Astro
289C ÒAdaptive Optics and its ApplicationsÓ Winter 2008
Homework
1: Tell me a bit about yourself
Due Thursday January 10th before class.
From the email address
where you check mail most often, please email your responses to me at max@ucolick.org
1)
What is your name, university or lab or observatory, year, and department? What is your preferred nickname?
2) Please write a few sentences describing why you
decided to take this class. What
do you hope to get out of the course?
3) What areas in your graduate or research field do
you find most interesting (list two or more)? What is it that intrigues you most about these topics?
4) Prior courses in related fields (to help me
determine what level to teach this course):
Have you taken any of the following UCSC courses (or
their equivalents elsewhere)?
Astronomy
and Astrophysics 257 (Modern Observational Techniques)
Astronomy
and Astrophysics 260 (Instrumentation for Astronomy)
Physics
110 (Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics)
Physics
152 (Optoelectronics) or an upper-division undergraduate course in optics
Electrical
Engineering 136 (Engineering Electromagnetics)
A
course in control theory
Please describe other courses you have taken (either
undergraduate or graduate) that you think have given you useful experience for
this course:
5) Please describe the classes you are taking this
quarter (department, official number, and title of class), if any
6) Have you ever observed the sky through a
telescope? Was it an amateur
telescope or at an observatory?
Please describe your experience.
7) I am
planning a set of labs for this course.
What experience (if any) have you had in an optics or photonics
lab? What would you like to learn
from the lab exercises in this course?
8) Tell me a bit about your computer expertise:
What computer tools and languages do you have
experience with?
C_____ C++_______
Fortran_______
Java________
MatLab_____ IDL________
IRAF______
Other?________
9) Please tell me a bit about your long-term hopes
& ambitions. For students,
what would you like to be doing once youÕve been out of grad school for, say, 5
or 10 years?
10) What are your favorite non-academic activities?
Hobbies? Sports? (Optional)
11) In some courses, the answers to a questionnaire
like this are posted in a blog-like setting on the class website, so that
students and faculty can get to know each other quickly. It strikes me that this might be particularly
helpful here, because we are so scattered about in video-land. Would you be agreeable to posting your
responses online? If there are
subsections that you donÕt want posted, which numbers are they? I will add a bit about myself as well.
12) are you taking
this class for audit or for credit?