Research Projects

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Guidelines

The idea of a Research Project is to tackle a topic borrowed from research frontiers (such as from recently published in journal articles) while spending more time on researching literature, doing computation, and compiling a report than it is usually required for simple homework problems. When you have enough results to tell a coherent story, you should end the Research Project by writing (in a clear writing style, obeying the rules of grammar and spelling) and submitting a Report. The Report should be understandable to a person who has not done the assignment.

Format of the report for the midterm project

The midterm project should be finalized as a paper similar to research articles dealing with Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics posted every day on arxiv.org. The format of the paper mimicking this is:

  • Title, Name of the person and affiliation, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Dicussion, Conclusion, and References.
  • Paper should be typed in two column style. For this you can use
 **LaTeX
 **Open office version of Microsoft Word.

Format of the report for the final project

Midterm Research Project

The proje

Final Research Project