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Astronomy Apps for Mobile Devices

For those who use mobile devices, this may be of interest: Astronomy Apps for Mobile Devices

Subsidized Open Access Fees for WU and WUSM Authors

The Washington University Open Access Resolution, passed in 2011, encourages faculty to publish their research in open access journals. Publishing in open access journals usually requires an author publication fee to offset the cost of publication. To help support authors who publish in open access journals, Washington University Libraries and Becker Medical Library have opted for membership status as part of journal subscriptions to open access publishers and select journal titles which allows faculty a discount on author publication fees. To see the complete list, go to: Subsidized Open Access Fees for WU and WUSM Authors.

eBooks

The WU Libraries are adding more and more eBooks to the collection. One of the new collections is Hathi Trust. The Hathi Trust has nearly 10,000,000 digitized volumes in its collection. A new tab has been designed to help you locate all the eBooks easier. Just go to http://library.wustl.edu/ and click the eBooks tab under SEARCH RESOURCES. You can search our catalog, Hathi Trust, or Google Books.

Recently Published Papers in Physics

• Title: Modulation and correlation lengths in systems with competing interactions
  Author(s): Chakrabarty, S.; Nussinov, Z.
  Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), Volume: 84, Issue: 14, Pages: 144402 (15 pp.), Published: 1 Oct. 2011
  
  
• Title: Role of short-range and tensor correlations in nuclei
  Author(s): Rios, A.; Dickhoff, W.H.; Polls, A.
  Source: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume: 321, Pages: 012038 (4 pp.), Published: 2011
  
  
• Title: Multiwavelength Observations of the Previously Unidentified Blazar RX J0648.7+1516
  Author(s): Aliu, E.; Aune, T.; Beilicke, M.; Benbow, W.; Boumlttcher, M.; Bouvier, A.; Bradbury, S.M.; Buckley, J.H.; Bugaev, V.; Cannon, A.; Cesarini, A.; Ciupik, L.; Connolly, M.P.; Cui, W.; Decerprit, G.; Dickherber, R.; Duke, C.; Errando, M.; Falcone, A.; Feng, Q.; Finnegan, G.; Fortson, L.; Furniss, A.; Galante, N.; Gall, D.; Gillanders, G.H.; Godambe, S.; Griffin, S.; Grube, J.; Gyuk, G.; Hanna, D.; Hivick, B.; Holder, J.; Huan, H.; Hughes, G.; Hui, C.M.; Humensky, T.B.; Kaaret, P.; Karlsson, N.; Kertzman, M.; Kieda, D.; Krawczynski, H.; Krennrich, F.; Maier, G.; Majumdar, P.; McArthur, S.; McCann, A.; Moriarty, P.; Mukherjee, R.; Nelson, T.; Ong, R.A.; Orr, M.; Otte, A.N.; Park, N.; Perkins, J.S.; Pichel, A.; Pohl, M.; Prokoph, H.; Quinn, J.; Ragan, K.; Reyes, L.C.; Reynolds, P.T.; Roache, E.; Rose, H.J.; Ruppel, J.; Saxon, D.B.; Sembroski, G.H.; Skole, C.; Smith, A.W.; Staszak, D.; Tescaronicacute, G.; Theiling, M.; Thibadeau, S.; Tsurusaki, K.; Tyler, J.; Varlotta, A.; Vassiliev, V.V.; Wakely, S.P.; Weekes, T.C.; Weinstein, A.; Williams, D.A.; Zitzer, B.; Ciprini, S.; Fumagalli, M.; Kaplan, K.; Paneque, D.; Prochaska, J.X.
  Source: Astrophysical Journal, Volume: 742, Issue: 2, Pages: 127 (7 pp.), Published: 1 Dec. 2011
  
  
• Title: Testing the Black hole No-hair Theorem at the Galactic Center: Perturbing Effects of Stars in the Surrounding Cluster
  Author(s): Sadeghian, L.; Will, C.M.
  Source: Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume: 28, Issue: 22, Pages: 225029 (15 pp.), Published: 21 Nov. 2011
  
  
• Title: Influence of elastic deformations on the supersolid transition
  Author(s): Arpornthip, T.; Balatsky, A.V.; Graf, M.J.; Nussinov, Z.
  Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), Volume: 84, Issue: 17, Pages: 174304 (9 pp.), Published: 1 Nov. 2011
  
