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Monday, March 10, 2008
Listened to AL's powerpoint presentation and gave him some constructive criticism on his presentation. Took up basically the whole class. AL taught us about AFM and DNA.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
In my project so far, I have begun looking at data I have received from Dr. L concerning variable stars. The data is coude feed data about different variable stars on different days. I have begun to insert this data into the program graphical analysis. The graphical analysis changes the data into a graph of the star's spectra. I examine the star's spectra and determine the different absorption and emission lines of the spectra and list the elements that are in the spectra. This seems to be all I've been doing so far. I have yet to figure out where I am going with, with all this information.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
I've been looking at the site Dr. L told us to look at. [|click here for the site] I'm not exactly following the conversation. It's a little jumbled. Just asking and answering of questions. I look at the video, someone had posted, about scientist being able to film an electron in motion for the first time. If you are wanting to watch this video [|go to this site]. It's only about 30 seconds long, so no worries about the length. I'm going to email Dr. L about the LHC site. Ask him what the importance really is of looking at this site except for the fact that we can look at it and post comments and questions at the conference when we are there.

Thursday, March 13, 2008
I looked over the hands-on-cern and i didn't quite understand what exactly was going on. I talked to Mr. M for basically the whole class trying to figure out what the slides meant on ASSIGNMENT AND INSTRUCTIONS page. Overall, i was very confused.

Friday, March 14, 2008
I went to the masterclass at Notre Dame. I took some notes on the whole thing. I'll write those up on some other day. Also, I'll talk about it next week sometime.