Kenneth G. Wilson papers, 1960-2000.
Collection Number: 14-22-4086
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Kenneth G. Wilson papers, 1960-2000.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-22-4086
Abstract:
Professional papers of Kenneth G. Wilson.
Creator:
Wilson, Kenneth G. (Kenneth Geddes), 1936-2013.
Quanitities:
6.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Kenneth G. Wilson taught at Cornell from 1963 to 1987. In 1987, Wilson left Cornell
for Ohio State University where he helped found the Physics Education Research Group,
and focused on physics and science education. Wilson won the Nobel Prize in Physics
in 1982.
Professional papers of Kenneth G. Wilson. Collection includes publications and notes
for publications by Wilson, correspondence, material relating to Wilson's teaching
and courses, data, computer printouts, and research notebooks. Items relate to his
own work in particle physics, quantum field theory, supercomputing and the Cornell
Theory Center, and education reform.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Kenneth G. Wilson Papers, #14-22-4086. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Subjects:
Supercomputers
Renormalization group.
Quantum field theory.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Educational change.
Atomic physics.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Selected Materials from Cornell
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Scope and Contents
Material selected by Ken to take with him to the Dibner Institute for the History
of Science and Technology (visited 2002)
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Gibbs' Lecture "Proof of a Conjecture by Dyson", CV
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1962-2005 |
Scope and Contents
Abstract of Gibbs Lecture, American Mathematical Society, 1980 reprint of early paper
"Proof of a Conjecture by Dyson", several versions of Wilson's CV
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
"Generalized Wannier Functions","Future of Supercomputing"
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1986 |
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and proof of "Generalized Wannier Functions" with notes, letter from Michael
Teter (Corning Glass Laboratory) rough notes on "Future of Supercomputing"
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Monte Carlo Renormalization Group on FPS Supercomputer
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1985 |
Scope and Contents
Red folder: Implementation of Monte Carlo Renormalization Group transformations on
the Floating Point Systems supercomputer
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Research notes on atomic physics, strong coupling lattice gauge theory
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Scope and Contents
Notes on atomic physics calculations, Floating Point systems implementation, rough
notes for "Future of Supercomputing", Indian exercise book (Balarpur Industries) filled
with strong coupling lattice gauge theory calculations (of vacuum energy?)
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Notes on quantum chemistry and supercomputing
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Scope and Contents
Notes on programming Pade approximants, notes on P, C, and T (for a class?), manuscript
on quantum chemistry, press release on supercomputing
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Lecture and reference notes
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1960 |
Scope and Contents
Quantization of the electromagnetic field, some QFT cross section formulae, notes
on Johnson's paper on the Thirring model, 4-pt functions in the Thirring model, conformal
group, generators of the Lorentz group, solution of the Ising model, high-temperature
series calculations (Ising model?), correlation functions in the Ising model, "Schwinger
methods" (correlation functions) in the Ising model, notes on Toeplitz determinants
(for the Ising model), thermodynamics of a monatomic gas, logarithmic integrals, integrals
over lattice momenta, lattice quantum field theory calculations, Gaussian integration,
motion of a particle in slowly varying fields,
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Manuscripts of Unpublished Papers
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1965-1969 |
Scope and Contents
A Model for Coupling Constant Renormalization LNS-65-13 (1965) (7 pp), Renormalization
Theory for Strong Interactions (1968-9?), about 100 pages of manuscript, perhaps to
accompany "Nonlagrangian Models …" Also original manuscripts for the materials "selected
for the Dibner Institute 2004"
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Rough notes on supercomputing, blockspin, instantons, atomic physics
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1980s |
Scope and Contents
Rough notes on supercomputing, rough notes on block spin calculations and computer
implementation, exchange of letters with Paulo Caldas, unpublished manuscript on instantons
in lattice gauge theory, rough notes on atomic density matrix computations, rough
notes on supercomputer revolution
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Rough notes on Wannier function, blockspin, FPS programing
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1970s-1980s |
Scope and Contents
Rough notes on Wannier function calculations, notes on Dirac equation on a lattice,
notes on block spin formalism, rough notes on Floating Point Systems programming,
synchrotrons, very rough notes on atomic calculations, Cornell Theory Center, computing
revolution, Ising simulations
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Research notes on atomic physics, fixed source problem
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1960s-1970s |
Scope and Contents
Rough notes on atomic physics calculations (1970's), very rough notes for FPS programming,
few pages of manuscript on operator products (1964?), notes on "topological anaysis"
-- convergence of operator interation in a renormalization group transformation in
