Meeting Minutes: We had a great meeting last week with lots of updates in curriculum changes and schedules.
Physics Summer Qtr Classes: Note that the summer time schedule currently lists Phys 227 however this will be changed to Phys 228. Also Phys 334 will be changed to a full-term class and Phys 335 will be dropped from the schedule.
Astronomy Spring Qtr Classes: Check out the time schedule to see the variety of classes being offered this spring!
New Physics/Astronomy Degree Requirements: Both physics and astronomy will be changing the degree requirements which is planned to be effective Autumn 2010. This will not impact anyone currently declared in both departments. However if you are declared Astronomy only, have been planning to declare physics but have not done so I would suggest to do this before autumn quarter so you are under the same requirements. More details on these changes will come out sometime in spring quarter.
New Astronomy Classes: Starting autumn quarter there will be several new classes. ASTR 400: Undergraduate research seminar (1 credit, CR/NC) hear about faculty research in the department, ASTR 427: Numerical Methods in Astrophysics, ASTR 498: Independent Research (this differs from ASTR 499 and is for students working on non-research projects, reading articles prior to working on research, etc.). We are trying to move away from using ASTR 497 for classes that are offered continuously.
2010-2011 Course Schedule Available: on the web: http://staff.washington.edu/sterrs/AnnualCourses10-11.pdf
Undergraduate Research Symposium: Deadline to submit abstracts is today!! (Feb. 22) http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/symp/
Physics GRE Exam: There has been some concern over student preparation for the Physics GRE exam. If you have any comments or suggestions about your preparation for this exam, please feel free to send these to me or leave a note in my mailbox.
Volunteer for an Astronomy Conference!: The Department is hosting the 16th Cool Stars conference August 29-Sep 2 here on campus! We are seeking student volunteers for a variety of jobs and those volunteers that complete 15 hours of work will be able to attend the conference for free (note this does not include excursions and banquets). If you will be available the week prior to the conference and during the conference please sign up on the list in the computer lab. We will be holding a meeting in the spring to make final assignments.
Space Grant Summer Undergraduate Research Program: Looking for summer funding to stay on campus and do research? Check out the WA Space Grant SURP! http://www.waspacegrant.org/u-gradsum.html SURP offers part-time $2K stipends and full-time $4K stipends for undergraduates working on research projects with faculty.
Colloquium: Please join us on Thursday at 4pm in Phys/Astr A102 for a talk by Lloyd Knox (UC Davis) on "Anisotropies in the infrared background as a probe of the complete history of star formation". Coffee, tea and cookies are served at 3:45pm in the foyer!
Astro Lunch: Tomorrow (2/23) YoungChul Kwon (UW) will give a lunch talk (noon-1) in the reading room (B356A) on "SkewReduce: Skew-Resistant Parallel Processing of Feature-Extracting Scientific User-Defined Functions". Please feel free to bring your lunch!
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Have a great week!
Best,
Sarah
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