Venue: Feynman Lecture Hall


Class Timings: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM, Wednesdays


First Meeting: 31 August 2022


Course description: These sessions are compulsory for all first-year physics students (PhD as well as IPhD). Each session will be given by one faculty member about the work done in their groups. Students are supposed to interact and discuss this with the speaker. Each students will be required to submit a one to two page summary of what was discussed in half of these classes (students choose which classes they want to summarize). As part of their summaries, students are encouraged to identify an interesting open problem they found interesting in the research area summarized in that class.

Course evaluation: Assignments: 100%.
Each student will be required to submit a 1-2 page summary of what was discussed in these classes. They will be required to summarize N/2 classes if N is the number of total classes in the course (and students choose which N/2 classes they want to summarize). As part of their summaries, students are encouraged to identify an interesting open problem they found interesting in the research area summarized during that class.




Credit Score: 2