the fixed source problem, notes on analysis of the fixed source problem
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Notes on topics in quantum field theory
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1960s |
Scope and Contents
Effective Hamiltonian in the fixed source problem, relation between scattering cross
sections and the S-matrix, representations of the Lorentz group, Lorentz-invariant
wave equations, relation between scattering cross sections and the S-matrix (version
2), chiral SU(3)xSU(3) symmetry, some current algebra formulae, representations of
SU(3), Dirac equation in 1 dimension, Lorentz group commutators, 2nd order weak interactions
(with Operator Product Expansion), Steinberger calculation of pi-zero decay, irreducible
representations of the Lorentz group, also: manuscript for "Regge Roles and Multiple
Production" (1963) (+loose notes on renormalization group transformations)
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Notes for Physics 574 - Applications of Quantum Mechanics
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1982-1984 |
Scope and Contents
Looseleaf notebook w. problem sets and course notes (notes after the green separator
might be by Tung-Mow Yan), after the green separator, quotes from Ken taken down by
students: e.g. "If you do the calculation properly and come back a year later, you
will find that it is still divergent…"
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Series II. Wilson's Publications
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Scope and Contents
Arranged chronologically. Mainly, these are reprints, but in some cases, a manuscript
or other correspondence is included. These cases are noted.
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Dispersion Relations for Infinite Plasmas
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1958 |
Scope and Contents
Manuscript from Wilson's graduate study at Caltech
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
An Investigation of the Low Equation and the Chew-Mandelstam Equations
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1961 |
Scope and Contents
Ph.D Thesis, Manuscript
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Regge Poles and Multiple Production, Acta Phys. Aust. 17, 37
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1963 |
Scope and Contents
Manuscript located within Series I.
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Proof of a Conjecture by Dyson, J. Math. Phys. 3, 1040
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1962 |
Scope and Contents
With a related news article from Science (2005)
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
A Set of Double Integral Equations for Low-Energy Pion-Pion Scattering
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1960 |
Scope and Contents
Manuscript from Harvard "to be submitted to Phys. Rev." (but apparently not submitted)
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Solution of the Symmetric Scalar Low Equation in the One Meson Approximation
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1963 |
Scope and Contents
Manuscript from Cornell
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
A Model for Coupling Constant Renormalization
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1965 |
Scope and Contents
LNS-65-13 ; this unpublished manuscript is located in Series I
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
On Products of Quantum Field Operators at Short Distances
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1965, 1969 |
Scope and Contents
Manuscript submitted to the Physical Review (1965) (and parts of an earlier draft),
referee report (from Arthur Wightman), notes for an answer to the referee report the
paper was never resubmitted. Wilson developed these ideas for many more years and
announced them in his article "Nonlagrangian Models of Current Algebra" (1969)
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Renormalization Theory for Strong Interactions
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1969 |
Scope and Contents
Unpublished manuscript located in Series I
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Some Experiments on Multiple Production
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1970 |
Scope and Contents
CLNS-131 ; eventually published in the proceedings of the 1973 Scottish Universities
Summer School
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Renormalization Group and Strong Interactions
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1971 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 3, 1818
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Renormalization Group and Critical Phenomena I. Renormalization Group and the Kadanoff
Scaling Picture
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1971 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. B 4, 3174
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Renormalization Group and Critical Phenomena II. Phase-Space Cell Analysis of Critical
Behavior
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1971 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. B 4, 3184
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Deep Inelastic Scattering - Theory
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1971 |
Scope and Contents
Draft of the article for the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Electron
and Photon Interactions at High Energies, Cornell
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Gauge Transformations in the Thirring Model
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1972 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 5, 1026
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Renormalization Group II
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Scope and Contents
Unpublished lectures given at Cornell, lecture notes by J. Serene
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Renormalization Group III
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Scope and Contents
Unpublished lectures given at Cornell, lecture notes by J. Serene
