Course: Colloquia in Physics FK40001

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This PhD course should preferably be finished during your first two years of studies. Before each selected colloquium, you go through suitable background material together with a Fysikum lecturer. The material may consist of a review which provides background to the field and possibly also a more specialised article in the field of the colloquium, when this is known in advance. After the colloquium you write a short report (1-2 pages) which summarises the content of the colloquium and also may contain questions that arose and can be discussed further. The lecturer leads a follow-up discussion of the colloquium together with all the PhD students that visited that particular colloquium, where the reports and possibly questions concerning the colloquium are discussed.

In consultation with the course coordinator, the 10 colloquia shall be distributed reasonably evenly between the fields below:

• Nuclear physics, particle physics, astroparticle physics and cosmology
• Atomic physics, molecular physics and quantum optics
• Condensed matter physics and surface physics
• Other physics

The instruction consists of lectures and seminars. Participation in lectures and seminars is compulsory. In case of special circumstances the examiner may, after consultation with the lecturer, exempt the student from the obligation to take part in certain compulsory instruction.

The course is taught in English.

The course is examined i the following way: To pass a colloquium the student is required to:

• participate actively in preparatory and concluding discussions where familiarity with the previously distributed material is demonstrated
• participate in the colloquium
• hand in a report which should contain:
  • A short summary of the content of the colloquium with a focus on physics
  • What is new to the PhD student
  • Why the field is important
  • An outlook with potential future developments
  • Feedback to the colloquium committee about the content and level of the colloquium