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<b>Please Note: the Schedule has been updated to reflect the Fall 2007 semester; however,
some of the materials and readings linked from the Schedule are the Fall 2006 versions.  Use the links on the home page instead.</b>
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<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
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    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b>WEEK</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top"><b>LECTURES &amp; RECITATIONS</b></td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top"><b>LAB</b></td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top"><b>READINGS &amp; ASSIGNMENTS</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
    <td colspan="3">
      <div align="center"><b>Electronics</b></div>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b>0</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Thu, Sep. 6</b><br>
        Course Overview & syllabus; Lab Intro & logistics: scheduling, wiki, assignments </p>
      <p><b>[[Media:lect_0.pdf|Fri, Sep. 7 (LECTURE)]]</b><br>
        Electronics for DNA analysis; dividers, Thevenin's theorem, impedance
        and loading, RC circuits</p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top"> &nbsp;</td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b> 1</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Tue, Sep. 11</b><br>
        RC circuits: transfer functions, Laplace transforms, impedance, RC filters
      </p>
      <p><b>[[Media:20.309_lect4.pdf|Thu, Sep. 13]]</b><br>
        DNA analysis: SNP detection, chemical equilib. - K and deltaG; description
        of DNA melting lab apparatus
      </p>
      <p><b>Fri, Sep. 14 (RECITATION)</b><br>
        Electronics tutorial
      </p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Mon, Sep. 10 - Fri, Sep. 14</b><br>
        <u>Lab manual for Week 1: [[Media:20.309mod0.pdf|Intro to Electronics]].</u><br>
        Intro to DC measurements, dividers, impedance; photodiode <i>i-v </i>curves,
        AC measurements, black-box transfer functions;<br>
        the Wheatstone bridge for temperature measurement </p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Readings</b><br>
</p>see http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/20.309
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b>2</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Tue, Sep. 18</b><br>
        Feedback: Black's formula, the loop;<br>
        op-amps: &quot;golden rules&quot; and circuit examples </p>
      <p><b>[[Media:20.309_lect5.pdf|Thu, Sep. 20]]</b>
      Fourier series &amp; integrals; Fourier transform (continuous & discrete)
      </p>
      <p><b>Fri, Sep. 21 (RECITATION)</b>
      MATLAB tutorial and Lab Report Guidelines
      </p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Mon, Sep. 18 - Fri, Sep. 22</b><br>
        <u>Lab manual for Weeks 2 - 4: [[Media:20.309mod1.pdf|Measuring DNA Melting Curves]].</u><br>
        Build optics for DNA melting experiment, build photodiode readout circuit;
        calibrate fluorescence signal </p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
      <p>&nbsp;</p><p><font color=#aa0000> [[Homeworks:Homework1|HOMEWORK SET 1]] DUE (electronics, circuits).</font></p>
      </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td  valign="top" width="5%"><b>3</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Tue, Sep. 25</b><br>
        Fourier analysis (cont'd) </p>
      <p><b>Thu, Sep. 27<br>
        </b>Signals, noise, Power Spectral Density </p>
      <p><b>Fri, Sep. 28</b><br>
        [[20.309:Presentations|Student presentations]] (Session #1)</p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b><i>NO LAB MONDAY SEP. 24 <br>
        (Student holiday)</i></b></p>
      <p> <b>Tue, Sep. 25 - Fri, Sep. 28</b><br>
        <u>Lab manual for Weeks 2 - 4: [[Media:20.309mod1.pdf|Measuring DNA Melting Curves]].</u> <br>
