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 target PHYS 7810 Special Topics: Extreme Energy Spring 2026: Projects

Projects

Each of you will make a 15-minute presentation, followed by a 5-minute question session, in class, on some topic relevant to Extreme Energy Physics (Black Holes, Cosmology, Unification, String Theory). You will make your presentation during the week Apr 7-9.

The topic of your presentation may be a paper from the literature or on the arXiv, or it may be a current experiment or mission. Please provide a link to the paper or experiment.

Two weeks before your presentation, deadline Mar 26, you will post a 15-minute zoom version of your presentation. Please email me the link that zoom will provide to you, no later than the Th Mar 26 deadline (with no passcode please: the recording will be behind the CU firewall). Watch your own zoom recording. You are your own best critic!

Each of you will sign up as a reviewer of 2 of the presentations. Your choices will be posted on canvas. First come first served. Each of the 2 reviewers takes responsibility for asking questions during the 5 minute q&a period.

The first problem set of the semester is to select a topic, and to write a short abstract explaining your selection. Your selected topic will be posted on canvas.

The grading is:

In grading, I look for: clarity; organization; accuracy; adequate references; response to questions; avoidance of tics (um, er, like).

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