| Month | Thu | Outline | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8 | Christmas break | |
| 14 | LabView fundamentals: introduction to a visual approach to programming, virtual instruments and applications of Labview. Basic programming blocks, control flow, data structures, and input/output functions. | Wang | |
| 21 | LabView for data acquisition and instrument automation. Interfacing with LabPro hardware, sending and receiving commands to data acquisition modules. | Wang | |
| 28 | Continue interfacing with LabPro, now with a focus on triggering on external signals and digitizing pulse shapes from an arbitrary data signal. | Wang | |
| February | 4 | Tour of Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory - how it works. | Li / Wu / Jia |
| 11 | Measurement and analysis of electron beam profile. | Li / Wu / Jia | |
| 18 | Measurement and analysis of time-domain properties of the beam, including fast Fourier transform (FFT). | Li / Wu / Jia | |
| 25 | Particle detection and data acquisition in nuclear physics (notes) | Stave | |
| March | 4 | Analysis of experimental data using ROOT (more notes) | Stave |
| 11 | spring break | ||
| 18 | Data analysis using ROOT | Stave | |
| 25 | Data analysis using ROOT | Stave | |
| April | 1 | Introduction to the Monte Carlo technique of solving physics problems. | Chandrasekharan |
| 8 | Solving the 1-dimensional Ising model of magnetism using the C programming language. | Chandrasekharan | |
| 15 | Solving the 2-dimensional Ising model. | Chandrasekharan | |
| 23 | reading period |