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From [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo24041257.html Beautiful Cure] by [https://www.davislab.manchester.ac.uk/ Daniel M. Davis] (Professor of Immunology with a Ph.D. in physics): | From [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo24041257.html ''Beautiful Cure''] by [https://www.davislab.manchester.ac.uk/ Daniel M. Davis] (Professor of Immunology with a Ph.D. in physics): | ||
<pre> “Science is many things. A method, a journey, a route to power, a body of knowledge, a thing you loved or hated at school, a jigsaw puzzle with an infinite number of pieces, a force for good and bad which has produced both food and bombs. Arguably, its greatest success has been, and will be for some time to come, in curing diseases.” | <pre> “Science is many things. A method, a journey, a route to power, a body of knowledge, a thing you loved or hated at school, a jigsaw puzzle with an infinite number of pieces, a force for good and bad which has produced both food and bombs. Arguably, its greatest success has been, and will be for some time to come, in curing diseases.” | ||
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What is science and how do you being a scientific journey?
From Beautiful Cure by Daniel M. Davis (Professor of Immunology with a Ph.D. in physics):
“Science is many things. A method, a journey, a route to power, a body of knowledge, a thing you loved or hated at school, a jigsaw puzzle with an infinite number of pieces, a force for good and bad which has produced both food and bombs. Arguably, its greatest success has been, and will be for some time to come, in curing diseases.”
“How does anyone begin a scientific journey? By following tracks other have left behind, then branching off.”
Physics & Astronomy journals
News & Views
General Science
General Physics
Reviews
Applied Physics
- Nature Materials
- Applied Physics Letters
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Applied Physics Review
- Physical Review Applied
- Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
- Optics Express
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Biophysics Journal
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Astronomical Journal
- Astrophysical Journal
- Astrophysical Journal Letters
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Space and Plasma Physics
Mathematical and Computational Physics
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
- Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Computer Physics Communications
- Computing in Science and Engineering
- Journal of Computational Physics
Physics Pedagogy
Searching the scientific literature
Physics and Astronomy conferences and workshops
Major conferences repeated every year
- APS March meeting for condensed matter physics students
- APS April meeting for astrophysics and high energy physics students
- APS DAMOP meeting for AMO students
- American Astronomical Society meeting for astronomy students
- Gordon Research Conferences
Examples of summer schools and workshops
- CECAM workshops/schools/conferences
- Psi-K workshops and hands-on courses
- Programs at KITP Santa Barbara
- The Boulder School in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
- High Energy Astrophysics Summer Schools
- Princeton Graduate Summer School in Plasma Physics
Student membership in professional organizations
Ethics in scientific research
- A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. (Albert Camus)
- Categories of unethical behavior in science:
- Plagiarism.
- Falsification of data.
- Redundant (duplicate) publication.
- Drawing far-fetched conclusions without hard data, for early publicity.
- Gift authorship (receiving as well as giving).
- Not giving sufficient attention and consideration to scholars and postdocs.
- Self promotion at the cost of team-members.
- Treating colleagues (overall all juniors) in a feudal way.
- Machiavellianism (cunningness and duplicity in general conduct and push to positions of power and pelf).
- APS Guidelines for professional conduct
- NSF Responsible conduct of research
- Ethics case studies
- Schön scandal
- Science falling victim to 'crisis of narcissism'
- Contrast with ethical tradition in scientific research:
In 1632, Galileo Galilei published his Dialogue on Two World Systems, in which he defended a heliocentric theory of the solar system, a view that contradicted the Catholic Church’s position that the Earth does not move but that the Sun moves around it. In 1633, Galileo appeared before an inquisitor from the Catholic Church. He refused to recant his views and was sentenced to house arrest for the remainder of his life. The Church banned his book. In 1992, 359 years after Galileo’s arrest, Pope John Paul II formally apologized for its treatment of Galileo.
Scientific writing
N. D. Mermin
- Bad thinking is vastly easier to cover up if you are allowed to get away with and even encouraged to produce bad writing.
- Writing physics
- What's wrong with these equations
- What's wrong with this prose
- Why Quark Rhymes with Pork and Other Scientific Diversions
LaTeX templates
- PHYS660 template and embedded PDF figure.
- Math into LaTeX: How to Beautify Equations and embedded PDF figure.
- How to submit abstract for APS meetings
- RevTeX (LaTeX for Physical Review Journals)
- Prepare your CV in LaTeX, which requires these two files: vita.cls and vitaComputerScience.clo.
LaTeX packages
- Overleaf (Online LaTeX)
- MikTeX (LaTeX implementation for Windows)
- TexStudio (TeX Editor for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS)
- JabRef (organizer for BibTeX references)
- Beamer (LaTeX alternative to PPT)
- QuickLaTeX (prepare LaTeX equation images for inserting into PPT talks)
Scientific presentations: Talks and posters
Designing talks
- How to design and deliver an effective research talk
- Example talk
- Talks from KITP, University of California Santa Barbara
Giving talks
- Advice to beginning physics speakers
- What's wrong with those talks?
- Who is listening? What do they hear?
Designing posters
Templates
Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience
- Carl Wieman on Cognitive Load:
“Cognitive research shows that the amount of new material presented in a typical class is far more than a typical person can process or learn. People’s brains function in a way somewhat analogous to a personal computer with very limited random-access memory. The more things the brain is given to process at the same time – the cognitive load – the less effectively it can process anything. Any additional cognitive load, no matter what form it takes, will limit people's abilities to mentally process and learn new ideas. This is one of the most well-established and widely violated principles in education, including by many education researchers in their presentations. Cognitive load has important implications for both classroom teaching and technical talks. To maximize learning, instructors must minimize cognitive load by limiting the amount of material presented, having a clear organizational structure to the presentation, linking new material to ideas that the audience already knows, and avoiding unfamiliar technical terminology and interesting little digressions.”