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FALL 2016 Presentations

Slides from presentations given by the Fall 2016 class can be viewed here (once available).

  • Lasers - Ali Almuslim
  • Quantum Computing - Luke Grossman
  • Superfluids - Hope Johnson
  • SQUIDS - Andrew Ksendzoff
  • Quantum Dots - Gabriel Leyva
  • Black Holes - Rebecca Moore
  • Quarks - Chris Newey
  • Fusion in Stars - Connor Peters
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Applications - Robert Pulatie

Suggested topics for Presentations

The following is a list of potential topics that you could use for your end of term presentation. It is not an all-inclusive list. Feel free to come up with your own.

  • Millikan's Experiment
  • Bose-Einstein Condensate
  • Thomson Scattering
  • Solid State Physics
  • Quantum Dots
    • Semiconductors
    • Superconductivity
    • Bose Einstein Condensation
    • Carbon Nanotubes
  • Devices:
    • Transistors
    • Diodes
    • SQUIDs
    • LASERs
  • Biology/Medical Applications:
    • PET scan
    • NMR and/or MRI
    • Radiotherapytreatment machines for cancer (LINACs, Proton Beam Therapy, ..)
    • Scanning Tunneling Microscopes
  • Radioactivity and Radiodating
  • Fussion/Fission Reactors
  • Accelerators
    • Electron/positron colliderg
    • Muon colliderg
    • Photon colliderg
  • Particle Physics
    • Fundamental particles and forces
    • Conservation rules
  • Astrophysics and Cosmology
    • Neutron stars
    • Black holes
    • Dark Matter
    • Dark Energy
    • Stellar Spectra
    • Supernova
    • Friedman Equation (Cosmology)
  • Topics NOT Recommended
    • Quantum Computing
    • Quantum Entanglement