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Pfeiffer Physics Library News
August, 2009


** News **

  • Fall Semester Hours
    Monday - Thursday, 7:30 am - 6:00 pm
    Friday, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
    Closed Saturdays and Sundays

  • The Physics Library will be closed on Monday, September 7, 2009 for Labor Day.

  • WUSTL Connect is the University-wide login system that eliminates the need for multiple usernames, IDs, and passwords for systems you use on a regular basis. Instead, one username and password—your WUSTL KEY—works for everything.

    Does This Replace My Library Password?
    Yes. Your WUSTL KEY will be the way you access virtually all library services online.

    With your WUSTL KEY, you will be able to:
    • Login to any public computer in the Libraries
    • Connect to the proxy server from off-campus
    • Manage your library account through My Catalog
    • Renew or request books
    • Search for and retrieve articles
    • Order materials through MOBIUS and Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad)
    • Access online course reserves
    Students, faculty, and staff can use their WUSTL KEY for over 40 University web applications, including Parking and Transportation services, Telesis, course evaluations—and now the Libraries!

    Need Help?
    If you haven’t already set up your WUSTL KEY username and password, visit the WUSTL CONNECT Help Site to get started. It’s easy to use, and you can always reset your password if you ever forget.

  • Olin Library's annual New Faculty/Graduate Student Orientation & Reception will be August 25, 3-5pm. More details will be available later.

  • Recently published papers in Physics - The following papers were recently indexed by INSPEC and published by members of the Physics Department:

    • Title: Nonequilibrium actin polymerization treated by a truncated rate-equation method
      Author(s): Brooks, F.J.; Carlsson, A.E.
      Source: Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics) vol.79, no.3 : 031914 (9 pp.), 2009

    • Title: Transport measurements and analytical modeling of extraordinary electrical conductance in Ti-GaAs metal-semiconductor hybrid structures
      Author(s): Newaz, A.K.M.; Yun Wang; Jian Wu; Solin, S.A.; Kavasseri, V.R.; Ahmad, I.S.; Adesida, I.
      Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) vol.79, no.19 : 195308 (8 pp.), 2009

    • Title: High abundances of circumstellar and interstellar c-anomalous phases in the primitive CR3 chondrites QUE 99177 and MET 00426
      Author(s): Floss, C.; Stadermann, F.J.
      Source: Astrophysical Journal vol.697, no.2 : 1242-55, 2009

    • Title: Cosmic ray origin in OB associations and preferential acceleration of refractory elements: evidence from abundances of elements /sub 26/Fe through /sub 34/Se
      Author(s): Rauch, B.F.; Link, J.T.; Lodders, K.; Israel, M.H.; Barbier, L.M.; Binns, W.R.; Christian, E.R.; Cummings, J.R.; de Nolfo, G.A.; Geier, S.; Mewaldt, R.A.; Mitchell, J.W.; Schindler, S.M.; Scott, L.M.; Stone, E.C.; Streitmatter, R.E.; Waddington, C.J.; Wiedenbeck, M.E.
      Source: Astrophysical Journal vol.697, no.2 : 2083-8, 2009

    • Title: Color superconductivity in dense quark matter
      Author(s): Alford, M.G.; Schmitt, A.; Rajagopal, K.; Schafer, T.
      Source: Reviews of Modern Physics vol.80, no.4 : 1455-515, 2008

    • Title: New phases of SU(3) and SU(4) at finite temperature
      Author(s): Myers, J.C.; Ogilvie, M.C.
      Source: Physical Review D vol.77, no.12 : 125030 (10 pp.), 2008

    • Title: 't Hooft vertices, partial quenching, and rooted staggered QCD
      Author(s): Bernard, C.; Golterman, M.; Shamir, Y.; Sharpe, S.R.
      Source: Physical Review D vol.77, no.11 : 114504 (11 pp.), 2008

    • Title: Correlated two-proton decay from /sup 10/C
      Author(s): Mercurio, K.; Charity, R.J.; Shane, R.; Sobotka, L.G.; Elson, J.M.; Famiano, M.; Wuosmaa, A.H.; Banu, A.; Fu, C.; Trache, L.; Tribble, R.E.; Mukhamedzhanov, A.M.
      Source: Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics) vol.78, no.3 : 031602 (4 pp.), 2008

    • Title: Novel self-organization mechanism in ultrathin liquid films: theory and experiment
      Author(s): Trice, J.; Favazza, C.; Thomas, D.; Garcia, H.; Kalyanaraman, R.; Sureshkumar, R.
      Source: Physical Review Letters vol.101, no.1 : 017802 (4 pp.), 2008

