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<div class="">A new term has started and the colloquium course also starts. Welcome!</div>
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<div class="">Apologies for the dry organisational character of this long mail, but there are a number of practical details for the course to work smoothly, so please read on.</div>
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<div class="">The course is intended to give a broad and updated physics background, beyond what you can get in your research specialisation. Optimally, the course can give you intriguing access to ideas or insights from related or distant fields, together
with fellow PhD students from all of physics. It is automatically part of your course packet for some students, and optional for others, depending on research subject.</div>
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<div class=""><u class="">Practical information</u></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">For everyone</b>: </div>
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<div class="">If you want to get in touch with me I prefer a <b class="">message in Athena</b>. I get a flood of emails, and there is a greater risk that I will lose track of colloquium related emails than Athena messages.</div>
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<div class="">The <b class="">official course info</b> is found on this <a href="https://www.su.se/department-of-physics/education/courses-and-programmes/course-colloquia-in-physics-fk40001-1.511993?eventopenforinternationalstudents=true¬forcedreason=0&q=&xpanded=" class="">course
page</a>.</div>
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<div class="">You can get see upcoming colloquia on the <a href="https://indico.fysik.su.se/category/301/" class="">colloquium page</a>. Unfortunately, I do not know anything in advance of this page, and I need to find a suitable lecturer who is free to guide
the colloquium, for a colloquium to also be included in the course.</div>
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<div class="">The learning platform <a href="https://athena.itslearning.com" class="">Athena</a> is essential for following the course. Once you have access, make sure that you
<b class="">notification settings</b> are suitable, so you don’t miss any information. (Alternatively, log in regularly to check the Athena course page.) Once you are inside Athena your personal settings are in the upper right of the web page. It may be a good
idea to first allow all notifications and then cautiously or temporarily tune down if there is too much noise. </div>
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<div class="">For ’old’ students:</div>
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<div class="">There has been fewer colloquia than usual during covid. I have set up a
<b class="">survey</b> on Athena to help me amend for this. If you need or want extra recorded colloquium modules please fill in the survey at the
<b class="">latest on Thursday September 15</b>! I would appreciate if you fill in the survey
<b class="">even if you have already contacted me</b> about the need for extra modules. Then I can more easily take everyone’s interests into account.</div>
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<div class="">For new students:</div>
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<div class="">The student office (typically Gorica) takes care of course registration and Athena registration. This should be automatic if the course is automatic for your research subject. Otherwise, or if there are problems with accessing Athena, contact
the student office on floor 4.</div>
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<div class="">You can in principle take your first colloquium course module (out of ten) already now, once you have access to Athena, but there will be more modules soon, and they do not depend on each other. In case you wish to start now,
<b class="">check the course page link</b> above, and <b class="">read</b> all the linked material from the ”<b class="">Important for course participants</b>” plan which you should find immediately on Athena. There will be a startup meeting for new students
later, but I will anyway assume that you have read this material. You will also have to check the announcements from Jonas, who guides the first module of the term, to take part in it.</div>
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Again, welcome to the colloquium course!<br class="">
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<div><font color="#012f5f" class="">Prof Bo Sundborg<br class="">
Department of Physics and<br class="">
the Oskar Klein Centre<br class="">
Stockholm University<br class="">
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+46 (0)8 5537 8735<br class="">
<a href="mailto:bo@fysik.su.se" class="">bo@fysik.su.se</a></font></div>
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