We take turns giving the weekly talk at group meeting. The talk can focus on your own research results, or any other subject that you think the group will find interesting. Aim for a 15 minute presentation. It will naturally get longer when interrupted with questions.
By giving regular presentations we practice valuable skills:
Efficiently conveying a significant amount of information to an audience
Conveying the reasons you are excited about a topic
Staying relaxed during public speaking (practice helps nerves!)
Speaking clearly and concisely
Fielding questions from the audience
Some rules of thumb about giving a good presentation:
With only 15 minutes, try to teach the audience one new nugget of knowledge (if you are presenting a journal article, the nugget of knowledge will often be summarized in the title of the article).
Give your talk a story line. The story includes why the research was done, what was observed, and what it means.
Prepare some slides with the essential images, cartoon diagrams, data and equations that you want to explain (usually no more than 10 slides for a 15 min talk). When you watch department seminars and colloquium think about what makes a good slide.
Anticipate questions and do background reading to find the answers.
An interesting article about scientific presentations from Physics Today: pdf.
Week 1 (06/17) - Scientific Communication
Week 2 (06/24) - From Passion to Action APS Webinar
Week 3 (07/01) - Dublin (Thouless pump talk)
Week 4 (07/08) - Research updates
Week 5 (07/15) - Carly (research slides)
Week 6 (07/22) - Research updates
Week 7 (07/29) - Mitch (research slides), Duy (research slides)
Week 8 (08/05) - Research updates
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Week 10 (08/19) - No group meeting this week
Week 11 (08/26) - Vivek (Thesis presentation) [30 min + discussion]
Week 12 (09/02) - Research slides/updates
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Week 14 (09/15) - Research slides/updates
==Spring 2020: Wednesdays 1 pm on Zoom
Week 1 (04/01) -
Week 2 (04/08) - Dublin
Week 3 (04/15) - Mitch
Week 4 (04/22) - Brian Skinner's March Meeting Talk
Week 5 (04/29) - Ethan
Week 6 (05/06) - Carly
Week 7 (05/13) - Dan
Week 8 (05/20) - Hanna, Duy, Clark Thesis Talks
Week 9 (05/27) -
Week 10 (06/03) -
Finals (06/10) -
==Winter 2020
Week 1 (01/08) - Research Slides
Week 2 (01/15) - Carly / Ethan
Week 3 (01/22) - Clark
Week 4 (01/29) - Andrew
Week 5 (02/05) - Dublin
Week 6 (02/12) - Hanna
Week 7 (02/19) - Mitch (APS Practice)
Week 8 (02/26) - Dan (Practice Defense)
Week 9 (03/04) - No Meeting (APS Week)
Week 10 (03/11) - Duy
Finals (03/18) - Fermi Estimates?
==Fall 2019:
Week 1 (10/02) - Research Slides
Week 2 (10/09) - Clark
Week 3 (10/16) - Carly (Oral Exam Practice Talk)
Week 4 (10/23) - Mitch
Week 5 (10/30) - Dublin
Week 6 (11/06) - Duy / Hanna
Week 7 (11/13) - Olivia
Week 8 (11/20) - Ethan
Week 9 (11/27) - *Thanksgiving*
Week 10 (12/04) - Dan
Finals (12/11) - Ian / Andrew
==Spring 2019:
Week 1 (04/05) - Ethan
Week 2 (04/12) - Dan
Week 3 (04/19) - Clark
Week 4 (04/26) - Olivia
Week 5 (05/03) - Carly
Week 6 (05/10) - Mitch
Week 7 (05/17) - Cole (thesis practice)
Week 8 (05/24) - Dublin (thesis practice)
Week 9 (05/31) - Fermi Estimates?
Week 10 (06/07) - ?
Finals (06/14) - ?
==Winter 2019:
Week 1 (01/11) - No Meeting
Week 2 (01/18) - Cole
Week 3 (01/25) - Dan
Week 4 (02/01) - Carly
Week 5 (02/08) - Olivia
Week 6 (02/15) - No Meeting
Week 7 (02/22) - APS Practice Talks (Dan/Mitch)
Week 8 (03/01) - Ethan
Week 9 (03/08) - Andrew
Week 10 (03/15) - Dublin
Finals (03/22) - ???
