Credits: 1 Credit, may not be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: Physics 207-208 or equivalent.
Meetings: Tuesdays, 1:20 - 2:10, 2223 Chamberlin.
Recommended Text: Invitation to Contemporary Physics, 2nd edition, Q. Ho-Kim, N. Kumar & C.S. Lam, World Scientific Press, 2004.
Coursework: Describe a particular piece of physics research being actively pursued this year. The paper is due in class on May 5. The topic selected with a one page outline must be submitted in class on April 7. The paper must be typed, use proper footnotes and have a total length of not less than 7 and not more than 10 pages. The primary resource for this paper is the Physics Dept. Library . The librarian, Kerry Kresse , will be able to assist you. Honors students must proceed under the direction of a faculty member of their own choice.
Office Hours: By appointment, 4275 Chamberlin, 262-4690. wsmith@hep.wisc.edu , http://www.hep.wisc.edu/wsmith/
Course Schedule:
| Speaker | Title | Date | |||
| Bruce | Mellado | Challenges of the Large Hadron Collider | January 20, 2009 | ||
| Thad | Walker | Laser Cooling | January 27, 2009 | ||
| Clint | Sprott | Chaos | February 3, 2009 | ||
| Natalia | Perkins | Transition Metal Oxides: Exciting Orbitals | February 10, 2009 | ||
| Peter | Timbie | The Early Universe | February 17, 2009 | ||
| Tao | Han | The Quest for Mass | February 24, 2009 | ||
| Stefan | Westerhoff | Particle Astrophysics | March 3, 2009 | ||
| Bob | Joynt | Superconductivity | March 10, 2009 | ||
| Mark | Saffman | Quantum Computing with Atoms | March 24, 2009 | ||
| Karsten | Heeger | Experimental Neutrino Research | March 31, 2009 | ||
| Dan | McCammon | X-ray Astronomy from Sounding Rockets | April 7, 2009 | ||
| Lou | Bruch | Physical Adsorption | April 14, 2009 | ||
| Carl | Sovinec | Plasma Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics | April 21, 2009 | ||
| Ellen | Zweibel | Cosmic Magnetic Fields | April 28, 2009 | ||
| Hagar | Landsman | Neutrino astronomy at the South Pole | May 5, 2009 |