An Update

I finally charmed enough professors into being on my Ph.D committee. The motley crew consists of 3 controls people from MAE and one optimization prof from EE. I deliberately avoided having anyone with too much background in optics to avoid any potentially embarrassing questions, and I really want to emphasize that this is more a controls project than an optics one.

Since it looks like I'll actually be able to do my Quals this quarter, experiments have basically been nonexistent while I work on my prospectus. I'm trying go heavy on the detail to make things easier when its time to write the big boy, and right now I anticipate it'll clock in around 40-5o pages. Bigger than the average prospectus maybe, but I have been plugging away at this for some time after all. Its actually nice to review over everything at one time and see how much I've done...and how much I still have to do.

Graduation in 2010? Maybe not so far fetched after all.