==Fall 2018: Thursday at 12 pm in the Yunker Library
Week 1 (09/27) - No Meeting
Week 2 (10/04) - No Meeting
Week 3 (10/11) - Dan
Week 4 (10/18) - Carly
Week 5 (10/25) - Mitch
Week 6 (11/01) - No Meeting (Ethan Traveling)
Week 7 (11/08) - Ethan
Week 8 (11/15) - ???
Week 9 (11/22) - No Meeting (Thanksgiving)
Week 10 (11/29) - Andrew
Finals (12/06) - Fermi Estimates?
==Winter 2018: Friday at 9am in Yunker
Week 1 (01/12) - No meeting
Week 2 (01/19) - Research Slides
Week 3 (01/26) - Dan M.
Week 4 (02/02) - Mitch
Week 5 (02/09) - Carly
Week 6 (02/16) - Ethan
Week 7 (02/23) - Dan S.
Week 8 (03/02) - ?
Week 9 (03/09) - Carly - MRS Practice
Week 10 (03/16)- Mitch - MRS Practice
Finals (03/23)- Fermi Estimates
==Fall 2017: Friday at 9am in Yunker
Week 0 - ?
Week 1 (09/29) - ?
Week 2 (10/06)- Ryan Thesis Presentation
Week 3 (10/13)- Ethan Practice Talk? (Dan if not)
Week 4 (10/20)- Ethan out of town
Week 5 (10/27)- Mitch A Exam Practice
Week 6 (11/03)- Ethan out of town
Week 7 (11/10)- Veteran's Day
Week 8 (11/17)- Carly
Week 9 (11/24)- Dublin
Week 10 (12/01)- Dan (Fermi Estimates if not)
Archive:
==Spring 2017
Apr 21 - Dan
Apr 28 - Zach/Ryan
May 5 - Tanner/Mitch
May 12 - Dan Oral Exam Practice
May 19 - Morgan/Carly
May 26 - Cancelled
Jun 2 - Lee practice defense
Jun 9 - Zach Thesis Practice/Morgan
Jun 16 - FINALS WEEK (Fermi Estimates?)
==Winter 2016
Jan 13 - Research Updates
Jan 20 - Mitch, Morgan
Jan 27 - Lee, Ethan
Feb 3 - Dan, Ryan
Feb 10 - Lee practice talk
Feb 17 - Carly
Feb 24 - Tanner
Mar 3 - Mitch
Mar 10 - Lee, Ethan
Mar 17 - Zach, Fermi
Mar 24 - FINALS WEEK, Morgan practice
Mar 31 - Spring Break
Fermi estimates, also called “back of the envelop estimates” or “street fighting estimates”.
Stay current with RSS feeds from science news & journals. This is a good way to find current discussion topics. Consider using google reader to keep all your feeds conveniently organized in one place.
Microfabricated ion traps are becoming incredibly sophisticated. It is now routine to suspend single atoms above the surface of an integrated circuit and use the atoms for quantum computations.
Special issue: Synaptic electronics, Expected online publication: April 2013 (print: April 2013). Nanotechnology (the IOP Journal).
Article from Jack Szostak's lab about how primitive lipid vesicles can grown and divide - a necessary property for life to emerge on earth. This JACS article includes some cool surface tension physics. pdf.
“Measuring the size and charge of single nanoscale objects in solution using an electrostatic fluidic trap” Nature Nanotech, vol 7, page 448 (2012)
Direct observation of quantized phonon number in a real system, PRL 2012
Imaging biological magnetic fields (for example, the B-field around a firing neuron) with diamond films that change their optical response, Nature 2008, New Journal of Physics 2011
Heat transport away from nanoscale devices
http://news.discovery.com/tech/nanotube-propels-atoms-into-black-hole-like-spiral.html
Low cost and flexible nanopillar-array photovoltaics
Attractive and repulsive forces using light (this is not radiation pressure)
Angela Belcher's group at MIT: Use virus to grow a metal shell, attach to a CNT, then make an electrode for a battery. Published in Science recently.
“Autonomous nanomotors…” W. F. Paxton et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 13424 (2004)
Lupton group at Utah: http://www.physics.utah.edu/~lupton/index.php