DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

TA's/TI's for Fall last update 1/8/08 npb/ksmcf/slm/jlf/bw

TA =graduate TA, ugTA =underg TA, TI = underg Intern, TA's: Grad & Underg (TA + TI)

Typical TA and TI Responsibilities
(if different will be stated by the course)
Fulltime
 		Weekly Duties
 		Expected Number of Hours
Workshop or Recitation TA
 		Up to four workshops or recitations, grading and office hours. 16 hours
Laboratory TA
 		Two laboratories (both sessions) and grading; changing S'08 to Four laboratories per week and limited grading. 16 hours
Part-time TA's  do half the duties, see above.  8 hours
Workshop or Recitation or Grading TI One workshop or recitation, and/or grading.  5 hours
Laboratory TI

 		One laborator and sometimes grading.  5 hours
Time As Reported (T.A.R.)
(usually undergraduate)
 One Laboratory and/or Grading
 5 hours


Current enrollment for each course is indicated in the brackets. Prior semester enrollments are expressed using two numbers: First number
indicates enrollment at the beginning of semester, divided by a slash "/", the second number indicates final enrollment at the end of the semester.
 Enrollments that also have a plus sign(s) "+" is a cross-listed course with another course in our department and/or with another department(s),
first number our course, second number our other course or another department's.


FALL 2007

GRE
 Graduate Record Examination
 WOLFS 1+0



1+0

TA
 Justin Comparetta
Module Implementation
Temporary Assignment
 Practicum Module & Solutions Development (P217 & P235W - Fall 2007) WOLFS/BIGELOW
 0.5+0



0.5+0

Jr. Sr. Coordinator Drew Abrams
P100
 Nature Physical World
 MANLY
 0+3
current and prior enrollment 45/56 51/48 32/35 [51]
0+3
3-Workshops, pending enrollment
 TI-1
TI-2
TI-3
 Dan Linford
Manuel Alves
Cheng Sun
A104 The Solar System FRANK
0+3
current and prior enrollment 110/103 98/74 106/103 [93]
0+4
4 - Recitations
 T.A.R. (Grading only)
TI-1
TI-2
 		Carol Latta
Teresa Oeinck
Adi Robinson
P103 Physics of Music QUILLEN
0+4
current and prior enrollment 18/30 35/37 38/29 [28]*
1+1 or 0+4
10 students per lab, always three labs, fourth pending enrollment.
 		TI-1 (All TI's one lab each and lab grading)
TI-2
TI-3
 Dan Allan
Erin McPeck
Alexander Moore
A111 Elementry Astro WATSON
0+3
current and prior enrollment 19+2=21/30+12=42 16/14 5/14 [21]*
0+3
1- Recitation & 2-labs
 TI-1
TI-2 or T.A.R.  (One lab or recitation and grading)
TI-3
 Laura Arnold
Jeremiah Haremza
Cyprian Tayrien
P113 General Physics I JORDAN
4+2
current and prior enrollment 167/193 182/173 200/194 [188]*
4+2
17-20 Workshops depends on enrollment

(8 to 10 per workshop, maximum of 12, subject to chg)
  		TA-1 (All TA's do 4 wrkshps, grade, & ofc hrs)
TA-2
TA-3
TA-4
TI-1 (all TI's do 1 wrkshp each, special for 2)
TI-2
 Scott Barker
Mari Barrios
Ed Cramp
Justin Dressel
Nicole Rall
Jordan Webster
 		 
Mechanics Labs P113, 181 DEMINA
3+1+6
current and prior enrollment 162 /193 182/173 201+0=201/202+1=203  [183+0=183]
5+1+5
12 lab sections 
(36 per)		 TA-1 (All TA's two labs each + grading)
TA-2 
TA-3
Admin
 Irfan
Kiwan Park
Lan Qing
TBA

MSTI-1  (All TI's do one lab each)
MSTI-2 
TI-1 
TI-2
TI-3
TI-4 		Mihir Upadhyaya
Mihir Upadhyaya
Sara Lim
Nathan Farwell
Joe Panza
Sara Ripp
P122 Electricity & Magnetism MCFARLAND
5.5+1
current and prior enrollment  165/158 152/166 168/168 [221]*
5+3
16- 24 Workshops depends on enrollment

