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Robert Satcher's Self-Portrait

 
Astronaut Robert Satcher uses a digital still camera to expose take a self-portrait during the STS-129 mission's first spacewalk. During the six-hour, 37-minute spacewalk, Satcher and astronaut Mike Foreman installed a spare S-band antenna structural assembly to the Z1 segment of the station's truss, or backbone. Satcher and Foreman also installed a set of cables for a future space-to-ground antenna on the Destiny laboratory and replaced a handrail on the Unity node with a new bracket used to route an ammonia cable that will be needed for the Tranquility node when it is delivered next year. The two spacewalkers also repositioned a cable connector on Unity, checked S0 truss cable connections and lubricated latching snares on the Kibo robotic arm and the station's mobile base system. Image Credit: NASA
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Biomedical Optics Journal Club--option for independent study credit!

From Instructor: Dr. Small

This fall I am organizing a journal club for students (and anybody else) interested in biomedical applications of optics.  This is in place of the Physics 344 elective class, which was canceled due to budget cuts.  Interested students can receive 1 unit of independent study credit for active participation and giving a presentation, and 2 units if they also write a research paper.

You do not need to register for credit if you just want to attend the talks and learn something!  Anybody is welcome to attend!

Time: 4pm-5pm, Wednesdays
Place: Building 4, Room 4-2-314

Topics: Biological and medical applications of optics, including endoscopes, microscopes, retinal imaging, tumor imaging, optical coherence tomography, and fiber-optic sensors.

Schedule TBA.  Course readings and announcements will be posted at http://physicistatlarge.blogspot.com <http://physicistatlarge.blogspot.com/> .

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