2011 PHYC 500
Ideas
Read papers from PLoS ONE
Commenting, perhaps require one student / week to summarize
Rating
Or at least only do Open Access
Every week, note who the editor is. Was it peer reviewed? etc.
Mendeley for sharing papers
Required
Read historic goodies
1930's Lewis papers
Excerpts from "Making of the Atomic Bomb?"
Important topics
Osmotic pressure
Isotope effects
Viscosity
Kinetic modeling, e.g. Gillespie
HMM
Jonathan Eisen 4th tree of life, Blog http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-behind-story-of-my-new-plosone.html, PLoS ONE http://www.plosone.org/rate/getArticleRatings.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018011
#arseniclife, Discover August 3 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/08/02/did-rosie-redfield-just-refute-arseniclife-on-her-blog/, Rosie's #arseniclife, Slate May 27 http://www.slate.com/id/2295724/pagenum/all/#add-comment, Slate Dec 7 http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/
Carl Boettiger
Useful skills to learn
Mendeley
FigShare
Pub Med
Google Scholar
Libproxy
Protein Data Bank
Jmol, If student presents a paper, they should be required to show the molecule / structure of interest live using Jmol or the software of their choosing
"Motto"
Everyone must develop a motto by the end of the semester to guide their research., E.g. "Always Contribute", More than one fine of course
To DO
Class homepage
OWW?
Google Sites?, Sort of sucks
Mendeley?
FigShare?
Other
