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

• 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 …

Topological insulators

high temperature superconductors

ultra fast transport

hopping conductivty in organics (and other)

Majorana fermions