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Physics Master Information
Seminars, Colloquia, and Additional Courses
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
227-1042-00LElectronics for Physicists II (Digital) Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 30.
Z4 credits1V + 3UT. Delbrück
AbstractThis course will teach the basics of digital electronics, to give students hands-on experience with using COTS (Commodity Off The Shelf) components to build their own systems. It covers embedded microcontroller programming, logic design on FPGAs, PCB design and assembly.
ObjectiveThe basic aim is to remove the fear of starting and offer the students a first experience at many levels of design.
ContentThe course consists of short lectures on theory and exercises using two different hardware platforms - a microcontroller board with Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) board. In addition the course includes exercises in printed circuit board (PCB) design and PCB surface mount assembly. Students will complete a project of their own design which they can take with them after the course ends.

Week 1
Lecture:
Introduction and organization
Microcontroller architectures and programming
Architecture (registers and hardware)
Reading a datasheet
Demonstration of programming and using
Exercise:
Install USB board IDE and compiler, compile and run Blink LED program.
Start to design, program, and compile a chaotic attractor to control the PWM output to modulate the LED in an analog, random manner.

Week 2
Lecture:
Data Converters
Analog to Digital (ADC) - flash, single slope, sigma-delta
Digital to Analog (DAC)
Time to Digital
Exercise:
Use the ADC to convert an analog input and display value using LED brightness as output

Week 3
Lecture:
USB interfacing to PC using USB library
Exercise:
Continue ADC project to send values to PC for display

Week 4
Lecture:
PCB design
PCB schematics / gate symbols
PCB footprints
Power supply decoupling / separation
Power planes
PCB design continued
Optocouplers
Power supplies
Decoupling
Components
Exercise:
Start to design daughterboard for AVR32 which adds analog components.
Draw schematic of daughterboard.

Week 5
Lecture:
Binary representations of numbers
Binary arithmetic
2s complement notation for signed binary numbers
Binary addition/subtraction
Parity
Gray codes
Floating point representation
Exercise:
Make footprints / symbols for PCB parts.
Start PCB daughterboard layout.

Week 6
Lecture:
Boolean logic NOT AND OR
Venn diagrams
de Morgan's theorems - exchange AND/OR, complement each term, complement whole
Canonical forms - minterm (sum of products, AND-OR), maxterm (product of sums, OR-AND)
Truth tables
Karnaugh maps and optimization of combinational logic
Exercise:
Finish PCB layout and design check. PCB panel assembled and sent for fabrication.
Parts list ready for order.

Week 7
Lecture:
Sequential logic with state machines
Representation of states and state transitions, state transition actions
Exercise:
Install FPGA tools, synthesize and run example

Week 8
Lecture:
Introduction to using reconfigurable logic (FPGAs, CPLDs, etc)
Introduction to HDLs
Exercise:
Another FPGA example. PCBs back from fabrication.

Week 9
Lecture:
Logic Circuits
Clocks / clock distribution / one shots
Latches / Flip flops- SR, D, level sensitive, edge triggered, master/slave, clocked / un-clocked
Shift registers
Ring oscillator
Counters - ripple, Johnson
Adders
Multipliers
Exercise:
HDL exercise - design a wiggling light bar

Week 10
Lecture:
Logic analog circuits
PLLs/DLLs = Phase locked loops, Delay locked loops
LVDS tranceivers
Level converters, low to high and high to low
Timing diagrams
Exercise:
Soldering PCBs

Week 11
Lecture:
Memory - SRAM, DRAM, embedded
Exercise:
Soldering PCBs, testing PCB projects

Week 12
Testing projects

Week 13
Project demos from students
Prerequisites / NoticeThe course is meant to complement the analog course by teaching how to build systems that convert and process analog information.

