Radiations

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Carleton College

October 21-27, 2001

Weekly Calendar

Monday, Oct 22, 1-2:30 pm Olin 302, Iowa State Engineering Program Nancy Knight from the Iowa State engineering program will be on campus, Monday, October 22 from 1 - 2:30 pm. She will be available to answer questions on their graduate program; cookies included. For more information contact Nelson Christensen.

Thursday, Oct 25, 12:00-1:00 pm 113 LCD, 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 in room 113 at the Language Center Dining Hall. Students off-board are invited to bring their lunch.

Friday, Oct 26, 3:30-4:30 pm Olin 02, Fall Seminar, John Prineas, "Semiconductor Quantum Wells: What They Are and What You and Astronomy Can Do With Them," University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy. John would like to have lunch and dinner with students on Friday. Dinner will be at the Tavern or Chipatas for 5 students and the speaker. Lunch will be in the East Dining Hall. If people are interested, please contact Bill by Wednesday afternoon.

Lucy Jago, will read from and sign copies of "Northern Lights: the True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis" on Thursday, October 25th at 4:30 pm. at St. Olaf in Science Center 280. Lucy Jago tells the story of the science-and the romance-behind the Northern Lights as she traces the grand adventure of the life of the visionary Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland. At age 31, Birkeland attempted to discover the origins of the aurora borealis. The book is partially an adventure narrative as Birkeland travels to the ice mountains of Norway and the deserts of Africa. It is also a biography of Birkeland. This quest cost him his health and sanity. Lastly, it is a science book detailing Birkeland's discoveries and inventions.

Comps Information, Comps information is now on the Physics web page at: http://physics.carleton.edu/Updates/fcompsinfo.html

Future Fall Friday Seminars:

11/02 Matt Hahn, Neutrino Oscillations; Tim O’Connell, Fitting of a Simple Mathematical Model to a Complex Simulation; Andrew Eppig, Stop-and-go, Ebb and Flow: Kinesin Mobility and the Brownian Ratchet

11/09 Suzanne Rousseau, CPT Symmetry and Optical Pumping; Doug Sigford, Students of the Solar Wind: A Scientific and Academic Endeavor; Henry Brock, Raising Walls and Food for Forty, Carpentry and Camp.

Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico), Summer Student Program. National Astronomy & Ionosphere Center, Cornell University, 504 Space Sciences Building, Ithaca, New York 14853-6801. email: jtm14@cornell.edu. Open to undergraduates. Deadline: February 15, 2002, http://www.naic.edu/about/summer/summer.htm

Columbia University REU. Materials Research Science and Engineering Center REU. Web: http://research.radlab.columbia.edu/mrsec/. Deadline: March 5, 2002.

University of Michigan REU Program. Summer Undergraduate Research Program, Physics Department, 2464 Randall Laboratory, University of MI, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1120. Open to rising juniors and seniors. Deadline February 16, 2002. For more info, see the web site at: http://www.physics.lsa.umich.edu/academics/research/

Montana State NSF/REU Montana State (Bozeman) will have 8 summer positions in materials research in an 8-week program. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. See http://www.physics.montana.edu/reu/. Deadline: March 24, 2002

Montana State University Undergraduate Research positions for summer 2002 with the Solar Physics group of the Montana State University Dept of Physics. See http://solar.physics.montana.edu/sol_phys/. Deadline: March 24, 2002.On-line applications will be posted at: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/sol_phys/reu

Ohio State University NSF/REU/OSU Open to all physics undergraduates.Web: http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/reu. Deadline: February 15, 2002.

Purdue University REU in Materials Processing research projects. For more information: http://MSE.www.ecn.purdue.edu/MSE/REU/Frame.html or contact Prof. Elliott Slamovich at elliotts@ecn.purdue.edu Deadline March 19, 2002.

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

Location = Science General. Q370 .B39 2001. Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, 20th International Workshop, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, July 8-13m 2000, Melville, N.Y., American Institute of Physics, 2001.

Location = Main General. QA805 .G6 2002., Classical Mechanics by Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, Johy Safko. San Francisco, Addison Wesley, c2002.

LOCATION = Science General. QC168 .G73 2001. Granular Gasses, by Thorsten Poschel, Stefan Luding (Editors), Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2001.

LOCATION = Main General. QC174.17.C45 K35 2001. Kamenev, Dmitry I. Quantum Chaos: A Harmonic Oscillator in Monochromatic Wave, by Dmitry I. Kamenev & Gennady P. Berman , Princeton, N.J. : Rinton Press, c2001.