(10 per workshop, maximum of 12, subject to chg) 		TA-1 (part-time 2 wrkshps)
TA-2 (TA's do 4 wrkshps each, grade, & ofc hrs) 
TA-3 
TA-4
TA-5
TA-6
TI-1
 Greg Armstrong
Brian Eichman
Levi Greenwood
Christina Haig
David Rhodes
Kelly Sassin
Scott Warren
 		 
E&M Labs P122, 142, 182 DEMINA
2+1+12
current and prior enrollment 156/240 156+44=189/166+44=210 168+27=195/163+38+2=203 [211+40=251]
4+8
16 lab sections (36 per)
4x2x2=16 sec		 TA-1 (All TA's two labs each + grading)
TA-2
TA-3 (Lab Grader Only)
 Shantanu Agarwal
Shule Li
Anabil Chaudhuri

MSTI-1
MSTI-2  (All TI's one lab each)
MSTI-3
MSTI-4 
MSTI-5
MSTI-6
MSTI-7
MSTI-8
MSTI-9
TI-1
TI-2
TI-3
 Fook-Chin Chiang
Fook-Chin Chiang
Yunjin Choi
Mike Laski
Mike Laski
Joshua Troyer
Joshua Troyer
Kate Pacha
Kate Pacha
John Golden
Andrew Missert
Dylan Prendergast
P141 Honors Mechanics WOLFS
1+1
current and prior enrollment 44/36 28/43 35/46 [51]
1+1
Recitations TA-1 (4 recita, no labs, and exam grdng)
TI-1   ( one recita, hmwrk, exam grdng)		 Aaron Mislivec
Jason Robin
P141
 Honors Mechanics Labs   WOLFS
 0+3
current and prior enrollment 44/36 28/43 35/49  [51]
0+3

TI-1    (special 2 TI's; doing work of 3 TI's)
TI-2    		Adam Bublitz
Sam Harrold

Ti-4 - Python Tutorial
 Kristen Beck
P142 E&M (Honors) MANLY
1+1
current and prior enrollment 20/27 37/44 33/33 [50]*
1+1
Workshops
 TA-1  Fulltime
TA-2  Part-time or TI-1 Fulltime
 Greg Howland
Zheng Qi
P217 Junior E & M HAGEN
1+1
current and prior enrollment 19/20 30/36 29/24 [26]*
1+0
Modules
 TA-1  
TI-1     (grader)
 Azure Hansen
Jason Robin
P235W Classical Mechanics CLINE
1+0
current and prior enrollment 20/26 20/36 37/36 [29]*
1+0
Workshops/modules
 TA-1 Fulltime
 Andrew Stump
P243/P245/P445 Advanced Experimental Techniques I & Advanced Exper Tech. in Nuclear, Particle and Electronic Spin Resonance DEMINA
1+0
current and prior enrollment 28/28 23+1=24/23+1=24 22+1=23/28+0+0=28 [18+0+2=20]*
1+0

TA-1  David Starling
P254/440 20th Century Particle RAJEEV 0+0
current and prior enrollment 8+5=13/8+5=13 [10+8=18]
0.5+0

TA-1    (Part-time or MSTI-1_ TBA
P263 Comp. Meth.   BROWN
current and prior enrollment 24/31 1+21=22/0+21=21 1+27=28/2+23=25 [2+33=35]*

P264 Laser Systems   BOYD
current and prior enrollment 27/27  2+22=24/3+23=26  0+20=20/0+20=20  [0+21=21]*

P327/P427 Physics of Radiobiology I     KENG
current and prior enrollment 0/0 [1+1=2]

P331A/P531/O531 Intro to Quantum Optics  STROUD
current and prior enrollment (see P531)

P381A/P581 Particle Physics II THORNDIKE
current and prior enrollment (see PHY582)

P401/OPT411 Math Phys. I ALONSO
0.5+0
current and prior enrollment  22+11=33/17+10=27 2+5=7/17+16=33 10+13=23/27+21=48 [22+14=36]*
0.5+0

TA-1
TA-2 (Optics)		 Xiao-Feng Qian + P407
P407 Quantum Mechanics I HOWELL
0.5+0
current and prior enrollment 16/29 16/?  11/28 [22]*
0.5+0

TA-1 Part-time (grader) Xiao-Feng Qian + P401
P415 Grad. E&M TEITEL
0.5+0
current and prior enrollment 16/11 15/10 25/25 [25]*
0.5+0

TA-1 Part-time (grader) Stefanos Giampanis + P510
P427/327 Physics of Radiobiology I   KENG
current and prior enrollment (see P327)

