Course Topics
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| Many fascinating things are going on in theoretical physics and it is hard to keep up with everything. Wouldn't it be great to sit down, relax, and have a fellow graduate student introduce a topic of your choice
in a pedagogical way? This is precisely the idea behind this seminar. Ph.D. students get together, with the oversight from postdocs and professors, to teach each other topics that are needed to be able to follow modern developments in the broad field of theoretical
quantum physics, but go beyond the level that is usually taught in graduate courses. The lectures are given by the participants, and are to be pedagogical: the idea is to actually learn something concrete, and to omit statements like "it can be shown". Since DPA has sizable research groups both in atomic-molecular-optical and condensed-matter physics, we aim to focus on topics that are of interest to both communities.
Main Course Topics:
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- how do you start scientific research project?
- physics & astronomy journals
- searching the scientific literature online
- ethics in scientific research
- writing style for research article
- LaTeX environment for typing math
- software for preparing talks and posters
- designing and delivering effective research talks
- cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience in research and presentations
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News
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- The course is moved online until UD reopens. This means you will receive a link to join ZOOM (install it from https://zoom.us/) for lectures and your presentations.
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Course Motto
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- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Waldo Emerson)
- If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
- A man will turn over half a library to write one book. (Samuel Johnson)
- Scientists often have an experience that is deeply enlightening, and is not granted to everyone. It is the experience of finding that you have been wrong about something. (Steven Weinberg)
- Henri Poincaré worked during the same times each day in short periods of time. He undertook research for four hours a day, between 10 a.m. and noon then again from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. He would read articles in journals later in the evening.
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