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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear PhD student,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">(cc to lecturers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">This is to announce the start of the new broadening PhD course
<i>Colloquia in Physics, 10hp</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">It will begin with a meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Monday February 19, at 13.15 in FB55.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">The benefits of a broadening course on PhD level has been discussed for a long time, and now
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Fysikum is arranging one. Basically, when you graduate with a PhD you have a PhD in Physics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">or in Theoretical Physics, not in (say) Astroparticle Physics or Atomic Physics only. There is actually a unity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">of ideas and methods between different fields, even though we also encounter great diversity and many
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">barriers of communication.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">In fact, a common template for successful research is bridging, to take over ideas or methods from one
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">subfield to another. An example is the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism which was proposed in the paper
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">of Brout and Englert, based on their familiarity with condensed matter physics, but there are many other
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">similar stories. Even if you do not aspire to a prize, your work and world view should benefit from broader
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">perspectives and training in applying them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Fysikum has decided that this course should be
<i>compulsory</i> for PhD students in Physics or Theoretical Physics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">accepted after June 2017. I will send out more info automatically to all students in this group and those with
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">nearby acceptance dates.
<i>Older PhD students</i> are also invited to the course, but if you belong to this category
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">and wish more information,
<i>please contact me</i> since I do not wish to overuse the drand mailing list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Essentially, the course builds on group discussions related to 10 physics colloquia, with one meeting
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">before each colloquium, then the actual colloquium followed by submission of a short report to be
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">discussed afterwards on line and in a concluding meeting. I will select a Fysikum lecturer with the topic
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">of the colloquium in mind to guide your discussions. See the
<a href="http://www.fysik.su.se/english/education/practical/coursefacts/coursefacts.php?kurs=FU0001">
course web page</a> for more formal details on the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">course (<a href="http://www.fysik.su.se/studentportal/kursinformation/schema/kursfakta.php?kurs=FU0001">also in Swedish</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">If you cannot take full part in the activities related to one of the colloquia, you can skip that colloquium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">since more than ten will be offered. Your full individual collection of ten colloquia should be balanced in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">consultation with the course coordinator (me).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">The first colloquium offered for the course series will be “</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="The%20Measurement%20of%20Time%20in%20the%2021st%20Century">The Measurement
of Time in the 21st Century</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">by Christophe Salomon from Ecole Normale Supérieure, on February 22.
<a href="https://www.su.se/english/profiles/mhenn-1.222060">Markus Hennrich</a> will be your
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">guide lecturer, and will take over the meeting on February 19 after I have informed about the course in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">general. The concluding meeting for the first colloquium will take place Thursday afternoon March 1 or
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Friday March 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">More information shortly (for new PhD students and others who opt in).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Bo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#002F5F;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:SV">____________________________________</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:SV"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#002F5F;mso-fareast-language:SV">Bo Sundborg</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#002F5F;mso-fareast-language:SV"> <br>
Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#002F5F;mso-fareast-language:SV">Cosmology, Particle astrophysics and Strings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#002F5F;mso-fareast-language:SV">Department of Physics and the Oskar Klein Centre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#002F5F;mso-fareast-language:SV">Stockholm University</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#002F5F;mso-fareast-language:SV"><br>
SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden<br>
Phone: + 46 (0)8 5537 8735 <br>
E-mail: bo@fysik.su.se<br>
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