        Complete DNA melting curves apparatus; test perfect-match, all-mismatch,
        and single-base mismatch DNA strands </p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Readings</b><br>
      [http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/courses/BE309/private/readings/strang.pdf Fourier Transforms.]</p>
      <p>[http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/courses/BE309/private/readings/FFTreference.pdf FFT reference material]</p>
      <p>[[Media:20309_tutorial_2.pdf|Tutorial 1: Overview of Fourier Transforms]]<br>
      [[Media:Sampling_example.pdf|Tutorial 2: Sampling and Aliasing]]</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
    <td valign="middle" colspan="3">
      <div align="center"><b>Mechanics</b></div>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b> 4</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Tue, Oct. 2</b><br>
      Correlation/convolution; lock-in amplification & demo; linear systems
      </p>
      <p><b>Thu, Oct. 4</b><br>
        Equipartition theorem and thermal fluctuations</p>
      <p><b>Fri, Oct. 5 (RECITATION)</b><br>
      Intro to AFM lab module
      </p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Mon, Oct. 1 - Fri, Oct. 5</b><br>
      <u>Lab manual for weeks 2 - 4: [[Media:20.309mod1.pdf|Measuring DNA Melting Curves]]</u>.<br>
      wrap up DNA melting curve measurements</p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
    <p><b>Readings</b><br>
    One-page handout, with a few [[Media:convclar.pdf| convolution clarification examples]].</p>
    <p>A helpful link that discusses [http://www.dsptutor.freeuk.com/analyser/guidance.html#leakage spectral leakage]
      when doing spectral analysis.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b>5</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><i><b>NO LECTURE</b></i><b><i> TUESDAY, OCT. 9</i></b><i><b> <br>
        (Columbus Day)</b></i> </p>
      <p><b>[[Media:20.309_lect6.pdf|Thu, Oct. 11]]</b><br>
      Scanning probe microscopy (and associated [[Media:criticalband.zip|critical band audio files]])
      </p>
      <p><b>Fri, Oct. 12</b><br>
        [[20.309:Presentations|Student presentations]] (Session #2)</p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b><i>NO LAB MON-TUE<br>
        (Columbus Day Weekend)</i></b> </p>
      <p><b>Wed, Oct. 10 - Fri, Oct. 12</b><br>
      AFM alignment and calibration, AFM imaging I </p>
      <p><u>Lab manual for weeks 5 - 7: [[Media:20309f06mod2.pdf|The Atomic Force Microscope]]</u></p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
    <p><font color=#aa0000>LAB REPORT #1 ([[Media:20.309mod1.pdf|Measuring DNA Melting Curves]]) DUE</font></p>
    </td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b> 6</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Tue, Oct. 16</b><br>
        [[20.309:Presentations|Student presentations]] (Session #3)</p>
      <p><b>[[Media:20.309_ImProcLect1.pdf|Thu, Oct. 18]]</b><br>
        Image Processing I</p>
      <p><b>Fri, Oct. 19 (RECITATION)</b><br>
        Laser Safety Session; AFM data analysis tutorial</p>
  </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Monday, Oct. 15 - Friday Oct. 19</b><br>
      AFM imaging II; force spectroscopy </p>
      <p><u>Lab manual for weeks 5 - 7: [[Media:20309f06mod2.pdf|The Atomic Force Microscope]]</u></p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <p><font color=#aa0000>HOMEWORK SET 2 DUE (signals, digital sampling, SPM).</font></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
    <td valign="middle" colspan="3">
      <div align="center"><b>Optics</b></div>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b>7</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>[[Media:20.309_ImProcLect2.pdf|Tue, Oct. 23]]</b><br>
        Image processing II<br>
      [[Media:20.309_ImProcLect2_supp.pdf|Supplementary slides to image processing lectures]]</p>
      <p><b>[[Media:OpticsLect3.pdf|Thu, Oct. 25]]</b><br>
        Optical Instruments I: Physics, Noises, Detectors </p>
      <p><b>Fri, Oct. 26</b><br>
