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* report on Fri 17 May lecture * credit for course * future * long term future (wrzesie�/listopad 2002) * short term future (czerwiec/lipiec/sierpie� 2002)

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* Fri 17 May lecture * Welcome back after 3 maja & juvenalia holidays! On Friday 17 maja the people who turned up had already downloaded DE-V0.02, and tried to compile and run. I helped with some minor comments, and everyone succeeded in getting things to the stage of running DEplates for one "field" of the 2QZ data, for one choice of Omega_m, Omega_Lambda, and plotting a real correlation function from this using plotcorrn.

Of course, some more work is still needed before getting correlation functions as nice as in the final results...

We discussed how to go from here, and it seems that within the constraint that people just work on the project during the Friday afternoon session, we have an efficient working style which is:

- Boud adds documentation and corrects bugs during the week

- on Friday, everyone else compiles/runs the new version and gives feedback on what bugs there are

which seems fine to me. Of course, (see below), there are only two official lectures left...

* credit for course *

I think I need to tell Andrzej Strobel/Woszczyk which students have officially participated in the course, so that you get credit for it.

This is the list of students based on the list membership (excluding PhD students and faculty, who don't need course credits!), please tell me if you think there is anyone missing who should get a credit:

- Micha� Fr�ckowiak - Marcin Hajduk - Rafa� Kosi�ski - Hubert Krzemie� - Bartosz Lew - Pawel Ludian

* future *

There are only two Fridays left in the academic year (if I've understood the calendar correctly):

Fri 24 May 2002 Fri 31 May 2002

* long term future (wrzesie�/listopad 2002) *

I will ask Andrzeji Kus/Strobel/Woszczyk what formal possibilities there are for a course next semester, but it seems to me that what is important is:

- that there is a "lecture course" where students (and faculty) can learn and get their hands on doing real cosmology research

- that the "undergraduate" students (I-V roku) can get credit for the course, since it takes time away from their other coursework

- that it would be best without exams, but if there is an exam, that the students are equally involved in designing the exam with the lecturer

Any opinions?

* short term future (czerwiec/lipiec/sierpie� 2002) *

I should probably take some holidays and go to some conferences, but so far my plans are still vague. If anyone (including III roku students) thinks that he may wish to continue on the project during

czerwiec/lipiec/sierpie� 2002

please say it on the list, or else at the next Friday lecture, as it is more interesting to work *with* someone than alone - maybe several people wish to work together at the same time. Probably it would be best if you put a probability. Here are my probabilities that I will be available in Toru� to work on the DE project in the next few months:

czerwiec 2002 95% lipiec 2002 80% sierpie� 2002 50%

If several people will be here in June (czerwiec), we could continue with the same time on Fridays, if this is convenient.

Na ra�e Boud