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Breakdown of Landau Theory, Fluctuations and Renormalization
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Scope and Contents
Offprint from the 1973 Nobel symposium proceedings containing an abstract of the talk
and a record of the discussion
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Solution of the Spin-1/2 Kondo Hamiltonian
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1973 |
Scope and Contents
Offprint from the 1973 Nobel symposium
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Quantum Field Theory Models in Less Than 4 Dimensions
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1973 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 7, 2911
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
The Renormalization Group and the Epsilon Expansion
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1974 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Reports 12C
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Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Confinement of Quarks
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1974 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 10, 2445
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Finite Lattice Approximation to Renormalization Groups
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1975 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. B 11, 3431
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Temperature-Dependent Susceptibility of the Symmetric Anderson Model: Connection to
the Kondo Model
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1975 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. Lett. 35, 1101
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Renormalization Group Methods
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1975 |
Scope and Contents
Adv. Math. 16, 170
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
The Renormalization Group and Block Spins
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1975 |
Scope and Contents
Boltzmann Medal Address
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
The Renormalization Group: Critical Phenomena and the Kondo Problem
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1975 |
Scope and Contents
Rev. Mod. Phys 47, 773; with a folder of original artwork for this and contemporaneous
papers
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Quark Confinement and Lattice Calculations
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1975 |
Scope and Contents
Preprint of a talk that seems to honor Paul Dirac
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
The Renormalization Group - Introduction
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1976 |
Scope and Contents
Published in Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, v. 6, ed. by Domb and Green
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Relativistically Invariant Lattice Theories
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1976 |
Scope and Contents
Published in the Proceeding of the 1976 Coral Gables Conference
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Quantum Chromodynamics on a Lattice
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1976 |
Scope and Contents
Preprint of Cargese Summer School lecture notes
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Susceptibility of the Asymmetric Anderson Model: Relevance to Valence Fluctuation
Compounds
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1977 |
Scope and Contents
Preprint, published in Valence Instabilities and Related Narrow-Band Phenomena, Parks,
ed.
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Problems in Physics with Many Scales of Length
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1977 |
Scope and Contents
Scientific American 241, 158 ; with page of notes (small corrections) and reprint
of the Polish translation
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Monte Carlo Calculations for the Lattice Gauge Theory
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1980 |
Scope and Contents
Cornell preprint CLNS/80/442
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Renormalization Group Approach to the Anderson Model of Dilute Magnetic Alloys. I.
Static properties for the symmetric case
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1980 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. B 21, 1003
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Renormalization Group Approach to the Anderson Model of Dilute Magnetic Alloys. II.
Static properties for the asymmetric case
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1980 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. B 21, 1044
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Experiences with a Floating Point Systems Array Processor
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1981 |
Scope and Contents
Cornell preprint CLNS/81/477; "to be published in the series in Computational Physics
on Parallel Computation"
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Monte Carlo Techniques in Code Optimization
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1982 |
Scope and Contents
Preprint, published in ACM SIGMICRO newsletter 13, 143
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
A Remnant of Chiral Symmetry on the Lattice
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1982 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 25, 2649; with a manuscript page and some correspondence
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
The Renormalization Group and Critical Phenomena
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1983 |
Scope and Contents
Rev. Mod. Phys. 55, 583; Nobel Prize address (1982), reprinted with the autobiographical
sketch from the Nobel Foundation's publication associated correspondence is included
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Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Quelle Informatique pour la Science?
