Intro

Hi! I'm Itai Seggev. I have no real reason, or desire, for a home page, but since I do have a collection of various things people might be interested in, I felt obligated to created an actual home page. Feel free to look around, but I'm guessing what you're actually looking for is in the table of contents

About Me

I am currently employed at Wolfram Research. I previously enjoyed teaching stints in the Mathematics Department of Knox College and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ole Miss. I completed my Ph.D. (in mathematical physics) at University of Chicago. I'm an alum of that most illustrious of institutions, Harvey Mudd College, with a double major in physics and mathematics. In case you're wondering why my home page is on the server of the HMC CS Department, it's becasue I'm an "ex-staffer," as we're called. I'm guarnteed this "initials account" for as long as I want it. Go nepotism.

In an attempt to make this page slightly less boring, I'm slowly collecting buttons of various organizations to which I belong. Three are below. More may be on the way.

• I'm a member of the KDE Hebrew Localization Team. Click on the nifty button below to learn more about KDE and why it's cool.
• I'm a long time member of the ACLU. Click on the icon below to learn which of our civil liberties are under attack today and how to do something to protect them.
• Carmel is the name of a famous mountain in Israel. It's also a project to unify translations into Hebrew of the various open source projects (e.g., KDE, Gnome, Mozilla, and OpenOffice). Working on translating KDE has gotten me involved with them as well. Click on the image below for more info on Open Source projects in Hebrew. (Warning! The Carmel site is Hebrew only.)

Contact Info

If you're looking for me, you can reach me via one of the following methods:

• sending me postal mail at
  Itai Seggev
  Wolfram Research
  100 Trade Center Dr
  Champaign, IL 61820
  
• calling me at my office, +1-217-398-0700 x3554
• sending me email

Potentially Interesting Items

Here are some things which I have lying around this website. If you're here, your probably looking for one of them:

• Many people seem to like the various handouts I've created for my physics classes. Perhaps you will, too!
• Slides from various talks I've given are availabe.
• You may want to take a look at instructional web pages I created in the summer of 1997. These were developed as part of an REU at UIUC. These were supposed to be just the first in a series and I thought they were pretty good, but they weren't what my advisor was looking for, so the project never went anywhere.
• Jason Fredrickson, Jamey Minnis, and I create a nifty project on laser cooling. It's cute. It's still here mainly because disk space is cheap.
• While a graduate student, I TA'd Physics 352 (StatMech) and Physics 316 (Classical Mechanics). These pages are still up becasue, again, disk space is cheap, and, dammit, I made some pretty nice solution sets.
• I put toegether a proposal for reforming the HumSoc requirements at HMC. While many of my classmates agreed with it, I was unable to rally a larger section of the alumni towards it. The HumSoc department's reaction ranged from cool to rather hostile. Eventually, the HumSoc department did reform its requirements in a way which, while certainly a significant improvemnt and incorporating certain elements of my proposal, was rather modest and completely ignore this proposal.

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