Assignments Spring 2008

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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.

MonDayClass ActivityAssignment Due Meet with instructor

All lectures are in portrait style (P) unless a landscape (L) version exists.

Mar24 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 pmDitto
26 Continue Sentence outline; And
Take Home Message (THM)
Ditto
27 Sentences P L Ditto
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
Apr1 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
4Reports 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 topicDitto
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
24Report 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
May1 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
15Paul Jones, Compact flourescent lamps will reduce energy comsumption, pollution output, and cost-of-living (with only increased Hg poisoning).
16Judson 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 2Start of exams
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511:30 (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.
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