61. Chaos = Order: WUSTL Physicists Make Baffling Discovery Apr 3, 2006 Da police are not here to create disorder; dere here to preserve disorder. — Richard J. Daley, Chicago mayor, explaining to the media the http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/6845.html

nothing = 1; - Faculty Experts - News by Topic - News by School WUSTL in the News - Powered by Google WUSTL Home Public Affairs Home University News Medical News ... News Tips Chaos = Order: WUSTL physicists make baffling discovery Pandemoniumm on demand By Douglas M. Main April 3, 2006 "Da police are not here to create disorder; dere here to preserve Richard J. Daley, Chicago mayor, explaining to the media the role of the police during the riotous 1968 Democratic National Convention. Sounds impossible, right? Wrong. David Kilper/WUSTL Photo Wessel (left), Brandt and Dellen with "oscillating" pendulums. According to a computational study conducted by a group of physicists at Washington University in St. Louis, one may create order by introducing disorder. Physical Review Letters Insights into other realms The physicists' research is not only hard to grasp for non-physicists, but puzzling for physicists, too. As supervisor Ralf Wessel, Ph.D., Washington University associate professor of physics said, "Every physicist who hears this is surprised." Research on the role of disorder in complex systems is quite new and not well understood. Wessel hopes that one day its theoretical understanding will be better than it is today.

62. IMPORTANT PHYSICISTS Interrelationship between some selected physicists and between the physicists and their institutions. The period covered is roughly from the middle of the http://home.att.net/~halgreenhouse/index.htm

IMPORTANT PHYSICISTS The purpose of this web page is to show the interrelationship between some selected physical scientists and between the scientistists and their institutions. The period covered is roughly from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. The selection of the scientists is based on their contribution to the atomic or molecular or crystalline structure of matter. 177 scientists have been selected. Some scientists have been omitted by error and many have been omitted intentionally. The periods during world war one and world war two have been mostly omitted. The link "SCI-LIST" is an alphabetical listing of the scientists and the institutions they attended. The link also lists the abbreviations of the institutions. The "SCI-LIST" link should be opened first as it will give you the selected scientists and their related institutions. The other links, except the links "INFLUENC" and "TEACHERS", are institutions. Within each of the institutional links is a chronological listing of the selected scientists at that institution. The list of scientists is not complete and there is not a link for every institution. Some institutional links have been omitted because too few of the selected scientists attended them. Of the 146 institutions, there are links to 30 of them. The content of the institutional links is niether a biography nor a description of their accomplishments. It is only of the institutions they attended and when.

63. GT | Physicists Discover Gold Can Be Magnetic On The Nanoscale Atlanta (February 28, 2008) —physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made two important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale. http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1738

64. The American Institute Of Physics -- Physics Publications And Resources Gateway for news, jobs, and other physics resources. AIP is a leading STM publisher of research journals, proceedings and other scientific publications. http://physicists.org/

About AIP Member Societies Governance News ... Career Network SEARCH AIP Dedicated to the advancement of physics, AIP serves a federation of physical science societies , and provides leadership through its own programs and publications. more Roster of distinguished speakers announced for May 9th History of Science Symposium honoring Spencer Weart Scopus Cited-by Counts Now Appear on AIP Journal Pages Executive Director Dylla's letter on open access published in The Boston Globe more news Physics and astronomy department names chair Physics Today Nanobowl Video Contest Winners Announced American Physical Society The Republic of Cyprus bestows the highest honor to physicist Ernest Moniz Physics Today What's a physicist worth? Latest salary data from AIP's Statistical Research Center highlights PhD employment. more more from the Statistical Research Ctr all featured stories Energy publications now free online ... Two seminal AIP Conference Proceedings address energy research of the '70s and '80s. With over 75 years of experience in technical publishing, AIP's Publishing Services provides for society publications.

