Welcome to the physics website of Paul Cook, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, in the theoretical physics group.
I am currently studying towards a PhD degree in the field of string theory. My advisor is Prof. Hirosi Ooguri.
I did my undergraduate studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, under the supervision of Prof. Robert de Mello Koch.
You can contact me at
I have thus far only one publication:
Cook, Paul L. H., Koch, Robert de Mello, Murugan, Jeff;
Non-Abelian BIonic brane intersections; Phys. Rev. D 68, 126007 (2003), hep-th/0306250
I was a participant at the 2005 Theoretical Advanced Summer School (TASI), in Boulder, Colorado. I highly recommend it to any string theory graduate student!
As of the 2005/2006 academic year, I'll be a teaching assistant; for this year I'm teaching a section of second-year undergraduate general physics. I maintain the course website:
Physics 2 course information
PlanetMath.org books, an (occasionally) useful collection of freely-available online mathematics textbooks.
A substantial list of review papers in all the different areas of string theory
Thought, a community and group of projects aimed at getting people thinking about improving the lives of those that need it most, primarily in South Africa.
Free High School Science Texts, a collaborative project based in South Africa, which is making excellent progress on writing a set of free, high quality textbooks for high school science students.
Thornhill Associates, administrators of custom online questionnaires.
Some game links: online play-by-mail chess; and for fans of Sudoku, a useful Sudoku solver, with description of the algorithm.