Feb 02: SPS / ACM Python Workshop
Good news! Paul O'Neil and colleagues are organizing a Python workshop that should help with the analysis part of the course (as well as plotting figures etc). Paul can provide more info. The tentative date for your calendars is Feb 11 in the afternoon -- just in time for analyzing your own data -- and I've suggested the PUC Lab as we a laptop farm there. I'll also post some python analysis examples next week to the wiki (sorry for the slow tutorial feed this week -- mainly making sure everything looks good with experiments b/f you start taking data).
As usually please send any questions that you have.
Feb 01: PUC Accounts and LaTeX
1) PUC Lab accounts. During the first lecture I said that these would be optional -- this was incorrect. You need a PUC lab account to log into many of the computers associated with the labs. If you do not have an account, email Steve Wonnell <wonnell@pha.jhu.edu>.
2) LaTeX. I've posted an initial take on a basic latex tutorial that should get you started on the required intro/experiment write-up for Monday. This will probably evolve a bit, but it's there if you want to start now.
Remember there will be tutorials offered in LaTeX from your TAs on the third week of the course.
Jan 31: Groups and Labs
Most of you now have lab groups and a sequence of labs chosen, with some variation, based on the your preferences.
https://wiki.pha.jhu.edu/advlab_wiki/index.php/Groups_2012
https://wiki.pha.jhu.edu/advlab_wiki/index.php/Schedule_2012
The labs have also been divided among the instructors as follows:
Tobias Marriage: PE/SL, HE, ZE, NMR
Christopher Brust: BM, RS, NS
Sean Cantrell: MOD, ML, FH
If your first lab is run by a TA, please contact them to schedule a time to meet during class times on Monday. I'll be around the whole time.
Finally, after further consideration, I've decided that it will be more straightforward to have reports submitted/returned by email instead of dropbox. The wiki has been updated to reflect this change (see text at end of email).