PHYS 575A, C, D - Special Topics in Experimental Physics:

Radiation and Detectors

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Autumn Quarter, 2015 3 graduate credits OR 3 Continuing Education Units Meets: Tuesdays, 6:30-8:50pm Room: Physics-Astronomy Building, Room A-114 OR -- available online at the same time Labs: Three special sessions for hands-on work in lab, Physics-Astronomy Room B-260 (3 hr each, Thursdays - dates to be confirmed in class)   Instructor: R. Jeffrey Wilkes Kenneth Young Memorial Professor, Department of Physics B303 Physics Astronomy Building, 543-4232 wilkes@u.washington.edu

• Lectures recorded !  Adobe Connect sessions will be recorded, and will be available here. Click on the links there to launch an Adobe Connect window, and play back the class.
  
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•  Links to Adobe Connect recordings of lecture sessions. [will be available after class begins]
  
• Documents for lab sessions (writeups and handouts) - will appear here 1 week beforehand.
• Required textbook: Knoll, Glenn F., Radiation Detection and Measurement, Wiley,  3rd ed., 2000 (or 4th ed., 2012)
  
•   Course syllabus and calendar
• Course information (updated to include deadlines for reports)
• Link to Adobe Connect for online attendance: http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/phys575/
• Copies of slides to be shown in class will appear here, one hour before class.
  
• Watch this space for further course information...

To request forms for course registration, or for questions about registration, please contact:

Chantelle Vollmer
Program Administrator (for help with PCE administrative functions: course registration, tuition payment)
206.685.9586 | cvollmer@pce.uw.edu

Physics Professional MS Program contacts:

For information about the Physics Professional MS Degree Program, see Physics PMSP home page, or contact :

Radiation (particles or photons) and radiation detectors of many kinds are crucial for acquiring information on physical phenomena and performing quantitative measurements in applied physics, astrophysics, health sciences and many other fields. 

This course will combine lectures with a seminar-discussion format. We will provide an overview of the nature of particle and photon radiation, their interactions with matter, and radiation effects. Sensors and detector systems for nuclear radiation and subatomic particles, and their applications in particle astrophysics, medical diagnostic imaging, industrial R&D, and basic research will be discussed. Specific material covered will depend upon interests of students.

Students will be expected to make brief, informal presentations, reporting on topics they have chosen to investigate. The instructor is an experimental particle physicist.

Intermediate level physics courses (E&M, QM, and thermodynamics), or equivalent engineering courses.

a) Students matriculated in the UW Physics Evening MS Degree Program.

b) Anyone with adequate undergraduate preparation in a physical science, mathematics or engineering, including the prerequisites listed above. You may enroll for this class as a graduate non-matriculated student (GNM),  or as a Certificate student, without joining the degree program. Please contact PCE for further information.

c) Full or part time UW graduate students, from any college or campus.

• This course is the first in a sequence of 3-credit courses offered for a Certificate in Radiation Physics by the UW Physics Department. For information on how to register for the Certificate program, please contact UW Professional and Continuing Education (PCE).
  
• All 3 sections meet at the same time and participate in class activities together. However, grading and assigned work may be different for CEU and Graduate students.
  
• Students in the Certificate Program will receive 3 Continuing Education Units for this course. This course is a prerequisite for subsequent courses in the certificate sequence. Certificate students register in Section D (SLN 21988)
• Graduate students will receive 3 credits for this course.
• Students matriculated in the Physics Professional MS degree program (or Physics GNM students) may register for Section C (SLN 19523) of this course as an elective through PCE, as for other Physics evening courses; if they complete the entire 3-course sequence, "With Concentration in Radiation Physics" will be recorded on their transcript.
  
• Students matriculated in any other UW graduate degree program may register in Section A (SLN 19522) via MyUW.
• The first few class sessions will be talk and discussion (in lecture room A-110). We will agree upon dates/times for the lab sessions (in advanced-lab classroom B-260).
• Students may attend any session online via Adobe Connect. Attendance in person is recommended but not required, except for lab sessions.