[LaSiGMA-funded] Spring 2011 courses

[Randall Hall]

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.

Thanks
Randy



PHYS 7411 (Computational Physics) is a 3-credit graduate course. It is taught by 
Karen Tomko (Ohio Supercomputer Center) and Juana Moreno (Louisiana State University).
It focuses on high performance computing (HPC) and the techniques used in designing 
and implementing computationally intensive applications on HPC systems. 
High performance systems including traditional parallel supercomputers, Linux clusters, 
and hardware accelerators (such as GPUs and FPGAs) will be discussed. The course will 
focus on parallelization and memory access optimization for computationally intensive 
applications in science and engineering. 


PHYS 7893 (Many Body Theory) focuses on advanced many-body techniques in material 
science, and is taught by Mark Jarrell. This is an advanced graduate course,
covering many-body theory, diagrammatic perturbation theory, bosonization,
path integrals, etc.  In addition, several many-body numerical methods are
derived and used in class projects, including Dynamical Mean Field
Approximation, Dynamical Cluster Approximation and renormalization group.
A basic course in Condensed Matter/Solid State Physics (PHYS 7363 at LSU) is 
a suggested pre-requisite for this course.


Chem 7750-003  Surface Science   310-0430    T TH  (Jayne Garno)

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.


Randall W. Hall
Professor of Chemistry
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1804
Email: rhall at lsu.edu  Web: http://chemistry.lsu.edu/hall
Phone: 225-578-3472 Fax: 225-578-3458 AIM: rwhneauxs

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