Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲 (@profdvp) / X

Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲

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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲

@profdvp

Experimental nuclear physicist at @BrookhavenLab RHIC & @CERN LHC. Tenured prof @CUBoulder, now having fun with it. Prev @MIT @Columbia. Soviet émigré, Papa 🐻

Boulder, CO

colorado.edu/physics/dennis…

Born July 4

Joined April 2009

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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Jun 30, 2022
Folks, I'm pleased to be promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at @CUBoulder, just days before my 36th birthday! An immeasurable thank you to my colleague Jamie Nagle, and to our post-docs, grad students, and undergrads for taking a chance on a new junior faculty!
Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Dec 18, 2023
> be student in my modern physics class > never come to lecture > never come to office hours > zero participation points > walk into the final right as it starts > turn in a perfect 100% exam > refuse to elaborate > leave Why are students like this?
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Dec 18, 2023
Replying to @_wraith0
Good points! They earned their (high) grade fair and square according to my syllabus.
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Dec 18, 2023
Replying to @GregTrayling
Oh, there are many cases (much more common) which go in the opposite direction, of course. I was just amused by this one - it's the exception that proves the rule.
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Aug 7, 2023
Hi! Physicist here! This isn't cute or funny. Models of fundamental physics only do this when they're VERY DISTRESSED.
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Jan 4, 2023
Alright, folks. This is what you came here for. Benoit Blanc as physics textbooks. 🧵
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
May 1, 2023
Another Monday morning, time to rise and grind
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Nov 29, 2021
Filling energy levels, bosons vs. fermions
Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Apr 4, 2023
Einstein summation notation: 😢😥 = Σ😢😥 Inner product: 😄⋅😟 = 😅😥 Raising/lowering a tensor index: 😅😹 = 😿
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Oct 24, 2022
In my sub-field of nuclear physics, nuclei are just tools - things we smash apart to use as dense, extended sources of quarks and gluons. But in “low-energy” nuclear physics, the nucleus itself is the object of study. ⚛️ Here are my favorite nuclear structure factoids: 🧵(0/5)
Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Feb 3, 2023
colleague: can you supervise a student's Modern Particle Physics independent study this semester? Just don't use it as inspiration for overly niche memes me: I hear you loud and clear also me:
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Nov 16, 2023
just one more loop bro. i promise bro just one more loop and the calculation will be next-to-next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order bro. please just one more. one more loop and we'll really test the precision experiments bro i promise. bro bro please come on just one
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Mar 27, 2023
This is the ideal description of physical reality. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa 🇺🇦🇺🇲
@profdvp
Dec 7, 2023
Inspired by my inbox this week
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