AL's+Week+of+March+24

__3/24/08__ - Today in class I read the teacher's email regarding the LIGO instructions. I looked up the first week of February's data on earthquakes in the world (Feb 1 to Feb 7). I pasted this on my LIGO page that I created, along with the parameters. I then spent some messing around google maps, learning how to use it. Tommorow I go to the Notre Dame lab again to continue my research on DNA tiling and AFM.

__3/25/08__ - Today I went to the Notre Dame lab after a week long hiatus. I am still deciding on which direction to take my project. Right now what I did was discuss my plans with Dr. Sarveswaran and I also cut slicon wafers and cleaned them. This time I only did the first part of the cleaning process which was bathing the chips in pirahna acid for around 30 minutes.

__3/26/08__ - No school today.

__3/27/08__ - Went back to the lab to continue my research. Although I'm still deciding on my project direction, I was able to finish cleaning the wafers, which is a long, sometimes tedious procedure. The parts I did at the lab today was deposti the APTES solution on two samples after going to the clean room.

__3/28/08__ - Today I caught up on logbooks and I worked on LIGO by trying to figure out my data and mapping an earthquake onto my googe map which I made.