Student presentations will be given during the normal class time in the last couple of weeks of the term as detailed in the schedule below. Two students will present in each lecture.  Each presentation will be 30 minutes in length plus 5 minutes for questions and evaluation. You can use PowerPoint/Keynote or do a blackboard presentation (assuming we are back in-person). If you opt for a computer-based presentation please make sure you have all the necessary connectors and know how to operate the projection system.

Presentations will be evaluated by your peers based on the following criteria:

• Clarity of slides (or blackboard presentation)
• Level of presentation: content should be suitable for the audience and relevant to the material covered in class
  
• Pacing and selection of topics: the presentation should be reasonably paced with an interesting selection of topics
  
• Handling of questions: the speaker should be able to handle reasonable questions pertaining to the topic and the background
  

Some general pointers how to give good presentations can be found here or here.



Spring 2022 schedule of presentations:

March 24	No presentations, class canceled
March 29	Christine Au-Yeung: "Topological states and Majorana zero modes in Fe-based superconductors” Gaurav Tenkila: "Green's functions for Topological Insulators"
March 31	Chun Sum Brian Pang: “Green’s Function of the Holstein Polaron” Saran Vijayan: "Marginal Fermi liquid behavior in intrinsic 2D graphene" Shannon Egan: "Eliashberg Theory: Superconductivity with strong coupling"
April 5	Zhenxiang Gao: “Green function and (ferro)magnetism” Thabet Marwa; "Heavy fermions"
April 7	Dhruv Kush: "Josephson Effect" Rui Wen: "The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and its Variants" Sudang Varshney: "Green's Functions Methods for Bose-Einstein Condensates"
April 8	Last day of classes!