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1983 |
Scope and Contents
La Recherche 14, 1004 ; magazine article in French, followed by commentary by Y. Pomeau
and N. Sourlas
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Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Science, Industry, and the New Japanese Challenge
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1984 |
Scope and Contents
Proc. of the IEEE 72, 6
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Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Monte Carlo Renormalization-Group Calculations of Critical Behavior in the Simple-Cubic
Ising Model
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1984 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. B 29, 4030
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Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Monte Carlo Renormalization Group and the Three-Dimensional Ising Model
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1983 |
Scope and Contents
Preprint of lectures given at the 1983 NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cargese with
handwritten manuscript
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Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Langevin Simulation of Lattice Field Theories
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1985 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 32, 2736
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Renormalization Group Approach for Electronic Structure
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1986 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 412; with draft and referee reports
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Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Optimized Trial Wave Functions for Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations
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1988 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. Lett 60, 1719
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Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Fourier Acceleration in Lattice Gauge Theories. I. Landau Gauge Fixing
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1988 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 37, 1581
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Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Fourier Acceleration in Lattice Gauge Theories. III. Updating Field Configurations
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1990 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 41, 1953
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Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Grand Challenges to Computational Science
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1989 |
Scope and Contents
Future Generation Computer Systems 5, 171; with correspondence
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Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Generalized Wannier Functions
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1987, 1989 |
Scope and Contents
Cornell Theory Center preprint, submitted to J. Computational Physics, 1987, submitted
to Phys. Rev. B 1989, not published
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Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry: A Source of Ideas for Lattice Gauge Theorists
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1990 |
Scope and Contents
Published in proceedings of Lattice 89, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 17, 82; with
preprint distribution list
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Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Light-Front Tamm Dancoff Field Theory
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1990 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2959
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Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Towards a Solution of Quantum Chromodynamics on the Light-Front
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1991 |
Scope and Contents
Ohio State Unversity preprint
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Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Perturbative Renormalization of Null-Plane QED
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1991 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 43, 3411
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Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Basis Set Reduction in Hilbert Space
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1992 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 800
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Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Perturbative Renormalizability wiht an Infinite Number of Relevant and Marginal Operators
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1993 |
Scope and Contents
Nucl. Phys. B 403, 587
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Box 2 | Folder 36 |
On the Relativistic Bound State Problem in Light-Front Yukawa Model
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1992 |
Scope and Contents
Draft of a paper
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Box 2 | Folder 37 |
Light-Front Tamm-Dancoff Method: Hydrogen Atom and Positronium
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1992 |
Scope and Contents
Preprint published in the proceedings of the 1992 Kazimierz summer school
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Box 2 | Folder 38 |
Light-Front Tamm-Dancoff Method: Hydrogen Atom and 2D Yukawa Model
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1992 |
Scope and Contents
Preprint published in the proceedings of the 1992 Paris conference on QCD vacuum structure
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Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Positronia in Light-Front Tamm-Dancoff QED
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1992 |
Scope and Contents
Ohio State University report DOE/ER/HUEAP-009 ; preliminary version (never completed?)
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Box 2 | Folder 40 |
Renormalization of Overlapping Transverse Divergences in a Model Light-Front Hamiltonian
w/ Glazek
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1993 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 47, 4657 ; reprints and preprint versions, correspondence with the referee
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Box 2 | Folder 41 |
Similarity Transformation for Renormalization of Light-Front Hamiltonians w/ Glazek
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1993 |
Scope and Contents
Draft, never completed?