    • Title: Flux tubes and the type-I/type-II transition in a superconductor coupled to a superfluid
      Author(s): Alford, M.G.; Good, G.
      Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) vol.78, no.2 : 024510 (11 pp.), 2008

    • Title: Stardust in Antarctic micrometeorites
      Author(s): Yada, T.; Floss, C.; Stadermann, F.J.; Zinner, E.; Nakamura, T.; Noguchi, T.; Lea, A.S.
      Source: Meteoritics & Planetary Science vol.43, no.8 : 1287-98, 2008

    • Title: A secure path to the dripline based on theory and experiment
      Author(s): Dickhoff, W.H.
      Source: AIP Conference Proceedings vol.1128 : 90-9, 2009

  • Attention Fall Physics course instructors! Please send me a list of books you would like placed on reserve. You can use the Online Reserve Request Form, send me an email, or put a note in my mailbox. If you are making a web page for your class, you can link your page to the class' reserve list after I put the books on reserve. There is no need to retype them. Just ask me if you have any questions.

**Recent Additions to the Library Web Pages**

[Suggestions are welcome!]

These additions are somewhere in the Physics and Astronomy Research Guide [http://libguides.wustl.edu/physics] portion of the Washington University Library web pages.  

  • Acoustics Today
    [http://link.aip.org/link/?ATCODK]

  • Oral Histories at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives - A free online archive of hundreds of historical interviews with the 20th century's greatest physicists has now been launched to aid the research of science writers, academic scholars, teachers, and students. The resource, created by the American Institute of Physics' Niels Bohr Library & Archives, contains both written transcripts and audio recordings of oral histories that date back fifty years. This archive draws on four decades of interviews conducted by the staff of AIP’s Center for History of Physics.

  • Physics Today Book Review Alerts - you can sign up to receive email alerts of new book reviews.
    [http://www.physicstoday.org/alert.html]

  • Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids - VJAQF covers new developments in the study of novel quantum fluids and many-body systems using ultracold atoms.
    [http://www.vjaqf.org/]


**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**

Note: If you want more information on any of these, please search the Library Catalog by title, keywords or author.

July, 2009

Advances in the physics of particles and nuclei.  
QC173 .A2545 V.29 (2009) 

Annual reports on NMR spectroscopy  
QC762 A55 v.65 (2009) 

Approaches to quantum gravity : toward a new understanding of space, time and 
matter / edited by Daniele Oriti.  
QC178 .A64 2009 

Atomic histories / Rudolf E. Peierls.  
QC71 .P38 1997 

Bohmian mechanics : the physics and mathematics of quantum theory / Detlef Dürr, 
Stefan Teufel.  
QC174.12 .D87 2009 

Bone densitometry in clinical practice : application and interpretation / Sydney 
Lou Bonnick.  
RC930.5 .B68 2004 

A dictionary of physics.  
QC5 .D496 2009 

Discovering the expanding universe / Harry Nussbaumer, Lydia Bieri.  
QB981 .N86 2009 

Dynamics, information and complexity in quantum systems / Fabio Benatti.  
QC174.12 .B456 2009 

Electrons and phonons in semiconductor multilayers / B.K. Ridley.  
QC611.6.S9 R54 2009 

Excitations in organic solids / Vladimir M. Agranovich.  
QC176.8.E9 A37 2009 

Experimental neutron scattering / B.T.M. Willis, C.J. Carlile.  
QC793.5.N4628 W55 2009 

Finding the big bang / P. James E. Peebles, Lyman A. Page, Jr., R. Bruce Partridge.  
QB991.C64 F56 2009 

A first course in string theory / Barton Zwiebach.  
QC794.6.S85 Z95 2009 

Fundamental concepts in biophysics / Thomas Jue, editor.  
QH505 .F85 2009 

Fundamentals of many-body physics : principles and methods / Wolfgang Nolting.  
QC174.17.P7 N65 2009 

Introduction to nonextensive statistical mechanics : approaching a complex world / 
Constantino Tsallis.  
QC174.8 .T735 2009 

Introduction to reactive gas dynamics / Raymond Brun.  
QC168.85.R45 B78 2009 

Measurement of molecular clustering in two-dimensional systems by fluorescence 
fluctuation spectroscopy : application to EGF receptors on living cells / by Yu Li.  
LD5791.8.PhD2008 L52 

Non-equilibrium phase transitions / Malte Henkel, Haye Hinrichsen, Sven Lübeck.  
QC175.16.P5 H46 v.1 

Reports on astronomy / edited by Karel A. Van Der Hucht.  
QB1 .R367 2009 

Springer tracts in modern physics.  
Q111 .E7 v.233 

Yearbook of astronomy.  
QB1 .Y4 2009


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