Members of the physics faculty, including Drew Baden, Bill Dorland and Chris Monroe will be participated in the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's The Matter of Origins. The performance premiered Friday, September 10, in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/02/AR2010090205786.html

Richard Greene and Johnpierre Paglione's review paper has been published in the August 2010 issue of Nature Physics. The paper, titled High-temperature superconductivity in iron-based materials, can be viewed online at 
https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys1759

Professor Nick Hadley has just been re-elected to his position as US CMS Collaboration Board Chair. This board counts its membership from 49 US Institutions on CMS and over 600 scientists, and plays a critical role in shaping the direction of the US contingent at CMS (the US has the single largest national representation on CMS). The position also comes with the title of the Country Representative from the United States to the CMS Management Board; therefore Dr. Hadley will represent the US in running CMS at CERN.

Professor Bill Dorland will give his Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture, The End of the Oil Economy, on November 16, 2010. The Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Program, established in 1978, honors a small number of faculty members each year who have demonstrated notable success in  both scholarship and teaching. By honoring the Distinguished-Scholar Teacher with this prestigious award, we reaffirm our commitment to excellence in teaching and scholarship.

The End of the Oil Economy
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
1412 Physics Building

An article in The New York Times, on July 13, mentions Professor Ted Jacobson's thermodynamic derivation of Einstein's gravitational field equations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=Jacobson&st=cse