P431/O463 Nano-optics     NOVOTNY
current and prior enrollment 0+4=4/1+7=8  2+9=11/2+13=15 [0+16=16]

P434/O463
 		Quantum Optics Latoratory
 		LUKSHOVA
current and prior enrollment 8 [0+2=2]

P438 Optical Communications Systems  AGRAWAL
current and prior enrollment 2+2=4/1+6=7  2+6=8/0+9=9  [1+8=9]*

P440/254 20th Century Particle Physics RAJEEV
current and prior enrollment (see P254)

P445/245W/243W Adv Experi Techni in Nuclear, Particle & Electron Spin Resonance
(see P243W)
 		BIGELOW
P454 Intro. Plasma I        MEYERHOFER
current and prior enrollment 8/3+0=8 2+1-3/3+5=8 [5+2=7]*

P498 Supervised Teaching I MANLY
P510 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics DAS
0.5+0
current and prior enrollment 13/8 17/11 10/10 [13]
0.5+0

TA-1 Part-time (grader) Stefanos Giampanis + P415
P516 E & M II  ORR
current and prior enrollment 13/13 [10]

P531/OPT551/P331A Quantum Optics I   STROUD
current and prior enrollment 14+4=18/4+6=10  6+1=7/0+6+3=9 1+4+3=8/0+6+5=11  [0+3+1=4]*

P564/A564 High Energy Astrophysics  BLACKMAN
current and prior enrollment 2+6=8/2+6=8 [1+3=4]

P581/P381A Particle Physics II  THORNDIKE
current and prior enrollment 0+8=8/0+8=8  0+6=6/0+6=6 [0+6=6]

P597 Research & Seminar Teaching  MANLY/RAJEEV
current and prior enrollment 24/25  15/15 7/25 [3]

P598 Teaching Workshop-group Leader Pedagogy   MANLY
current and prior enrollment 10/10 4/8 [0]



Total  Grads+Undergrads


(Total preferred {for future reference contingent on
enrollment} Grads & Undergrads)
 25+40

28+37

*** TA assignments to grad level courses are tentative and depend on
final enrollment and overall availability of TAs.  Courses not
required for graduate prelim exam are staffed with TAs based
on availability and course enrollment.




DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
page 2 of 2 SPRING 07

TA's/TI's for Spring last update 1/10/08 ksmcf/slm/bw/jlft
 
TA = graduate TA,  ugTA = undergrad TA, TI = undergrad Intern, TA's: Grad & Undergrad (TA + TI)
Typical TA and TI Responsibilities
(if different will be stated by the course)
Fulltime  Weekly Duties Expected Number of Hours
Workshop or Recitation TA Up to four workshops or recitations, grading and office hours. 16 hours
Laboratory TA Four laboratoires per week and limited grading. 16 hours
Part-time TA's  do half the duties, see above.  8 hours
Workshop or Recitation TI One workshop or recitation, and/or grading. 5 hours
Laboratory TI One laborator and sometimes grading. 5 hours
Time As Reported (T.A.R.)
(usually undergraduate)		 One Laboratory and/or Grading. 5 hours

Current enrollment for each course is indicated in the brackets. Prior semester enrollments are expressed using two numbers: First number
indicates enrollment at the beginning of semester, divided by a slash "/", the second number indicates final enrollment at the end of the semester.
Enrollments that also have a plus sign(s) "+" is a cross-listed course with another course in our department and/or with another department(s),
first number our course, second number our other course or another department's.

Underconstruction

SPRING 2008

P100 Nature of Physical World  DOUGLAS
1+0
current and prior enrollment spring only {83/82}{46/45}{64/67}[71]


TA-1
 Christina Haig
 		(1+0 or 0+3)
A102 Black Holes, Time Warps, etc. WATSON
 		2+1
current and prior enrollment  {107}{106}{73/102} [94]
(1+3)

TA-1(WebWorks)
TA-2
TI-3
 Drew Abrams
Justin Comparetta
Jae Yeon Song
P114 General Physics II DEMINA
4+4
current and prior enrollment
 {166/154}{167/164}{178/162}{175}[177]
 (3+4)
16-17 Workshops 10-12 each TA-1     (4 Workshops, hmwrk grding, office hrs)
TA-2 
TA-3 
TA-4                    
TI-1        (1 Workshop)
TI-2
TI-3
TI-4 		Mari Barrios
Brian Eichman
Kelly Sassin
Michaela Tscherneck
Manuel Alves
Kristin Beck
Adi Robinson
Cheng Sun
INTRODUCTORY
LABORATORIES
 P114/184;  P121/181;  P123/143/183 MCFARLAND
6+12
current and prior enrollment P114: {166/154}{167/166}{177/175}{177/]
P121: {199/196}{192/190}{221/202}[200/]
P123: {67/96}{33/59}{55/53}[60/]
P143: {25/3733/35}{27/30}[42/]
 currently: 1x4: 6.5 sessions, 1x1: 6 sections,
1x3: 3.5 sessions
 		(16+0 or 11+10, etc.)

