Week

Date

Topics

Lectures

Assignments

Reading

1

Aug 26

Introduction and course expectations

How to find an advisor

slides

slides

Major Group Assignment
Create and present a group Journal Club PowerPoint talk + individual referee reports

2

Sep 2

Research in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics - Prof. Pinshane Huang

Research in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics - Prof. Taylor Hughes

Creating/giving a journal club presentation

slides

3

Sep 9

Research in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics - Prof. Greg MacDougall

Research in Experimental Astrophysics - Prof. Joaquin Vieira

How to use on-line scientific resources

On-line research with SCOPUS

slides

slides

mini-Assignment #1
On-line resource activities

Resource Activities

Prof. Casey Miller's (U. South Florida) advice on using scientific resources

4

Sep 16

Research in Computational Biological Physics - Prof. Alek Aksimentiev

Research in Computational Condensed Matter Physics - Prof. David Ceperley

Research in Computational Condensed Matter Physics - Prof. Lucas Wagner

Publication process;
How to write a referee report

slides

5

Sep 23

Research in Computational/Theoretical Biological Physics - Prof. Jun Song

Research in Medium Energy and Nuclear Physics - Prof. Liang Yang

How to write a scientific abstract

slides

mini-Assignment #2
Write an abstract for selected paper

Abstract Papers

6

Sep 30

slides

7

Oct 7

Research in Experimental Biological Physics - Prof. Yann Chemla

Research in Experimental Optomechanics and Microfluidics - Prof. Gaurav Bahl

Research in Complex Systems - Prof. Alfred Hubler

slides

8

Oct 14

Ethics in research

slides

Ethics Case Studies

9

Oct 21

Research in Theoretical High Energy Physics - Prof. Aida El Khadra

Research in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics - Prof. Tai Chiang

Research in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics - Prof. Dale Van Harlingen

10

Oct. 28

Research in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics - Prof. Tony Leggett

Research in Experimental Astrophysics - Prof. Jeff Filippini

Research in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics - Prof. Alexey Bezryadin

11

Nov 4

Research in Theoretical High Energy/Condensed Matter Physics - Prof. Tom Faulkner

Research in Theoretical Chemical Physics - Prof. Nancy Makri

12

Nov 11

Research in Computational Biological Physics - Prof. Ting Lu

Research in Experimental High Energy Physics - Prof. Mark Neubauer

Scientific Poster Example/Template

13

Nov 18

Journal club presentations:
Team 3
Team 4
Team 6
Team 9

Nov 25

THANKSGIVING BREAK

14

Dec 2

Journal club presentations:
Team 1
Team 7
Team 10
Team 11
Team 12