65. The Monitor Ep. 3 - Malaria, Physicists, Video Game Science, Cousin Love [Video] Feb 13, 2008 3 Malaria, physicists, Video Game Science, Cousin Love Video. The science news roundup that doesn t insult your intelligence or put you http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=monitor-malaria-physics-video-games-cousin-l

66. Physicists Fire Up Strontium Atomic Clock | The Register US physicists are rather pleased with themselves having perfected a clock so accurate it will neither gain nor lose even a second in more than 200 million http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/18/strontium_atomic_clock/

var RegId = 75077; Skip to content Biting the hand that feeds IT Events Hardware Software Comms ... Science Science: Environment Biology Physics Space SetPromptText('q', 'Search'); Reg Hardware Reg Developer Channel Register Whitepapers News Tools Reg Mobile Reg Desktop News Alerts Reg Shops Reg Merchandise Books/Online Learning Top Stories Botanist sues to stop CERN hurling Earth into parallel universe Boffin stacks 16 PS3s to simulate black hole collisions Boffin seeks US Blu-ray, mobile phone import ban Mobo maker builds 'powerless' processor cooling fan ... Read more top stories Related Whitepapers The Register Webcast - Desktop Support : The Hub of IT Watch the webcast of The Register's recent desktop support seminar Building the Virtualized Enterprise with VMware Infrastructure Achieve your cost-saving goals The Register Guides: Storage Virtualization An introduction to the implications for enterprise IT Case Study: VMware Virtual Desktop WTC Communications Keeps Rural Kansas Connected The status of iSCSI Across the chasm, past the trough of disillusionment... Using VMware VDI for thin-client desktops Case Study: Kane County The Register Science Physics Physicists fire up strontium atomic clock +/- one second per 200 million years By Lester Haines More by this author Published Monday 18th February 2008 14:02 GMT Improve IT Culture and employee satisfaction in your business - Sign up for the latest RegCast here US physicists are rather pleased with themselves having perfected a clock "so accurate it will neither gain nor lose even a second in more than 200 million years", Reuters reports.

67. Caltech Physicists Successfully Split The Bill | The Onion - America's Finest Ne PASADENA, CA—The party found the $284.57 bill to be an irrational number for eight people to pay at a Cheesecake Factory chain restaurant. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52324

afns_ad_redirect = ""; afns_base_url = "http://www.theonion.com/content/"; @import "/content/themes/onion/page/elements/global.css?v1"; @import "/content/themes/onion/page/elements/print.css"; @import "/content/themes/onion/style/pages/article.css"; @import "/content/themes/onion/style/partials/article_tools.css"; @import "/content/themes/onion/home/elements/slideable.css"; @import "/content/themes/onion/page/elements/body-box.css"; @import "/content/themes/onion/style/partials/embeddable_styles.css"; The Onion Caltech Physicists Successfully Split The Bill Enlarge Image Physicists discuss the ground-breaking new process. "This is an important day for us, not only because it marks Professor [Wayne] Newbury's birthday, but because we have accomplished a feat thought unimaginable ever since [late computational physicist Philip] Eisenreich found that it was impossible to calculate how a group of paired bodies, set in motion by the presence of a solid-state check, could come to rest at a non-variable, evenly distributed mathematical constant," said lead party organizer and theoretical physicist Dr. Cynthia Dreyfuss. "When the check came, we all immediately agreed that the total of $284.57 could be defined as an irrational number of dollars for a party of eight to spend at a chain restaurant," said Dreyfuss.

68. Mathematics For Physicists And Electrical Engineers mathematics curriculum for physics and electrical engineering students. http://www.rbs0.com/math.htm

Mathematics for Physicists and Electrical Engineers The following paper was prepared in 1988 when I was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the main campus of The Pennsylvania State University and a member of the Electrical Engineering Department's Curriculum Committee. There are two reasons that this paper is posted here on the Internet: Encourage mathematics teachers and professors to concentrate on certain topics, and to include derivations and "word problems" on every examination. Inform pupils and students who are contemplating a career in engineering, chemistry, or physics that mathematics is not only important, it is essential to the practice of those professions. cite as: Ronald B. Standler, "Editorial: Mathematics for Engineers," The Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and Its Applications, Vol. 11, pages 1-6, Spring 1990. Why is mathematics important to engineers? And what in mathematics is most important? The dialogue about mathematics for engineering students must not be confined just to engineering faculty at four-year universities. Many undergraduate engineering students transfer from two-year colleges, where they took all of their mathematics classes. And all engineering students receive their mathematics "basic training" (in algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry) in high school. I hope in this essay to influence mathematics instructors, particularly those who have little contact with professors of engineering, to consider the needs of their students who will be going on to engineering careers.

