FALL 2016 Presentations
Slides from presentations given by the Fall 2016 class can be viewed here (once available).
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.
- Semiconductors
- Superconductivity
- Bose Einstein Condensation
- Carbon Nanotubes
- Transistors
- Diodes
- SQUIDs
- LASERs
- PET scan
- NMR and/or MRI
- Radiotherapytreatment machines for cancer (LINACs, Proton Beam Therapy, ..)
- Scanning Tunneling Microscopes
- Electron/positron colliderg
- Muon colliderg
- Photon colliderg
- Fundamental particles and forces
- Conservation rules
- Neutron stars
- Black holes
- Dark Matter
- Dark Energy
- Stellar Spectra
- Supernova
- Friedman Equation (Cosmology)
- Quantum Computing
- Quantum Entanglement
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News
- The cummulative final exam will be Monday, December 11th from 11:30 am - 2:30 pm in FOSC 158 pm.
- Final drafts of presentations are due at 3 pm on Monday, Nov 20th. Email in pdf format to Dr. Cooley.
- Join the SMU community for the Dark Matter Rocks Hunt on Oct 31 from 9 am to 4 pm.
- Dr. Marusa Bradac will give a public lecture on dark matter, Sunday, October 29th in McCord Auditorium at 4 pm.
- The Texas Section APS Meeting will be held at UT Dallas October 20 - 21.
- Midterm Exam 2 will be held in class on Thursday, October 19th.
- Midterm Exam 1 will be held in class on Thursday, September 21st.
- Class will be held in FOSC 060 on Tuesday, September 12th. No video lecture that day, no reading assignment due and no reading quiz!
- Office hours are canceled for Monday, September 4th.
- First day of class is Tuesday August 22rd!