• Physics Table

    April 20 (Friday), 12:00-1:00 pm, LDC 113

    Plan to have lunch with physics students, faculty, staff and P123 speaker Jessie Petricka at the LDC at noon. We can meet on 3rd Olin for the short walk over, or you can meet us there.

  • P123 Speaker Jessie Petricka

    Friday (April 20), 1:10-2:10 pm, Olin 04

    Jessie Petricka, an alum from 2001, is finishing his PhD at Yale. Jessie’s talk is entitled Ultra-Cold Molecules, Their Production and Application. All are invited to attend.

  • Dr. S. James Gates Lecture

    Friday (April 20), 5:00-6:00 pm, Olin 141

    Dr. Gates, The John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and the Center for String and Particle Theory Director, will give a lecture Susy and the Lords of the Ring. Come hear about supersymmetry, the possibility of new forms of matter and energy, and the particle accelerator ring called the Large Hadron Collider that will rule them all.

    Dr. Gates and The Teaching Company have created a DVD lecture seris Superstring Theory: The DNA of Reality covering far more detail than this lecture. For more information see http://www.teach12.com.

  • Virtual Laboratory for Earth and Planetary Materials Summer Internship

    The Virtual Laboratory for Earth and Planetary Materials
    (VLab) is pleased to announce an Undergraduate Internship
    Program for Summer 2007 for undergraduate students. The focus of the program is the application of computational approaches and visualization methods to supercomputing research. This includes digital simulation and advanced computation and several aspects of high-performance computing and scientific modeling and simulation as well as graphics, visualization, informatics, and high-performance network communications. Interns work with faculty members and their research groups on projects using high-performance computing environments to address problems in science and engineering that could not otherwise be attempted. This program provides an opportunity for a challenging and
    enriching educational experience for undergraduate students
    interested in pursuing graduate or professional education.
    Full-time, 10 weeks from June 4 through August 10, Stipend
    = $4,800
    For additional information, contact:
    Undergraduate Internship Coordinator, University of Minnesota,
    Supercomputing Institute, 599 Walter, 117 Pleasant Street SE
    Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
    Phone: (612) 626-7620. Email: uip@msi.umn.edu.
    Deadline for applications is April 30, 2007.
    http://www.vlab.msi.umn.edu/events/sumInterns.shtml

  • Physics T-shirt Time

    It’s that time of the year again…
    PHYSICS T-SHIRT TIME!!
    and we need designs!!!
    Get those creative juices flowing, because designs should be submitted to wiesnerv by 5 PM MONDAY, APRIL 23, so that people can vote on their favorite design by Friday, April 27.
    Remember the person who designs the winning t-shirt not only wins the coveted physics t-shirt designer of the year award but a FREE T-SHIRT too. (Wow, people, that is quite the incentive…) Like last year, t-shirts will be about $12 and orders forms will be due by Monday, May 4. If nobody submits any designs, there will be NO physics t-shirt for 2007 and we all know that would be very bad, so don’t let that happen. Get excited, and send me your designs before 5 PM Monday, April 23.
    Let the games begin…

  • Robotics Club Success at Trinity

    The results for the Trinity College Firefighting Contest are in https://secureski.com/TrinityScoringExtras/WebStatus.aspx and the Carleton Robitics Club was phenomenally successful. Due to extremely tight competition this year, they placed 5th in both divisions [walking and rolling]. But here’s some stats for you to mull over:

    • Carleton’s rolling entry, Tom Thumb, was able to extinguish the candle on ALL THREE of its trials, which is no small feat.
    • Carleton’s score (cumulative time to extinguish three candles, plus deductions) this year 124.297. Last year, our score was 1241.179. That is, they literally improved our score by a FACTOR OF TEN!
    • The top score last year was 635.437. If we’d been competing against last year’s pool, we would have won by a landslide.
    • This is the first year that Carleton’s team has competed in the walking division. Their entry, Slug Bug, participated in all three matches. It didn’t find the candle, but none of the competitors did either! This is an extremely hard engineering problem, but infact they’ve solved it — the shortcomings in this case were relatively minor: (calibration errors as batteries discharge, combined with line detection issues). If they go back next year, they expect to be the leader in this division.
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