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I was wondering how much graduate admissions look at your research experience. I have worked with two projects with a professor, and I am going to be working with him on another project this summer. Two of these things were not "new" physics, but they were either new for our department, or were required for doing further research in our university's Nuclear Lab. I'm not sure what he has planned for me this summer, but I'm probably going to have to learn a bit of Nuclear Physics for it. I'm going to have three papers written for him by the end of the summer (already have two done, just need the third project).
I was thinking of grabbing another research position with another professor in the fall. However, I don't know if I'm over doing it, or not. How much do graduate admissions actually care about undergraduate research?
Also, since the papers that I'm doing for my professor are not technically "new physics," I was wondering if it would be beneficial to put those papers on a site like ArXiv or something, so I can maybe link to them to potential Graduate Professors? I know this is something that I would have to ultimately talk to my professor about, but I was wondering if this was even a "good idea," before talking to him.
One of the papers is on a demonstration for a physics class. It was designed for "seeing" individual photons (ie as particles and not waves) from a CCD chip, and observing single photon interference. If you know of a journal/website for physics demonstrations, please let me know. My professor said to look for some and get working on submitting it to them, but I haven't been able to find any...
I was thinking of grabbing another research position with another professor in the fall. However, I don't know if I'm over doing it, or not. How much do graduate admissions actually care about undergraduate research?
Also, since the papers that I'm doing for my professor are not technically "new physics," I was wondering if it would be beneficial to put those papers on a site like ArXiv or something, so I can maybe link to them to potential Graduate Professors? I know this is something that I would have to ultimately talk to my professor about, but I was wondering if this was even a "good idea," before talking to him.
One of the papers is on a demonstration for a physics class. It was designed for "seeing" individual photons (ie as particles and not waves) from a CCD chip, and observing single photon interference. If you know of a journal/website for physics demonstrations, please let me know. My professor said to look for some and get working on submitting it to them, but I haven't been able to find any...