Students should have taken Analog Electronics for Physicists or equivalent and should have had some programming experience, preferably with C. Students (or at least each group of 2 / 3 students) need a laptop computer, preferably Windows or Linux. Windows (real or virtual) is required for the FPGA part of the course.
529-4000-00LChemistry Restricted registration - show details Z4 credits3GE. C. Meister
AbstractIntroduction to chemistry with aspects of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry.
Objective- Understanding of simple models of chemical bonding, three-dimensional molecular structure and molecular chirality
- Quantitative description of selected chemical systems by means of reaction equations and equilibria
- Understanding of fundamental concepts of chemical kinetics (e.g. reaction order, rate law, rate constant)
ContentChemical bond and molecular structure (VSEPR), reactions, equilibria, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics.
LiteratureC.E. Housecroft, E.C. Constable, Chemistry. An Introduction to Organic, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Pearson: Harlow 2010
C.E. Mortimer, U. Müller, Chemie, 10. Auflage, Thieme: Stuttgart 2010
402-0816-00LComputational Physics and EconophysicsZ5 credits2V + 2UD. Würtz
AbstractIntroduction to principles of computational finance and financial engineering from an econophysicist point of view. Prerequisite R/SPlus programming.
ObjectiveIntroducing main statistical methods for numerical modelling of financial
time series, valuation of derivatives, and optimization of portfolios.
Implementing numerical methods using the statistical software environment R.
Content- Overview on R/Rmetrics and SPlus/Finmetrics.
- Financial Returns, Stylized Facts, Stable and Hyperbolic Distributions
- ARMA and GARCH Time Series Modelling, Trends and Unit Roots
- Technical Analysis, Trading Models and Decision Making
- Extreme Value Theory and Dependence Structures (Copulae)
- Plain Vanilla and Exotic Option Pricing, Monte Carlo Simulations
- Markowitz and CVaR Portfolio Optimization
Lecture notesLecture notes written in English as well as R/Rmetrics software for
registered participants in the course.
402-0101-00LThe Zurich Physics Colloquium Information E-0 credits1KR. Renner, G. Aeppli, C. Anastasiou, N. Beisert, G. Blatter, M. Carollo, C. Degen, G. Dissertori, K. Ensslin, T. Esslinger, J. Faist, M. Gaberdiel, G. M. Graf, R. Grange, J. Home, S. Huber, A. Imamoglu, P. Jetzer, S. Johnson, U. Keller, K. S. Kirch, S. Lilly, L. M. Mayer, J. Mesot, M. R. Meyer, B. Moore, F. Pauss, D. Pescia, A. Refregier, A. Rubbia, K. Schawinski, T. C. Schulthess, M. Sigrist, A. Vaterlaus, R. Wallny, A. Wallraff, W. Wegscheider, A. Zheludev
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
Prerequisites / NoticeOccasionally, talks may be delivered in German.
402-0800-00LThe Zurich Theoretical Physics Colloquium Information E-0 credits1KS. Huber, C. Anastasiou, N. Beisert, G. Blatter, M. Gaberdiel, T. K. Gehrmann, G. M. Graf, P. Jetzer, L. M. Mayer, B. Moore, R. Renner, T. C. Schulthess, M. Sigrist, University lecturers
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
Prerequisites / NoticeTalks in German are also possible.
402-0890-00LSeminars of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC)E-0 credits2SH. J. Herrmann, T. C. Schulthess, N. Spaldin
AbstractSeminars by invited speakers in the area of advanced scientific computing.
ObjectiveDiscussion of state of the art techniques and methodologies in scientific computing.
ContentThis course consists in a series of seminars by invited speakers on subjects of interest for the ``Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing''.
Lecture notesThere is no script.
LiteratureLiterature will be provided by the speakers in their respective presentations.
Prerequisites / NoticeParticipants should have experience on advanced scientific computing.
402-0501-00LSolid State Physics Information E-0 credits1SG. Blatter, C. Degen, K. Ensslin, D. Pescia, M. Sigrist, A. Wallraff, A. Zheludev
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
402-0551-00LLaser SeminarE-0 credits1ST. Esslinger, J. Faist, J. Home, A. Imamoglu, U. Keller, F. Merkt, H. J. Wörner
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