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Box 2 | Folder 42 |
Renormalization of Hamiltonians w/ Glazek
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1993 |
Scope and Contents
Warsaw preprint IFT/6/93 submitted to Phys. Rev. D, never published? with some correspondence
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Box 2 | Folder 43 |
Mass Renormalization in Light-Front Tamm-Dancoff QED
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1993 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 48, 4856 ; various preprint versions and correspondence
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Box 2 | Folder 44 |
The Efficient Treatment of High Excitations in CI Calculations
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1994 |
Scope and Contents
Chem. Phys. Lett 231, 263 ; reprint and Ohio State University preprint
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Box 2 | Folder 45 |
Nonperturbative QCD: A Weak-Coupling Treatment on the Light Front
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1994 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 49, 6720
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Box 2 | Folder 46 |
Quarkonia in Hamiltonian Light-Front QCD
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1996 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1227
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Box 2 | Folder 47 |
Renormalization Group for Hamiltonians
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1996 |
Scope and Contents
Preprint and publication in the proceedings of the 9th physics summer school on Computational
Physics, Canberra
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Box 2 | Folder 48 |
Object-Oriented Techniques in Large Scientific Computing Projects
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1997 |
Scope and Contents
Computers in Physics 11, 467
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Box 2 | Folder 49 |
Science as a Cultural Construct
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1997 |
Scope and Contents
Nature 386, 545 ; draft manuscript
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Box 2 | Folder 50 |
Asymptotic Freedom and Bound States in Hamiltonian Dynamics
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1998 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. D 57, 3558
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Box 2 | Folder 51 |
Limit Cycles in Quantum Theories
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2002 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 230401; eprint version
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Box 2 | Folder 52 |
Wiley Handbook of Molecular Physics and Quantum Chemistry
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2002 |
Scope and Contents
Forward to volume 1; numerous drafts and correspondence concerning them
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Box 2 | Folder 53 |
"Universality, Marginal Operators, and Limit Cycles" (with Glazek)
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2004 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. Rev. B 69, 094304
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Box 2 | Folder 54 |
The Origins of Lattice Gauge Theory
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2005 |
Scope and Contents
Published in the proceedings of Lattice 2004 Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 140, 3 (2005)
reprints, manuscript with corrections, slide from the lecture, associated correspondence
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Precise Numerical Results for Limit Cycles in the Quantum Three-Body Problem
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2006 |
Scope and Contents
Phys. 321, 225 ; reprints and preprint, and a draft version
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Miscellaneous Technical Articles
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Scope and Contents
Includes an article on Gaussian basis sets for atomic physics, the draft of a grant
proposal for the Cornell Theory Center, an article on constituent quarks, section
1 -- Critical Phenomena (draft from a post-1983 paper) and other miscellaneous materials
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence with Publishers
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Physical Review, World Scientific
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Slides from Wilson's Talks
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
PhD Thesis Draft (Steven White?)
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Series III. Correspondence and Memorabilia, Materials from Wilson's Physics Courses
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Letters of recommendation and replies to requests for evaluation
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1988-1989 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence on history and philosophy of science
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1991-2001 |
Scope and Contents
Handwritten draft "Psychological Paradigms and Scientific Truth"
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence with politicians about science
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1983 |
Scope and Contents
Includes Congressional testimony
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Miscellaneous correspondence
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1985-2000 |
Scope and Contents
Mostly replies to invitations
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Materials related to grant proposals at Cornell and Ohio State
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1986-1991 |
Scope and Contents
Materials specifically concerning the Cornell Theory Center are in Box # 8, folder
#5
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Various papers sent to Wilson for comments
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1978-1994 |
Scope and Contents
Includes two sub-folders: "Awards Won by Ken - Correspondence" and "Awards Won by
Ken - Information"
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Materials related to Wilson's awards
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1977-2005 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Materials related to Wilson's Nobel Prize award
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1982-1983 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Interviews at Roundtables
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1985-2000 |
Scope and Contents
Transcript of a roundtable on supercomputing, 1985, interview at Ohio State University,
2000, videotape of American Physical Society luncheon with Nobel laureates: "Celebrate
