PHY 104 Opportunities in Physics

An introduction to current activities of physicists on
Long Island. Stony Brook faculty, alumni and other
physicists discuss their current projects and their
careers, and relate their activities both to basic undergraduate
physics and to areas of ongoing research,
such as the unification of the fundamental forces, the
search for the quark-gluon plasma, and coherent
states of atoms trapped at low temperature. Tours of
university, industry, and government lab facilities are
included, as well as interaction with physicists in nontraditional
areas such as medicine, finance, and the
media.
Prerequisite: PHY 125 or 131/133 or 141
Corequisite: PHY 126 or 127 or 132/134 or 142
1 credit