Radiations

March 31-April 6, 2002

Weekly Calendar

April 5, Friday Noon-1:00, Sevy CTR: Join Staff, friends, and Marc Allen, our P123 Speaker, for the first Physics Table of spring term. Meet in Olin 3rd lounge at 11:50 and we can walk over together, or join us at Sevy. Everyone is welcome.

April 5, Friday 1:10-2:10, Olin141: P123: What Physicists Do. Marc Allen (’71), Director of Strategic and International Planning, NASA. "NASA's Space Science Program and How I Got There." "I've found that career paths aren't linear, but seen to be guided in a complex and subtle way toward one's various interests and capacities. Certainly the career path that led me from Carleton to my current position was not a straight line. I'll talk about my personal experience over the 30 years since I left Carleton, what I do at NASA today, and describe some contemporary issures and challenges in the space science program."

April 5, Friday 8-10 pm, Goodsell Open House: Friday night is Open House at the Goodsell Observatory. The dome(s) will be open from 8:30-10:30 pm and open to everyone. Dress accordingly. The event will be cancelled if it is cloudy. If you have questions, contact Jesse Ball: email jball@carleton.edu phone x5719.

Copies of the introductory papers are available for your review in Second Olin Lounge

March 31, Monday 3:10-4:20pm, Olin 02, Dan Carlson’s Comps Presentation Talk,"Hydrogen Cars." The world’s dependence on gasoline is a dependence on limited resources. Hydrogen fuels hold the promise for independence from limited energy resources, polluting contaminates, and undesirable political relations with hostile oil producing nations. Hydrogen will be able to power our cars, our homes, and our factories while only producing the water from whence it came.

To check on dates and times of all comps talks see: http://physics.carleton.edu/Updates/fcompschedule.html

P123 What Physicists Do, A series of five lectures by invited speakers that is intended to give students some perspective of the kinds of work done by people with a physics background. This year’s speakers and their general fields of interest are listed below. (Four are former Carleton physics majors.)

April 5: Marc Allen (’71) Director of Strategic and International Planning, NASA. "NASA'a Space Science Program and How I Got There."

April 12: Greg Cibuzar (’80), Coordinator, Mictrtechonogy Laboratory, U of MN. "Applications of Micromachining."

April 19: Rush Holt (’70), U.S. Congressman from New Jersey (tentative). A former college physics Prof., Rush was Associated Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory for a number of years, and then successfully ran for Congress in 1998. He is one of only two Ph.D. physicists in that body.

April 26: Mary Hibbs-Brenner (’77), Honeywell. Manages a group developing lasers for fiber optics. "History of Laser Technology Development and Business at Honeywell".

May 3: John Stocke, Dept of Astrophysics, U of Colorado, Boulder. "Observing with the Hubble Space Telescope."

List of REU Sites by The National Science Foundation "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" Program. For further information concerning the REU Programs contact: http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/reu/reulist.htm. It lists all of the REU Sites and of some other activities. Contact each Site directly for specific information and for application procedures and deadlines.

List of REU and internship opportunities are also on the Carleton Physics Web page at: http://physics.carleton.edu/Updates/finternships.html

Location: Science General, QC125.2 .M385 2001, McCall, Martin W., CLASSICAL MECHANICS: A MODERN INTRODUCTION / MARTIN W. MCCALL, Chichester ; New York : Wiley, c2001.

Location: Main General, QC174.12 .L45 2001, Levin, F. S. (Frank S.), 1933-, AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM THEORY / FRANK SAMUEL LEVIN, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Location: Main General, QC174.8 .G35 1999, Gallavotti, Giovanni, STATISTICAL MECHANICS : A SHORT TREATISE / GIOVANNI GALLAVOTTI, Berlin ; New York : Springer, c1999.

Location: Main General, QC311.5 .E63 2002, Emch, Gerard G, THE LOGIC OF THERMOSTATISTICAL PHYSICS / GERARD G. EMCH, CHUANG LIU, New York : Springer, 2002.

Location: Main General, QC809.M37 C66 2001, CONTINUUM MECHANICS AND APPLICATIONS IN GEOPHYSICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT /BRIAN STRAUGHAN ... [ET AL.] (EDS.), Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2001.

Location: Main General, QD22.S436 A3 2001, Seaborg, Glenn Theodore, 1912-, ADVENTURES IN THE ATOMIC AGE : FROM WATTS TO WASHINGTON / GLENN T. SEABORG WITH ERIC SEABORG, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001