Insegnamenti erogati dal corso di dottorato in Fisica
Advanced lab of Fundamental Interactions
- Area: Experimental Particle Physics
- Teachers: Giovanni Punzi
- Programmed period: Period: 10/1 – 14/2
- Structure: (5 weeks, 40h total)
- Language: English
Each student will have exclusive access to an experimental setup for the duration of the course, and will be assigned a measurement to perform individually.
Classes will be held twice a week, where the teacher will provide guidance and individual feedback to each student, discussing the progress of each measurement.
Students are then expected to work individually on their assignments, with the freedom of choosing their preferred schedule during the opening hours of the lab.
More details
- Elearning webpage
- Registro delle lezioni
- Detailed program
Statistical Analysis lab.
- Area: Experimental Particle Physics
- Teachers: Giovanni Punzi
- Programmed period: 18/2 – 25/3
- Structure: (5 weeks, 40h total)
- Language: English
Students will be attend lectures in class, where a few representative statistical problems will be presented, requiring numerical methods for their solution.
In addition to discussions on general methodologies, students will be given specific directions about the problems at hand and will then work on them individually. They are expected to turn in the results at the next class, where they will be discussed. Each student is expected to perform work using his/her own preferred software platform. It is a precondition of this course that the student has access and the needed knowledge to use a programmable software system capable of performing simple calculations, random number generation, histogramming and plotting.
More details
- Elearning webpage
- Registro delle lezioni
- Detailed program
Scientific Writing for Physicists
- Area: Cross-sectoral
- Teachers: Steve N. Shore
- Programmed period: 14/3 – 31/5
- Structure: (6 weeks, 24 hs in total)
- Language: English
Requirements: there will be required readings (distributed in advance and also during the session), assigned project; requirement of interactive participation.
Overview: During the first part, the general issues of scientific writing will be covered. In all cases detailed examples will be provided and prepared for the second part when you will bring your work for analysis. There will be assigned work after the each day that will be due for the next session. Please allow time for the exercises, the material will be of little use without the individual work.
- Scientific journals: an overview editorial-referee structure of journals – the submission and review process at different journals and how it’s developed, overview
- Structure of a paper, details of construction: abstracts, introductions, discussions
- Citations and the literature
- Ethical issues: this is a particularly important part of the course
- Statistics, experimental details, how complete does the paper need to be?
- Graphs, figures: preparation issues (this is NOT as simple as it seems)
- The submission process – preparing the paper
- Responding to a referee report(s)
- Facilities, acknowledgments
- How to prepare a referee report
- Grant proposals, various examples
- Conference presentations: preparing your talk (additional material: conference proceedings: preparing the paper
- Internal refereeing (collaborations) (this will take some time, be prepared with examples of your own for the discussions)
- Posting papers online: when, how, why?
More details
- Elearning webpage
- Registro delle lezioni
- Detailed program
Insegnamenti mutuati da altri corsi di studio
Didattica trasversale organizzata dall’Università di Pisa
Sono infine erogati moduli di Didattica Trasversale specificatamente organizzata per il Dottorato dall’Università di Pisa. I moduli di maggiore interesse per i Dottorandi di Ricerca in Fisica sono:
- Academic English, da considerarsi obbligatorio per i Dottorandi del primo anno;
- ‘Promuovere i prodotti della ricerca’ (modulo RIC1), per i Dottorandi del primo anno;
- ‘Come costruire il tuo personal brand’ (modulo CAREER1) per i Dottorandi del primo anno;
- Corsi ‘Insegnare ad Insegnare’ (moduli INSEGN), opzionale a seconda degli interessi dei Dottorandi.
Altri corsi trasversali segnalati dal Collegio dei Docenti sono: - ‘Gender issues, sviluppo di competenze professionali, orientamento (al genere) della ricerca e ruolo nei programmi di finanziamento europei’ (modulo CUG1);
- ‘Promuovere la propria ricerca nel Web’ (modulo LABCD2);
- ‘Scienza aperta e metriche alternative’ (modulo LABCD3);
- ‘Curare e conservare il dato per la ricerca’ (modulo LABCD5);
- ‘Responsible research issues’ (modulo RRI1).