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Seminar 2

2025/2026
Programme:
Medical Physics, Second Cycle
Year:
2 year
Semester:
first
Kind:
optional
ECTS:
4
Language:
slovenian
Course director:
Hours per week – 1. semester:
Lectures
0
Seminar
4
Tutorial
0
Lab
0
Prerequisites

Regular enrolement

Content (Syllabus outline)

The program is determined each year, and typically covers topics in physics research which are pursued at the faculty as well as in the related institutions. Supervisors of students are lecturers at UL as well as researchers at related institutions.

Readings

William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White, "The Elements of Style".
Specialna literatura ob posamezni temi seminarja.

Objectives and competences

Students gain experience in presenting to a broad physics audience; they also gain experience in scientific discussions.

Intended learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding:
Obtaining a broad knowledge in recent developments in physics. Knowledge of basic principles of writing scientific papers and preparing of lectures.

Application:
Presentation of research work, writing of scientific papers. Taking part in scientific discussions. Transfer of knowledge and experience between various areas in physics.

Reflection:
Critical assessment of the data found in the literature. Critical evaluation of lecturers.

Transferable skills:
Presentation of research work, writing of scientific papers. Taking part in a discussion.

Learning and teaching methods

Lectures, seminar preparation

Assessment

Seminar
Presentation of seminar work
5 - 10, a student passes the exam if he is graded from 6 to 10

Lecturer's references

Primož Ziherl:

  • T. Dotera, T. Oshiro in P. Ziherl, Mosaic two-lengthscale quasicrystals, Nature 506, 208 (2014).
  • J. Rozman, M. Krajnc in P. Ziherl, Collective cell mechanics of epithelial shells with organoid-like morphologies, Nat. Commun. 11, 3805 (2020).
  • F. Cinti, P. Ziherl, and G. Pupillo, Quantum cluster quasicrystals, Phys. Rev. B 101, 34522 (2020).
  • U. Andrenšek, P. Ziherl in M. Krajnc, Wrinkling instabilities in epithelial sheets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 198401 (2023).
  • J. Rozman, M. Krajnc in P. Ziherl, Basolateral mechanics prevents rigidity transition in epithelial monolayers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 168401 (2023).