402-0600-00LNuclear and Particle Physics with ApplicationsE-0 credits2SA. Rubbia, G. Dissertori, C. Grab, K. S. Kirch, F. Pauss, R. Wallny
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
402-0700-00LSeminar in Elementary Particle Physics Information E-0 credits1SM. Spira
AbstractResearch colloquium
ObjectiveStay informed about current research results in elementary particle physics.
402-0746-00LSeminar: Particle and AstrophysicsE-0 credits2SC. Grab, P. Jetzer, University lecturers
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
ContentIn Seminarvorträgen werden aktuelle Fragestellungen aus der Teilchenphysik vom theoretischen und experimentellen Standpunkt aus diskutiert. Besonders wichtig erscheint uns der Bezug zu den eigenen Forschungsmöglichkeiten am PSI, CERN und DESY.
402-0893-00LParticle Physics Seminar Information E-0 credits1SC. Anastasiou, T. K. Gehrmann
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
Prerequisites / NoticeOccasionally, talks may be delivered in German.
402-0530-00LMesoscopic SystemsE-0 credits1ST. M. Ihn
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
402-0620-00LCurrent Topics in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and Their ApplicationsE-0 credits1SM. Christl, S. Willett
AbstractThe seminar is aimed at all students who, during their studies, are confronted with age determination methods based on long-living radionuclides found in nature. Basic methodology, the latest developments, and special examples from a wide range of applications will be discussed.
Objective
227-0980-00LSeminar on Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Information E-0 credits2KK. P. Prüssmann, S. Kozerke, M. Rudin
AbstractActuel developments and problems of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
ObjectiveGetting insight to advanced topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
402-0369-00LResearch Colloquium in Astrophysics Information E-0 credits1KM. Carollo, S. Lilly, M. R. Meyer, A. Refregier, K. Schawinski, H. M. Schmid
AbstractDuring the semester there is a colloquium every week on actual research by the members of the Institute of Astrophysics. In general, colloquia are 20 minutes excluding discussion. They start with a general introduction, review techniques and methods of general interest and present results. The goal is to inform all members of the institute about current work.
ObjectiveA colloquium is a combination of a 10 minute conference paper preceded by a 10 minute widely understandable introduction. The discussion is limited to 10 minutes, but may continue privately. The research colloquia are announced in the ETH Vorlesungsverzeichnis, but are not publicized in the Wochenbulletin of the Department of Physics. All colloquia are given in English.
402-0356-00LAstrophysics Seminar Information E-0 credits2SM. Carollo, S. Lilly, M. R. Meyer, A. Refregier, K. Schawinski, H. M. Schmid
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
402-0396-00LRecent Research Highlights in Astrophysics (University of Zurich)
No enrolment to this course at ETH Zurich. Book the corresponding module directly at UZH.
UZH Module Code: AST006

Mind the enrolment deadlines at UZH:
Link
E-0 credits1SUniversity lecturers
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
401-5330-00LTalks in Mathematical Physics Information E-0 credits1KA. Cattaneo, G. Felder, M. Gaberdiel, G. M. Graf, T. H. Willwacher, University lecturers
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
ContentForschungsseminar mit wechselnden Themen aus dem Gebiet der mathematischen Physik.
227-1043-00LNeuroinformatics - ColloquiaE-0 credits1KS.‑C. Liu, R. Hahnloser, V. Mante, K. A. Martin
AbstractThe colloquium in Neuroinformatics is a series of lectures given by invited experts. The lecture topics reflect the current themes in neurobiology and neuromorphic engineering that are relevant for our Institute.
ObjectiveThe goal of these talks is to provide insight into recent research results. The talks are not meant for the general public, but really aimed at specialists in the field.
ContentThe topics depend heavily on the invited speakers, and thus change from week to week. All topics concern neural computation and their implementation in biological or artificial systems.
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