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See here, Caltech Career is Over!



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Degrees collected: 0


The Courses that are officially behind me!

Course Name Units (terms) Year-Term Comments
AP 226
Physics of Quantum Information
3 2 - Spring Quantum is still hard...
AP 272,273
Solid State Physics I, II
3(x2) 1 - Winter, Spring Closed book exams? I think I'm not at Caltech anymore...
  1. Seems useful and interesting. Band diagrams of free electron models, tight binding, etc.
  2. "If you were a condensed matter physicist, you'd have to know this cold." I'm not a condensed matter physicist.
EE 216
Principles and Models of Semiconductor Devices
3 1 - Fall Quals review course. If Harris could finish his thoughts in complete sentences, it'd be an awesome class. I guess this is what a undergrad class at a state school would be like.
EE 223
Applied Quantum Mechanic II
3 1 - Winter The difference between having Porter and someone else for Ph125 - Porter is high energy. So good to learn quantum band theory, spontaneous/stimulated emission now
EE 228
Basic Physics of Solid State Electronics
3 1 - Fall Half intro to band diagrams, half thermodynamics. Will all be reviewed in the future
EE 232
Laser Dynamics
3 2 - Fall Lasers are fast.
EE 248
Fundamentals of Noise Processes
3 2 - Fall I'm pretty sure there's an error in the solutions.
EE 268
Introduction to Modern Optics
3 1 - Fall Hecht in a fair bit of detail, so exactly as title suggests.
EE 312
Micromachined Sensors and Actuators
3 2 - Winter Douched...
EE 335
Intro to Magnetic Storage Systems
3 2 - Winter It's amazing hard disks are this cheap.
EE 336
Nanophotonics
3 1 - Winter Learned band diagrams yet again, and metals, dielectrics, surface plasmons oh my!
EE 340
Advanced Topics in Quantum Optics
3 1 - Spring I'm a bad student
EE 346
Intro to Nonlinear Optics
3 1 - Spring Anisotropic media, ok..., slowly varying envelope approximation, ok..., harmonic generation, maybe???
EE 349
Nano Optics and Grating Photonics
3 2 - Spring Gratings everywhere?!
EE 390,391
Independent Study
X ?? Let me graduate...