These are THEORETICALLY the dates all this stuff will occur on.
January
Sat - 4th - Fly back to Atlanta
Mon - 13th - First day of labs
Mon - 20th - MLK Day - NO SCHOOL!!
Mon - 27th - Instrumentation - NO CLASS
Mon - 6th - First day of classes!!
Thu - 9th - TA meeting (10:00)
- Planets - NO CLASS - prof at AAS meeting in Seattle
- Instrumentation - NO CLASS
Thu - 16th - Inst - out at HLCO -- CANCELLED due to bad weather (possibly snow??) - nope, no snow, but cloudy and drizzly
NO labs this week!!!
Tue - 21st - Planets - Knowledge Inventory DUE
Wed - 22nd - Inst - NO CLASS
- E&M - Homework #1 DUE
Thu - 23rd - Planets - find answers to question of the week (How does sun affect objects in solar system?)
- Inst - out at HLCO -- CANCELLED due to too windy (and it's gonna be 10 deg!)
Tue - 28th - Planets - NO CLASS - prof in Chile
Thu - 30th - Planets - NO CLASS - prof in Chile
- Inst - out at HLCO (I hope it's cancelled - I wanna see a show!) -- CANCELLED!! (Crappy weather)
February
Mon - 3rd - Stellar - Problem Set 1 DUE
Mon - 10th - E&M - Homework #2 DUE
Mon - 17th - Inst - NO CLASS
I'm the PopWench this week!!!
- Inst - NO CLASS
Tue - 4th - Planets - NO CLASS - prof in Chile
Thu - 6th - Planets - Paper topic outline DUE
- Question of the week (Name a defining/separating characteristic of Earth, Mars, Europa or Titan)
- Inst - out at HLCO
Fri - 7th - Astronomy Club Movie!!! - Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Wed - 12th - SEMINAR presentation
- Astronomy Club out at HLCO - oh, Instrumentation is piggy-backing!!!
Thu - 13th - Planets - Question of the Week: Name a unique characteristic of one of the atmospheres in the solar system
Fri - 14th - 1 p.m. - Mirror grinding! for the Astronomy Club
Tue - 18th - 10 a.m. - Meeting on the subject of the Science Olympiad we are manning
Wed - 19th - Stellar - Problem Set 2 DUE
- E&M - NO CLASS!!! (Dietz will be at a conference) :)
Thu - 20th - Planets - Question of the Week: Name a unique characteristic of one of the surfaces (planets, moons, etc.) in the solar system
- Inst - out at HLCO (CANCELLED!! Cloudy - but then it ended up to be clear late)
Fri - 21st - 1 p.m. - Mirror grinding! for the Astronomy Club (dammit, didn't do - stupid shop)
- 2:30 p.m. - final meeting before Science Olympiad (have material ready)
Sat - 22nd - 12 noon - the Science Olympiad!!
Make-up labs this week!!!
Mon - 24th - Inst - NO CLASS
- E&M - Homework #3 DUE
- 4:30 - Telescope Construction Meeting
Wed - 26th - Stellar - Midterm TEST
Thu - 27th - Planets - "Significant Term Paper" Part 2 (more outline) DUE
- Question of the week: Pick an eqn. from Ch 2 or 3 - describe everything about it, how to use it, provide example
- Inst - out at HLCO - CANCELLED!! (totally cloudy)
March
Sat - 1st - My plane leaves for Minneapolis at 8:30 a.m. YAY!!!
Mon - 10th - E&M - Homework #4 DUE - got changed to Wednesday
Mon - 17th - Inst - NO CLASS
Wed - 26th - Inst - Start class early!!! (11 a.m.)
Mon - 3rd through Fri - 7th - SPRING BREAK!!!
Sat - 8th through Sun - 9th - drove back
- 10 a.m. - First-year QUALIFYING EXAM (I'm not too worried about this...)
- Inst - NO CLASS (due to qual)
- Stellar - NO CLASS (due to qual)
- 4:30 p.m. - Astronomy Club meeting
Tue - 11th - Planets - NO CLASS (our room was usurped)
Wed - 12th - E&M - Homework #4 DUE
- Inst - NO CLASS (due to qual - but no one bothered to tell us... dammit)
- Stellar - NO CLASS (due to qual)
- NO SEMINAR EITHER!!!! (due to qual) - I think this one is totally stupid!!!!
Thu - 13th - Planets - Question of the week: Name any surface feature in the Solar System, its location and size, and how it was created
Fri - 14th - 1:00 - Telescope mirror polishing
- 2:00 - Telescope Construction meeting
- 2:30 - See Andrew at airport (layover on way to Boston)
- E&M - Midterm TEST - moved to Wednesday!!!
- 6:50 - See Chris :) at airport (layover on way back from Arizona)
Wed - 19th - Stellar - Problem Set 3 DUE - Moved to Mar 26th!!!
- E&M - Midterm TEST
Thu - 20th - Planets - ? of Week - Name any observation that has been made to tell about the interior of any object in SS
- 1:00 - Meet with Todd to discuss Planets paper
Fri - 21st - 4:30 - Astronomy Club Movie!!! (The Fifth Element)
Sat - 22nd - 1:00 - Softball practice - Piedmont Park
Sun - 23rd - 2:00 - Softball games!!! - Panthersville - won 1, lost 1
- Homework #1 DUE - moved to next Monday
- Stellar - Problem Set 3 DUE
Thu - 27th - Planets - ? of the Week - How would the environment be different on an Earth-sized planet 1 AU from Proxima Centauri?
