Radiations
Department
of Physics and Astronomy
Carleton College
November 3, Tom Moore, ÒGeneral
Relativity in a NutshellÓ
Monday,
1:50-3:00 p.m., Olin 141
Tom Moore, Carleton '76, Professor of Physics
at Pomona College, and author of your Physics 115 textbook is giving a couple
of talks in the Department on Monday Nov 3rd, ÒGeneral Relativity in a
Nutshell,Ó aimed at approximately the level of Physics 115 students during 5a,
Olin 141.
Tom Moore, ÒComputational General RelativityÓ
Monday,
3:30 p.m., Olin 04
Be there (think of when you come back for your
talks in 27 years :-)!
Refreshments etc. will be on hand as usual.
November
4, SDA
Lunch
Tuesday,
noon-1:p.m., Olin 2nd Floor Lounge
Meet the Student Department Advisors, Brynn Barile and Clark Ritz,
and munch on Pizza. Find out about
the major, learn about the classes and meet more physics people.
November
5 - 7, James
Trefil - Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Wednesday, Nov 5, Lunch with Physics
students and faculty, Noon-1p.m.
Wednesday, Nov 5: Office Hour & Tea Time, 3:00-4:30 p.m., Olin 202,
Share cookies and discussion with
students and faculty on topics such as:
What it is like to be a writer; How science works; Graduate school and
careers in the sciences.
Thursday, November 6, Public Talk: ÒWho Killed the Dinosaures: A
Scientific
Detective StoryÓ, 7:00 p.m., Olin 149.
Friday,
Nov 7, Breakfast with students, 8:30-9:30 a.m.,LDC,
November 6, Physics Table
Thursday, 12:00-1:00 p.m., LDC 113 (Fireplace Room)
All physics students are invited to join the Department faculty
and staff for lunch and interesting conversation. We can meet on 3rd Olin at 11:55 for the short walk to the
dinning hall or you can join us there.
November 7, Goodsell Open House
Friday, 7:00
Ð 9:00 pm
Come
enjoy some fine celestial sights during our regularly scheduled open
house. If the sky is clear,
observing targets will be the Moon, Mars, double stars and globular clusters.
Enjoy
a really good show on Saturday, November 8 (if the weather cooperates). A total lunar eclipse will occur in the
early evening. The full Moon will
rise at sunset with the early phases of the eclipse already underway. The Moon will begin to enter the
darkest part of the EarthÕs shadow near 5:30 pm. Totality begins at 7:00 and lasts until 7:30 pm. This show will be visible from any spot
with a good view of the east southeastern sky, provided we have clear skies,
but telescopes at the observatory will be open from 6:30 to 8:30p pm for your
viewing pleasure.
FYI
Seniors: Arjendu wants to let you know that he will not be available
from Nov 21 -- Dec 23, so if anyone needs letters of recommendation with
deadlines during that time, now would be a good time to let him know.
2004 REU and
Internship Information
List of
REU and internship opportunities are also on the Carleton Physics Web page at http://webapps.acs.carleton.edu/curricular/physics/for_students/summer_jobs_internships/
Baylor University CASPER's Summer
Undergraduate Research Program offers undergraduates an opportunity for active
research participation with faculty in either the Center for Astrophysics,
Space Physics & Engineering Research or the Physics Department. For more
information see:
http://www3.baylor.edu/CASPER/NSFREU.html.
Application deadline: Feb 27, 2004.
California Institute of Technology Summer REU /NSF. Laser
Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. Undergraduate students are
encouraged to participate in the development of gravitational-wave astronomy
through the LIGO Project. For more information see the web site: http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LIGO_web/students/undergrads.html.
Application deadline is March 1, 2004.
University of Idaho Summer NSF/REU Program
in physics: The research focus is astrophysics, condensed matter physics,
plasma physics, and nuclear physics. Deadline for application is March 1, 2004.
For more information see: http://www.phys.uidaho.edu/.
Indiana University Astronomy Department.
Summer REU in astronomy research that includes a trip to the Kitt Peak National
Observatory. Projects include: photometry of variable stars, the determination
of the properties of star clusters from cluster color-magnitude diagrams, and
studies of the composition of stars and planets. For an application visit the
website at: http://www.astro.indiana.edu/reu/reu.html.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2004.
National Solar Observatory is a center for
excellence in solar physics. REUs include experiments to understand the physics
of the sun at high resolution; imaging; spectroscopy; and polarimetry in
optical and near-infrared wavelengths. Web site: http://eo.nso.edu/.
Deadline January 26, 2004.
Penn State University Department of Physics has been designated a
Research Experiences for Undergraduates site by the National Science
Foundation. This program is designed to give a group of undergraduate students
the opportunity to participate in frontier physics research at a major research
facility. http://www.phys.psu.edu/REU/gen_reu_info.html.
Deadline: March 1, 2004.
University of Rhode Island (URI)
Astrobiology Team invites undergraduate students to apply for summer undergraduate
research fellowships that are supported by the NASA Astrobiology Institute
(NAI). These are for science students who will have just completed their junior
year. For more information about astrobiology at URI, visit http://www.gso.uri.edu/astrobiology.
Application deadline: March 15, 2004. Women and minorities are encouraged to
apply.
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), located on
the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland, is
responsible for the scientific operations of the Hubble Space Telescope for
NASA. STScI announces an opportunity for highly motivated college
undergraduates to participate in a Summer Student Program. The program will run
ten weeks. exact start and end dates can have some flexibility. Deadline for
application is Feb 13, 2004. http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/summer.shtml
Washington University in St. Louis School of
Engineering & Applied Science REU Program in Environmental Engineering
Science. Details are available at http://www.env.wustl.edu/REU/reu.htm.
Application deadline: March 15, 2004.
University of Wisconsin-Madison The Astronomy
Department and the Astrophysics group of the Physics Department will host a
Research Experiences for Undergraduates program in Astronomy and Astrophysics
for the ten weeks from June 7 to August 14, 2004. Applications are due on Feb
1, 2004.
http://wisp11.physics.wisc.edu/~reu/
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