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 OSU Student Media Services, located in the Valley Library, prints posters for free if it is a class assignment. A typical poster size is 3 feet wide, 3.5 - 4 feet tall. Text and diagrams should explain your calculations, and provide other information about your material. During the poster session, you'll stay with your poster for 50% of the time, and circulate around other posters for 50% of the time. OSU Student Media Services, located in the Valley Library, prints posters for free if it is a class assignment. A typical poster size is 3 feet wide, 3.5 - 4 feet tall. Text and diagrams should explain your calculations, and provide other information about your material. During the poster session, you'll stay with your poster for 50% of the time, and circulate around other posters for 50% of the time.
  
-Advice from the Society of Physics Students about [[https://www.sigmapisigma.org/sigmapisigma/congress/2016/how-present-awesome-poster|presenting posters]].+Posters should be uncluttered, informative and visually appealing.  
 +  * Here's [[http://betterposters.blogspot.com/|advice]] from a strong proponent of this statement.  
 +  * Michael Alley has useful things to say about [[https://www.craftofscientificposters.com/|posters]] and about scientific writing.  
 +  * [[https://www.sigmapisigma.org/sigmapisigma/congress/2016/how-present-awesome-poster|Advice]] from the Society of Physics Students about presenting posters.
  
 ===== Paper assignment ===== ===== Paper assignment =====
  
-After the poster session, you will write a paper that describes your findings. The feedback you get from the poster should help you write a better paper.+After the poster session, you will turn in a paper that describes your findings (due date on main calendar).  You should prepare a draft of the paper as you make the poster. The feedback you get from the poster should help you improve your paper.
  
-General things I look for when grading the paper:+General things graders look for:
  
       * the paper distills the knowledge you have gained about electronic structure,       * the paper distills the knowledge you have gained about electronic structure,
-      * the paper would be helpful to an audience of incoming PH575 student (the instructor will put himself in the shoes of typical PH575 students when deciding if the paper is well written).+      * the paper would be helpful to an audience of incoming PH575 students.
       * the paper shows evidence of your scientific curiosity, and your ability to explain essential concepts.       * the paper shows evidence of your scientific curiosity, and your ability to explain essential concepts.
  
  
-Specific points I look for:+Specific things graders look for:
  
       * Good discussion of what your calculations show.       * Good discussion of what your calculations show.
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 === Collaboration or no? === === Collaboration or no? ===
-Teach each other about how use the Wien and Flair basics.  Share tips on how to use the software, especially on how to get to the DoS and the //E(k)// plots. This just like being in a lab where you show someone how to use a piece of equipment.  This kind of collaboration is healthy, but don't do the work for the other person.  In a lab, you show someone a tool and he or she decides what experiment to do with it.+Teach each other about how use OpenMX basics.  Share tips on how to use the software, especially on how to get to the DoS and the //E(k)// plots. This just like being in a lab where you show someone how to use a piece of equipment.  This kind of collaboration is healthy, but don't do the work for the other person.  In a lab, you show someone a tool and he or she decides what experiment to do with it.
  
 Talk to others to help point you to information, but don't let the other person do all the legwork for you, and likewise, don't do the legwork for others. Talk to others to help point you to information, but don't let the other person do all the legwork for you, and likewise, don't do the legwork for others.

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