Portrait of David Tong
. Portrait from the Trinity College Cambridge profile.- Applications of Quantum Mechanics by David Tong
- Classical Dynamics by David Tong
- Classical Gases by David Tong
- Classical Thermodynamics by David Tong
- Cosmology by David Tong
- Electromagnetism by David Tong
- Fluid Mechanics by David Tong
- Gauge Theory by David Tong
- General Relativity by David Tong
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- Phase Transitions by David Tong
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- Solid State Physics by David Tong
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- Statistical Physics by David Tong 1 The Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics
- Stochastic Processes by David Tong
- The Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics by David Tong
- Topics in Quantum Mechanics by David Tong
- Yang-Mills Theory by David Tong
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A charismatic, perfect-English-accent (Received Pronunciation) physicist from University of Cambridge, specializing in quantum field theory.
He has done several "vulgarization" lectures, some of which could be better called undergrad appetizers rather, a notable example being Video "Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe by David Tong (2017)" for the prestigious Royal Institution, but remains a hardcore researcher: scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=felFiY4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate. Lots of open access publications BTW, so kudos.
The amount of lecture notes on his website looks really impressive: www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/teaching.html, he looks like a good educator.
David has also shown some interest in applications of high energy mathematical ideas to condensed matter, e.g. links between the renormalization group and phase transition phenomena. TODO there was a YouTube video about that, find it and link here.
Ciro Santilli wonders if his family is of East Asian, origin and if he can still speak any east asian languages. "Tong" is of course a transcription of several major Chinese surnames and from looks he could be mixed blood, but as mentioned at www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=tong it can also be an English "metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of tongs". After staring at his picture for a while Ciro is going with the maker of tongs theory initially.