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Physics, Astronomy and Engineering News
September 1, 2005

Department News

SPS Meeting Today
If you are new to SFA, you might be interested in joining the Society of Physics Students (SPS). There will be an SPS meeting this Thursday, September 1st at 5:00 PM in room 318. Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be served. To find out how to become a member of this student organization, come to this meeting or see the SPS advisor, Mr. Ali Piran. They have lots of activities going on this semester including a trip to a regional meeting in Houston. Here's some background info: http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/sps/about.htm

Job Opportunities
If you have had at least one physics or astronomy class at SFA and are interested in teaching labs for $, then please see Mr. Ali Piran. You can go to the department and ask for directions to his office. There will be a lab instructor meeting in room 318 today at 3pm today as well.

Seminars
Only the seminar students will meet at 4pm on Thursday this week.

Fall 2005 Classes
If you need help getting into a class this semester please see Dr. Downing or Dr. Bruton. Before changing your schedule please contact one of these advisors.

Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts

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Help those affected by this tragedy. Support rescue and relief efforts. Donate today.

Missing Person and Survivor List
http://tinyurl.com/9tohb

Job Opportunity

Instructor Position at Lamar University
Contact George M. Irwin at irwingm@HAL.LAMAR.EDU.

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New Building on Campus
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Atmospheric Optics
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/phenom.htm

How do you get plants to grow on Mars? Step One: relieve their anxiety.
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Einstein@Home Screen Saver - Join in the search for gravitational waves today!
http://www.einsteinathome.org

Forced Perspective Murals
http://www.ericgrohemurals.com/

Ice Lake on Mars (revisited)
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMGKA808BE_0.html

Program your own bot and put it up against other bots to see who has the best targeting, movement, etc. It's a fun way to learn Java.

Robocode site
http://robocode.sourceforge.net/
Robocode API
http://www.codepoet.org/~markw/robocode/javadoc/

Yahoo's Audio Search
http://audio.search.yahoo.com

Scholarships and Employment Opportunities

We learn 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see and 95% of what we teach. Consider teaching labs for our department or teaching at the high school or college level in your future. For more info see your professors and http://www.aapt.org/

SFA Opportunities

Other Opportunities

Thanks to Dave Deming, Kris Byboth, Nathan Ryan, Chris Pierce, Marco Meniero, Ryan Williams Robert Payne, Wally Boyd, Andy Flanagan, Jessi Souther, Barry Smith, Robin Marshall, Andy Wagers, Nathan Phetteplace, Larry Luther, Chris Dahl, Doreen E. Everett, Tommy Gober, James Teel, Brian Thomas, and others for the links and information above. Feel free to send any interesting links that you find. This email message is sent to students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the department. If you would like to be removed from the emailing list or are getting multiple copies of these newsletters, then feel free to reply to this message with your request.

Clear skies,
Dan Bruton
astro@sfasu.edu

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