PHY189

Physics at the Cutting Edge

Class Schedule

Class Date	Topic	Pre-Class Reading	Speakers
January 10	Causes of Colour and Structure of Matter	Causes of Color scientificamerican1080-124	Sajeev John
January 17	Medical Instruments	TheratronBiography 2003 Nature Reviews Drug Discovery R. Weissleder Molecular imaging in drug discovery	Ofer Levi David Pantalony
January 24	Optomechanics	Semiconductors of Light Aspelmeyer The Surf is Up Optomechanics physics-today-65-7-29-2012-quantum-optomechanics	Sajeev John Markus Aspelmeyer
January 31	Earth is a Planet, Too! Paleoclimate is Planetary Atmospheric Dynamics You Can Do at Home	Global warming faster than expected scientificamerican1112-50 Last great global warming scientificamerican0711-56 The great climate experiment scientificamerican0912-78 Ocean heat pump	Paul Kushner Matthew Huber
February 7	BEC atom chips	Bose Einstein condenstaes scientificamerican0398-40 cold atom chips scientificamerican0205-46 Coolest Gas in Universe scientificamerican1200-92 Cooling and trapping atoms scientificamerican0387-50	Joseph Thywissen Martin Zwierlein
February 14	Graphene	Carbon Wonderland scientificamerican0408-90 Graphene Physics Today Next 20 years of Microchips scientificamerican0110-82	Young-June Kim Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
February 28	Superconductivity	History of Superconductivity PhysicsToday_BednorzMueller Room temperature superconductivity Iron Key to High Tc Superconductors scientificamerican0809-62	Stephen Julian Nadya Mason
March 7	Electron Dipole Moments BEC	Electron Dipole Moments	Alex Hayat Ed Hinds
March 14	Revisiting and Repurposing the Double Helix	DNA Extreme Bendability Spare the elastic rod	Joshua Milstein Anton Zilman Taekjip Ha
March 21	Student Presentations
March 28	Student Presentations
April 4	Student Presentations