Bright Recruits

Bright Recruits is the dedicated new jobs website from IOP Publishing. If you're looking for a career where you can make the most of your physics degree, you can search this site for a range of jobs in which your skills will be highly sought after.

WUSTL Key

Between now and the beginning of the Fall Semester, most major Library systems will be changed to allow faculty and students to use their WUSTL Key and password for authentication/authorization. This will include our public computers, Millennium My Catalog, proxy services, ILLiad, ARes, and other systems. Because of the complexity of this transition, the changes will occur over a period of several weeks and some systems and applications will continue to use the current authentication model while others will be using the new model. I will send out updates as things transition to the WUSTL Key.

June New Physics Books

Advanced condensed matter physics / Leonard M. Sander. 
QC173.454 .S26 2009

Bayesian logical data analysis for the physical sciences : a comparative approach
with Mathematica support / P.C. Gregory.
QA279.5 .G74 2005

Dynamics of self-organized and self-assembled structures / Rashmi C. Desai and
Raymond Kapral.
Q172.5.C45 D47 2009

Electron paramagnetic resonance : a practitioner's toolkit / edited by Marina
Brustolon, Elio Giamello.
QC763 .E44 2009

Energy and American society-- thirteen myths / edited by Benjamin K. Sovacool and
Marilyn A. Brown.
HD9502.U52 E44825 2007

Gaiam Real Goods solar living sourcebook : your complete guide to renewable energy
technologies and sustainable living / written and edited by John Schaeffer.
TJ808.3 .R43 2008

Guesstimation : solving the world's problems on the back of a cocktail napkin /
Lawrence Weinstein and John A. Adam.
QA276.8 .W45 2008

Information, physics, and computation / Marc Mézard, Andrea Montanari.
QC174.8 .M49 2009

Introduction to statistical pattern recognition / Keinosuke Fukunaga.
Q327 .F85 1990

Lectures on quantum mechanics for mathematics students / L.D. Faddeev, O.A. Yakubovski.
QC174.125 .F3213 2009

Mind and nature : selected writings on philosophy, mathematics, and physics / Hermann Weyl.
QA8.4 .W49 2009

Principles of radiation interaction in matter and detection / Claude Leroy, Pier-Giorgio
Rancoita.
QC787.C6 L46 2009

Quantum mechanics / Gennaro Auletta, Mauro Fortunato, Giorgio Parisi.
QC174.12 .A854 2009

Sky atlas 2000.0 : 26 star charts, covering both hemispheres / Wil Tirion.
QB65 .T57 1981 4o

Solid state physics.
QC173 .S477 v.61

Stellar spectral classification / edited by Richard O. Gray and Christopher J. Corbally.
QB881 .G73 2009

Theory of edge diffraction in electromagnetics / Pyotr Yakovlevich Ufimtsev.
QC665.D5 U352 2009

Ultracold quantum fields / Henk T.C. Stoof, Koos B. Gubbels, Dennis B.M. Dickerscheid.
QC174.45 .S795 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.

Physics Library will be closed

The Physics Library will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2009.

Recently Published Papers in Physics

  • Title: Nonuniform glassy electronic phases from competing local orders
    Author(s): Nussinov, Z.; Vekhter, I.; Balatsky, A.V.
    Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) vol.79, no.16 : 165122 (6 pp.), 2009
  • Title: Hydrogen NMR of H/sub 2/-TDF-D/sub 2/O clathrate
    Author(s): Conradi, M.S.; Senadheera, L.
    Source: Journal of Physical Chemistry B vol.112, no.44 : 13695-700, 2008
  • Title: VERITAS observations of the gamma -ray binary LS I +61 303
    Author(s): Acciari, V.A.; Beilicke, M.; Blaylock, G.; Bradbury, S.M.; Buckley, J.H.; Bugaev, V.; Butt, Y.; Byrum, K.L.; Celik, O.; Cesarini, A.; Ciupik, L.; Chow, Y.C.K.; Cogan, P.; Colin, P.; Cui, W.; Daniel, M.K.; Duke, C.; Ergin, T.; Falcone, A.D.; Fegan, S.J.; Finley, J.P.; Fortin, P.; Fortson, L.F.; Gall, D.; Gibbs, K.; Gillanders, G.H.; Grube, J.; Guenette,R.; Hanna, D.; Hays, E.; Holder, J.; Horan, D.; Hughes, S.B.; Hui, C.M.;Humensky, T.B.; Kaaret, P.; Kieda, D.B.; Kildea, J.; Konopelko, A.; Krawczynski, H.; Krennrich, F.; Lang, M.J.; LeBohec, S.; Lee, K.; Maier, G.; McCann, A.; McCutcheon, M.; Millis, J.; Moriarty, P.; Mukherjee, R.; Nagai,T.; Ong, R.A.; Pandel, D.; Perkins, J.S.; Pizlo, F.; Pohl, M.; Quinn, J.; Ragan, K.; Reynolds, P.T.; Rose, H.J.; Schroedter, M.; Sembroski, G.H.;Smith, A.W.; Steele, D.; Swordy, S.P.; Toner, J.A.; Valcarcel, L.; Vassiliev, V.V.; Wagner, R.; Wakely, S.P.; Ward, J.E.; Weekes, T.C.; Weinstein, A.; White, R.J.; Williams, D.A.; Wissel, S.A.; Wood, M.; Zitzer, B.
    Source: Astrophysical Journal vol.679, no.2, pt.1 : 1427-32, 2008
  • Title: Hydrogen motion in magnesium hydride by NMR
    Author(s): Corey, R.L.; Ivancic, T.M.; Shane, D.T.; Carl, E.A.; Bowman, R.C., Jr.; von Colbe, J.M.B.; Dornheim, M.; Bormann, R.; Huot, J.; Zidan, R.; Stowe, A.C.; Conradi, M.S.
    Source: Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol.112, no.49 : 19784-90, 2008
  • Title: Atomic motions in LiBH/sub 4/ by NMR
    Author(s): Corey, R.L.; Shane, D.T.; Bowman, R.C., Jr.; Conradi, M.S.
    Source: Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol.112, no.47 : 18706-10, 2008
  • Title: Exchange of hydrogen atoms between BH/sub 4/ in LiBH/sub 4/
    Author(s): Shane, D.T.; Bowman, R.C., Jr.; Conradi, M.S.
    Source: Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol.113, no.13 : 5039-42, 2009
  • Title: Auger Nanoprobe analysis of presolar ferromagnesian silicate grains from primitive CR chondrites QUE 99177 and MET 00426
    Author(s): Floss, C.; Stadermann, F.
    Source: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta vol.73, no.8 : 2415-40, 2009
  • Title: Pressure-induced superconducting state of europium metal at low temperatures
    Author(s): Debessai, M.; Matsuoka, T.; Hamlin, J.J.; Schilling, J.S.; Shimizu, K.
    Source: Physical Review Letters vol.102, no.19 : 197002 (4 pp.), 2009

May New Physics Books

Advanced wavefront control : methods, devices, and applications V : 29-30 August 
2007, San Diego, California, USA / Richard A. Carreras, John D. Gonglewski, Troy
A. Rhoadarmer, editors
TA1540 .A38 2007

Advances in cryogenic engineering materials
QC278 U45 v.54

Annual review of nuclear and particle science.
QC173 .A52 v.58 (2008)

Antimatter / Frank Close.
QC173 .C52 2009

Astronomical optics and elasticity theory : active optics methods / Gérard René
Lemaitre.
QB86 .L46 2009

Beyond uncertainty : Heisenberg, quantum physics, and the bomb / David C. Cassidy.
QC16.H35 C368 2009

Boltzmann's legacy / Giovanni Gallavotti, Wolfgang L. Reiter, Jakob Yngvason, editors.
QC174.7 .I58 2006

Bose-condensed gases at finite temperatures / Allan Griffin, Tetsuro Nikuni,
Eugene Zaremba.
QC175.47.B65 G74 2009

Darwin studies : a theorist and his theories in their contexts / M.J.S. Hodge.
QH31.D2 H68 2009

Dynamics and relativity / Jeffrey R. Forshaw and A. Gavin Smith.
QC173.65 .F67 2009

Festkörperprobleme.
TK7871.85 .F47 48

From indoor air pollution to the search for Earth-like planets in the cosmos :
European Research Course on Atmospheres : Grenoble, France / edited by Claude Boutron.
QC1 .J65 121

Fundamentals of photonics / Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Malvin Carl Teich.
TA1520 .S24 2007

Galactic dynamics / James Binney and Scott Tremaine.
QB857 .B524 2008

Gauge field theories / Paul H. Frampton.
QC793.3.F5 F73 2008

Globular clusters - guides to galaxies : proceedings of the Joint ESO-FONDAP
Workshop on Globular Clusters held in Concepción, Chile, 6-10 March 2006 /
T. Richtler, S. Larsen (eds.).
QB853.5 .J65 2006

