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PHYS503: Projects
2005 projects:
- Mon:
- 8:55-9:15 -- Jinshan Wu: Keldysh Formalism
- 9:15-9:35 -- Santosh Gupta: Effects of dissipation on quantum tunneling
- 9:35-9:55 -- Bayo Lau: Two aspects of electron-phonon interaction
- Tue:
- 1:00-1:20 -- Matthew Hasselfield: Some notes on the Schmid model
- 1:20-1:40 -- James Charbonneau: Introduction to Ginzburg-Landau equations
- 1:40-2:00 -- Kelly Cheung: Conductance from transmission probability
- Wed:
- 8:55-9:15 -- Conan Weeks: The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
- 9:15-9:35 -- Mandy Wong: The mapping from 2D Ising model to quantum spin chain
- 9:35-9:55 -- Shawn Penson: Analysis of colour centers in 2D ionic crystals by use of Green's functions
- Fri:
- 9:05-9:25 -- Glen Goodvin: Ground-state properties and soliton excitations in polyacetylene
- 9:25-9:45 -- Dominic Marchand: Classical Monte Carlo and the Metropolis algorithm: revisiting the 2D Ising model
2004 projects:
- Rodrigo Pereira: Residual Resistivity and Localization in Disordered Materials
- Justin Malecki: Bosonization: Exploiting the Bosonic character of Fermionic systems
- Suman Hossain: Do angle-resolved photoemission experiments reflect the nature of an interacting many-body system?
- Arefa Hossain: Introduction to density functional theory
- Mohamad Banaee: Coherent States in Laser Physics
- Dayong Guo: An introduction to MBE Growth
- Max Metlitski: The XY Model in One Dimension
- Ming-Shyang Chang: Entanglement Entropy of Random Spin Chains
- Murray McCutcheon: A Green's Function Analysis of Defect States in Periodic Hamiltonians
Instructions on grading your colleagues' projects:
Each project will be evaluated independently for three criteria:
- The presentation: how well was it delivered, how well was the available time used, how well were the other students' questions answered, etc.
- The write-up: how well it supported the presentation, is it readable and can the calculations and reasonings be followed fairly easily, is it properly referenced, etc.
- The overall project: how does it compare with the other projects in terms of amount of work involved, does the student seem to have mastered the material well?
After all the presentations are finished but before the final I expect to receive an email from you with the following information for each of your fellow colleagues' projects:
- for each of the three criteria listed above, a grade between 1 and 5, where 1=very poor, 2=poor, 3=good, 4=very good, 5=perfect. Only integer and half-integer grades are to be given, the rest will be rounded to the closed such number (e.g. 3.672 will be replaced with 3.5).
- a ranking of the projects, starting with the one you liked (or impressed you) most.
