Day-by-day schedule of assignments, Autumn 1999
See below for requirements of paragraph, papers and talks.
Except email submissions, assignments should be turned in class or 4030 Smith Lab.

Code: red: items due; blue: links to instruction; black: [Class activity]
Week
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Sep 20-24 [No Class] [No Class] [Course aims, student form, topic selection] Paragraph due 1pm by email. [No Class] Short Paper Topic due 9 am by email. [Getting started]
Sep 27-Oct 1 Letter to Congress due in class. [That or which, sentence outlines] [No Class] Short paper draft due in class. [More grammar, titles and abstracts] [Intros and references] [Letters to Congress, composition]
Oct 4-8 Reviews available in class. [Comments on drafts, revising] Revised letters to Congress due in class. [Talk and viewgraph advice] [Bad viewgraphs improved] [No Class] Short paper due 12:30 pm in mail. [No Class]
Oct 11-15 [Short paper feedback] [No Class] [Providing Feedback] Medium paper topic due 9 am by email. [Short talk presentations.] [Short talk presentations.]
Oct 18-22 Medium paper draft due 5 pm. [Short talk presentations.] Papers to review available in mail box by 10 am. [Short talk presentations.] [Short talk presentations.] [No Class] Medium paper reviews due 10 am. Reviews available in class. [Short talk presentations.]
Oct 25-29 [Short talk presentations.] [No Class] Medium paper due 5 pm. [No Class] [Long paper] [Scheduling and last topics]
Nov 1-5 Long paper topic due 9 am by email. [Resumes/Vitae] [The Renormalization Group] [Light-Front Quantum Chromodynamics] Sentence outline due 5 pm as ascii email. [No Class] [No Class]
Nov 8-12 [Medium talk presentation] [Medium talk presentation] Long paper draft due 5 pm. [Medium talk presentation] Veteran's Day Observed [No Class] Papers to review available in mail box by 10 am. [Medium talk presentation]
Nov 15-19 [Medium talk presentations] Review of long paper due by 5 pm.[No Class] Author can find reviews in mail box by 11 am. [Medium talk presentations] [Medium talk presentation] [Medium talk presentation]
Nov 22-26 [Medium talk presentation] [Medium talk presentation] [No Class] THANKSGIVING [No Class] THANKSGIVING [No Class]
Nov 29-Dec 3 [Medium talk presentation] [Medium talk presentation] [Medium talk presentation] Long paper due 5 pm.[No Class] [Conclusions]
Dec 6-9 [final exams] [final exams] [final exams] [final exams] [graduation]

Paragraph. Write a paragraph on any topic. I encourage you to use this opportunity to develop a topic for one of the papers. Deliver it by email to me and to Tom Barrett. Due Thursday by 1pm.

Letter to Congress. Write a letter to your congressional representative in which you take a stance on federal research spending. Due in class, Monday September 27.

Requirements for papers.
Topics of short and medium papers are science/engineering for non-technical audience.
Topic of long paper is science/technology policy.

Requirements for talks.
Science/engineering topic of short talk is same as short paper but for a audience of peers.
Two 10-minute talk per class period.
Science/engineering topic of long talk is same as medium paper but for a audience of peers.
Only one 20-minute talk per class period.

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