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Schedule
Schedule for Spring 2011:
| 6-9pm | 7-10pm | |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Jennifer | Yuan |
| Tuesday | Joo | Jeff |
| Wednesday | Gray | Jenna |
| Thursday | Lia |
6-9 PM (M-W) sessions will be held in the classroom (Pupin 1332)
7-10 PM sessions will be held in the library (Pupin 1402)
Thursday's session will be held in the library (Pupin 1402)
ATA schedule:
Each ATA will assist four labs, each with a different instructor. If there are scheduling conflicts, work out a different day to assist with the same lab instructor. (For example, if Ximena is out of town March 21, she can schedule some other time to assist Jennifer. If Jeff plans to cancel class on March 1, he should ask Lauren to assist another week.)
Ximena : Feb 1 Tues @ 6pm (Joo); Feb 15 Tues @ 7pm (Jeff); Feb 28 Mon @ 7pm (Yuan); March 21 Mon @ 6pm (Jennifer)
Brandon : Feb 8 Tues @ 6pm (Joo); Feb 21 Mon @ 6pm (Jennifer); March 9 Weds @ 6pm (Gray); March 29 Tues @ 7pm (Jeff)
Lauren : Jan 31 Mon @ 7pm (Yuan); Feb 16 Weds @ 6pm (Gray); March 1 Tues @ 7pm (Jeff); March 23 Weds @ 7pm (Jenna)
Dan : Feb 7 Mon @ 6pm (Jennifer); Feb 21 Mon @ 7pm (Yuan); March 9 Weds @ 7pm (Jenna); March 30 Weds @ 6pm (Gray)
Munier : Feb 2 Weds @ 6pm (Gray); Feb 16 Weds @ 7pm (Jenna); March 1 Tues @ 6pm (Joo); March 21 Mon @ 7pm (Yuan)
Translation for Lab Instructors:
Jennifer : Feb 7 (Dan); Feb 21 (Brandon); March 21 (Ximena)
Yuan : Jan 31 (Lauren); Feb 21 (Dan); Feb 28 (Ximena); March 21 (Munier)
Joo : Feb 1 (Ximena); Feb 8 (Brandon); March 1 (Munier)
Jeff : Feb 15 (Ximena); March 1 (Lauren); March 29 (Brandon)
Gray : Feb 2 (Munier); Feb 16 (Lauren); March 9 (Brandon); March 30 (Dan)
Jenna : Feb 16 (Munier); March 9 (Dan); March 23 (Lauren)
Spring
- Ximena - Jacqueline VanGorkom
- Brandon - Joe Patterson
- Lauren - Kathryn Johnston
- Dan & Munier - Laura Kay
Fall
- Jeff - Munier
- Jennifer - Lauren
- Joo - Dan
- Jenna - Brandon
- Alex - Ximena
Help Session
There will be no Help Session for Spring 2011.
Fall 2010:
The Help Session takes place from 12:30-1:30 on Mondays and Thursdays in the Astronomy Library (Pupin 1402).
Important dates for SPRING 2011
- 1/18 -- first TA meeting
- 1/18 -- first day of classes
- 1/24 -- first day of Lab classes
- 1/28 -- last day to add a class
- 2/22 -- last day to drop a class
- 3/07 -- Midterms
- 3/14-18 -- Spring Break
- 3/24 -- last day to change grade to pass/fail
- 5/02 -- last day of classes
- 5/06-13 -- finals
Columbia's academic calender (2010-2011) is here
Jewish Holidays:
- Passover is April 18-26, so you might get some students reporting a conflict with classes. A handy reference especially for lesser known holidays, is at Chabad.org
Meeting Notes
Meeting Notes Spring 2011: January 18
Meeting Notes Fall 2010: September 14; October 21; November 18
Labs
Check this out: The Old Lab Website
And mores: More Old Labs
And Roban's old labs
Teaching Resources
Current Lab TAs
Other Class TAs
TA Emeriti
- Andrew - Fall 09 to Spring 10
- Christine - Fall 08 to Spring 10
- Destry - Fall 08 to Spring 10
- Erika - Fall 08 to Spring 10
- Lia - Fall 08 to Spring 09; Spring 10; Current Head TA
- Kyle - Fall 07 to Spring 09
- Colin - Fall 08 to Spring 09
- Josh - Fall08
- Duane-Fall 06 to Spring 07; Spring 08 to Fall 08
- Taka- Spring 07 to Fall 08; Labs uploaded 09/14/09
- Emily - Fall 06 to Spring 08
- Cameron- Fall 06 to Spring 08
- Kathryn- Fall 07 to Spring 09
- Roban- Fall 2005 to Fall 2006
- Michel - Fall 2003 to Fall 2004
- Aeree - Fall 2001 to Spring 2002
The 'ATAs'
Supplies
The following supplies are on the 12th floor.
- Optics Benches - contains lenses, light boxes, etc.
- Spectroscopes- of the tube and wedge variety.
- Sextants- there are about 6 of these, of varying degrees of complexity.
- Gratings - Two 600 line/mm spectroscope gratings, a box of 1000 line/mm slides (most of them are pretty beat up)
- Textbooks for general education
- meter sticks
- flashlights (there are also some in the Transit Room)
- vacuum tube
- A LOT of bits and pieces for making a Camera
- Two tuning fork resonance blocks
- Assorted lenses and prisms (mostly in boxes)
- Flasks for an atmosphere experiment
- Gas discharge tubes for spectroscopy and the associated power supplies
- Laser and attachments
Art Box:
- rulers
- blue tack
- string
- scissors
- protractors
- crayons and other drawing things
- paper
- balls (some of which are now on the roof of the Pupin entrance)
- Tacks
- fasteners
Kitchen Experiment Box:
- salt
- baking soda
- vinegar
- dried yeast
- Food Dye
- steel Wool
- Hot Glue Gun
Ask Kenneth (Physics department) for:
- Cloud Chamber for detecting Cosmic Rays (not sure if this is working)
- Larger vacuum tube demonstrations
- Doppler effect demonstrations
THINGS NOT ON THE 12 FLOOR!!!
- planispheres (of the plastic variety) are kept in the transit room. We only have 7 of them and only six are for 40deg N. (We should get more!)
- SLR Digital Cameras (2)- Kept in the bottom drawer of Cameron's filing cabinet, along with chargers and shutter button extenders. To learn how to use, ask him or Destry (people familiar with DSLRS)
- Green Laser Pointer- Ask Erika and she will give it to you. This has been lost in the past and so won't be in general circulation
- 2 Laptops- Ceres and Pallas- Kept in the top of the filing cabinet next to Lia's Desk. Please sign them out and return the cord.
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