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Seminar this Thursday
Title: "Observations of the Transit of an Exoplanet"
by Billy Quarles
Title: "Ruben`s Tube - Theory and Construction"
by Rusty Permenter
Time: 4:00 PM on Thursday
March 1, 2007
Place: Science Room 334 All students and faculty are welcome to attend our seminars.
Refreshments will be served.
Physics Olympics at SFA
Every spring, local high school students gather at the SFASU campus to engage in friendly competitions with physics themes. The Society of Physics Students at Stephen F. Austin State University would like to invite you to the Physics Olympics on our campus on
March 3, 2007. We shall begin at 9:00AM and
end before 4:30 PM.
http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/olympics/index.html
SFA Observatory - Lunar Eclipse
The observatory will be open to the public on the following day weather permitting:
Friday, March 3rd, 6:30pm
You can use the map linked below to find your
way to the observatory during this viewing sessions. http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/observatory/tour_form.html
You can sign up for email notice here:
http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/observatory/tour_form.html
Hurricane Rita Weather Data
I`ve been meaning to share this with everyone for a very looooong time.
Check out the wind speeds!
http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/observatory/weather/Rita2005/
Changes in the GRE
"I am copying the academic deans and the graduate school to inform everyone of the changes coming for the GRE. A press release relative to the rollout of the next generation of the GRE is available at the www.ets.org/gre website. The item of concern to most deans and graduate schools is the non-negotiable date of July 31, 2007 after which the current GRE General Test will not be offered."
"The start-up date for the next generation is somewhere between September 10 and 29. The GRE will no longer be available on demand but on preset dates and times none of which SFA is in a position to negotiate. This will certainly impact the beginning of the Fall 2007 semester. "
Note: I was asked to forward this message above to our students. Please contact me if you need more information about this change in the GRE. -- Dr. B.
Graduate Studies in Gravity Wave Astronomy
I would like to ask you to distribute among your students the following information. The Department of Physic and Astronomy at The University of Texas at Brownsville is still accepting applications for the Master of Science in Physics. Students who are interested in doing research in the area of Gravitational Wave Astronomy or Biophysics could receive a stipend of up to $19,000, plus tuition and health insurance.
Thank you,
Martha Casquette, Student Coordinator, Physics and Astronomy
The University of Texas at Brownsville, 956-882-6765
Spring Career Day
Career Services Department wishes to extend an invitation to you and to your students to attend the upcoming Spring Career Day scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, 2007, from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom. Over 55 companies have already registered to attend! If you would like to view a list of the companies who have registered to attend the Spring Career Day, please follow the steps listed below:
Go to www.monstertrak.com
Enter Student/Alumni Username: careerdays (lower case)
Enter Student/Alumni Password: sfasu (lower case)
Click: Go Choose: Career Fairs
Select Event: Career Day/Teacher Job Fair
If you have any questions, please call 936-468-3305.
Scholarships and Fellowships
TCU REU
http://www.phys.tcu.edu/REU/index.html
Women in Physics
http://www.womeninphysics.org
NSF REU Program
http://www.baylor.edu/casper/index.php?id=20535
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
http://www.krellinst.org/csgf
REU at UNT
http://www.phys.unt.edu/REU
Summer Undergraduate Research Focus
http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/surf/
http://www.mse.gatech.edu/surf.html
REU in Biostatistics
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/sibs/SIBSbrochure_2007.pdf
Summer Research at Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.sure.gatech.edu
REU in Las Vegas
http://www.physics.unlv.edu:80/reu/
Scholarships for Future Teachers
The American Association of Physics Teachers is offering two $2,000 scholarship for future high-school physics teachers. This scholarship, supported by an endowment funded by Barbara Lotze, is available only to U.S. citizens attending a U.S. school. Undergraduate students in, or planning to enter, physics teacher preparation curricula and high-school seniors planning to enter such curricula are eligible.
http://www.aapt.org/Grants/lotze.cfm
Exxon Internship Opportunities
Volunteer Houston and the ExxonMobil Corporation have teamed up for the 10th year to bring the ExxonMobil Community Summer Jobs Program to the Houston area. This program grants 65 non-profit and governmental agencies grants to hire summer interns. Potential interns must be considered sophomores (24 credits), juniors or seniors before the summer starts and must be returning to school in the fall as a full-time undergrad student. The internships are 8 weeks (some have extended work periods) and pay a stipend of $2000. Please see the listing attached and share this with your students. If the students are interested in any of the positions, they need to directly contact the person listed at that particular agency for their application process. The agency hiring deadline is April 30th... so students need to get busy sending out their resumes now! Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns regarding our program. My email is christyf@volunteerhouston.org
Sincerely,
Christy Foss
Volunteer Houston
3033 Chimney Rock, Suite 460
Houston, TX 77056
(713)964-0212
(713)965-9601 fax
The Fun Stuff
SETI Finally Finds Something
SETI @ home a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the volunteers` home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far nothing noteworthy has comeout of this massive project... that is until today! One of the volunteers was able to track down his wife`s stolen laptop using the IP address that SETI @ home client reports back to the server. After getting back the laptop his wife said, `I always knew that a geek would make a great husband.` http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/2326240
Funny Laugh
http://www.glumbert.com/media/laugh
Steam Powered Robots
http://observe.phy.sfasu.edu/~ast305/Silver/steamrobots.flv
Lunar Eclipse
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/12feb_lunareclipse.htm?list184210
Movie: LED pong in 3D
http://www.jamesclar.com/product/2005/3dcubewhite/index.html
Locked Out of Your Car?
http://www.aolvideoblog.com/2007/02/06/locked-out-of-your-car/
Movie: Grape Plasma Microwave Fireball
http://www.break.com/index/grape_plasma_microwave_fireball.html
http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/
Movie: Excellent Size Comparison of Planets
http://video.google.com:80/videoplay?docid=-3974466981713172831
Movie: Ship floats on nothing
http://www.glumbert.com:80/media/float
Movie: An Orbcomm communication satellite passes in front of the Moon
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/23jan_ltps.htm?list184210
Google Patents
http://www.google.com/patents
FLYING-MACHINE OLTVILLE WRIGHT
http://www.google.com/patents?id=h5NWAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1#PPP1,M1
SFA: Omicron Delta Kappa Membership Form
http://www.osa.sfasu.edu/pdfs/ODK%20Application.pdf
It`s official: the Moon is on the metric system. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/08jan_metricmoon.htm?list184210
Rocket Movies at the Bottom
http://public.blueorigin.com:80/index.html
Apple Software
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_science/osxplanet.html
Multi-junction solar cells produce efficiency greater than 40%!! http://www.energy.gov/news/4503.htm
Bad Physics in on the Fedex Moon Commercial
http://football.fedex.com
SIM PlanetQuest technology `in hand`
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov:80/index.cfm
North Korea at Night
http://satblog.methaz.org/images/nkor.png
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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