Radiations

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Carleton College

November 11-November 17, 2001

Weekly Calendar

Monday, Nov 12, 1:50-4 pm Olin 02, CANE I, "Kevin Pettit would like to announce CANE I, the first Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics. It will be held on Monday, November 12th from 1:50 - 4:00 in Olin 02. Its poster session will be on the 2nd floor and everyone is encouraged to attend both the invited talks and the session following where the P128 physics students will present posters on the experiments they've done. If you'd like to present a poster yourself at CANE, please speak with Kevin. For more details, please see the homepage for A&N."

Thursday, Nov 15, 12:00-1:00 pm, Physics Table, End-of-the-term Physics Table. Join the department staff for lunch and good company. We can meet on 3rd Olin at 11:50 for the short walk to the new dinning hall or you can meet us at the Language Center Dining Hall. Students off-board are invited to bring their lunch.

Student Employees: Timesheets need to be totaled and signed by the time you leave for winter break. Please come by the department office and check the timesheet binder for incomplete sheets. Getting paid for hours worked is a good thing!

Wanted, a house-plant-cat sitter from December 13 to 18. If interested, contact Bill Titus.

New Web Site for Students planning graduate study in Physics: AAPT would like you to be aware of a website designed to be a searchable online directory for researching graduate programs in the physical sciences, engineering and related fields. The site also provides other useful resources for students and academics. For more information go to http://www.gradschoolshopper.com.

Official National Science Foundation REU page: http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/reu/reulist.htm

The American Physical Society and IBM will co-sponsor a research internship program for undergraduate women in the summer of 2002. This is a salaried summer internship at one of IBM's U.S. research centers located in San Jose, CA; Yorktown Heights, NY; or Austin, TX. Information on the program, eligibility, and how to apply may be found http://www.aps.org/educ/cswp/ibmintern.html Deadline to apply is January 31, 2002.

Montana State University Department of Physics, Solar Physics group offers a limited number of competitive Undergraduate Research Positions for ten weeks during the summer of 2002. Projects can range from research in solar MHD and plasma physics, to space science hardware development, and analysis of data from solar physics space missions such as Yohkoh, TRACE, and HESSI. For more details visit our web page, http://solar.physics.montana.edu/reu/, or contact Piet Martens (martens@physics.montana.edu). On-line application forms will be posted in early 2002. The deadline for applications is March 24, 2002.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute summer REU in projects in astrophysics, biophysics, condensed matter, optics, and nuclear & particle physics. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/REU/AvailabilityNEW.html. Deadline: March 1, 2002.

Past and Current REU Information: http://physics.carleton.edu/Updates/finternships.html