A year and a half ago, I
mentioned that I was going to teach a course through Rice's
Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, trying to give a general audience introduction to some central ideas in condensed matter physics. Starting in mid-March, I'm doing this again.
Here is a link to the course registration for this synchronous online class. This course is also intended as a potential continuing education/professional development offering for high school teachers, community college instructors, and other educators, and thanks to the generous support of the NSF, the Glasscock School is able to offer a limited number of full scholarships for educators -
apply here by February 27 for consideration.
(I am aware that the cost of the course is not trivial; at some point in the future I will make the course materials available broadly, and I will be sure to call attention to that at the time.)
Hi Munthriko - In principle, yes, though it's a synchronous (live) course, so the time difference might be severe; each class would start at something like 6:30am (India Standard Time).
ReplyDeleteHaving taken the course the first time around, I heartily recommend it.
ReplyDeleteHi Doug,
ReplyDeleteThe fractional quantum (anomalous) Hall effect is in the news again this week, with a new Nature paper reporting on its observation in 5-layer "graphene" (!). It's pretty exciting to see fractional quasiparticles now observed electrically at zero magnetic field.
Apparently, all it took was to generate a high-quality material with flat bands. I haven't read the whole paper, but my naive understanding is that the flat band structure (at B=0) mimic the Landau levels created by high magnetic fields.