ASSESSMENT

The assessment will have three components:

• 50% - LABORATORY
• 30% - THEORY (ESSAY)
• 20% - PROBLEMS

For all the components, students will be organized in groups of 2 or 3 elements (it will depend on the number of students attending the course).

LABORATORY

• Attendance of at least 9 of the 13 planned laboratory classes - presence control
• The day after each lab class each group must deliver aa summary of the class (2 pages document summarizing the work done, with main results, images, ... Delivery of a self-explicit, clean and properly formatted digital document.
• At the end of the semester: per group, two lab activities will be disclosed, which must be the object of a report of 5-10 pages, in the usual format.
• The report will be discussed with teachers on the day of the oral presentation of the essay.

THEORY

• 10-page essay, with the format of a scientific article, on a topic within the scope of the course, to be delivered by January ***, 2022. Students will use Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA A&B) template, that can be found in Author Resources: Style Guides & Templates (optica.org).
• Each group will submit a short 20 lines text specifying the suggested topic and the envisaged structure, objectives and plan. Essays must be selected and approved by the professor by the end of October.
• Oral presentation by all elements of the group in January 2021, on a date to be defined (20 minutes per presentation + discussion with the teachers)

PROBLEMS

• A set of problems related to each main subject will be distributed.
• Students will select a number of problems in each topic.
• The resolution must be delivered in the week following the conclusion of the topic.
• Delivery of a self-explicit, clean and properly formatted digital document.

FINAL MARKS IN 2022/23