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Next year while Helen and Barry are on sabbatical, we will be welcoming two visitors in the department! Valerie Fox was a visitor here during the 2020-2021 academic year covering…
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Physics Table
Bring your lunch and join folks in the amphitheater! Noon, Tuesday. Everyone is invited to this second-to-last Physics Table of the year.
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Final DCC meeting
DCC members, your last meeting of this year will take place on Thursday during common time in Olin 104. Don’t forget to RSVP to Trenne by Tuesday so she knows how much lunch to order!
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The Miracles Argument Meets Quantum MechanicsThursday, May 26, noon, Leighton 304
A talk by Cowling Visiting Distinguished Professor of Philosopy Laura Ruetsche (Physics and Philosophy double major from Carleton’s class of 1987, permanently at the University of Michigan),currently teaching Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Philosophy 319) at Carleton.Summary: Literally interpreted, many scientific theories purport to tell us about things we can’t see: electrons, quarks, etc. Scientific realists believe what successful scientific theories tell us. It would be a miracle, they argue, if scientific theories succeeded despite lying to us about the things we can’t see. That’s the Miracles Argument for scientific realism. Quantum Mechanics has a very good claim to being the most successful scientific theory anybody we know about has ever concocted. A variety of strange and wonderful and disconcerting things happen if we try to cast the Miracles Argument as an argument for realism about Quantum Mechanics. I will try to describe some of them. -
End-of-year IDEA team celebration
Please stop by the Bald Spot on Thursday afternoon from 3:15 – 4:15 pm! We’ll have all the fixings to make ice cream sundaes or rootbeer floats! You can also talk with IDEA team members and see what we’ve been working on this past year. ALL PHAS-interested or PHAS-adjacent folk are invited and welcome to come!
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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (LBNL) Building Technology and Urban Systems Division has an opening for a Research Associate to join the team.
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The California Regulatory Affairs team at the California ISO is seeking an intern for ~10 weeks during summer 2022. This would be a remote or hybrid position with a flexible schedule, located in Folsom, CA (outside of Sacramento).