Pfeiffer Physics Library News
May, 2007
** News **
- Physics Library Summer Hours begin Tuesday, May 22, 2007.
Monday - Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm
Closed Saturdays and Sundays.
Closed holidays - Monday, May 28 and Wednesday, July 4.
Open 8:00-10:00am only on Staff Day, Monday, May 21. - Library Inventory - The annual inventory of Physics
Library material will be May 10-18, 2007. The Library will be
closed to everyone during this time. It is important that
all books be returned to the Library on or before 4:00 pm, May 9,
2007. If the inventory is completed ahead of schedule, the
Library will reopen early. Everyone's cooperation will expedite
the inventory.
- The American Astronomical Society has announced that the Institute of Physics will be the new publisher of the AAS journals beginning in January 2008. The affected journals are The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal, and The Bulletin of the AAS. When I find out what the new URLs are, I will update the links on the website.
- The American Physical Society announced a substantially improved search interface
for the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA), available now at
http://prola.aps.org/search. As always, APS's entire journal
collection from 1893-present is searchable via PROLA's interface.
- iTeach - The spring 2007 edition of Teaching and Technology, the ITeach newsletter, is now available online at http://iteach.wustl.edu/newsletters/sp07/. Highlights include ITeach 2008: Save the Date (Jan. 10, 2008) and Call for Proposals, a chemistry faculty profile highlighting strategies for using both hi-tech and conventional tools to improve student learning, New Study of Undergraduates and Information Technology (IT), how to set up email alerts in Keeping Up with Research and Current Events, Using YouTube in the Classroom, and more.
- Recently published papers in Physics - The following papers were recently indexed and published by members of the Physics Department:
- Title: Parity anomaly in a PT-symmetric quartic Hamiltonian
Author(s): Bender, C.M.
Source: Czechoslovak Journal of Physics vol.56, no.9 : 1047-62, Sept. 2006 - Title: Superconductivity at 20K in yttrium metal at pressures exceeding 1Mbar
Author(s): Schilling, J.S.; Hamlin, J.J.; Tissen, V.G.
Source: Physica C vol.451, no.2 : 82-5, 15 Jan. 2007 - Title: Critical phenomena in head-on collisions of neutron stars
Author(s): Ke-Jian Jin; Wai-Mo Suen
Source: Physical Review Letters vol.98, no.13 : 131101/1-4, 30 March 2007 - Title: Post-Newtonian gravitational radiation and equations of motion via direct integration of the relaxed Einstein equations. IV. Radiation reaction for binary systems with spin-spin coupling
Author(s): Han Wang; Will, C.M.
Source: Physical Review D vol.75, no.6 : 64017-1-8, 15 March 2007 - Title: Nanostructure and microstructure of laser-interference-induced dynamic patterning of Co on Si
Author(s): Longstreth-Spoor, L.; Trice, J.; Garcia, H.; Zhang, C.; Kalyanaraman, R.
Source: Journal of Physics D (Applied Physics) vol.39, no.24 : 5149-59, 21 Dec. 2006 - Title: Using the active collimator and shield assembly of an EXIST-type mission as a gamma-ray burst spectrometer
Author(s): Garson, A. III; Krawczynski, H.; Grindlay, J.; Fishman, G.J.; Wilson, C.A.
Source: Astronomy & Astrophysics vol.456, no.1 : 379-87, Sept. 2006 - Title: Relaxation and diffusion of perfluorocarbon gas mixtures with oxygen for lung MRI
Author(s): Chang, Y.V.; Conradi, M.S.
Source: Journal of Magnetic Resonance vol.181, no.2 : 191-8, Aug. 2006 - Title: Finite amplitude measurements of the nonlinear parameter BA/ for liquid mixtures spanning a range relevant to tissue harmonic mode
Author(s): Miller, J.G.; Wallace, K.D.; Lloyd, C.W.; Holland, M.R.
Source: Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology vol.33, no.4 : 620-9, April 2007
- Title: Parity anomaly in a PT-symmetric quartic Hamiltonian
**Recent Additions to the Library Web Pages**
These additions are somewhere in the Physics
and Astronomy Subject Guide portion of the Washington University Library web pages.