      Optical Instruments II: More Detectors </p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Mon, Oct. 22 - Fri, Oct. 26</b><br>
      Thermal fluctuations of microcantilevers: Boltzmann's constant experiment</p>
      <p><u>Lab manual for weeks 5 - 7: [[Media:20309f06mod2.pdf|The Atomic Force Microscope]]</u></p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
    <p><b>Readings</b></p>
    <p>[http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/digest/sept01/matrix.html Great Matlab Matrix Indexing Tutorial]</p>
    <p> Nice online microscopy references: <br>
      [http://www.microscopyu.com/index.html "MicroscopyU" from Nikon]
        and [http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/index.html Molecular Expressions Optical Microscopy Primer]</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b>8</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>[[Media:OpticsLect2.pdf| Tue, Oct. 30]]</b><br>
      Geometric optics, basic ray tracing, optical microscopy </p>
      <p><b>[[Media:OpticsLect1.pdf| Thu, Nov. 1]]</b><br>
      More optics and lasers [[20.309:Presentations|Student presentations]] (Session #4)</p>
    <p><b>Fri, Nov. 2 (RECITATION)</b><br>
      Intro to [[Media:20.309f06mod3.pdf|Microscopy lab module]] and <b><i>design review presentations</i></b></p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Mon, Oct. 29 - Fri, Nov. 2</b><br>
      Image processing </p>
      <p><u>Handout on [[Media:HW3.pdf|Image Processing]]</u></p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
  <p><b>Readings</b><br>
    Image Processing Readings (from Gonzalez & Woods):<br>
    [http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/courses/BE309/private/readings/GonzalezWoodsCh4.pdf Chapter 4]: histograms, contrast, spatial filtering. <br>
    [http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/courses/BE309/private/readings/GonzalezWoodsCh8.pdf Chapter 8]: morphological operations <br>
    [http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/courses/BE309/private/readings/GonzalezWoodsCh7.pdf Chapter 7]: segmentation  <br>
    [http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/courses/BE309/private/readings/GonzalezWoodsCh9.pdf Chapter 9]: recognition & interpretation </p>
    <p><font color=#aa0000>LAB REPORT #2 ([[Media:20309f06mod2.pdf|The Atomic Force Microscope]]) DUE.</font>
    </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b> 9</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Tue, Nov. 6</b><br>
        Fluorescence Spectroscopy & Microscopy </p>
      <p><b>[[Media:OpticsLect5.pdf|Thu, Nov. 8]]</b><br>
        Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy</p>
      <p><b>Fri, Nov. 9</b><br>
        [[20.309:Presentations|Student presentations]] (Session #5)</p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Mon, Nov. 5 - Fri, Nov. 9</b><br>
        <u>Lab manual for weeks 9-11: [[Media:20.309f06mod3.pdf|Fluorescence microscope construction I]]:</u>
        lenses, white light imaging, resolution/alignment, begin fluorescence</p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
    <p><b>Readings</b></p>
    <p> Nice online microscopy references: <br>
      [http://www.microscopyu.com/index.html "MicroscopyU" from Nikon]
        and [http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/index.html Molecular Expressions Optical Microscopy Primer]</p>
    <p><font color=#aa0000>HOMEWORK SET 3 DUE (Image Processing).</font></p> 
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b> 10</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>[[Media:20.309_MicroRheolLect2.pdf|Tue, Nov. 13]]</b><br>
        Microrheology & particle tracking</p>
      <p><b>[[Media:309TrappingLect.pdf|Thu, Nov. 15]]</b><br>
        Optical trapping I (Prof. Matt Lang guest lecture)</p>
      <p><b>Fri, Nov. 16</b><br>
        [[20.309:Presentations|Student presentations]] (Session #6)</p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><i><b>NO LAB MONDAY NOV. 12<br> (Veteran's Day)</b></i></p>
