[Academic] FW: Open online Quantum Mechanics course

[Neil Hunt]

Dear All,

Please see below from Avril Manners regarding an online Quantum Mechanics course that may be of interest to some of your new (or existing) students. Please note the stipulations regarding whether this will be eligible as a non-SUPA course. If you have any questions, please get in touch.

Best wishes,
Neil



From: Avril Manners [mailto:avril.manners at supa.ac.uk]
Sent: 22 September 2014 12:08
To: a.k.kar at hw.ac.uk; arl at roe.ac.uk; Avril Manners; e.ullner at abdn.ac.uk; James Hough; jmjk at st-and.ac.uk; John.F.Smith at uws.ac.uk; Maria Cataluna; Neil Hunt; stefan.hild at glasgow.ac.uk; Valerie Evans; yen-fu.chen at supa.ac.uk
Subject: FW: Open online Quantum Mechanics course

Dear GSMC

Please see attached email from David Miller. This is an excellent course and we agreed last year that non-quantum mechanics related PhDs could take it as a non-SUPA course and provided they completed all the assessments satisfactorily could get 30 credits which is the cap on a single non-SUPA technical course (please see brochure P32 for detail - http://www.supa.ac.uk/Graduate_School/brochure/SUPA_brochure.pdf)

We'll have some brochures with us when we meet on Wednesday so that we can remind ourselves of how credit for non-SUPA courses work. In the meantime, please let your students know about this course.
Many thanks
Avril

From: David A.B Miller [mailto:dabm at stanford.edu]
Sent: 21 September 2014 07:12
To: David Miller
Subject: Open online Quantum Mechanics course


I am just about to start an open on-line course on



Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers



This course aims to teach quantum mechanics to anyone with a reasonable college- or university-level understanding of physical science or engineering. This course is a substantial introduction to quantum mechanics and how to use it. It is specifically designed to be accessible not only to physicists but also to students and technical professionals over a wide range of science and engineering backgrounds.



So, if any of your students has for any reason missed the opportunity to learn quantum mechanics in your university or elsewhere, or is looking for perhaps a refresher course or a course that offers them a second pass at the subject, or simply needs an accessible introduction to quantum mechanics for any other reason, please do pass this on to them. The course is free and comes with no obligations or requirements.



The class goes live on Tuesday, September 30, 2014.



Registration is open now through the link http://quantum.class.stanford.edu



I am also intending to offer a second, follow-on course in early 2015. That course will cover some additional basic topics and will introduce the quantum mechanics of crystalline materials, light, and quantum information. Taken together, these classes should prepare the student for quantum mechanics as it is used in a broad range of subjects and applications. More information will be available on this second class later.



Please feel free to forward this information to students or any others who might find this useful.



Thanks



David


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