SummerVisit

At the moment, this is just a bulletized list of items we wish to cover. An actual agenda (with times and durations) as well as when these items occur will follow.

Sunday, 23 June

• Arrivals.
  • Lynn 1 adult 3 students pick up van 12:07 p.m. hang around airport or nearby beach to pick up Carol at 3:05 p.m. unless Carol arranges shuttle?
  • Peggy 1 adult 1:40 p.m. find Melissa's group for ride.
  • Melissa 1 adult 4 students pick up van 1:50 p.m.
  • Carol 1 adult 2 students 3:05 p.m., Lynn pick up or take SuperShuttle to Pasadena?
• Hotel - please double check your check out date is Friday, June 28 with Saga front desk.
• Evening. (Possibly) dinner or BBQ.

Monday, 24 June

• 8:00 Introductions and assembling of the hoards.
• 8:30-9:00 Tour of KS and meet Wanetta
• 9:00-9:15 Goals and agenda of the visit.
• Agenda for day 1.
• 9:15-9:45 Introduction to NGC 281 and SHIPs goals. Assign target protostars.
• NGC 281 Herschel photometry
  • Presentations by individual groups.
  • Discussion and Q&A on photometry.
• Break: Infrared portraits
• Common session: What is a source?

Tuesday, 25 June

• Python Tutorial #5: Plotting data and displaying images.
• Find near-IR, Spitzer counter part observations of your assigned protostar and assemble SEDs.
• Photometry discussions (continued).
• Plans for finalizing data.
• Division of final photometry list for subsequent analysis.
• SEDs -- Elise Furlan
  • How to generate color-color and color-mag diagrams.
  • How to generate SEDs
  • How to interpret SEDs
• Plots of 14 protostars.
• SEDs of 14 protostars.
  • Identify missing photometry.

Wednesday, 26 June

• Putting NGC 281 in context: Three short presentations on star-formation
  • Eagle nebula?
  • Orion
  • Taurus/Ophiuchus or other?
• Morning: SEDs and protostar discussion continued.
• Working on finding the missing photometry points.
• Assembling final data.
• Afternoon: OFF

Thursday, 27 June

• JPL tour
• Defining plans for achieving science goals for NGC 281
• Results for 14 protostars.

Friday, 28 June

• Departures.
  • Carol extended stay, 2 students 6:30 a.m. flight, shuttle?
  • Peggy extended stay.
  • Lynn 1 adult 3 students return van 6:10 p.m. flight.
  • Melissa 1 adult 4 students return van 10:35 pm. flight.

Evening excursions from the past

Our day time schedule is very structured, tends to be stressful/mindblowing and there is a hierarchy; Babar, teachers, students. My past groups have left the evenings to the design of the students. As a group they need to come up with where we are going, what we are going to do (wander is perfectly acceptable) and navigate us to these places (we drive, but they find and give directions). As much as possible we let them agree/disagree and come to a solution, we are just along for the ride (and a little supervision). The more these three separate groups of young people come together as a team, the more satisfying this experience will be for both adults and students.

Please add other ideas your group comes up with to these possible ideas are:

• First (Sunday) night, trip to nearby Target to pick up munchies/drinks for hotel and Caltech. Consider asking each person to contribute one object to munch (bag of chips, box of cookies, twizzlers, etc) for Caltech stash that we will leave in closet of our work room.
• Griffith Observatory
• Hike the Hollywood sign
• Santa Monica Pier, kids roam, adults sit and have meal
• Venice Beach = culture shock (in a good way)
• Walk the Universal City Walk
• One night, nice sit down dinner
• In and Out Burger seems to have some fascinated
• Mount Wilson (I haven't done, but other groups have)
• Sporting event (one group had big fan and those interested went to game, no idea what team, rest of group wandered the beach)
• Lunches - fast, need to get back to work!
  • At least one meal in the Caltech cafeteria with time to stop at book store
  • Walk to near by fast food, let kids scatter as long as no one goes alone, adults may choose to separate or use time to regroup w/o students
  • Use travel from JPL back to Caltech to hit In and Out Burger or other interesting chain.