Teaching Web

Courses

• PHYS600:Research and Presentation Skills
• PHYS460/660:Computational Methods of Physics
• PHYS800:Advanced Graduate Seminar in Quantum Physics
• PHYS813:Quantum Statistical Mechanics
• PHYS814:Advanced Quantum Mechanics
• PHYS824:Nanophysics and Nanotechnology

Research Project Based Learning (RPBL)

• Ideas for Scientific Teaching advocate for "students to act as scientists" in the classroom where they can develop hypotheses, design and conduct laboratory or computational experiments, collect and interpret data, and report on their

results in the form of scientific paper, poster or talk.

• RPBL is implemented in PHYS460/660 in the form of 6 computational-based research projects, whose results are reported in the form of 5 Physical Review style articles and 1 poster session.

• RPBL is implemented in PHYS824 in the form of 2 computational-based research projects, whose results are reported in the form of 1 Physical Review style articles and 1 poster session.

• RPBL implemented in advanced quantum physics courses, such as PHYS800 and PHYS814, has resulted in three refereed journal articles written by a subgroup

of students taking the class:

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