Re: Student research - where to publish?

M <kotkot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I am an assistant professor of physics in a liberal arts college. I
have had, and for the first time, supervised a senior thesis involving
a calculation in supergravity. Although the calculation was original,
in the sense that it was not previously published, my judgement is that
it is on the trivial side as far as actual publication is concerned,
and was primarily for educational purposes. The student has been
wondering if we can still publish in a journal that accepts work of
this type. As I have no experience in publishing outside of the
standard research journals (e.g Phys Rev), I thought of asking this
forum. Does anyone know of a such a place?

Look at http://www.cur.org/ugjournal.html for some possibilities.
The only one I've actually seen is The Journal of Undergraduate
Research in Physics (http://www.jurp.org/), published by the
Society of Physics Students, which has some decent papers.

Depending on how it's written up -- if it's pedagogical enough, and
useful for other students -- you might consider the American Journal
of Physics.

Steve Carlip

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