Admin TA
TA-1         (4 labs each both A & B sessions, unless
TA-2          modified by Intro Lab Faculty)
TA-3
TA-4
TA-5
 A.S.
Shantanu Agarwal
Irfan
 Shule Li
Lan Qing
 Xin Ran

MSTI-1      (1 lab each = Both "A" & "B" sessions)
MSTI-2
MSTI-3 
TI-1
TI-2
TI-3
TI-4
TI-5
TI-6
TI-7
TI-8
TI-9
 Fook-Chin Chiang
Fook-Chin Chiang
Yun Jin Choi
Laura Arnold
Andrew Missert
Alex Moore
Joseph Panza
Sara Ripp
Kristin Sullivant
Erik Tobiason
Scott Warren
Jordan Webster
P121 Mechanics WOLFS
3+6
current and prior enrollment {199/196}{192/190}{220/200}[199]
(4+4)
10-11 Workshops 16-18 each TA-1            (4 Workshops each week)
TA-2
TA-3
MSTI-1
MSTI-2
MSTI-3
MSTI-4
TI-1
TI-2                (1 Workshop each week)
 Scott Barker
Greg Howland
Xu Wang
Joshua Troyer
Joshua Troyer
Mihir Upadhyaya
Mihir Upadhyaya
Dylan Prendergast
Zhen Qi
P123 Modern Physics EBERLY
1.5+0
current and prior enrollment {63/59}{55/56}{60/52}[60]
(1+3)
5 Workshops
10-12 each
 TA-1            (Workshops each week, grading and office hours)
TA-2             		Ed Cramp + P143 (1/2)
Justin Dressel
A142 Elementary Astro  QUILLEN 0.5+1
current and prior enrollment {4/6}{13/13}{9/9}[12]
 (0.5+1)

TA-1      (recitations, problem sets, labs, & grading)
TI-1        (depending enrollment may need TI)
 David Rhodes + A242 (1/2)
Sam Harrold
P143  Modern Physics -20th Century (Honors) EBERLY
1.5+0
current and prior enrollment {39/35}{27/32}{35/31}[44]
 (1+1)

TA-1         (workshops, grading, office hours)
TA-2
 		Greg Armstrong
Ed Cramp + P123 (1/2)
P218  E & M II THORNDIKE 
1+1
current and prior enrollment {16/23}{35/34}{25/19}[22]
(1+0)
Mod-recitations
 TA-1       (modules and grading)
TI-1         (1 recitation)
 Azure Hansen
Adam Bublitz
P227/MSC230 Thermo/Stat Mech GAO
1.5+0
current and prior enrollment {32/33}{18/21}{33/32} [31]
(1+1)
Mod-recitations TA-1          (modules and grading)
TA-2
 Huanjun Ding  (1/2)
Xiao-Feng Qian
P237 Quantum Mech of Physical Systems ORR
1+1
current and prior enrollment {28/29}{44/42}{33/31}[33]
 (1+1)
Mod-recitations TA-1     (modules and grading)
TI-1       (pending enrollment may need TI(s)
 Matt Bishara
John Golden
A242 Astrophysics II    FRANK 0.5+0
current and prior enrollment {10}{5}{6}[9]
(0.5+0)

TA or TI    David Rhodes +A142 (1/2)
P246 Quantum Mechanics HAGEN
1+1
current and prior enrollment {27/25}{27/26}{24/25}  [23]    (1+0)
Mod-recitations TA-1    (or experienced upper-level TI-1) (modules)
TI-1      (homework grading)
 David Starling
Jason Robin
P252/BME251 Biomedical Ulrasound
DALEKI  
current and prior enrollment {13/13}{13/13}{2+11=13}{3+8=11/3+8=11}[5+9=14]

P261/OPT261 Interference and Diffraction  FIENUP
current and prior enrollment {1+23=24/1+23=24}{2+31=33/2+29=31}
{0+25=25/0+25=25}
[1+39=40]

