PHY 4A03 - Presentation Dates for Term 1


The discussion slide used in Christine's example presentation is available here
Date Presenters and paper
Sept 11 Christine
"Progressive field state collapse and quantum non-demolition photon counting", Nature, 448, 889 (also N&V)
Sept 18 Regina Bendig (librarian)
Library resources
Sept 25 NO CLASS
Oct 2 Future prospects discussion
- Come prepared to discuss in detail two post-graduation options.
- One should be in Ontario and one out of province or abroad.
- For example, someone interested in grad school would pick two different universities
- See email for non-grad school options
Oct 9 Maxim and Sami
"Alternating electric fields arrest cell proliferation in animal tumor models and human brain tumours", E. D. Kirson et al., 2007, PNAS, 104 (24), 10152-10157
Oct 16 The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics
Read the information for the public and the scientific background and come prepared for a discussion!
Oct 23 Emily and Billee
"Correlation of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Nearby Extragalactic Objects." The Pierre Auger Collaboration, et al., Science 318, 938 (2007)
Oct 30 Adam and Kim
"An asymmetric distribution of positrons in the Galactic disk revealed by gamma-rays", G. Weidenspointer et al., 2008, Nature, 451, 159
Nov 6 Physics 4P6 progress report class with Dr. Sorensen
Nov 13 Sarah and Jordan
"An updatable holographic three-dimensional display", S. Tay et al., Nature, 451, 694 (2008) (see also News & Views article)
Nov 20 Graham
Van Heuvelen. A, "Overview, Case Study Physics", Am. J. Phys., vol. 59, No. 10, October 1991
Nov 20 #2 Martin
B. De Pontieu, et. al, "Chromospheric Alfvénic Waves Strong Enough to Power the Solar Wind" (7 December 2007) Science 318 (5856), 1574.
Nov 27 David, Corey, and Melissa
A. Ahuja et al., "Nanonails: A simple Geometrical Approach to Electrically Tunable Superlyophobic Surfaces", 2008, Langmuir, 24, 9
Note that students may NOT choose papers that are on the following two lists:
Christine Wilson, wilson@physics.mcmaster.ca