20.309:Schedule

WEEK	LECTURES	LAB	READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS
	Electronics
0	Thursday, Sep. 7 Course Overview, procedures, syllabus, scheduling	Friday, Sep. 8, 3:00PM (TENTATIVE) Lab orientation and tour, safety, introduction to electronics
1	Tuesday, Sep. 12 Electronics for DNA analysis; dividers, Thevenin's theorem, impedance and loading, RC circuits Thursday, Sep. 14 RC circuits: transfer functions, Laplace transforms, impedance, RC filters	Monday, Sep. 11 11:00AM (TENTATIVE) Lab orientation and tour, safety, introduction to electronics Monday, Sep. 11 - Friday Sep. 15 Intro to DC measurements, dividers, impedance, photodiode i-v curves, AC measurements, transfer functions; the Wheatstone bridge for temperature measurement
2	Tuesday, Sep. 19 DNA analysis: SNP detection, chemical equilib. - K and deltaG; description of DNA melting lab apparatus Lecture To Be Scheduled Feedback: Black's formula, the loop; op-amps: "golden rules" and circuit examples	Monday, Sep. 18 - Friday Sep. 22 Build optics for DNA melting experiment, build photodiode readout circuit; calibrate fluorescence signal
3	Tuesday, Sep. 26 Fourier series, integrals, Fourier transform (continuous/discrete) Thursday, Sep. 28 Fourier analysis (cont'd)	NO LAB MONDAY SEP. 25 (Student holiday) Tuesday, Sep. 26 - Friday, Sep. 29 Complete DNA melting curves apparatus; test perfect-match, all-mismatch, and single-base mismatch DNA strands
	Mechanics
4	Tuesday, Oct. 3 Scanning probe microscopy Thursday, Oct. 5 Signals, noise, Power Spectral Density	Monday, Oct. 2 - Friday, Oct. 6 AFM alignment and calibration, AFM imaging I
5	NO LECTURE TUESDAY, OCT. 10 (Columbus Day) Thursday, Oct. 12 Correlation/convolution, lock-in amplification, linear systems	NO LAB MON-TUE (Columbus Day Weekend) Wednesday, Oct. 11 - Friday, Oct. 13 AFM imaging II; force spectroscopy
6	Tuesday, Oct. 17 Equipartition theorem and thermal fluctuations Thursday, Oct. 19 Student Presentations (Group #2)	Monday, Oct. 16 - Friday Oct. 20 Thermal fluctuations of microcantilevers: Boltzmann's constant experiment
	Optics
7	Tuesday, Oct. 24 Physical optics and optical instrumentation: detectors, noise Thursday, Oct. 26 Optical instrumentation: sources, lasers	Monday, Oct. 23 - Friday, Oct. 27 Optoelectronics: PMT, & photon counting; digital lock-in detection of DNA fluorescence
8	Tuesday, Oct. 31 Image processing I Thursday, Nov. 2 Image processing II	Monday, Oct. 30 - Friday, Nov. 3 Image processing
9	Tuesday, Nov. 7 Intro to microscopy: geometric optics, lenses, ray tracing Thursday, Nov. 9 Fluorescence spectroscopy	Monday, Nov. 6 - Friday, Nov. 10 Fluorescence microscope construction I: lenses, white light imaging
10	Tuesday, Nov. 14 interference and diffraction, phase-contrast miscroscopy Thursday, Nov. 16 Resolution in microscopy; Fourier optics	Monday, Nov. 13 - Friday, Nov. 17 Fluorescence microscope construction II, fluorescence imaging, live-cell imaging & microrheology
11	Tuesday, Nov. 21 interference and diffraction, phase-contrast miscroscopy NO LECTURE THURSDAY, NOV. 23 (Thanksgiving)	Monday, Nov. 20 - Wednesday, Nov. 24 Light-scattering microscope and Fourier optics NO LAB THU-FRI (Thanksgiving Weekend)
12	Tuesday, Nov. 28 Optical trapping Thursday, Nov. 30 3D microscopy	Monday, Nov. 27 - Friday, Dec. 1 Optical trapping
13	Tuesday, Dec. 5 3D image processing Thursday, Dec. 7	Monday, Dec. 4 - Friday, Dec. 8 3D Imaging & Visualization; confocal & two-photon microscopy, ImageJ
14	Tuesday, Dec. 12 Student presentations (Group #5)