69. AYPT - Home Welcome to AYPT.at, the official website of the association AYPT Forschungsforum junger Physiker (Research Forum of Young physicists). http://www.aypt.at/

Research Forum of Young Physicists Zur deutschen Version wechseln Home Home Basic Info The Tournament Association ... Contact Welcome to AYPT .at Welcome to AYPT .at, the official website of the association AYPT - Forschungsforum junger Physiker (Research Forum of Young Physicists). Here you will find all information on the Austrian Young Physicists' Tournament ( AYPT ), the association behind it and on Austrias participation in the International Young Physicists' Tournament ( IYPT News Due to a shortage of funds we are unable to extend the AYPT until Sunday as planned. For further information please refer to the invitation and the updated preliminary schedule of the 10 th Austrian Young Physicists' Tournament 2008. Basic Info If you are here for the first time, or if you know little or nothing about the AYPT we recommend to get a good overview of what the AYPT is about in the section Basic Info The Tournament Past and future participants as well as everyone interested in the tournament will find all data, facts and info related to past and present AYPT s in the section The Tournament Association In the section Association you will learn about the association which stands behind the AYPT . Read all about the goals of the association, its articles of association and structure and learn how to become a member.

70. Antigravity Machine Patent Draws Physicists' Ire Nov 11, 2005 A perpetualmotion machine may defy the laws of physics, but an Indiana inventor recently succeeded in having one patented. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1111_051111_junk_patent.html

NEWS HOME ANIMAL NEWS ANCIENT WORLD ENVIRONMENT NEWS ... WEIRD NEWS Antigravity Machine Patent Draws Physicists' Ire Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News November 11, 2005 A perpetual-motion machine may defy the laws of physics, but an Indiana inventor recently succeeded in having one patented. On November 1 Boris Volfson of Huntington, Indiana, received U.S. Patent 6,960,975 for his design of an antigravity space vehicle. Printer Friendly Email to a Friend SHARE Digg StumbleUpon Reddit RELATED "Jerk-O-Meter" Measures Phone Rudeness Digital Dog Collars to Help Track Fido's "Friends" New Backpack Generates Its Own Electricity Accidental Find to Signal "Lights Out" For Incandescent Bulbs? Volfson's craft is theoretically powered by a superconductor shield that changes the space-time continuum in such a way that it defies gravity. The design effectively creates a perpetual-motion machine, which physicists consider an impossible device. Journalist Philip Ball reported on the newly patented craft in the current issue of the science journal Nature.

71. Physicists Find Way To ‘see’ Extra Dimensions (Feb. 2, 2007) Feb 2, 2007 Peering backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of WisconsinMadison have devised an approach that http://www.news.wisc.edu/13422

UW-Madison Home News from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Search term: Submit search: UW-Madison News > Physicists find way to ‘see... Physicists find way to ‘see’ extra dimensions Feb. 2, 2007 by Jill Sakai Peering backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an approach that may help unlock the hidden shapes of alternate dimensions of the universe. A computer-generated rendering of a possible six-dimensional geometry similar to those studied by UW-Madison physicist Gary Shiu. Image: courtesy Andrew J. Hanson, Indiana University Scientists developed string theory, which proposes that everything in the universe is made of tiny, vibrating strings of energy, to encompass the physical principles of all objects from immense galaxies to subatomic particles. Though currently the front-runner to explain the framework of the cosmos, the theory remains, to date, untested. Don't worry if you can't picture a 10-dimensional world. Our minds are accustomed to only three spatial dimensions and lack a frame of reference for the other six, says UW-Madison physicist Gary Shiu , who led the new study. Though scientists use computers to visualize what these six-dimensional geometries could look like (see image), no one really knows for sure what shape they take.

