====== Graduate Resources ======

==== Incoming Students ====
  * {{:resources:physics_incoming_studentsJan20.pdf|Information for Incoming Physics Students (2020)}}
  * {{resources:graduatestudent-mentoringplan-2018.pdf|Mentoring plan}} NSCL graduate student mentoring plan.
==== Committees ====
Please check the [[https://pa.msu.edu/graduate-program/current-graduate-students/forms.aspx|Physics & Astronomy form page]] for the most up to date versions of these forms. You can find there:

  * First Guidance Committee Meeting Form
  * Second (and greater) Guidance Committee Meeting Form
  * Various forms necessary upon PhD completion

Finally there's a form from MSU that needs to be filled out in advance of your second meeting. This has a list of classes, etc. on it. You need to get this form from [[crossla3@msu.edu|Kim Crosslan]].

==== Miscellaneous ====
  * {{resources:gradhandbook-062322.pdf|NSCL Graduate Student Handbook (Aug 2022)}}
  * {{resources:graduatestudent_support-2021.pdf|Graduate student support}} Resources for graduate students seeking counseling/wellness support.
  * {{resources:grad_students_and_postdocs_support_resources_2021.pdf|Additional support resources}}
  * {{:resources:FRIB_powerpoint_template.pptx|FRIB powerpoint template}} More templates are available [[https://portal.frib.msu.edu/gettingstarted/default.aspx|here]]
  * {{resources:gs-ethics.ppt|M. Thoennessen - "Research Ethics"}}
  
==== Commonly Used Textbooks ===== 
  * E&M: [[https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Electrodynamics-Third-David-Jackson/dp/047130932X|Jackson]], [[https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Electrodynamics-Andrew-Zangwill/dp/0521896975/ref=pd_lpo_3?pd_rd_i=0521896975&psc=1|Zangwill]]
  * Quantum: [[https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Quantum-Mechanics-J-Sakurai/dp/1108473229/ref=pd_lpo_1?pd_rd_i=1108473229&psc=1|Sakurai]]
  * Classical: [[https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Mechanics-John-R-Taylor/dp/189138922X|Taylor]], [[https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Mechanics-3rd-Herbert-Goldstein/dp/0201657023|Goldstein]]
  * Stat Mech: [[https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Mechanics-R-K-Pathria/dp/0123821886|Pathria]]

====== Rules for Committee Members =====
For a non-typical committee member, ie a person who is not a regular MSU faculty to serve on graduate student guidance committees and very few persons who are not regular MSU faculty, details can be found at the [[https://pa.msu.edu/graduate-program/procedure-for-requesting-persons-who-are-not-regular-msu-faculty-to-serve-on-guidance-committees.aspx|Physics & Astronomy page]].