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 ====== Projects ======
+Choose a topic that you would like to learn more about.  Write a paper and prepare a 15?30?-minute presentation.  Include the following elements:
+  * A through review of the classic texts, with a tutorial approach in mind
+  * The most recent research literature on the topic or related topics (we can discuss this more)
+  * Numbers that give the reader an idea of the scale of the quantities you discuss
+  * A good bibliography that includes review and tutorial articles and research articles
+  * Uniqueness - no topic should overlap that of another class member.  You will decide jointly about topics - all of you have to be interested in the others' topics
+  * Length: no maximum.  10-page minimum?
+  * Presentation: 15?30? minutes plus 5 minutes for questions
+  * Optional: a tentative homework problem and solution that would be good for future years
+===== Ideas =====
+  * Topological insulators
+  * Metal-insulator transitions
+  * Coulomb blockade
+  * FQHE
+  * nanoscale thermal transport
+  * Majorana fermions
+  * High temperature superconductivity
+  * Tunneling – semiconductor, josephson,
+  * Temp dependence of resistivity in semiconductors
+  * Universal Conductance Fluctuations
+  * Many other topics ...
+===== People =====
+==== Daniel ====
+Topological insulators
+This [[http://physics.gmu.edu/~pnikolic/articles/Topological%20insulators%20(Physics%20World,%20February%202011).pdf|overview of topological insulators]] is pretty quick to read. Robert, you might be interested in the discussion on the last page about future work in the field with topological insulators and majorana fermions.
+==== Jordan ====
+high temperature superconductors
+     Theory of High Temperature Superconductivity
+     By S. Fujita, S. Godoy
+Here is a link to a draft of the paper for this course. Also, some
+interesting reading on High Temperature Superconductivity and Plasma
+Physics.
+{{:pommerenck_superconductivity.pdf|}}
+{{::science-2015-clery-369-71.pdf|}}
+==== Kyle ====
+photons and electron transport
+==== Nicole ====
+hopping conductivty in organics (and other)
+==== Robert ====
+Majorana fermions