Cold Atomic Gases and Bose-Einstein Condensation
    Proseminar in Theoretical Physics ETH Zurich - SS 03
General Information
The timetable for the proseminar can be found here. We will meet each Monday (see timetable) at 10:30 (till 13:30) in the Pauli Zimmer (HPZ E9). Please be sure to contact your respective assistant (listed on the timetable) at least six weeks before your talk to discuss logistics. Be sure to keep your assistant updated of your work at least once a week and hand in your results two weeks before your schedules talk. Remember that you are supposed to give a "professional" talk with either LaTeX or PowerPoint. If you do not know how to do this, ask your assistant immediately for assistance.
More information can be found on the handout which you obtained on the first meeting. PostScript and PDF version can be downloaded here.

Entry Exam
The entry exam will be held on the first meeting, March 30, 2003. Pleas be sure to study during the vacation break. If you fail the exam, you will not be allowed to participate in the proseminar.

Report
To download the LaTeX macro for the proseminar (and all the necessary instructions) click here. You will need to get the files 'proseminar03.tex', 'example.tex', and if you wish the 'Makefile'. Please follow the instructions which are in the two TeX-files. Note that no report = No Testat.

The report is complete and can be downloaded as a PostScript or PDF file. If you would like a printed or bound version of the report, please come by HPZ E8 or contact email.

Assistants

Fabien Alet 01 633 39 68 HPZ E 5
Elena Bascones 01 633 25 75 HPZ G 15
Hanspeter Buechler 01 633 35 80 HPZ E 8
Dmitri Ivanov 056 310 35 77 PSI
Helmut Katzgraber 01 633 35 80 HPZ E 8
Jerome Koopmann 01 633 35 80 HPZ E 8
Simon Trebst 01 633 25 92 HPZ E 3.2
Stefan Wessel 01 633 42 13 HPZ E 6

Useful Links

APS Research Journals - You can download most references from here.
ArXiv.org - click on "Condensed Matter" for a huge (free) archive.
ADS Database - Good source for searching literature.
CERN Document Server - Yet another good source for searching literature.
ETH Institute for Theoretical Physics - General ITP site. Useful.
Mensa Cam - Crucial information.

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