This course is designed to aid PhD students in their search and selection of a research area and research advisor by incorporating research activities into the first year of the Optical Sciences PhD program. In this course, students select a faculty advisor who will supervise a research project and assign a grade at the end of the semester based on student performance in the course. For their research project, students may select from various options, including (but not limited to): assisting with an ongoing research project, creating and working on their own research project under their supervisor's guidance or the guidance of another mentor such as a more senior graduate student, choosing rotations through multiple research groups (in which case multiple single-credit research courses with different supervisors might be taken in a single semester), or theoretical or computational investigation into fundamental aspects of science and engineering that underlie specific research areas or specific projects.
Instructor(s)
- Brian Anderson
- Amit Ashok
- Jennifer Barton
- David Brady
- Brandon Chalifoux
- Ewan Douglas
- Ronald Driggers
- Matt Eichenfield
- Lars Furenlid
- Nikolay Golubev
- Saikat Guha
- Olivier Guyon
- Felipe Guzman
- Michael Hart
- Mohammed Hassan
- Hong Hua
- Poul Jessen
- Ronald Jones
- Dongkyun Kang
- Khanh Kieu
- Daewook Kim
- John Koshel
- Meredith Kupinski
- Rongguang Liang
- Jared Males
- Euan Mcleod
- Thomas Milster
- Robert Norwood
- Stanley Pau
- Leilei Peng
- Pavel Polynkin
- Arvinder Sandhu
- Jose Sasian
- Travis Sawyer
- Kyle Seyler
- Daniel Soh
- Judy Su
- Yuzuru Takashima
- Florian Willomitzer
- Dalziel Wilson
- Russell Witte
- Zheshen Zhang
- Quntao Zhuang