Lives in science : how institutions affect academic careers / Joseph C. Hermanowicz.
QC29 .H47 2009

Mathematical methods in quantum mechanics : with applications to Schrödinger
operators / Gerald Teschl.
QC174.17.S3 T47 2009

A modern introduction to quantum field theory / Michele Maggiore.
QC174.45 .M284 2005

The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci / compiled and edited from the original
manuscripts by Jean Paul Richter.
ND623.L5 A15 1970b v.1

Numerical recipes : the art of scientific computing / William H. Press ... [et al.]
QA297 .N866 2007 CD-ROM

Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project : insights into J. Robert Oppenheimer,
"Father of the atomic bomb" / editor, Cynthia C. Kelly.
QC16.O62 O66 2006

Physics, formation and evolution of rotating stars / André Maeder.
QB810 .M34 2009

Planetary systems : detection, formation and habitability of extrasolar planets /
M. Ollivier ... [et al.].
QB820 .P53 2009

Progress in optics
QC351 P7 v.52 (2009)

Quantitative ultrasound : assessment of osteoporosis and bone status / edited by
Christopher F. Njeh ... [et al.].
RC931.O73 Q35 1999

Quantum computer science / Marco Lanzagorta, Jeffrey Uhlmann.
QA76.889 .L35 2009

Quantum computer science : an introduction / N. David Mermin.
QA76.889 .M47 2007

Quantum theory of conducting matter : superconductivity / Shigeji Fujita, Kei Ito,
Salvador Godoy.
QC611.92 .F85 2009

Raman spectroscopy for soft matter applications / edited by Maher S. Amer.
QC463.P5 R36 2009

Relativistic transitions in the hydrogenic atoms : elementary theory / R. Boudet.
QC793.5.E62 B68 2009

Shaping the day : a history of timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 / Paul
Glennie and Nigel Thrift.
QB213 .G54 2009

Spectroscopy of low temperature plasma / Vladimir N. Ochkin ; [translator, Sergey
Kittell].
QC718.5.S6 O24 2009

Star vistas : a collection of fine art astrophotography / Greg Parker and Noel
Carboni.
QB121 .P28 2009 4o

Supersymmetric solitons / M. Shifman, A. Yung.
QC174.26.W28 S44 2009 -

Tools of radio astronomy / Thomas L. Wilson, Kristen Rohlfs, Susanne Hüttemeister.
QB475 .R63 2009

Recently Published Papers in Physics

Title: The confrontation between general relativity and experiment
Author(s): Will, C.M.
Source: Spanish Relativity Meeting. Encuentros Relativistas Espanoles ERE2007. Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology : 3-13, 2007

Title: Sodium-22 from supernovae: a meteorite connection
Author(s): Amari, S.
Source: Astrophysical Journal vol.690, no.2 : 1424-31, 2009

Title: Conjecture on the analyticity of PT-symmetric potentials and the reality of their spectra
Author(s): Bender, C.M.; Hook, D.W.; Mead, L.R.
Source: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General vol.41, no.39 : 392005 (9 pp.), 2008

Title: Exact isospectral pairs of PT symmetric Hamiltonians
Author(s): Bender, C.M.; Hook, D.W.
Source: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General vol.41, no.24 : 244005 (17 pp.), 2008

Title: /i PT/ symmetry and large-/i N/ models
Author(s): Ogilvie, M.C.; Meisinger, P.N.
Source: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General vol.41, no.24 : 244021 (13 pp.), 2008

IngentaConnect

IngentaConnect Alerting Service will be discontinued August 31, 2009. Up to 5 tables of contents are free from this service but we have been paying for additional tables of contents and search alerts for WU campus users. A few alternatives are listed at Database, Journal, and Search Engine Alerts. If you wish, please contact me for help setting up alternative alerts.

Wolfram Alpha

WolframAlpha Web Site, a New Kind of Research Helper - What if you could ask your encyclopedia to not only spit out facts, but to perform an analysis with those facts or compute the answers to a math problem for you? A free Web site promises to do just that, potentially becoming a virtual research assistant for professors. The new site, called WolframAlpha, seems bound to be a useful -- and possibly controversial -- tool on college campuses. The service will present users with a simple search box, as Google does. But WolframAlpha won't just point to Web sites about what the user types; it will attempt to compute an answer based on its vast collection of facts and statistical-analysis software.