Letter grades will be assigned to students whose research is related to surface physics. S Offered occasionally as need and demand warrant to discuss such subjects as magnetohydrodynamics, astrophysics, high-energy physics, etc. The physics of the standard model and its extensions. Anomalies, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and phenomeology. The cosmological effect of new particles.
Course is repeatable.
The recent superconductivity type models for the origin of the Higgs boson and the masses of the elementary particles. Course is repeatable. Conservation laws and physics beyond the standard model. New theoretical ideas and their possible applications. Course is repeatable.