Here, I list a range of suggested topics. You can start emailing me your choice of partner (another student) and topic   

  -----  no earlier than Wed. Oct. 17th (8am),  no later than Fri. Oct. 19th (11:59pm) -------

after which I will assign you a partner + topic if you haven't decided. If you want to present a topic different from these, you have to get my approval before the same deadline The mid-term grades will be posted Oct. 29th, so if you drop the course, please be kind and inform your partner in-time.

Presentation Requirements:

1) Two people in the group may have their work partitioned as: one person does the presentation and the other answers questions. The total time allotted to each group is 10 minutes, out of which ~ 5 minutes are for talk and ~ 5 minutes are for questions/discussions. Penalty (not award) incurs if your talk runs overtime.

2)  Be physical in your discussion -- this is a presentation by a science major so I don't expect to see only descriptive words. Ask whys and hows, and answer them by synthesizing the information you've found.

3) You will fare better if you can produce an estimate -- an estimate that discloses the essence of the phenomenon and gives your audience a good quantitative understanding.

4) I would discourage using slides --- you've got only 5 minutes and have to be physical in your discussion. However, if you insist, you can email it to me at least a day ahead and I can project it using my laptop.

5. 5)The audience are encouraged/required to ask questions. You can get up to 2 bonus marks (above the full 10 marks for presentation) if you ask particularly interesting questions. In the past, this has been the most fun part and both audiences/speakers learn from it.
   

Presentation Topics: (suggestions)

Oct 26

1. age of the Sun/Solar system; Jaemyoung Lee + Eric Apilado

2. end of the Sun;

3. Faint young sun;  Maya + Jair

4. 4.solar energy on Earth; Darya + Yiqing Jin
   

5. 5.sun spot/solar cycle; Han Zhao + Daniel Mul
   

6. 6.solar rotation; Adit+Malav
   

Nov. 2

1. 1.solar interior; Liugeng+Ziyue
   

2. 2.blackholes;   Jasdeep & Shamama
   

3. 3.brown dwarfs; Yan + Dazhou
   

4. 4.pulsars; Troy Lin + Xuefei Fan
   

5. 5.most massive stars: Seyed+Ivan
   

Nov. 16

1. 1.Pop III stars;   Fardin+Hao
   

2. 2. a recent mission to Mars;  Emma+Genevieve
   

3. 3.star formation and giant molecular cloud;  Sara + Sally
   

4. 4.planetary cores and interiors;  Mathieu K-A +Gabriel Owh
   

5. 5. the Giant Red Spot;  Juan + Parampeet
   

Nov. 23

1. 1.atmosphere composition;
   

2. 2.Saturn’s rings; Yansong+Jiachen
   

3. 3.a Jovian moon; Alex Willis + Arvin Chen
   

4. 4.the Cassini mission results; Lily + Hayley
   

5. 5.the Juno mission: Baria + Reem
   

6. 6.green-house effect/Venus: Lukas + Nicholas
   

Nov. 30

1. 1.a recent mission to a comet;
   

2. 2.Venus’ loss of atmospheres: Michael + Jack
   

3. 3.uniqueness of Earth; Xiaoyi+Sheng
   

4. 4.habitable zone around stars; Nicole+Nimrah
   

5. 5.atmospheres of extra-solar planets; Farz Halim + Vikas
   

6. 6.terra-forming Mars; Cameron+Erik
   

Dec. 5

1. 1.asteroid impacts; Aazmeer Asif + Bratu
   

2. 2.cratering;  Bei Wang + Ashutosh Banjara
   

3. 3.Earth’s magnetic field; Torres Qian + Samantha Hassal
   

4. 4.planetary tectonics; Victoria + Kivanc
   

5. 5.earthquakes; Wing Sze Cheung + Jinoo Kim
   

6. 6.tornados and cyclones; Elie Park + Kass Fishleigh
   

7. 7.using solar power on earth: Viktoria + Mitchell

That’s all, people.