PHYS 498

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Special Topics in Physics

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in physics intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites.

1 to 4 undergraduate hours. 1 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

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PHYS 498 class schedule data for spring 2021
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
65798	Online	BP	4:00PM -4:50PM	MWF	n.a.	Denos, S Selvin, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Credit: 4 hours Section Info: INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS: This course is meant for advanced undergraduate or graduate students in Physics who have pondered the connection between biology and physics. Physics has played a revolutionary role in biology, creating instruments (ultra-resolution microscopy, cryo-EM) that allow us to see entirely new realms of space and time, modeling biological processes such as protein folding in unprecedented detail using realistic force fields, and developing theoretical frameworks such as energy landscapes to tie together disparate biological observations. The world of living things – biology – is constrained by the laws of physics and likewise, there is new and interesting physics to be found in biological systems. The course highlights such topics of current interest and is team-taught by Physics and Biophysics Faculty in two-week segments designed to build upon each other. Readings, Homework/Reports/Data analysis will be assigned, using software packages such as Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD). Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing.
67783	Online Lecture	CMP	10:00AM -11:20AM	MW	n.a.	Clark, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: COMPUTATION in PHYSICS: This is an immersive advanced computational physics course. The course is centered on six computational projects which students will program from scratch and simulate. The course will develop both computing skills as well as physics subject-knowledge in the project areas. Working on these projects will span much of class-time and all of the homework; occasional lecturing will be used to supplement the knowledge necessary to accomplish the projects. The projects include: building a quantum computing simulator, simulating the Ising model through Monte Carlo and RG approaches, machine learning and the brain, evolution, chemistry from physics, and condensed matter (topological insulators and superconductivity). Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing.
72336	Online Lecture	SQD	1:00PM -2:20PM	TR	n.a.	Van Harlingen, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Superconductor materials and devices have emerged as key components of quantum sensors and qubits for quantum computing and quantum simulation. In this course, we will first cover the basic phenomena and physics of superconductivity and the still expanding range of superconducting materials. We will then explore the implementation of superconductors in Josephson devices and their applications in the exploration of quantum materials and as quantum detectors in astronomy and cosmology. This will all lead to a survey of the important role of superconductors in qubit architectures for quantum information science and technology. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing.