Archive for February 8th, 2007
Astro Seminar: Exoplanet basics
This is the second half of the Astrophysics Seminar described in the previous post. It follows the same general pattern, only with extrasolar planets instead of brown dwarfs.
Ready, world? Here’s what Josh said:
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The first meeting of 8.972, my brown dwarf/exoplanet seminar, was today. It’s jointly taught by Profs. Adam Burgasser and Josh Winn, split roughly so that Adam takes the dwarfs and Josh takes the planets. The class is technically a graduate seminar, but about half the students are undergrads. I know a handful of them: a [...]
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Laz0r Safety and Other Stories
Yesterday was my first Junior Lab session, and we spent most of it hashing out the usual first-day logistics – finding partners, getting notebooks, looking at the experiments, and so on. My section is led by Prof. Peter Fisher, who, in addition to being an awesome physicist, tells the greatest anecdotes. For instance, while introducing [...]
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An MIT undergrad lusts after physics. Meanwhile, life happens. Excitement and high drama ensue.
