Lectures
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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 Astronom]y 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
Student membership in professional organizations
- [APS student membership https://www.aps.org/membership/student.cfm]
- [AAS student membership https://aas.org/join/classes-membership-and-affiliation]
Ethics in research
- APS guidelines for professional conduct
- NSF Responsible conduct of research
- A Guide to responsible conduct in research
- Ethics case studies
- Schön scandal
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
- MikTeX (LaTeX implementation for Windows)
- TexStudio (TeX Editor for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS)
- JabRef (organizer for BibTeX references)
- Beamer (LaTeX alternative to PPT)
- Overleaf (Online LaTeX)
- QuickLaTeX (prepare LaTeX equation images for inserting into PPT talks)
Cognitive mechanisms in learning and expertise
- Wieman on Cognitive Load: 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.
- Lecture dynamics vs. attention of audience
- Why do good thoughts block better ones?
Scientific presentations: Talks and Posters
Designing talks
- How to design and deliver an effective research 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?
- Transforming physics education