      <p><b>Tue, Nov. 13 - Fri, Nov. 16</b><br>
      <u>Lab manual for weeks 9-11: [[Media:20.309f06mod3.pdf|Fluorescence microscope construction II]]:</u>
        finish construction, live-cell imaging; particle tracking </p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
    <p>MATLAB scripts for calculating [[Media:getMSD_BE309.m|MSD]] and [[Media:getGstar_Mason_BE309.m|G*]]</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b> 11</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Tue, Nov. 20</b><br>
        Optical Trapping II <br> and Intro to Optical Trap lab module</p>
      <p><i><b>NO LECTURE THU, NOV. 22</b></i></p>
      <p><i><b>NO RECITATION FRI, NOV. 23<br>
        (Thanksgiving weekend)</b></i> </p>
 
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Mon, Nov. 19 - Wed, Nov. 21</b><br>
      <u>Lab manual for weeks 9-11: [[Media:20.309f06mod3.pdf|Fluorescence microscope construction III]]:</u>
      live-cell imaging, microrheology, actin cytoskeleton staining &amp; imaging</p>
      <p><b><i>NO LAB THU-FRI</i><br>
        <i>(Thanksgiving Weekend)</i></b> </p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
      <p>Papers referenced in the lab manual:<br>
      The [http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/courses/BE309/private/papers/Vukusic_BiolPhotStruct_Nature2003.pdf Vukusic paper] on photonic structures <br> and the [http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/courses/BE309/private/papers/Mason_ViscoelasticModuli_RheolActa2000.pdf Mason] and [http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/courses/BE309/private/papers/Lau_MicrorheolStress_PRL2003.pdf Lau] papers on microrheology and the complex viscoelastic modulus.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b> 12</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>[[Media:OpticsLect4.pdf|Tue, Nov. 27]]</b><br>
        Wave Optics, Interference & Diffraction</p>
      <p><b>[[Media:20.309_OpticsLect6.pdf|Thu, Nov. 29]]<br>
        </b> Fourier Optics, Resolution + <b><i>demo</i></b> </p>
      <p><b>Fri, Nov. 30</b><br>
        [[20.309:Presentations|Student presentations]] (Session #7)</p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Mon, Nov. 26 - Fri, Nov. 30</b><br>
        <u>Lab manual for weeks 12 - 13: [[Media:20309f06mod4.pdf|Optical Trapping]]</u></p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
    <p><b>Readings</b>
      [http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/AJPIAS-ft/vol_75/iss_1/5_1.html AJP paper by Appleyard ''et al.''] on the 20.309 traps,
      <br> and the [[Optical_Trap|wiki page about them]].</p>
    <p><font color=#aa0000>LAB REPORT #3 ([[Media:20.309f06mod3.pdf|Fluorescence Microscope]]) DUE.</font></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b> 13</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>[[Media:20.309_3DmicroLect1.pdf|Tue, Dec. 4]]</b><br>3D confocal microscopy</p>
      <p><b>[[Media:20.309_3DmicroLect2.pdf|Thu, Dec. 6]]</b><br>3D multiphoton microscopy</p>
      <p><b>Fri, Dec. 7</b><br>
        [[20.309:Presentations|Student presentations]] (Session #8)</p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Mon, Dec. 3 - Thu Dec. 6</b><br>
        <u>Lab manual for weeks 12 - 13: [[Media:20309f06mod4.pdf|Optical Trapping]]</u></p>
      <p><b>Fri, Dec. 7</b><br>
        Mini-Lab &amp; hands-on demo: 3D Imaging - two-photon microscopy</p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="5%" valign="top"><b>14</b></td>
    <td width="31%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Tue, Dec. 11</b><br>
      TBD &amp; end-of-term party</p>
    </td>
    <td width="34%" valign="top">
      <p><b>Mon, Dec. 10 - Wed, Dec. 12</b><br>
        Mini-Lab &amp; hands-on demo: 3D Imaging - two-photon microscopy<br>
      3D Image-stack Visualization, ImageJ</p>
    </td>
    <td width="30%" valign="top">
    <p><font color=#aa0000>LAB REPORT #4 ([[Media:20309f06mod4.pdf|Optical Trapping]]) DUE.</font></p>
  </td>
  </tr>
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