P262/OPT262 E&M Theory    
BERGER
current and prior enrollment {0+20=20/0+13=13}{0+16=16}{0=23=23/0+23=23}
[2+15=17]

P321/P521
 Solid State Physics
 TEITEL
current and prior enrollment [see P521]

P328/P428 Physics of Radiobiology II
KENG
current and prior enrollment 0 [1+1=2]

P382A/582
 Particle Physics II
 DEMINA
current and prior enrollment (see P582)

P402/4 Math Phys. II (2005 no longer cross-listed with
MTH 222&224)		 SHAPIR
0.5+0 
current and prior enrollment {7+1=8&8+0=8/8+1=9&8+0=8}{11&11=22}
{2(UG)+21=23(402),23/23(404}[(402)10,(404)8]
 (0.5+0)
(no longer cross-listed w/MTH) TA-1     (Grader)
 		Levi Greenwood + P418 (1/2)
P405
 Geometric Methods in Physics
 RAJEEV
current and prior enrollment [3]

P408 Quantum Mechanics II HOWELL 
0.5+0
current and prior enrollment {7/8}{15/14}{16/19}[1(UG)+8=9]
(0.5+0)

TA-1     (Grader)
 Dong Pan (1/2)
P418 Stat Mech I JORDAN
0.5+0
current and prior enrollment {9/10}{13/15}{19/22}[12]
(0.5+0)

TA-1     (Grader)
 Levi Greenwood +P402/404 (1/2)
P422/ECE452 Medical Imaging - Theory & Implementation     PARKER
current and prior enrollment {1+13=14/15+1=16}{0+11/0+11=11}{0+5=5/2+5=7}
[2+17=19]

P428/P328 Physics of Radiobiology II
 KENG
current and prior enrollment {see P328]

P435/OPT465 Laser Systems  GUO
current and prior enrollment {14+3=17/2+14=16}{3+23=26/1+23=24}{1+4=5/3+11=14}
[2+10=12]

P437/OPT467 Nonlinear Optics  BOYD
current and prior enrollment {4+2=6/4+2=6}{1+4=5/4+10=14}{3+2=5/3+2=5}[1+3=4]

P446/CHM466
 Nuclear Chem I (Nuclear Sci & Technology I)
 SCHROEDER
current and prior enrollment [0+0=0]

P455/ME435
 Intro to Plasma Physics II
 MEYERHOFER
current and prior enrollment
 {0+3=3/3+3=6}[0+0]

P457/ME437 Incompressible Flow THOMAS
current and prior enrollment {0+2=2}{2+5=7/5+3=8}{1+1=2/5+11=16}[3+3=6]

A453 Intro to Stellar Interiors and Atmospheres
 BLACKMAN
current and prior enrollment [1]


P499 Supervised Teaching II   MANLY
current and prior enrollment 7/[0]

P512 Renormalization
 DAS
current and prior enrollment {5/5}{1/8}[0]

P521/P321A Solid State Physics
 TEITEL
current and prior enrollment [7+1=8]

P534/O554
 Mechanical Effects in Atom-Field Interaction
 BIGELOW, BOYD, STROUD, ALONSO, HOWELL
current and prior enrollment [0+0=0]

P556/ME536
 Hydrodynamics Stability
 BETTI
current and prior enrollment [3+3=6]

P582/P382A
 Particle Physics II
 DEMINA
current and prior enrollment {6}{9}{6} [3]

A593
 Astro Theory Seminar
 STAFF
P597 Research  and Teaching Seminar     RAJEEV/MANLY
current and prior enrollment {15}{13/20}[5]

P599 Pedagogy & Group Leadership Training   MANLY
current and prior enrollment {5}{0/6}[3]

OPT287/MTH287
 Mathematical Methods in Optics and Physics         ALONSO
 0+0
current and prior enrollment {12+3=17}{16+8=24/16+18=34}[20+3=23]


TA-1
(0.5+0)



Total  Grads+Undergrads 


(Total Preferred future reference {contigent on enrollment} Grads&Undergrads)
26+28



(30.5+29)

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*** TA assignments to grad level courses are tentative and depend on
final enrollment and overall availability of TAs.  Courses not
required for graduate prelim exam are staffed with TAs based
on availability and course enrollment.


 
  SUMMER 2007
P113
P114
P121
P122
P123
P475
P492
P495
P595