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Alice in Wonderland: 2008

[Group photo of 2008 participants]

[Photo from an Alice 2008 lecture]

[Participants at an Alice 2008 lecture]

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[Students at an Alice 2008 lecture]

Calendar of Events

January 22–March 22, 2008	Collecting questionnaires and essay (please tell us in one page or less why you want to join) from applicants; please mail both to demkov@physics.utexas.edu
April 4, 2008	Notifying finalists
June 9–20, 2008	Introduction to the Advanced Physics Summer 2008 Syllabus RLM 13.202, University of Texas at Austin, 10AM–Noon
	June 9 Alex Demkov, “Introduction and Logistics” June 10 Alex Demkov, “Introduction to Quantum Mechanics” June 11 Xuhui Luo, “Introduction to Quantum Mechanics” June 12 Alex Demkov, “Introduction to Quantum Mechanics” June 13 Rafael Longoria (George Shubeita), “Molecular Motors: Nanomachines Inside You!” June 16 Neliza Leon, “Introduction to Scanning Probe Microscopy” (Alex de Lozanne) June 17 Jasmine Ma (Sacha Kopp) June 18 Meg Creasy (Elaine Li) June 19 Visit to Professor Tsoi’s lab June 20 Ryan Fitzpatrick, ”Introduction to CVD and Surface Analysis Techniques”
June–August 2008	Participants worked in different groups:
	1. Alan Xu — Elaine Li 2. Marta Johnson — Elaine Li 3. Elaine Lee — Sacha Kopp 4. Albert Chen — Alex Demkov 5. Sam Wolf — Alex Demkov 6. Craig Daniels — John Ekerdt 7. Simone Seigel — George Shubeita 8. Avery Baker — George Shubeita
August 1, 2008	Final presentations and reports by participants:
	09:15–09:30 Alan Xu (Dr. Li), “Odds and Ends at the Li Lab” 09:30–09:45 Marta Johnson (Dr. Li), “Fixing the Spectrometer Using the Absorption Spectrum of Neon and Xenon and Observing the Absorption Spectrum of Plasmons” 09:45–10:00 Elaine Lee (Dr. Kopp), “Particle Physics and Programming” 10:00–10:15 Panxin Jiang and Andrew Vanderburg (Dr. de Lozanne), “Through the Microscopy Lens” 10:15–10:30 Albert Chen and Sam Wolf (Dr. Demkov), “Solid State Physics and Making a Website” 10:30–10:45 Craig Daniels (Dr. Ekerdt), “Self Assembly of Di-Block Copolymers” 10:45–11:00 Simone Seigel and Avery Baker (Dr. Shubeita), “Micro Motors and Fruit Flies” 11:00–12:00 Prof. Cecile de Witte–Morette, “Name Dropping”