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Schedule
Schedule for Fall 2011:
| 6-9pm | 7-10pm | |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Jennifer (jhw2136) | Munier (mas2356) |
| Tuesday | Ximena (mxf2) | Jenna (jjl2148) |
| Wednesday | Lauren (lnc2115) | Jeff (jja2129) |
| Thursday | Brandon (rbh2119) |
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)
Class TA schedule:
Maria Charisi: Jim Applegate
Miao Li: Jim Applegate
Jia Liu: Laura Kay: Life in the Universe
Adrian Price-Whelan: Laura Kay
Ricardo Fernandez: Joseph Patterson
David Hendel: Kathryn V Johnston
ATA assignment
Adrian: Munier, Sep 19; Brandon, Oct 29; Ximena, Oct 4; Jennifer, Oct 10.
Jia: Jennifer, Sep 19; Jeff, Sep 28; Jenna, Oct 4; Munier, Oct 10.
Maria: Ximena, Sep 20; Munier, Sep 26; Lauren, Oct 6; Jenna, Oct 11.
Miao: Jenna, Sep 20; Jennifer, Sep 26; Jeff, Oct 5; Brandon, Oct 13.
David: Lauren, Sep 21; Jenna, Sep 27; Jennifer, Oct 3; Jeff, Oct 12.
Ricardo: Jeff, Sep 21; Ximena, Sep 27; Brandon, Oct 6; Lauren, Oct 12.
ATA assignment translated for TAs
Jennifer: Jia, Sep 19; Miao, Sep 26; David, Oct 3; Adrian, Oct 10.
Munier: Adrian, Sep 19; Maria, Sep 26; Jia, Oct 10.
Ximena: Maria, Sep 20; Ricardo, Sep 27; Adrian, Oct 4.
Jenna: Miao, Sep 20; David, Sep 27; Jia, Oct 4; Maria, Oct 11.
Lauren: David, Sep 21; Maria, Oct 5; Ricardo, Oct 12.
Jeff: Ricardo, Sep 21; Jia, Sep 28; Miao, Oct 5; David, Oct 12.
Brandon: Adrian, Sep 29; Ricardo, Oct 6; Miao, Oct 13.
Important dates for Fall 2011
Columbia's academic calender (2010-2011) is here
November 8th-9th: Election Day
November 24th: Thanksgiving Holiday
Jewish Holidays:
A handy reference especially for lesser known holidays, is at Chabad.org
TAs
Current Lab TAs
Other Class TAs
The 'ATAs'
- Maria Charisi (mc3561)
- Ricardo Fernandez (raf2166)
- David Hendel (dah2154)
- Miao Li (ml3322)
- Jia Liu (jl3509)
- Adrian Price-Whelan (amp2217)
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
- 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
- Joo - Fall 09 to Spring 11
- Yuan - Fall 09 to Spring 11; Current Head TA
- Gray - Fall 09 to Spring 11
- Alex - Fall 10 to Spring 11
Labs
Check this out: The Old Lab Website
And mores: More Old Labs
And Roban's old labs
Supplies
The following supplies are on the 14th 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
Other things
- 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.
Meeting Notes
Meeting Notes Spring 2011: January 18
Meeting Notes Fall 2010: September 14; October 21; November 18
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