| Month | Thu | Outline | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3 | Christmas break | |
| 10 | 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. | Dawes | |
| 17 | LabView for data acquisition and instrument automation. Interfacing with LabPro hardware, sending and receiving commands to data acquisition modules. | Dawes | |
| 24 | Continue interfacing with LabPro, now with a focus on triggering on external signals and digitizing pulse shapes from an arbitrary data signal. | Dawes | |
| 31 | Particle detection and data acquisition in nuclear physics (notes) | Perdue | |
| February | 7 | Analysis of experimental data using ROOT | Perdue |
| 14 | Data analysis using ROOT | Perdue | |
| 21 | First order optics and ray tracing. Design of landscape lens (single element lens) using Oslo-Edu software (download) | Guenther | |
| 28 | Stops and pupils. Aberrations - why and how to get rid of them. Design of Cooke Triplet (three element lens group) for CCD camera. | Guenther | |
| March | 6 | Performance evaluation and testing of optical design. | Guenther |
| 13 | spring break | ||
| 20 | Introduction to Computational Physics | Bass | |
| 27 | Survey of standard algorithms and methods | Bass | |
| April | 3 | Monte-Carlo integration | Bass |
| 10 | The Scientific Publication Process: from result to publication. Typesetting in the LaTeX environment | Bass | |
| 17 | Managing citations using BibTeX. Finding and referencing scientific work using preprint servers and databases. | Bass | |
| 24 | reading period |
