I'll have the most important announcements

at the very beginning of the class.

So I'll be talking about stuff like, what's covered

on the midterm, what's expected

from your proposal assignment et cetera at the very beginning.

So, you definitely want to show up on time,

show up early get a sit,

be prepare because most important stuff is going to be

in that first five minutes.

OK. Oh, and by the way, feel free to interrupt

if you have any questions.

OK. So, don't hesitate to interrupt if anything comes up.

OK. So some announcements today, and again,

announcements will come

out at the very beginning of each class.

Our reading assignments this week,

I like you to obtain a textbook, it's available on the bookstore,

there are big stack of them when I visited last week.

>> They ran out.

>> They ran out?

Oh, well it's good.

OK. If they ran out, Amazon.com has them on sale

and you can get them delivered very quickly.

OK. And I know for while, Amazon was selling them

at some ridiculous discount, so.

I know because as one of the co-authors, I'm very interested

in how they're selling.

Along those lines, as one of the co-authors, I'm planning

to donate the profits of the book to anyone

in this classroom back to UCI for--

to support research in chemistry.

OK. So, I'm requiring a book that I wrote.

I'm obviously aware that I'm going to profit from that.

The profits will go back to UC Irvine.

OK. So if you have a copy of the course reader

from previous years, please throw it away.

OK. It's not going to be any good.

I mean it's good, but I've changed the material quite a bit

and the textbook is significantly improved,

the problems are slightly different.

I think it's-- the figures are much better, et cetera.

And of course it was edited.

So, the course reader

for previous years is not going to carry you.

You need to buy a copy of the textbook.

So, Natalie how does the sound sound?

>> It sounds great and I'm sorry.

Just one quick announcement.

I know this is [inaudible] tiny words could be difficult.

So, we can just work on not having to come back here

since I had like 10 minutes to set up.

And just go through the classroom on that side,

it would be it would super helpful [inaudible].

The benefit is though to you

that probably [inaudible] lecture.

All of these lectures will be available in YouTube.

>> Cool.

>> So, if you can bear with all my equipment then you can watch

these and enjoy them as many times you want.

>> Thank you Nathalie.

Yeah. So, yes, they will be posted online for you.

So, you can enjoy them and study from them et cetera.

The goal here is that you UC Irvine is one

of the very first Universities to have both lecture class

and the laboratory class in chemical biology.

We started these back in 2000

when I was an assistant professor.

And since that time, we've obviously built up quite a bit

in terms of our sophistication of presenting the subject.

And so my goal is to really bring that level

to other universities around the world and around the country.

So, any that's why we're doing this.

But it also has some benefits to you as well.

OK. So reading assignment for the first week.

Read Chapter 1.

I'm going to be covering all the material in Chapter 1

so there's nothing for you to skim through

or anything like that.

On future chapters, there will be stuff

that I won't be covering and I'll tell you when that happens.

OK. And you'll notice when it happens.

OK. If you want to get a head, start reading Chapter 2.

Chapter 1 is pretty basic.

Chapter 2 then starts getting more advanced.

Homework. Do the problems in Chapter 1,

all of the odd problems and also all of the asterisked problems

and let me add that do this.

So, all the problems that have an asterisk are--

the answers to all the problems

with an asterisk are available online.

So, I'd like you to do those as well.

OK. And then in addition, we'll be posting a worksheet,

number 1, on the website.

It's not there yet but it'll be posted very-- oh, it is there?

>> Well, it'll be this afternoon.

>> It'll be posted afterwards.

OK. So, we'll be posting that.

That will form the basis for the discussion sections.

Please work the worksheet as well.

OK. So, before I get started, before I delve

through very much more.

I want to tell you what you should be paying

attention towards.

The first thing are these announcements

that I'm giving you.

What's discussed in lecture?

The discussions that I give you in lecture are your guide

to what I think it's important.

OK. So, right before the midterm, you're going to want

to know, what do I need to know on the midterm

to get an A in this class?

And my answer is always the same which is,

what did I talked about in lecture?

What I talk about in lecture is what I think is important.

I have a limited amount of time for these lectures.

I'll be doing two lectures per chapter

of an hour and 20 minutes each.

And so, if I talk about it in lecture,

I'm telling you I think this is important.

This is something you need to know for the midterm.

OK. So, what's discussed in lecture is super important.

This includes both slides and anything else that's posted

to the website, discussion worksheets

and then the discussion in discussion as well.

If you're sitting on the left side of the classroom,

can I ask you to sort of scooch

in if you have an empty chair on your right.

So, just to create some more extra chairs

because we have people that are arriving late.

So, just sort of scooch over please.

Thank you.

OK. The next most important thing is assigned reading.

But filter the assigned reading through the filter,

through the lens of what I talk about in class.

If I talk about it in class that's telling you it's

important, if I don't talked about it, less important.

And then finally, the problems

in the textbooks as least important.

Good news, there's a few things

that you don't have to worry about.

The first of these are references on the slides.

I find it almost impossible to do stuff

without having some referral back to the literature.

That's sort of the nature of scholarship

and it totally impossible to get me to stop doing this.

When Dave and I wrote the textbook, for example,

we had a list of references that's like 10 times longer

than the one that's posted to the website.

And we found it totally impossible,

the publisher told us to stop doing it,

to leave out those references.

And so, references are basically the currency

that underpins what I'm telling you.

But on the other hand, this is an introductory class.

So, don't get worried about those.

OK. If you take a graduate class and they have references

on slides, you'll want to look up those references.

But on an undergraduate level don't get worked up about it.

OK. So, don't stress about those.

In addition, don't stress about stuff that's covered

in the textbook that we don't discuss in class.

OK. So if I, you know, I've said this before.

If I don't discuss it class and it's

in the textbook, don't worry about it.

OK. So, the text is written as sort

of an advanced undergraduate early graduate level.

And there's material there that's frankly graduate level.

But I don't want you to get stressed out about it.

OK. So, if don't talk about it in class, that's my signal

that I don't think it's so important for you to learn.

OK. Any question about what I'm telling you?

Hey.