a Century of Physics, Nobel Luncheon Version", 1999 (V-7155)
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Box 3 | Folder 15 |
In memory of E. Bright Wilson
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1992 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Ken Wilson vs. Columbia State University
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1998 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding a fraudulent university using Wilson's name
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Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Lecture Notes: Quantum Mechanics
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Scope and Contents
Previously stored in a binder
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Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Lecture Notes: Quantum Field Theory
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1982 |
Scope and Contents
Previously stored in a binder
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Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Miscellaneous materials from Wilson's courses at Cornell
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Scope and Contents
Includes lecture notes, problem sets
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Series IV. Wilson's Research Notebooks from Cornell
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1980s | ||
Scope and Contents
Mainly computer-related; includes 22 green notebooks, documentation of "Basis Set
Reduction" by Wilson and Wenzel
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Box 4 |
2-D Ising Calculations
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; Monte Carlo and comparison to high temperature series
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Box 4 |
Schroedinger Equation
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; numerical methods for solution
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Box 4 |
SU(3) Gauge Theory with Fermions
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; formalism for Monte Carlo implementation
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Box 4 |
APPEAL
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; design of an assembler language
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Box 4 |
CMS Operations
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; various terminal command line instructions
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Box 4 |
1972 Graduate Students
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Scope and Contents
Notebook
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Box 4 |
Optimizer
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1982 | |
Scope and Contents
Notebook; seems to be for paper on Code Optimization
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Box 4 |
Untitled
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; timing tests on lattice gauge theory loop expectation value evaluations
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Box 4 |
UCSD Pascal
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; vector operations in this language
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Box 4 |
Computer Committee
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; discussion of prices, strategy, also many pages of lattice gauge theory
calculation
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Box 4 |
Lattice Gauge Theory Coordinate Space Program
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Scope and Contents
Notebook
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Box 4 |
APTRAN Testing
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Scope and Contents
Notebook
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Box 4 |
370 to AP Conversion
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Scope and Contents
Notebook
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Box 4 |
Quark Lattice Program
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; computer program for strong coupling calculations
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Box 4 |
Quark Lattice Program, Book 2
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Scope and Contents
Notebook
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Box 4 |
Untitled
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; notes on formalism for block spins and gauge fixing
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Box 4 |
APTRAN
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; computer operation sequencing
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Box 4 |
Lattice Gauge Theory Free Quark Fixed Point
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; attempt to find this numerically
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Box 4 |
Lattice Gauge Theory Monte Carlo
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Scope and Contents
Notebook
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Box 4 |
Lattice Gauge Theory Free Quark Limit for Monte Carlo Formulation
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Scope and Contents
Notebook
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Box 4 |
SO(3) Extension of MCRG Lattice Gauge Program
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Scope and Contents
Notebook; some formalism, mostly program structure
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Box 4 |
AP Routines
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Scope and Contents
Notebook
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Basis Set Reduction
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1991 |
Scope and Contents
Previously stored in binder; by K.G. Wilson and W. Wenzel, computer program description
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Documentation of the Basis Set Reduction Program
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Notes Accompanying Basis Set Reduction
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Series V. Raw Research Notes
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Scope and Contents
Mainly from Ohio State; grouped as they were in the original boxes
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Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Notes from Cornell
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Scope and Contents
Mainly on computer implementations for light-front QCD
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Box 6 | Folder 16 |
Raw Notes-Mainly Atomic Physics Calculations
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Box 6 | Folder 17 |
Raw Notes-Mainly Light-Front Hamiltonian Calculations