  
• Title: Isobaric multiplet mass equation for A = 7 and 8
  Author(s): Charity, R.J.; Elson, J.M.; Manfredi, J.; Shane, R.; Sobotka, L.G.; Chajecki, Z.; Coupland, D.; Iwasaki, H.; Kilburn, M.; Lee, J.; Lynch, W.G.; Sanetullaev, A.; Tsang, M.B.; Winkelbauer, J.; Youngs, M.; Marley, S.T.; Shetty, D.V.; Wuosmaa, A.H.; Ghosh, T.K.; Howard, M.E.
  Source: Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics), Volume: 84, Issue: 5, Pages: 051308 (3 pp.), Published: Nov. 2011
  
  
• Title: PT symmetry in relativistic quantum mechanics
  Author(s): Bender, C.M.; Mannheim, P.D.
  Source: Physical Review D, Volume: 84, Issue: 10, Pages: 105038 (9 pp.), Published: 15 Nov. 2011

December New Physics Books

Advances in imaging and electron physics.
TK7800 .A37 v.169

The dreams that stuff is made of : the most astounding papers on quantum physics -- and how they shook the scientific world / edited, with an introduction, by Stephen Hawking.
QC173.97 .D74 2011

Einstein and the changing worldviews of physics / Christoph Lehner, Jürgen Renn, Matthias Schemmel
http://libproxy.wustl.edu/login?url=http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=book&isbn=978-0-8176-4939-5

Elementary particle physics in a nutshell / Christopher G. Tully.
QC793.2 .T85 2011

Field theory of non-equilibrium systems / Alex Kamenev.
QC174.45 .K36 2011

A first course in loop quantum gravity / Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin.
QC178 .G36 2011

Fractional-order nonlinear systems : modeling, analysis and simulation / Ivo Petráš.
Q172.5.C45 P48 2011

Introduction to black hole physics / Valeri P. Frolov, Andrei Zelnikov.
QB843.B55 F7623 2011

An introduction to distance measurement in astronomy / Richard de Grijs.
QB991.C66 D34 2011

Mathematical methods for physical and analytical chemistry / David Z. Goodson.
QC20 .G66 2011

Nonlinear dispersive waves : asymptotic analysis and solitons / Mark J. Ablowitz.
QC174.26.W28 A264 2011

Phase transitions / Ricard V. Solé.
QC175.16.P5 S65 2011

The power and beauty of electromagnetic fields / F.R. Morgenthaler.
QC665.E4 M67 2011

Problems in quantum mechanics : with solutions / Emilio d'Emilio, Luigi E. Picasso.
QC174.15 .D46 2011

Quantum plasmas : an hydrodynamic approach / Fernando Haas.
QC718 .H33 2011

The spiral galaxy M33 / Paul Hodge.
QB858.42 .H63 2012

Statistics for imaging, optics, and photonics / Peter Bajorski.
QC369 .B35 2012

Thermodynamics of the Earth and planets / Alberto Patiño Douce.
QC311 .P236 2011

Translational dynamics and magnetic resonance : principles of pulsed gradient spin echo NMR / Paul T. Callaghan.
QC762 .C35 2011

World in the balance : the historic quest for an absolute system of measurement / Robert P. Crease.
QC83 .C74 2011

Physics Library Intersession Hours

Physics Library Intersession Hours, December 22, 2011 - January 16, 2012:
Monday - Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm
Closed Monday, December 26, 2011 - Monday, January 2, 2012
Closed Monday, January 16, 2012

Attention Spring Physics course instructors!

Please send me a list of books you would like placed on reserve. If you are keeping the same books for spring that you used for fall, let me know. 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.

Spring 2012 Hours

Physics Library Spring 2012 hours, January 17 - May 9:
Monday - Thursday, 7:30am - 6:00pm
Friday, 7:30am - 5:00pm
Closed Saturday & Sunday
Exceptions:
Closed Monday, January 16, Martin Luther King Holiday
Spring Break, March 12-16, 7:30am-4:00pm, Monday-Friday

Faculty Publication Binders

Reminder - the Physics Library has binders for professors containing the papers he has written. If you haven't sent your papers to the Library recently and would like me to keep a copy of them, please send them and I will update your binder or start a new binder for you.

Library Anywhere App

Library Anywhere provides mobile access to the Washington University Library website.  You can download an app for your iPhone or Android device.  It provides access to the catalog, databases, research guides and more.  A new feature allows you to scan an ISBN at a book store or other location and check to see if the library owns it.