72. Pharyngula::Danged Physicists Did I mention that Randall is a physicist? Evolutionary theory is not imprecise, and the argument that we can t tinker with the past is a red herring—do http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/danged_physicists/

@import "http://pharyngula.org/index?css=weblog/weblog_css"; Pharyngula has moved to http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ Tuesday, September 20, 2005 Danged physicists info 10:32 AM Trackbacks Technorati links Format for printing Pirate mode Tag: Creationism Tag: Science PZ Myers Comments ... last page I'm going to nitpick. This article by Lisa Randall is generally interesting, but I must express my annoyance at a few things. These two paragraphs were used as the pull quotes in the publication, and they are the ones I find most objectionable. She and Sean Carroll should sit down and work out a few other things. Carroll says "theory" does not imply completeness and that "proof" is in the domain of mathematics, not physics, which accords well with how I view it; Randall thinks that "theories are either proven correct, abandoned or absorbed into other, more encompassing theories." This is the most infuriating part of the article, though: This debate [about Intelligent Design] might be tamed if scientists clearly acknowledged both the successes and limitations of the current theory, so that the indisputable elements are clearly isolated. But skeptics have to acknowledge that the way to progress is by scientifically addressing the missing elements, not by ignoring evidence. The current controversy over what to teach is just embarrassing. Biologists do recognize the limitations of the current theory. All that missing stuff is what keeps biologists busy. We do carefully spell out what is known from what isn't. What Randall doesn't seem aware of is that these creationists

73. Some English Experimental Physicists Among the most eminent physicists of his time was Thomas Young, who was born at Milverton on June 13, 1773, and died in London on May 10, 1829. http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Napoleonic/RouseBall/RB_EngExpPhys.h

Some English Experimental Physicists From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. Cavendish Rumford Young Dalton Cavendish The Honourable Henry Cavendish was born at Nice on October 10, 1731, and died in London on February 4, 1810. His tastes for scientific research and mathematics were formed at Cambridge, where he resided from 1749 to 1753. He created experimental electricity, and was one of the earliest writers to treat chemistry as an exact science. I mention him here on account of his experiment in 1798 to determine the density of the earth, by estimating its attraction as compared with that of two given lead balls: the result is that the mean density of the earth is about five and a half times that of water. This experiment was carried out in accordance with a suggestion which had been first made by John Mitchell (17241793), a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, who had died before he was able to carry it into effect. Rumford Sir Benjamin Thomson, Count Rumford , born at Concord on March 26, 1753, and died at Auteuil on August 21, 1815, was of English descent, and fought on the side of the loyalists in the American War of Secession: on the conclusion of peace he settled in England, but subsequently entered the service of Bavaria, where his powers of organization proved of great value in civil as well as military affairs. At a later period he again resided in England, and when there founded the Royal Institution. The majority of his papers were communicated to the Royal Society of London; of these the most important is his memoir in which he showed that heat and work are mutually convertible.

74. Other Job Sites For Physicists www.cern.ch/CERN/Divisions/ PE/HRS/Recruitment/other.html http://www.cern.ch/CERN/Divisions/PE/HRS/Recruitment/other.html

75. Wizardry At Harvard: Physicists Move Light - New York Times In a quantum mechanical sleight of hand, Harvard physicists have shown that they can not only bring a pulse of light, the fleetest of nature’s particles, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/science/08quantum.html?ref=science

76. Press Pass - Press Releases Crystal bells stay silent as physicists look for dark matter physicists expect that WIMPs, if they exist, travel right through ordinary matter, http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/cdms-result-2008.html

