Physics Junior Seminar (Phys 345)

First, check out the syllabus.

I (Taner Edis) am in charge of the "fuzzy" parts of the course -- not the review material, but the part about discussing grad school and careers and putting together personal statements, résumés and all that. Much of what I'll do and where I place my my emphasis will depend on your particular needs and what you explicitly ask me to do. So please don't hesitate to speak up. There's no such thing as a generic career path, so help me out by telling me what you're interested in.

To get hold of me, the best way is e-mailing me (edis at truman dot edu), and barging into my office, MG 3004, particularly in my office hours.

I will split the GRE and physics review material with Eduardo Sanchez Velasco and Mohammad Samiullah.

Links

I'll be giving you a bunch of reading material in class. But there's also plenty of useful information out there on the web. I'll list them here as I find out about them. If you find anything that you think is helpful, please let me know!

• American Institute of Physics: The most important source of information for physics people at all levels. Finding what you want is sometimes a challenge, though. Check it out!
• Careers Using Physics: Connected with the national SPS. A good place to start looking.
• Graduate Program Rankings: A good way to search for the sort of program you want.
• GradView.com: Good search engine, with more options than GradSchoolShopper.com, though with less of a detailed breakdown of physics sub-disciplines.
• Petersons: Full of information, a good site.
• Physlink.com
• GradSchoolShopper.com: Might be useful, or it might not.

Thanks to Kevin Haworth, class of 2003, for many of these links. Travis Monk looked over them in 2005.