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Dont let Phd interfere with your research Urjit A Yajnik Research Scholars Forum, 5 March 2014 Wednesday 5 March 14 Core values PhD Research What makes the world tick Defining a topic What are the key questions Identify


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Don’t let Phd interfere with your research

Urjit A Yajnik Research Scholars Forum, 5 March 2014

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Core values PhD Research

Defining a topic Identify work elements Execution and report Publicity What makes the world tick What are the key questions

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What tools will I need? Persuade peers

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Deductive vs Empirical

History of electromagnetism Coulomb, Ampere, Faraday Maxwell Einstein

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Relevance

Laughing gas Roentgen rays Thermodynamics of light Special Theory of Relativity

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Main points

Connection between deductive and empirical research, Relevance, Collaboration Funding, and intellectual property The need to continuously retrain and reinvent yourself

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Madame curie’s laboratory

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A glimpse of the lab

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Radium makes a splash!

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X-ray machine for the war front

Designed and made by Madame Curie, sent to the WWI front Refused to patent the discoveries in Radium -- science in the service of humanity

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From Wikipedia :

After a quick study of radiology, anatomy, and automotive mechanics she procured X-ray equipment, vehicles, auxiliary generators, and developed mobile radiography units, which came to be popularly known as petites Curies

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Ernest Rutherford

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Calculating machine

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Einstein and Light Quanta --> Other slides

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Thank you!

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