Graduate Courses and Web-based TalksJohn Venables, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, and University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. |
Graduate Courses, Web-based Resources and BookOver the last few years, I have taught two graduate courses at ASU each Spring semester. The first course is Quantum Physics and the second is Surfaces and Thin Films. Both have a web-based component, and the second has been taught (both on- and off-campus) primarily using the web. I have also developed a related course at Sussex, Quantum Mechanical Models of Solids with Edward Hernández and Malcolm Heggie which is currently being given in 2005-06. The current and some previous versions of this QMMS Course are also available on my ASU site. Under present plans, I am giving the Quantum Physics course (PHY 571) in Spring 2008, and am planning a somewhat changed Surfaces course (to be renamed PHY 546) the following Spring 2009. The Surfaces and Thin Films lectures were developed into a book which was published in the Fall of 2000, and can be ordered now! Associated with these courses, book, and the talks described below, I have built up some Web-based Resources which may be of more general interest. If you want more details of a particular course, or want to add material to the resource base, please consult the associated web pages and then email me with an indication of your interests and needs. |
Web-based Talks and ArticlesA few years ago, I wrote and gave talks on the use of the web as a supplement to teaching, particularly at graduate level. The shells of these talks can be accessed as follows. In the nature of the web, I can't guarantee that the links still work, but they did at the time of the talk.
The December '97 MRS talk is published in the Journal of Materials Education 20 (1998) 57-68, and a related paper has been published in Physics Education 33 (1998) 157-163, as noted on my research pages. |
Latest version of this document: 19th October 2007.