| The last column "Meet with instructor" is an opportunity for one-on-one discussion about topic listed (including "Ditto's). Lock in appointments as soon as you know your class schedule. | ||||
| Mon | Day | Class Activity | Assignment Due | Meet with instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All lectures are in portrait style (P) unless a landscape (L) version exists. | ||||
| Mar | 24 | Writing & speaking is life and rest. P L | Short talk topic | |
| 25 | Topics:
P
L
&Start Sentence outline P L | Short topic due 4:30 pm | Ditto | |
| 26 | Continue Sentence outline; And
Take Home Message (THM) | Ditto | ||
| 27 | Sentences P L | Ditto | ||
| 28 | Making talk effective | Short topic as THM with relevant sentence outline | Ditto | |
| 31 | Talk Stuff P L | Short sentence outline, schedule appointment with an instructor | ||
| Apr | 1 | Effective Slides--Tom Barrett | [If needed] new topic sentence outline, with clear take-home message. | Ditto |
| 2 | Setting the tone P L | Ditto | ||
| 3 | Short paper refereeing P L | Ditto | ||
| 4 | Reports to Revision L | Short draft 8am
Drafts to referees in class | Ditto | |
| 7 | [no class] | Short referee reports (4pm) | Short draft & talk | |
| 8 | [no class] | Topic: Medium topic | Ditto | |
| 9 |
Stephen Swihart "Silicon nanowires improve cycle life in rechargable lithium batteries" | Ditto | ||
| 10 | Paul Jones "Air-source heat pumps, having
steadily improved over   30 years, provide clean, efficient alternate to fossil-fuel heating" Liana Bonanno "Quantum dots: distinguishing biomolecules in the body" | Ditto | ||
| 11 | Brian Krancevic "Biofuels: future source
of aviation fuel" Ryan Stipp "Hydrogen fuel cell's potential as a commercial energy   sources requires increased efficiency and alternate to hydrogen" | Ditto | ||
| 14 | [No class] | Short paper | Short talk, medium topic. | |
| 15 |
Jason Chapman "Active defense system use microwaves
just short of burning skin to repel potential enemy" Alex Grady "Supplying missing notes on harmonica with mouth-acoustic `bending'" | Ditto | ||
| 16 |
Kyle Grammer "Stanana's indistiguishable pitch release disquises his two fast balls from changeups" Julia Janczak "Electric guitar distortion: vacuum tubes deliver over solid-state devices" | Ditto | ||
| 17 | Katie Malone "Traffic
jams really are a fact of life" Cole Robinette "Wireless energy will soon power most portable electronics" | Ditto | ||
| 18 | Nate Ross "Agitated
open strings will knot if confined in space smaller than length " Michael Wong "Physics knowledge can turn newbie into effective player faster than learning by experience" | Ditto | ||
| 21 | [no class] | Medium sentence outline (8am, email) | Medium sentence outline; Long topic | |
| 22 | [no class] | Ditto | ||
| 23 | [no class, but may change] | Long topic (10am, email) | Ditto | |
| 24 | Report on Short Talks and Paper | Ditto | ||
| 25 | Revising long topic L | Ditto. Can also start long paper sentence outline | ||
| 28 | [no class] | Medium draft - 10am
Referee forms available - 4 pm | Long paper sentence outline | |
| 29 | [No class] | Ditto | ||
| 30 | Decoding referee reports L | Medium referee reports (4pm) | Ditto | |
| May | 1 |
Referee reports available in class
Revision checklist P L | Resume, will returned until satisfactory | Ditto |
| 2 | Revising Sentence Outline, e.g.,
Sickel-malaria
P
L
electric-vehicles-pollution L L-2 | Long sentence outline | Ditto | |
| 5 | [no class] | Long paper, medium talk | ||
| 6 | [No class -- may change] | Ditto | ||
| 7 | [No class] | Medium paper (4pm) | Ditto | |
| 8 | [No class} | Ditto | ||
| 9 | [No class] | Ditto | ||
| 12 | [no class] | Long paper | ||
| 13 | [no class] | |||
| 14 | Report on medium papers | Long topic sentence outline: printed copy due in class. | Ditto | |
| 15 | Paul Jones, Compact flourescent lamps will reduce energy comsumption, pollution output, and cost-of-living (with only increased Hg poisoning). | |||
| 16 | Judson Chapman, High-energy physicist have developed new fiber-optic grid whose software will increase the processing and communication speed ten thousand times. | |||
| 19 | Ryan Stipp, Global Positioning Systems can develop (?) enhanced capabilities to track environmental changes. (?) | |||
| 20 | Stephen Swihart, Automatic highways could enhance the capacity and safety existing highways; car-platoon grouping enable connectivity to other highways. | |||
| 21 | [No class]
10:00 long paper draft due in PRB1194 (or earlier by email) 3 pm referee copies in prb2194 | |||
| 22 | Brian Krancevic, Explosive devices (for terror or warfare) can be detected remoting: one laser evaporate small quantities of explosive molecules then detected with another laser. | |||
| 23 |
9:00 referee reports due due in PRB2194;
Reports returned to students in class Mike Wong, To attain practical fusion: (i) reduce turbulence preventing sustained, controlled fusion; (ii) repair/replace reactor walls continuously eroded; (iii) remove alpha particles & impurities killing fusion; (iv) develop advanced materials to harvest fusion energy; and (v) develop testing procedures under prolonged fusion. | |||
| 26 | [no class] -- Memorial Day] | Memorial Day | ||
| 27 | Katie Malone - Monte Carlo simulation provide backgrounds (from known physics) to substract from experiments to find new particles or properties of known particles. | |||
| 28 | Nate Ross, In the unlikely event of LHC at CERN creating a micro Black Hole, it would not grow but rather quickly decay by emitting harmless particles. | |||
| 29 |
11:30 Printed Final Long Paper in
class Cole Robinette Exploring Mars is now possible if international collaboration provide more powerful rocket to quickly construct vehicle in space and techniques for harvesting energy, water and oxygen can be harvested on Mars. | |||
| 30 | Kyle Grammer Moving from
magnetic disk drive memory to digital solid state memory already
increase speed of data access and read/write with decreased power
consumption; further advances should erase cost disadvantage. | |||
| Jun | 2 | Start of exams | ||
| 3 | ||||
| 4 | ||||
| 5 | 11:30 (room?).
Alex Grady The billard ball's finite radius and ability to spin
dramatically alter the kinetic and dynamics of billards, Liana Bonanno, Brain Machine interfaces can effectively use existing brain function to control robotic parts in paralyzed patients. Julia Janczek, Gravitational microlensing dramatically increase the range of detecting new planets, regardless of their mass or brightness. | |||
| 6 | Break | |||