Courses

Introduces current research topics in statistical mechanics. Topics vary from year to year and may include phase transitions, critical phenomena, nonequilibrium phenomena, dense fluids, dynamical systems, plasma physics, or quantum statistical mechanics. Prereq., PHYS 7230.

Series of seminars on directed total synthesis. Emphasizes modern synthetic methodology and applications to total synthesis of natural products. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Theory of quantum many body systems, including methods based on Green's functions, Feynman diagrams, and coherent state path integral with applications to interacting quantum gases, superconductivity and superfluidity, quantum phase transitions, quantum magnetism, quantum motion in the presence of disorder, and topological states of matter. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Discusses the brief history of the emerging field of chemical genetics, and focuses on the recent development of concepts, techniques, applications, and its impact on both science and human health. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Prereq., graduate standing. Prerequisites: Restricted to History graduate students only.

Radiation theory; relativistic wave equations with simple applications; introduction to field theory and second quantization. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Includes development and application of picosecond laser spectroscopy to organic and organometallic reactions. Emphasizes relationship between current theoretical developments and experiments. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Quantum theory of fields, elementary particles, symmetry laws, and topics of special interest. Prereq., PHYS 7270 or instructor consent.

Discusses current topics and recent advances in molecular self-assembly, with emphasis on new liquid crystal designs and applications. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Modern experimental techniques and theoretical models in physical organic chemistry are discussed in relation to the development of new materials, such as molecular size tinkertoys to the development of novel photochemical systems and their spectroscopies. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Familiarizes students with scientific concepts, matrix theory, and computer techniques of multivariate analyses for psychological research. Topics include cluster and factor analysis, multiple regression, and discriminant functions. Emphasizes research technology rather than mathematical theory. Instructor consent required.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

Includes basic results associated with linear dispersive wave systems, first-order nonlinear wave equations, nonlinear dispersive wave equations, solitons, and the methods of the inverse scattering transform. Prereqs., APPM 5470--5480, PHYS 5210, or instructor consent.

Same as SPAN 5300. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Discusses particularly the synthesis of complex organic molecules and the mechanism of reagents used in organic synthesis. Includes a study of transition metal mediated organic reactions. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Sophisticated approach to electrostatics, boundary value problems, magnetostatics, applications of Maxwell's equations to electromagnetic wave propagation, wave guides, and resonant cavities and magnetohydrodynamics. See also PHYS 7320. Prereq., PHYS 5030. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Current research in the area of organic/materials chemistry. Concerns topics related to organic materials synthesis, carbon nanotube functionalization, artificial photosynthesis, gas storage and catalysis. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Addresses topics in the experimental psychology of human memory. Content varies from semester to semester, depending on interests of faculty and students. a sample topic is the long-term retention of skills. Prereq., graduate standing in psychology or related disciplines.

Examines the ways in which identities are constructed, contested, and negotiated through narrative practice.

This is a continuation of PHYS 7310. Topics include relativistic particle dynamics; radiation by moving charges; multiple fields; radiation damping and self-fields of a particle; collisions between charged particles and energy loss; radiative processes; and classical field theory. See also PHYS 7310. Prereq., PHYS 7310.

Same as SPAN 5320. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Prereq., graduate standing.

Examines organizations of language and gender in a variety of societies and cultures from the perspectives of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and socially-oriented discourse analysis.

Explores the role of language in the social construction and articulation of sexuality.