S-Topics/Plant Bio Research
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Independent Study
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S-Graduate STEM Education Sem
Talks and discussions of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education issues featuring lectures by on-campus and off-campus presenters.
Sem Res Tpc Solid St
Weekly seminar series presented by expert speakers on research topics within condensed matter physics including hard condensed matter, quantum materials, soft condensed matter, and biophysics.
Sem Res Tpc Nuclear
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ST- High Energy Physics
Advanced and current topics in high energy physics.
Soft Condensed Matter
variety of systems are driven out of equilibrium by converting energy to momentum at the constituent particle level. Self-propelling particles then interact and spontaneously organize into large-scale patterns. These active matters exhibit exotic properties such as collective motion, zero and negative viscosity, and production of net work from noise. Examples of active matter cover many orders of amplitude on length scale, ranging from microtubules in cells (nm) to schools of fish and flocks of birds(m).
Adv Statistcl Physic
Phase transitions and mean field theory, critical exponents and universality. Ginzburg-Landau theory: fluctuations, Ginzburg criterion, upper/lower critical dimensions, Goldstone modes. Renormalization group: Foundations, Perturbative RG, epsilon expansion, Large N expansion. XY model: Topological defects, Coulomb gas and Kosterlitz?Thouless transition. Nonlinear sigma models. Random Systems. Introduction to conformal invariance. Prerequisite: PHYSICS 602