
- Applications of general relativity methods to atomic/condensed matter, and vice-versa
- Biophysical dynamics of prion diseases, aka “How now, Mad Cow?”
- Stat mech / network applications to cognitive science, in particular to questions of consciousness / awareness in general anesthesia, and the like.
- Most of physics. Astrophysics. Cosmology. Particle Physics. Nuclear Physics. Statistical Physics. Stringishly Theory. Nonlinear dynamics. Energy/Environment issues. Etc.
Scholarly database identifiers:
- ORCiD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5057-2715 - arXiv: robinson_s_1
- INSPIRE: S.P.Robinson.1