Talks and Presentations

"Dr. Bill" Pezzaglia

• Recent
• Past

Recent Talks

• 2018Feb26, Foothill College Artificial Intelligence Workshop Series
  Quantum Physics for Machine Learning
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• 2013Nov08, CSUEB Matthew Spitzer Memorial Lecture Series
  What's a dark-matter pseudoscalar field anyway? Insights using Clifford's Geometric Algebra
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• 2008Jan11, CSUEB, Physics Colloquium
  Galileo and Einstein were wrong? Spinning balls fall slower?
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Past Talks

• 2005Nov18, Astronomy Colloquium, City College San Francisco
  Is E=mc² wrong, or is something missing?
  
  

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• 2005Sept08, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, Interni Seminar
  Spinning Particle Geo-Electro-Dynamics
  

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• 2005Mar25-26, University of Oregon, 21th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting,
  Teleparallel Treatment of the Ehrenfest, Sagnac and Field Rotation Paradoxes
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• 2004Mar26-27, Cal Tech, 20th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting,
  Is Gauge Invariance Violated by Spin and Torsion?
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• 2003Feb28, University of Utah, 19th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting,
  If Particles follow Autoparallels Must then EM couple to Torsion
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• 2002Mar29, UC Davis, 18th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting,
  Classical Spin Electrodynamics in Background Curvature and Torsion
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• 2001Jul01-05, Cal Poly Pomona, Invited Lecture Series
  • Lecture 1: Why does "real" physics need "imaginary" numbers?
  • Lecture 2: Unified description of Bosons and Fermions (Using Clifford Algebra)
  • Lecture 3: Spin-Gauge Theories
  • Lecture 4: Dimensionally Democratic Calculus and Classical Mechanics of Spinning Particles
  • Lecture 5: Polydimensional Principles (title only)

  
  

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• 2001Mar10, KITP, UC Santa Barbara, 17th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting
  Equations of Motion of Spinning Particles (in Gravity)
  Slides at ITP with Audio!, or slides in a pdf and separately realaudio file
  

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• 1999Jun28-Jul04, Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo, Mexico, 5th Intern. Conf. on Applications of Clifford Algebras and their applications in mathematical physics,
  Dimensionally Democratic Calculus and Principles of Polydimensional Physics
  Slides and Preprint: gr-qc/9912025
  

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• 1999Apr08, San Jose State University, Math Dept Colloq.
  Why does "real" physics need "imaginary" numbers? A history of physical applications of geometric algebras
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• 1999Feb26-27: UC Santa Barbara, 15th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting,
  New Classical Action Principle for Equations of Motion of Spinning Particles in Curved Space
  Slides (This is a slightly modified version (last 2 slides) of the talk given at the Midwest Meeting.)
  

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• 1998Sep26, North Dakota State U, Midwest Relativity Conference,
  New Classical Action Principle for Equations of Motion of Spinning Particles in Curved Space
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• 1998Mar21, University of Oregon, 14th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting,
  The Papapetrou equation derived as a geodesic in a non-holonomic Clifford manifold
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• 1998Jan14, Santa Clara University, Society of Physics Students,
  What is a path for creating new theoretical physics?
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• 1998Jan20, Santa Clara University, Math Dept Colloq.
  Why does "real" physics need "imaginary" numbers? A history of physical applications of geometric algebras
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• 1997Jun06, University of Delaware, ISAAC Conference,
  Physical Applications of a Generalized Clifford Calculus
  Slides and Preprint: gr-qc/9710027
  

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• 1997May22, Institute of Physics, UC Santa Barbara, 13th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting,
  Coupling of Spin & Momentum (Papapetrou equations) induced by Curvature that does NOT preserve n-vector Rank
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• 1997April 19-20, Oregon State Univ, American Mathematical Society Meeting,
  Should Metric Signature Matter in Clifford Algebra Formulations of Physical Theories?
  Slides and Preprint: gr-qc/9704048
  

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• 1996May29, Aachen Germany, International Conference on Applications of Clifford Algebras,
  Poly-Dimensional Relativity, a Classical Generalization of (Jim Crawford's) Automorphism Invariance Principle.
  Slides and Preprint: gr-qc/9608052
  

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• 1995Aug10, Banff, Canada, Summer School in Theoretical Physics, Canadian Association of Physics
  The Future of Clifford Algebra in Physics
  This was essentially a directed assumption
  

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• 1994Aug15, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Invited Talk
  1994Jun06, Banach Center, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
  Will Applications of Clifford Algebra/Analysis lead to New Physical Principles?
  Slides not available
  

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• 1994Mar26, Oregon State Univ, 10th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting,
  Lense-Thirring effect on Pauli Particles from Non-Relativistic Spin Curvature
  

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• 1993Sep22, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico, XXIIth International Conf. on Differential Geo Methods in Theo Physics
  A Clifford Dyadic Superfield from Bilateral Interactions of Geometric Multispin Dirac Theory
  Slides (not available) and Preprint: gr-qc/9311015
  

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• 1993Apr08, University of Arkansas, Clifford Algebras in Analysis,
  Multivector Solutions to the Hyper-Holomorphic Massive Dirac Equation
  Slides (not available) and Preprint: gr-qc/9312021
  

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• 1992Sep24-27, Wroclaw, Poland, Second Max Born Symposium,
  Generalized Fierz Identities and the Superselection Rule for Geometric Multispinors
  Slides and Preprint: gr-qc/9211018
  

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• 1992Sep??, Lodz, Poland
  Clifford Algebra Derivation of the Characteristic Hypersurfaces of Maxwell's Equations
  Slides (not available) and Preprint: hep-th/9211062
  

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• 1992Sep19, San Francisco State U, Colloquium,
  Spinors and Gauge Fields from Clifford Multigeometric Algebra
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• 1991Sep18, San Francisco State U, Journal Club,
  Clifford Algebra "Spin Gauge" Unified Theories
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Last Update: 2020July10

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