Meeting
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Instructors: |
Th 4:00-5:20 pm
Room ESS 069 |
Dominik
Schneble, A-106, Office hours: tbd
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Marivi Fernandez-Serra, B-139, Office
hours: tbd
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Vladimir Litvinenko, D-102, Office
hours: tbd
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Resources:
Notes:
The purpose
of this course is to give graduate
students early in their career
experience with the vital skill of
giving professional talks. One very
important aspect of this is to choose
the level of your talk based upon your
own level of knowledge and the level
expected of your audience. As (mostly)
first year graduate students, we
expect that you are not at a level of
preparation that you would have giving
a talk at a professional
conference. You will be graded
on content and presentation, but the
grade on content is more on
consistency and "absence of holes"
than on the level per se (high school
– college – graduate student – faculty
– world expert). Do not include in
your talk any material that you do not
actually understand.
Rule of thumb: If you
don't mention something in your talk,
it is impolite for someone in the
audience to ask you a question about
it. Whatever you do mention in
your talk is fair game for questions.
If you mention something you do not
understand, you are opening Pandora's
Box and should expect to run
into trouble. This happens all the
time at professional meetings.
Your talk (Powerpoint or pdf)
should be planned to take a total of
15 minutes. Five more minutes
will be used for questions and
comments. Make sure to rehearse
your talk (several times!) so that you
know your timing is right. It
is a cardinal sin of giving a talk
to run over time.
To use the projctor in the seminar
room, you should bring your own laptop
computer, borrow one from a friend, or
sign out one of the "loaner" laptop
computers from Joe Feliciano in the
Instructional Lab Room, A-131, during
normal working hours. You can practice
your talk in the Graduate Student
Lounge on the A level "bridge" between
Physics and "Old Physics." A desktop
computer is there permanently hooked
up to a computer projector. It is not
connected to the internet, so you must
bring the file of your talk to it on a
USB stick. A pull-down projection
screen is available for displaying the
projected image.
You must make an appointment to meet
with your instructor (as assigned)
one week prior to the day you are
scheduled to give your talk in
class. At that meeting you will be
expected to show a preliminary version
of your talk to the instructor. Before
that, you should already have given a
(pre-)preliminary version of your talk
to a trial audience, e.g., fellow
students. The comments you get from
both your trial audience and the
instructor will be helpful for making
changes before you give your talk "for
real."
After your talk, your slides
(convert into pdf) will be posted on
the course webpage until the end of
the semester.
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List
of topics: |
Topics are available
from the APS online
journal "Physics"
(http://physics.aps.org/), which highlights a selection of
papers from the Physical
Review journals. Note
that there is a separate
category for AMO physics, while topics in
condensed-matter
physics are
distributed over
several categories.
Topics chosen have to be from the past 24
months.
Choose
a topic
by September 5, and enter
your choice
into the Google Doc
for which the instructors
will email you a link.
Choice of topics will be first
come – first served. Two students
may not choose the same topic
(note that some of the topics
may be closely related and
therefore may count as the
same).
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Learning
Outcomes: |
Students who completed this course
should (1) be able to give a talk on
phenomena in atomic and condensed-matter
physics, without the requirement of an
advanced understanding of the background
meterial, (2) be able to compose slides for
this talk, and (3) be able to critique the
talks of other students.
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Schedule, and the Faculty-Employee
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