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*Preparing and giving a good talk requires a lot of discipline, particularly with regard to cutting out material, as well as practice. | *Preparing and giving a good talk requires a lot of discipline, particularly with regard to cutting out material, as well as practice. | ||
*[[Media:lecture_dynamics.pdf|Lecture dynamics vs. cognitive psychology]] | |||
*[[Media:ARANSON=designing_and_delivering_effective_research_talk.pdf|How to design and deliver an effective research talk]] | *[[Media:ARANSON=designing_and_delivering_effective_research_talk.pdf|How to design and deliver an effective research talk]] | ||
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*[[Media | *[[Media:phys600_talk_template.ppt|PHYS600 PPT template for talks]] | ||
*[[Media | *[[Media:phys600_poster_template.ppt|PHYS600 PPT template for posters]] | ||
Revision as of 13:26, 3 October 2016
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
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 workshops
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.
- PACS numbers
- Math into LaTeX: How to Beautify Equations and embedded PDF figure.
- How to submit abstract for APS meetings
- RevTeX (LaTeX for Physical Review Journals)
LaTeX packages
- MikTeX (LaTeX implementation for Windows)
- TexStudio (TeX Editor for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS)
- JabRef (organizer for BibTeX references)
- Beamer (LaTeX alternative to PPT)
- TexPoint (LaTeX formulas in PPT slides)
Scientific presentations: Talks and Posters
Designing talks
- Preparing and giving a good talk requires a lot of discipline, particularly with regard to cutting out material, as well as practice.
- Lecture dynamics vs. cognitive psychology
- How to design and deliver an effective research talk
Giving talks
- Advice to beginning physics speakers
- What's wrong with those talks?
- Who is listening? What do they hear?
- Transforming physics education