- Inst - out at HLCO - CANCELLED!!! (it was overcast)
Fri - 28th - 1:00 - Mirror Polishing - mirror very nearly done!
- 4:00 - Softball Practice - Piedmont Park
Sat - 29th - Astronomy Club - Messier Marathon!!! (will be next weekend if clouded out) - POSTPONED (clouded out)
Sun - 30th - 4:00 - Softball Game (lost badly)
April
Mon - (March) 31st - Inst - Homework #1 DUE
Mon - 7th - 4:30 - Astronomy Club meeting (I'm VP now :) )
Mon - 14th - E&M - Homework #5 DUE
I'm the PopWench this week!!
Mon - 28th - E&M - Homework #6 DUE
Thu - 3rd - Planets - Start class EARLY!! 10 a.m. (due to Tom Fallon dissertation defense) then go back after talk (didn't work out so well...)
- 11:00 - Tom Fallon defense
- Planets - Question of the Week - Give one observational constraint (astronomical or biological) on a factor in the Drake Equation
Fri - 4th - 2:30 - Dave's dissertation defense!
- Help Dave celebrate his successful defense!!! WHEEEE!!!
Sat - 5th - 1:00 - Softball Practice - Piedmont Park
- Astronomy Club - Messier Marathon!!! (will be 4/26 if clouded out) - CLOUDED OUT!!!
Sun - 6th - 2:00 A.M. - Daylight Savings Time BEGINS!!!!!
- 3:00 - Softball Game (lost not too badly)
- 8:30 - On-campus observing if nice (CANCELLED cuz it's gonna rain!!)
Tue - 8th - 8:30 - On-campus observing if nice (CANCELLED cuz it's gonna rain!!)
Wed - 9th - Stellar - Problem Set 4 DUE
- (if cloudy other days) 8:30 - On-campus observing - will be cloudy this day too...
Thu - 10th - Inst - out at HLCO - (CANCELLED!! - it's damn cloudy - and cold)
Fri - 11th - 10:00 - Debra's Ph.D. defense
- 4 p.m. - Astronomy Club Movie!!! (Total Recall)
Sat - 12th - 1:00 - Softball Practice
- 7:30 - HLCO open house that I am assigned to
Sun - 13th - 2 p.m. - Softball Playoffs (if we make it) - (we made it!!!) - and we lost :(
- 8:30 - On-campus observing if nice (it was nice!)
Tue - 15th - Planets - NO CLASS (prof in Tucson at meeting)
- 8:30 - On-campus observing if nice (it was nice!)
Wed - 16th - Inst - Start class EARLY - 11:00 a.m. (oops, I missed it!!)
- 6-10 p.m. - See Chris at airport (layover on way to Chile)
Thu - 17th - Planets - Rough Draft of Significant Term paper DUE
- Start class early!!! 10:45 - presentations
Fri - 18th - 1 p.m. - Mirror polishing and testing - it's lookin' good!
Make-up labs this week!!
Tue - 22st - Planets - NO CLASS (prof in Boston after running Boston Marathon)
- 8 p.m. - Night-time observing for Astronomy Club
Wed - 23rd - Stellar - Problem Set 5 DUE
- Inst - Homework #2 DUE
- E&M - NO CLASS (go to see Nobel Laureate at Georgia Tech instead)
Thu - 24th - Planets - Start class early!! 10:45 - presentations
Fri - 25th - 6:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Chris at airport (layover on way back from Chile)
- Planets - HAVE class - 2:30 til finished with presentations
- Party at Prof. Todd's house after presentations!!!
Sat - 26th - Messier Marathon!! (if not cloudy) - we had it!!! Up til 5:30, we saw 98 of the 110 :)
- Inst - bring in 5 favorite Astronomy websites
Wed - 30th - E&M - 3 p.m. - FINAL TEST
- Planets - Final Paper DUE - MOVED to Thursday!
(don't forget Friday!!!)
May
Thu - 1st - Planets - 12 noon deadline for turning in FINAL PAPER
Tue - 6th - Planets - 3 'referee reports' DUE
Mon 12th to Wed 14th - host a prospective grad at our house
Mon - 26th - AAS meeting starts in Nashville
Fri - 2nd - Stellar - 4 p.m. deadline for Take-Home FINAL (moved from Wed)
Sat - 3rd - Department picnic at Dick's cabin (???) - NOPE, that is some other time...
- Inst - take-home final DUE and Essay DUE
YYYYYAAAAYYYYYY!!!!
- 6:30 - Braves game (if not raining) - Raining - postponed til Thursday
Thu - 8th - 6:15 - Braves game
Sat - 10th - Dave and Amber's Big Graduation Blowout!
Fri - 16th - Fly to Minneapolis!!
Wed - 28th - Fly back to Atlanta
Fri - 30th to Sun - (June) 1st - camping trip with the Astronomy Club
June
Tue - 3rd to Sun - 8th - up in Ohio!!!
Mon - 9th - Summer Session Starts
Mon - 16th to Fri - 20th - I'm the Pop Wench!!
Thu - 12th - I start teaching
Mon - 16th to Thu - 19th - Feed cats
Sat - 28th - 1 to 7 - The big department party at Dick's lake cabin!!!! Wheeee!!!
July
Mon - 7th through Fri - 11th - Michelson Interferometry Summer School at Caltech (Pasadena, CA)
Fri - 11th thru Aug 8ish - Stay on Mt. Wilson at the CHARA Array for observing!!