- PhysMathCentral is a new open access publishing platform for the fields of physics, mathematics and computer science. They have announced that their first journal, PMC Physics A, is now open for submissions. Launched to meet the increasing need for open access journals from major research institutes, PhysMath Central seeks to make research in physics, mathematics and computer science more widely available and increase access to this research to all institutes and individuals, free of subscription charges. PhysMath Central will launch with three new open access journals in physics:
- PMC Physics A – covers particle, high-energy and nuclear physics, cosmology, gravity and astroparticle physics, and instrumentation and data analysis.
- PMC Physics B – publishes articles covering all aspects of atomic and molecular physics, optics, quantum physics, semiconductors and superconductivity.
- PMC Physics C – focuses on soft matter physics and covers biological physics, complex systems, plasmas and fluids, classical and interdisciplin ary physics, and statistical mechanics.
- Solar System - This is an interesting site showing "All (known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger than 200 Miles in Diameter"
**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.April, 2007
Adaptive mesh refinement for time-domain numerical electromagnetics / Costas D. Sarris. QC760.4.M37 S27 2007 A buyer's and user's guide to astronomical telescopes & binoculars / James Mullaney. QB88 .M855 2007 Celestial mechanics : the waltz of the planets / Alessandra Celletti and Ettore Perozzi. QB351 .C3213 2007 Cosmic catastrophes : exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe / J. Craig Wheeler. QB843.S95 W48 2007 Differential equations and mathematical biology / D.S. Jones and B.D. Sleeman. QH323.5 .J65 2003 From regional climate modelling to the exploration of Venus : European Research Course on Atmospheres, Grenoble, France / edited by Claude Boutron. QC1 .J65 139 High-frequency seafloor acoustics / Darrell R. Jackson and Michael D. Richardson. QC242.2 .J33 2007 Introduction to condensed matter physics / K.C. Barua. QC173.454 .B37 2007 Large-eddy simulation for acoustics / edited by Claus Wagner, Thomas Hüttl, Pierre Sagaut. TD892 .L26 2007 Mathematics for physics and physicists / Walter Appel ; translated by Emmanuel Kowalski. QC20 .A6713 2007 Matter and methods at low temperatures / Frank Pobell. QC192 .P63 2007 Nanophotonics with surface plasmons / edited by V.M. Shalaev, S. Kawata. QC176.8.P55 N36 2007 Newton : a very short introduction / Rob Iliffe. Q143.N495 .I55 2007 NMR imaging in chemical engineering / edited by Siegfried Stapf and Song-l Han. QD96.N8 N57 2006 Numerical methods in astrophysics : an introduction / Peter Bodenheimer ... [et al.]. QB462.3 .N86 2007 The physics handbook : fundamentals and key equations / Charles P. Poole, Jr. QC61 .P65 2007 The physics of everyday phenomena: a conceptual introduction to physics / W. Thomas Griffith. QC23.2 .G75 2006 Quantum field theory / Mark Srednicki. QC174.45 .S74 2007 Quantum nonlinear optics / [by E. Hanamura] ; [translated into English by] E. Hanamura, Y. Kawabe, A. Yamanaka. QC446.2 .H363 2007 Quark confinement and the hadron spectrum VII : 7th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, QCHS7 Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal 2-7 September 2006 / editor, José QC793.5.Q252 I56 2006 Roadmap of scanning probe microscopy / S. Morita (ed.). QH212.S35 R63 2007 Solid-state physics : introduction to the theory / James D. Patterson, Bernard C. Bailey. QC176 .P28 2007 Solitary waves in fluids / editor R.H.J. Grimshaw. QC174.26.W28 S58 2007 Spectroscopy : the key to the stars, reading the lines in stellar spectra / Keith Robinson. QB871 .R56 2007 Springer tracts in modern physics. Q111 .E7 v.224 Supernovae and how to observe them / Martin Mobberley. QB843.S95 M63 2007 Transducers and arrays for underwater sound / Charles H. Sherman, John L. Butler. QC242.2 .S457 2007 Uncertainty : Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the struggle for the soul of science / David Lindley. QC174.17.H4 L56 2007
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