<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi folks, we have 3 courses that will/maybe taught using distance ed methods that are relevant to LA-SiGMA. Please look over the courses described below and let Noshir (the "champion" for LA-SiGMA courses) and I know how many of your students would be interested in taking this class next spring.<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Randy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>PHYS 7411 (Computational Physics) is a 3-credit graduate course. It is taught by <br>Karen Tomko (Ohio Supercomputer Center) and Juana Moreno (Louisiana State University).<br>It focuses on high performance computing (HPC) and the techniques used in designing <br>and implementing computationally intensive applications on HPC systems. <br>High performance systems including traditional parallel supercomputers, Linux clusters, <br>and hardware accelerators (such as GPUs and FPGAs) will be discussed. The course will <br>focus on parallelization and memory access optimization for computationally intensive <br>applications in science and engineering. <br><br><br>PHYS 7893 (Many Body Theory) focuses on advanced many-body techniques in material <br>science, and is taught by Mark Jarrell. This is an advanced graduate course,<br>covering many-body theory, diagrammatic perturbation theory, bosonization,<br>path integrals, etc. In addition, several many-body numerical methods are<br>derived and used in class projects, including Dynamical Mean Field<br>Approximation, Dynamical Cluster Approximation and renormalization group.<br>A basic course in Condensed Matter/Solid State Physics (PHYS 7363 at LSU) is <br>a suggested pre-requisite for this course.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Chem 7750-003 Surface Science 310-0430 T TH (Jayne Garno)<br><br>This course will survey modern instrumental methods used for the chemical and physical characterization of surfaces, such as thin films, self-assembled monolayers, biomaterials and nanoparticles. Fundamental operating principles, instrument designs and applications of scanning probe microscopies, (AFM, STM, NSOM, SEM); as well as surface spectroscopies (XPS, Auger, SERS, SFG) will be discussed in the context of contemporary "state-of-the-art" applications of these techniques in surface science, molecular electronics and nanotechnology.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Randall W. Hall</font></p>
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