Spring final evaluation conferences.Come ON TIME to 2272 Lab II.

• Week before conference: Email to Zita *teammate evaluations and *best paragraph from an essay (with WebX link).
• Take the *online Self-Eval Survey, to start your self-eval.
• Preparing: See guidelines and program descriptions (PhysAstro and SciSem).
• Day of conference: Bring your *portfolio, *self-eval, and *faculty eval to your conference.

Wednesday 6 June ICE CREAM SOCIAL for Science Carnival presenters from 1:00-2:00 in 2211 Lab II - Thank you for sharing your research!

Spring midquarterconferences - week 5. Bring your PORTFOLIO and come ON TIME to 2272 Lab II (Zita's office)

Week 4 - Minilectures on Stellar life and Death - Universe Ch. 19-24 (approximately 15 minutes each! don't cover everything - choose judiciously - we can also read. Feel free to use slideshows linked to Chapters below, and don't spend too much time on prep.)

Ch. 19 - The Nature of Stars - Zita

Ch. 20 - The Birth of Stars (protostars to supernovae) - Aman + Mike

Ch. 21 - Stellar Evolution after the Main Sequence (red giants to pulsating stars) - Chris

Ch. 22 - Stellar Evolution: The Deaths of Stars (red giants to white dwarves to SN) - Andrew

Ch. 23 - Neutron Stars (pulsars, novae, XRB) - Jada

Ch. 24 - Black Holes - Paul

Spring week 3 - you are ready for sit-down meetings with Zita to discuss details of your research in progress. Please bring your * best article or resource, a clear * diagram of your plans, and a * concise list of clear questions. Plan on 20-minute meetings so we can stay on schedule. Meet in Zita's office 2272 (or look for us in the Fishbowl 2270 or Homeroom 2242).

Sonoluminescence team - we met Monday at 2:30 between progress reports and and seminar.

Wednesday 19 April:

Winter - FINAL evaluation conferences - week 10

Bring your portfolio and hardcopy evals of yourself and your faculty. Peer evals are due by email the previous Friday, 10.March.
ARRIVE 5 MINUTES EARLY to your conference, so we can be sure to start on time.

DRAFT program descriptions for Science Seminar and Physics of Astronomy - you do NOT have to include any of this information in your self-eval, as the program description is part of your transcript. Please make any suggestions for changes or additions to the program description.

Please notice the days are out of order below, but correctly labeled - mostly Seminar conferences in the first two columns - mostly Physics conferences in the last two columns.

Winter - Research proposals - week 9
These presentations are 15-20 minutes each (with time afterwards for questions and transitions). Come prepared and on time.
If you have a webpage or PowerPoint presentation to link here, please send the URL or MASU location to Zita.

Be sure to hear all your classmates' presentations! See purpose and guidelines on Research page.
(Sci Sem students are welcome to attend these presentations if you like - not required.)

Winter - Midquarter evaluation CONFERENCES and research planning PRESENTATIONS - week 5
These are 10 minutes each (with time afterwards for questions, transitions, or faculty tasks). Come prepared and on time.

CONFERENCES for Science Seminar and Physics students: Bring your portfolio. See portfolio guidelines. The purpose is to check in with everyone to make sure you're on target to meet your learning goals and earn full credit.

PRESENTATIONS for Physics students - come to all your classmates' presentations! See purpose and guidelines on Research page. (Sci Sem students are welcome to attend these presentations if you like - not required.)