Mean: 60.21 (75.26%)
Median: 62 (77.5%)
Standard Deviation: 10.18 (12.73%)
Range: 41-74 (51.25-92.5%)
If you'd like to look through your second exam, please email me a time you'd like to stop by my office. Thank you for a great semester and best wishes for spring 2013.
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12/07/12: A. Johnson, Ramezani, Zhang
12/10/12: Gruba, Irwin, Qiu
12/12/12: F. Johnson, Ricarte
Your slides should be submitted to me via email by 5 pm the day before your presentation.
You should plan for a 12 minute presentation with an additional 5 minutes for questions from the class.
]]>Goal: Identify an unanswered analytical chemistry research question and choose an appropriate spectroscopic technique to explore it
Deliverables: White paper (grant overview), outline of experiments, and 12 minute presentation
Grade:
*White paper and outline - 15% (Due 11/30/12)
*Presentation - 15% (12/03, 12/05, 12/07, 12/10 or 12/12/12)
Initial step in the grant-writing process.
Single-spaced 12 point or larger font; limit document length to 2 pages including figures with minimal necessary references on additional pages (white paper) and an additional 2 pages of experimental outline.
Please address the following topics in your white paper/outline:
Background/context: emphasis area and problem to be addressed
Objective: what you plan to accomplish in a three-year program
Rationale: value to the scientific community and/or general public
Novelty: role of this research in advancing knowledge and state-of-the-art
Approach: strategy for addressing the problem
Results: anticipated output of a successful effort
Funding Request Amount: a per-year approximation of overall funding requirements
Include: sample preparation, control experiments, analysis methods
For the presentation:
12 minute in-class presentation + 5 minute Q/A period
Done on 12/03, 12/05, 12/07, 12/10 or 12/12/12
(let me know if one of these dates does NOT work for you)
White board or powerpoint
-submit copy of presentation by 5 pm on day before
Keep audience in mind
Pay special attention to correct referencing/citation
A great resource on this topic is http://www.microscopyu.com/articles/superresolution/index.html.
Here are the discussion questions:
1. What is the diffraction limit and why do we want to overcome it?
2. What is a photoswitching molecule?
3. Why are they critically important for sub-diffraction fluorescence imaging?
4. How is a diffraction-limited signal converted into a sub-diffraction image?
5. Why is the emission maximum red-shifted from the absorption maximum?
6. Describe the 3 major classes of photoswitchable dyes discussed here.
7. What experiment would you pursue using sub-diffraction fluorescence imaging?
We will finish this set of notes and then discuss the subdiffraction resolution paper posted in a separate entry.
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