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Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Ohio State Note Pads-Mainly Light-Front Hamiltonian
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Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Notes from Ohio State-Mainly Light-Front QCD
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Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Raw Notes-Mainly Science Education
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Box 5 |
Series VI. Computer Output
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1981-1985 | |
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous Computer Output from Cornell; includes report : "Simulating QCD with
Dynamical Wilson and Staggered Fermions"
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Series VII. Materials on Supercomputing and the Cornell Supercomputing Theory Center
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Scope and Contents
Includes documentation for the Gibbs Project
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Articles on Supercomputing
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1983 |
Scope and Contents
"Theoretical Science and the Future of Large Scale Computing," "CERN Courier" (1983)
manuscript, "Computing Support for Scientific Research," "Technology and Science of
Informatics" (1983) page proofs and manuscript with corrections
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Drafts for Articles on Supercomputing
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1983 |
Scope and Contents
Mostly undated; "Planning for the Future of U.S. Scientific and Engineering Computing",
"Theoretical Science and Computer Technology", "Supercomputers: Market Size and Market
Risk", "Role and Needs for Large Scale Computing for Theoretical Physics", "The Computerization
of Science" (c. 1983), "Present vs. Future Supercomputers", "Supercomputers", "Theoretical
Science in the Coming Decades", "DD Seminar: Theoretical Science and the Future of
Large Scale Computing", "Supercomputers, Science, and the American Spirit", Ken Wilson's
talk: "Questions and Answers", Topics for Talk by K. Wilson at Los Alamos Panel (1983)
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Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Formal Reports and Congressional Testimony
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1981-1989 |
Scope and Contents
Memorandum to "Present and Potential Supercomputer Users" (April, 1981), Memorandum
to "Users fo Large-Scale Computing in Government, Industry, and Universities" (July
15, 1981)(2 copies), "Supercomputers -- outline for presentation at meeting of Business-Higher
Education Forum" (Jan. 22, 1983), letter to J. D. Kuehler, Sr. VP of IBM (April 9,
1984), presentation at the Truman Centennial (1984), testimony at the Supercomputer
hearing of the House Science and Technology Committee (Tallahassie, August, 1985),
transcript of the AFIPS 25th anniversary Policy Symposium (May, 1986), Meeting the
Grand Challenges of Science at the National Supercomputer Centers, meeting of the
center directors (at the NSF?) (February, 1987), White Paper on Advanced Computation
and Simulation of Complex Material Phenomena (February, 1987), testimony before the
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (March, 1988), presentation to the
National Governors' Association Working Group on State Initiatives in Applied Research
(Washington, April, 1988), transcript of the executive seminar on Supercomputing for
the Future of the United States (Boston University, June, 1989), transcript of a panel:
Fiber Optics, an Important tool (undated; includes Gov. Mario Cuomo)
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Box 6 | Folder 4 |
The National Science Foundation in the 1990's
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July 1988 |
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet, reprints, and associated correspondence
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Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Cornell Theory Center Documents
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Scope and Contents
Cornell Theory Center grant proposals and supporting documents
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Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Cornell Theory Center Correspondence
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence associated with the Cornell Theory Center
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Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Cornell Theory Center News Articles and Interviews
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Scope and Contents
News clippings and interviews related to supercomputing
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Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Raw Notes
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Scope and Contents
Raw notes for articles on supercomputing
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Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Slides
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Scope and Contents
Transparencies of talks on supercomputing and the Theory Center
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Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence Related to Supercomputing
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Scope and Contents
Mainly invitations to conferences
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Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Theory Center Printed Materials
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1989 |
Scope and Contents
Issues of Forefronts, the Theory Center newsletter Science and Supercomputing (glossy
brochure, 1989)
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Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Supercomputing Reports by Others
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Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous reports relevant to supercomputing
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Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Technical Materials from the Theory Center
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Scope and Contents
T-series users guide (preliminary) - Floating Point Systems, tutorial introduction
to Trillium for C Programmers - M. Braner, an application for the T-20: a vector interpreter
- D. Bergmark
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Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Gibbs Project Documentation
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Scope and Contents
Gibbs project proposal, K. G. Wilson, D. Gries, and A. Grimison, addendum by K. G.
