Contact Information

Our main communication tool is Campuswire. Announcements will also be posted on Campuswire. You can email me, of course, but I am planning on using Campuswire instead of Massmails whereever possible.

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Office Hours

Office hours start in week 2.

• TA office hours and homework help: Mondays and Tuesdays, 6pm-8pm, Loomis 258.
• Prof. Pfaff holds additional office hours by appointment (typically after the Thursday lecture). If there is anything you'd like to discuss, please contact me in advance with the topic you'd like to discuss to make an appointment.

All email addresses end with "@illinois.edu"

• Prof. Wolfgang Pfaff, email: wpfaff
• Teaching Assistants:
  • Rares Fota, email: rfota2
  • Grace Garmire, email: garmire2
• Graders:
  • Maitri Ganguli, email: maitrig3
  • Ivan Wang, email: yifanw24
  • Zhili Zhou, email: zhiliz2

Email rules

Please stick to these to make sure your email won't fall through the cracks somewhere.

Emails will typically be answered within a business day (unless announced otherwise).

• Use your official University of Illinois email account.
• Put "PHYS486"in the subject line and include some words about the subject of your email. For example: "PHYS486: question about homework". This one is important. Your email may not the filtered correctly otherwise, and get lost or ignored.
• Include your full name somewhere in your email message (for instance, as a signature).
• Please check the schedule to see when assignments are due, and the home page for any announcements.
• Check if your request has already been answered elsewhere, like the website or a massmail.