Special Topics (Graduate Courses)
Spring Term 2009-2010 R. Griffiths
Title: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Taught at CMU 33-658 & 33-758)
Course Description
Fall Term, 2009-2010 - P. Coles
Special Topics in Quantum Optics (taught at CMU 33-792) at Pitt PHYS 3101
No Special Topics Summer 2009
Spring Term 2008-09
Biophysics - Dr. Xiao-lun Wu
Particle Astrophysics - Dr. Dan Boyanovsky
Fall Term 2008-09
Selected Topics in Nanoscience - B. D'Urso
Condensed Matter Seminar - Drs. W. Goldburg & Y. Goldschmidt
Summer Term 2007-08 – D. Snoke
Solid State Physics 2
Spring Term 2007-08
Selected Topics in Nanotechnology - G. Dutt
Selected Topics in Biological Sciences - H. Salman
Fall Term 2007-08
No Special Topics Offered
Spring Term 2006-07
Particle Astrophysics - D. Boyanovsky
Spring Term 2006-07 – D. Snoke
Title: Condensates, Superfluids, and Superconductors
Course Description
Fall Term 2005-06 – W. Goldburg
Title: Fluid Dynamics
Spring Term 2004-05 (05-2) – W. Vincent Liu
Order and Coherence in Quantum Matter
Spring 2004 (04-2) – A. Connolly
Astro 3102 - Data Mining: New Techniques for Analyzing Large Astrophysics Data Sets
Spring 2004 (04-2) – H. Petek
Advanced Non-Linear Spectroscopy
Fall Term 2003 (04-1) – D. Boyanovsky
Introduction to General Relativity
Fall 2003-04 (04-1) – R. Holman (CMU)
Astro 3101 – Introduction to Large Scale Structure, the CMB and Inflation
Fall Term 2002 (03-1) – D. Boyanovsky
Topics in Condensed Matter
Spring 2002 (02-2) – R. Holman (CMU)
Introduction to Supersymmetry
Spring Term (year?) – F. Tabakin and E. Gerjuoy
Quantum Information and Quantum Computing
Summer 2000 (00-3) – D. Snoke
Field Theory Methods for Solid State Physics
Spring 2000 (00-2) – Jen-Chieh Peng (CMU)
Nuclear & Particle Physics II, course 33-780, joint w/ Pitt PHYS 3718)
Spring 2000 (00-2) – J. Levy
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Fall 1999 (00-1) – Lincoln Wolfenstein (CMU)
Advanced Nuclear Physics I
Term is not clear – J. Levy
Renormalization Group Theory
Fall 1998 (99-1) – I. Rothstein (CMU)
Topics in Nuclear and Particle Physics – Intro to Seiberg Witten Theory
Summer 1998 (98-3) – J.X. Saladin and C. M Vincent
(Topics in Nuclear Structure Physics)
Spring 1998 (98-2) – D. Jasnow
Topics in Condensed Matter Physics
Fall 1996 (97-1) – E.T. Newman
Geometry and Physics
