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Instituto de Altos Estudos da Paraíba - João Pessoa, Brasil

Estudo de Fenômenos Complexos Não-Lineares  

Nunquam otiosus -- Scientia Omnia Vincit  

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Jason Alfredo Carlson GALLAS,   Professor of Theoretical Physics

Dr. rer. nat. LMU & MPQ München, Germany, 1983

High-performance multi-scale computational study of lasers, electronic circuits and complex oscillators




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Instituto de Altos Estudos da Paraíba
Rua Silvino Lopes 419 - 2502, Tambaú
58039-190 João Pessoa, Paraíba, BRASIL
Email:   jason.gallas @ gmail.com

I have retired from teaching basics and advising students but am still active in research and writing.
The best way to contact me is via email. If I do not respond in a timely fashion it is because I have nothing useful or definite to say.

"To a physicist, the exhilarating thing is to be able to work things numerically."
Steven Weinberg (1933-2021) [in "The First Three Minutes"]

"A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give."
Paul A. M. Dirac (1902-1984)

"To look at a thing is quite different from seeing a thing."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900, in "An Ideal Husband")

"Physics teaches old things to new people."
Maurice Goldhaber (1911-2011)

"Some people play bingo. Others watch TV. Some people play chess. I play science."
Jack Strominger

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

"I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it."
Peter Cook

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."
Wyatt Earp (1848-1929)

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

"Science advances one funeral at a time."
Attributed to Max Planck by Otto Warburg

"Truth, like gold, is not to be obtained by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"You give up worrying about certainty when you make that turn in your career that makes you a physicist rather than a mathematician."
Steven Weinberg (1933-2021) [in "Can Science Explain Everything? Anything?"]

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
Marie Curie (1867-1934)

"Of all the prizes that come from surviving more than fifty years, the best is the freedom to be eccentric."
James Lovelock

"The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research."
Paul A. M. Dirac (1902-1984)

"No-one ever said science is logical. Oh, everyone says science is logical, but it's not true. After all, it is done by people and people are notoriously illogical."
James Peebles (1935- ), Nobel Prize 2019

"Le cose sono unite da legami invisibili. Non puoi cogliere un fiore senza turbare una stella."
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

"Even God wouldn't get a grant today because somebody on the committee would say, oh those were very interesting experiments (creating the universe), but they've never been repeated. And then someone else would say, yes and he did it a long time ago; what's he done recently? And a third would say, to top it all, he published it all in an un-refereed journal (The Bible)."
Sydney Brenner
"...and he is rather old considering our priorities to fund younger investigators who don't have tenure."
James A. Yorke

"The most successful people are those that are good at plan B."
James A. Yorke

"The problem with the global village is all the global-village idiots."
Attributed to Sidney Coleman in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.2700.pdf

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' "
Quentin Tarantino

"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage."
Max Born (1882-1970)

"You are as good as anyone in this town, but you are no better than any of them."
Katherine G. Johnson (citing what her father used to tell her)

"In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell (1903-1950)

"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one."
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, 1795-1881

"... it is often more difficult to discover results in this subject than to prove them ... "
A.O.L. Atkin (1925-2008)

"Dynamical theory is notoriously a subject where problems vastly outnumber significant results."

"The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree."
Hänggi's law

"The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor from stealing bread, begging and sleeping under bridges."
Anatole France (1844-1924)

"Il meglio é nemico del bene."
Italian proverb, 1610

"Nicht weil es schwer ist, wagen wir es nicht, sondern weil wir es nicht wagen, ist es schwer."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (circa 4 BC - 65 CE)

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (circa 4 BC - 65 CE)

"If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (circa 4 BC - 65 CE)

"Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (circa 4 BC - 65 CE)

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