Wilson, GIBBS: a Proposed Scientific Program Development System, K. G. Wilson, GIBBS
-- Operational Description, K. G. Wilson and W. Wenzel
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Series VIII. Materials on Education Reform
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Box 7 | Folder 4 |
A National Plan for Education Reform
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Scope and Contents
Report, correspondence and responses
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Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Drafts of Papers on Education Reform
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Scope and Contents
"Industrial Redesign", "Achieving Education Reform" (op. ed. piece) (2 copies), "Diagnosing
Productivity Problems", "K-12 Scientific Literacy: a Plan for Ohio State University
and the State of Ohio" (August 1989), "A Cognitive Studies/Teacher Enhancement Program
at Ohio State University" (several stages of drafts), "Innovation and Basic Research:
the Key to Achieving National Education Goals", "Briefing Paper: Achieving the National
Goals for Education", "Operation Horace Mann", "Achieving Education Reform"
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Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Rough Drafts and Raw Notes on Education Reform
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Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Discovery Project
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Scope and Contents
Discovery Project: Proposal to the National Science Foundation, materials and correspondence
related to the Discovery Project
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Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Ohio State Education Proposals
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Scope and Contents
Ohio State interdisciplinary seed grant proposal: "Cooperative Inquiry with Diversified
Learning Teams Engaged in Systemic Education Reform", Preliminary Proposal to the
NSF: "A Cognitive Studies/Teacher Enhancement Program at Ohio State University", related
correspondence
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Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Material for "Redesigning Education"
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Scope and Contents
Chapter summaries for the book proposal (Ben Daviss), rough drafts
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Box 7 | Folder 10 |
On Peter Drucker's School Reform Proposals
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Scope and Contents
Drucker on Education: "Does Drucker have the best ideas for school reform?" (March
2006) "A New Strategy for Education Reform, Starting with a Skunk Works", "Reviving
Drucker's Research Discipline of Social Ecology" (December 2007) (drafts - K. G. Wilson
and C. Barsky)
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Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Substantive Correspondence on Education Issues
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Scope and Contents
Exchange of letters, and related materials to/from: Arnold Arons (University of Washington),
Lewis Branscomb (J. F. Kennedy School, Harvard), Urie Bronfbrenner (Cornell), Harvey
Brooks (J. F. Kennedy School, Harvard), S. Cecchetti, Paul David (Stanford), Julie
Dougherty, Louis Gerstner (Chairman and CEO, IBM), Z. Golab-Meyer (Jagiellonian University,
Krakow), Kurt Gottfried (Cornell), Dee Hock (CEO emeritus, VISA), Paul Kennedy (Yale),
Jack Keuhler (Vice Charman, IBM), Leon Lederman (Director emeritus, Fermilab), Mervin
Muller (Ohio State), Sharon Porter Robinson (COO, Educational Testing Service), Seymour
Sarason (Yale), Dick and Iris Schutz, Robert Slavin (Johns Hopkins), W. Rodman Snelling,
Karim Joseph Mourad (Ohio State), John Staudenmaier (University of Detroit Mercy),
Carl Wieman (University of Colorado; now at Stanford), Alexandra Wigdor (National
Research Council), William Wulf (National Academy of Engineering)
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Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Less Substantive Correspondence Related to Education
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Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Letters of Recommendation and Evaluation - Physics Education
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Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence from Ohio State
|
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Box 7 | Folder 15 |
ARTE Draft Proposal
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1998 |
Scope and Contents
ARTE (Association for the Recognition of Talent in Education)
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Box 7 | Folder 16 |
Ohio Science and Technology Commission
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1989 |
Scope and Contents
Materials for the Human Resources Subcommittee
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Box 7 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence with the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Research Council
(NRC), and the National Education Association (NEA)
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Box 7 | Folder 18 |
Slides from Wilson's Presentations
|
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Box 7 | Folder 19 |
Materials by Others on Science Education
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