February 25, 2008 For immediate release Media contact: Kurt Riesselmann, Fermilab Office of Communication, 630-840-3351, kurtr@fnal.gov Photos are available at: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/CDMS_Photos2008/index.html Crystal bells stay silent as physicists look for dark matter U.S. experiment retakes the lead in competitive race WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles, are leading candidates for the building blocks of dark matter, which accounts for 85 percent of the entire mass of the universe. Hundreds of billions of WIMPs may have passed through your body as you read these sentences. If they exist, WIMPs might interact with ordinary matter at rates similar to those of low-energy neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles discovered in 1956. But to account for all the dark matter in the universe and the gravitational pull it produces, WIMPs must have masses about a billion times larger than those of neutrinos. The CDMS collaboration found that if WIMPs have 100 times the mass of protons (about 100 GeV/c ) they collide with one kilogram of germanium less than a few times per year; otherwise, the CDMS experiment would have detected them.

77. CWP - Contributions Of 20th C. Women To Physics (redirect) Historical archive containing profiles of women who have made original and important contributions to physics. Profiles focus on the physicist s scientific http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/

AN ARCHIVE PRESENTING AND DOCUMENTING IMPORTANT AND ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHYSICS MADE BEFORE 1976 BY 20 th CENTURY WOMEN. This site is now at its permanent location at http://cwp.library.ucla.edu PLEASE CLICK HERE AND BOOKMARK NEW LOCATION.

78. M. L. Roukes, Physics / CALTECH Caltech 11436, Pasadena CA 91125 USA, Contact M. L. Roukes + 626 395 2916. Group Administrator, Contact Carolyn McLaurine + 626 395 2933 http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~roukes/

M I C H A E L L. R O U K E S Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Caltech 114-36, Pasadena CA 91125 USA Contact: M. L. Roukes Group Administrator Contact: Carolyn McLaurine My group's research activities are currently focused upon developing and using of nanodevices in the exploration of single-quantum and single-molecule phenomena. The systems we are bulding have a range of applications that span fundamental measurement, engineering, and biological and medical sciences. (For more information please see my group's web site: http:nano.caltech.edu ) Our ongoing efforts include: alliance for nanosystems VLSI (very-large-scale integration) (with CEA/Leti-MINATEC, Grenoble, France) www.nanovlsi.org nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) physics, fabrication, and applications nanomechanical devices for single-cell/single-molecule biosensing quantum electro mechanics applications of hybrid micro-/nano- technology to neurophysiology BIOSKETCH: A brief biosketch is here (pdf) Send comments to: roukes@caltech.edu

79. How To Leave Physics Many more PhDs graduating each year than open faculty positions, so finding a postdoc and/or job is difficult; 2-body problem as a physicist, http://www.poplarware.com/personal/lvphys.html

Jennifer Hodgdon's Leaving Physics Pages This is the Leaving Physics home page. From elsewhere on the site, click on the Leaving Physics icon to return here. To continue navigating through the site, use the navigation arrows, which you will find at the bottom of the pages. contact me , and I'll try to either answer them directly or incorporate them into the web site or both. The Standard Questions fall into three categories, and I have given each its own page: What is there to do besides academic physics? How do I go about leaving academic physics? What is it like to work outside of academic physics? I have also created a fourth page, with Questions and Answers not included in the other pages And, finally, I have a related page of employment resources , which also lists some other sites that talk about how/why to leave academic scientific careers. Note that I have not attempted to answer the questions "Should I leave academic physics?" or "Why should I leave academic physics?" these are not questions that I can answer for anyone else. This is a site for those who have already answered the first in the affirmative, and who have a strong sense of their answer to the second. But here are a couple of reasons I know of why people have left academic physics: Until about 1/2 way through grad school or post doc, most PhD candidates do not really know what being a prof. is like, and when they find out, they decide they'd rather do something else (long long years of post-docs and tenure track before having any kind of job security, not really liking the research and funding process, etc.)

80. Physicist The physicist deals with all aspects of matter and energy. His or her work ranges from basic research into the most fundamental laws of nature to the http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/dayInLife.asp?careerID=116

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