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I spent the first two or three weeks of this year helping with organizational aspects of the team than with research. I put together the first class meetings and helped Alissa transition into the team leader role by working on class schedules and assignments. I also re-organized the entire research Reasearch wing of the wiki and developed wiki organizational guidelines, as well as re-writing and organizing the Flow Control Module section of the wiki to use as an example of the organizational scheme.
My research set-up was not returned to the lab until the 3rd or 4th week of the semester, which is when I learned about the actual physical apparatus. Since then I have written a MathCAD sheet for the design. The sheet is not working completely yet, but it is largely done.
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