• Ham Radio Station

    Is there anyone proficient in ham radios interested in resurrecting the Carleton ham radio station?  We have some equipment that has been sitting idle for too long.  If interested please see Tom Baraniak, Olin 208.

  • Summer On Campus Job-Carleton Weather Site Developer

    A summer position is available for a student to work on a major upgrade to Carleton’s weather site.  The project involves some electronics and a lot of computer programming, in Linux, PHP, and perhaps Python.  The goal is to develop and implement a single-board computer system which can communicate with all our weather sensors, gather and store data from those sensors and then pass those data to another computer.  We hope to have the new system up and running by the end of August.

    Carleton has been gathering and sharing weather data since 1881, and these data are the oldest official weather records in the state.  The current weather site pioneered some now-common methods of presenting weather data graphics on the web.  Most of the work on the current site has been accomplished by students, and we look forward to continuing that tradition.  We are looking for a motivated, capable student who is interested in this project.  Please contact Tom Baraniak, Olin 208 or Doug Foxgrover, CMC 225.

  • Cory Barnes’ Comps Talk

    April 7 (Wednesday) 3:10-4:20pm, Olin 02

    Join Cory as he gives his comps talk on “The Action Principle”.  Everyone is welcome.

  • Physics Table with Stephanie Chasteen

    April 9 (Friday) noon-1pm, LDC/’51 Dining Room
    Join Stephanie Chasteen, physics students, faculty and staff for lunch at the LDC.  Meet us on third Olin for the short walk over, or meet us there.

  • PHYS 123 Speaker Stephanie Chasteen

    April 9 (Friday) 1:10-2:10, LDC 104
    Stephanie Chasteen has used her physics PhD to pursue the teaching of science along a wide variety of correlated dimensions: Designing podcasts in the Exploratorium museum of science, writing about science for the public in print, producing stories for NPR and podcast, studying how junior physics majors learn best, and designing curriculum and workshops for high school teachers. She is particularly interested in how to communicate and teach science effectively, and will touch on some of the research behind teaching science as a science. She’ll explain how this multifaceted career path all makes sense — at least to her — and how she has managed to spin her physics training into a rich and rewarding career where not only is she her own boss, but she is always learning something new.

     

  • Joe Swiggum’s Comps Talk

    April 9 (Friday) 3:30-4:30pm, Olin 141(?)
    Join Joe as he gives his comps talk on “Historical Sound Film Technology and Human Experience”.  Everyone is welcome.

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