Pfeiffer Physics Library News
May, 2008

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** News **

• Physics Library Summer Hours begin Tuesday, May 20, 2008.
  Monday - Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm
  Closed Saturdays and Sundays.
  Closed holidays - Monday, May 26 and Friday, July 4.
  Open 8:00-10:00am only on Staff Day, Monday, May 19.
  
  
• Library Inventory - The annual inventory of Physics Library material will be May 8-16, 2008. 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 7, 2008. If the inventory is completed ahead of schedule, the Library will reopen early. Everyone's cooperation will expedite the inventory.
  
  
• iTeach - The spring 2008 edition of Teaching and Technology, the ITeach newsletter, is now available online at http://iteach.wustl.edu/newsletters/sp08/.
  
  
• Recently published papers in Physics - The following papers were recently indexed and published by members of the Physics Department:
  
  
  • Title: Circumstellar Fe oxide from the Acfer 094 carbonaceous chondrite
    Author(s): Floss, C.; Stadermann, F.J.; Bose, M.
    Source: Astrophysical Journal vol.672, no.2, pt.1 : 1266-71, 2008
    
    
  • Title: Testing the general relativistic "no-hair" theorems using the galactic center black hole Sagittarius A*
    Author(s): Will, C.M.
    Source: Astrophysical Journal vol.674, no.1, pt.2 : L25-8, 2008
    
    
  • Title: Matched filtering and parameter estimation of ringdown waveforms
    Author(s): Berti, E.; Cardoso, J.; Cardoso, V.; Cavaglia, M.
    Source: Physical Review D vol.76, no.10 : 104044-1-17, 2007
    
    
  • Title: Analytical modeling of symmetry breaking in extraordinary optoconductance
    Author(s): Wieland, K.A.; Solin, S.A.
    Source: Solid State Communications vol.146, no.1-2 : 1-6, 2008
    
    

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**Recent Additions to the Library Web Pages**

[Suggestions are welcome!]

These additions are somewhere in the Physics and Astronomy Subject Guide portion of the Washington University Library web pages.

• Applied Physics Express - Formerly Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2
  
  
• Japanese Journal of Applied Physics - Formerly Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1
  
  

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**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, 2008

Cambridge illustrated dictionary of astronomy / Jacqueline Mitton.  
QB14 .M578 2007 

Continuous symmetries, Lie algebras, differential equations, and computer algebra / 
Willi-Hans Steeb.  
QC20.7.D5 S74 2007 

Emergent nonlinear phenomena in Bose-Einstein condensates : theory and experiment / 
Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis, Ricardo Carretero-González, (editors).  
QC175.47.B65 E44 2008 

Galaxy formation / Malcolm S. Longair.  
QB981 .L846 2008 

Group theory : application to the physics of condensed matter / M.S. Dresselhaus, 
G. Dresselhaus, A. Jorio.  
QC20.7.G76 D74 2008 

Internal photoemission spectroscopy : principles and applications / Valery V. Afanasev.  
QC454.A8 A33 2008 

An introduction to nanoscience and nanotechnology / Alain Nouailhat.  
QC176.8.N35 N68 2008 

Maria Mitchell and the sexing of science : an astronomer among the American romantics / 
Renée Bergland.  
QB36.M7 B47 2008 

Microcavities / Alexey V. Kavokin ... [et al.].  
TA1677 .M53 2007 

Microdrops and digital microfluidics / Jean Berthier.  
TP159.A85 B48 2008 

The night sky companion : a yearly guide to sky-watching, 2008-2009 / Tammy Plotner.  
QB64 .P56 2007 

The observer's sky atlas : with 50 star charts covering the entire sky / E. Karkoschka.  
QB65 .K3713 2007 

Physics of the impossible : a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, 
force fields, teleportation, and time travel / Michio Kaku.  
QC75 .K18 2008 

Quantum kinetics in transport and optics of semiconductors / Hartmut Haug, Antti-Pekka 
Jauho.  
QC611.6.O6 H38 2008 

Random networks for communication : from statistical physics to information systems / 
Massimo Franceschetti and Ronald Meester.  
TK5105.5 .F69 2007 

RF linear accelerators / Thomas P. Wangler.  
QC787.L5 W36 2008 

Self-assembled quantum dots / Zhiming M. Wang, editor.  
QC611.6.Q35 S45 2008

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