This page includes some of my “lighter” and nonscientific technical professional activities.
As noted on the homepage, you are welcome to visit my professional site http://www.columbia.edu/~iph1 for information on my more serious activities (research and teaching activities, papers and books, seminars and mini case scenarios in ethics (responsible conduct of research and professionalism), and a virtual time capsule interrelating events in the first 15 decades of the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science with those in New York City (at seas150.columbia.edu/multimedia and the pdf version given below), though many question whether these are indeed serious efforts. There is some more light-hearted fare concerning my research and the American Presidency at http://www.columbia.edu/~iph1/hermanPresidency.html and below, and how my career may have been influenced by Superman at http://www.columbia.edu/~iph1/Download/Dr. Abner Sedgwick-for IPH website-newest-again2.pdf and below. Presentations on teaching research and professional ethics and on outreach to high school students are also presented at my professional site and here. My next-to-most recent book is described on www.facebook.com/PhysicsOfTheHumanBody. See the page on this site concerning my most recent book, Coming Home to Math.
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Laws of Herman
The Three Books of Herman
Virtual Time Capsule interrelating events in the first 15 decades of the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science with those in New York City
Herman’s Research and the American Presidency
How Herman’s Career may have been influenced by the musical “It’s a Bird, It’s and Plane, It’s Superman”
Ethics Presentations and Materials
Outreach Presentation to High School Students
Laws of Herman
The “Laws of Herman” were published in Nature 445, 228 (2007). They are “tongue-in-cheek” advice to graduate students doing doctoral thesis work, in the form of 20 “laws.”
The First Amendment to the Laws of Herman: “If you didn’t document it, you didn’t do it.”
The Second Amendment to the Laws of Herman: “Do not present your advisor with only your data and analysis; also present your conclusions and plans for future work.”
The Third Amendment to the Laws of Herman: “Do not present your advisor with only your conclusions and plans for future work; also present your data and analysis.”
The Three Books of Herman
Virtual Time Capsule interrelating events in the first 15 decades of the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science with those in New York City
Also see seas150.columbia.edu/multimedia, for the virtual time capsules in a different format. (This material can be used, but may not be modified and/or distributed.)
Herman’s Research and the American Presidency
How Herman’s Career may have been influenced by the musical “It’s a Bird, It’s and Plane, It’s Superman”
Ethics Presentations and Materials
Below are slide presentations on research, professional and industrial ethics and plagiarism, and related material given to graduate and undergraduate students. (This material can be used, but may not be modified and/or distributed.)
Outreach Presentation to High School Students
This presentation to high school students prepared by my group is about nanomaterials and optics. (This material can be used, but may not be modified and/or distributed.)