Monday, January 23, 2012

January 23, 2012

Hi everyone!  Welcome back to classes after the unexpected break!  Mark your calendars for Tuesday, January 31 at 3pm in PAA A216 for our winter quarter undergrad astronomy meeting.  We'll talk about expected classes for the next year, applying to REUs and much more!  Hope to see you all there.

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Every spring the symposium is held on campus to showcase undergraduate research.  This is a great opportunity for those working on projects to share your results.  Students will often present a poster but there are oral presentations as well.  I strongly encourage anyone working on research to consider participating.  Talk with your research adviser about submitting an abstract; the deadline is February 24.  http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/

Spring Quarter Class Schedule: If you're a proactive planner like me, you'll be excited to know that the spring quarter class schedule will go live either this Friday or next Monday.  As usual, let me know asap if you see any major physics and astronomy class overlaps.  I meet with Physics before we submit the schedules for each quarter to avoid overlaps but sometimes schedules change, so let me know if you catch something.

Credit holds on accounts: Holds have been placed on student accounts for those of you that have too many credits.  Please let me know if you have a hold so we can fill out the correct paperwork before registration for spring happens. 

AAS posters: For those of you that presented a poster at the AAS meeting and don't know what to do with the poster, consider letting me post it on the hallway wall in the Department!  The posters along the wall are older and I would like to replace some of them if you don't mind having your poster up.  Swing by anytime to drop the poster off.

Colloquium: Join us this Thursday at 4pm in PAA A102 for a talk by Mark Krumholz (UC Santa Cruz) on "The Origin of IMF".  Don't forget about the coffee, tea and cookies served at 3:45pm in the foyer!

Page O'announcements: Lots of study abroad programs listed!  Don't forget the important links on the right side of the page that has astronomy-specific information. http://pageoannouncements.blogspot.com/

Have a great week!
Sarah

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