April 2023 - sps-list

by Prentiss, Mara

Dear All, The Physics 15c poster session is starting at 4:30 today in Science Center 306. Everyone is cordially invited. Food will be served. I hope to see you there. Mara -- Professor of Physics Harvard University 17 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138

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90r/91r form

by Morin, David

If you are doing research through Phys 90r this semester, this google form replaces the old paper form: https://forms.gle/YgQhmxz4f54CvAT8A Please fill this out as soon as your 90r research plan is settled. This is just an internal physics form, so don’t forget to officially sign up for 90r in your crimson cart. Let me know if you have any questions.

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concentration signup

by Morin, David

This email is for the sophomores among you who are interested in signing up for the Physics or Chem/Phys concentrations. The deadline to declare a concentration is Thursday, November 17, but please don't wait until the last minute! A list of possible 20-minute meeting times with me in Lyman 238, starting this coming Wednesday 10/5, is located at the following link (I'll gradually add more times in later weeks). Write your name in a time slot (and make a note of it, so you don’t forget). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GmSKP-i5GyUXdhrHhT9dTL-8r2Bonbzu-PR… We'll use the meeting to go over your plan of study, talk about the concentration, and take care of a few other logistics. It's a fairly harmless procedure. But a few things to do beforehand are: 1) Fill out the Registrar's declaration form. Instructions are here: https://harvard.service-now.com/ithelp?id=kb_article&sys_id=529e5ecadb6f4f0… 2) Look at the concentration requirements listed in the Fields of Concentration: https://handbook.college.harvard.edu/files/collegehandbook/files/fields_fin… and think about what courses you want to take that will satisfy the requirements. (Clickable index near the beginning. Chem/Phys is on page 42, Physics is on page 185.) 3) Make a plan of study. I recommend using Excel (or something similar) to list out the 4 courses in each of your 8 semesters. When making a rough schedule of your remaining 5 semesters, you of course don't need to stick to it exactly, but it's good to have an existence proof of a plan that works. 4) Think about whom you want as your concentration advisor. Everyone has Prof. Georgi and me automatically, and we also pair you up with another faculty member. Make a list of a few possibilities, in case your first choice is overbooked. You can peruse the list of Physics faculty at: https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/faculty PLEASE HAVE **THREE** NAMES IN MIND when we meet. Note: there is no best way of picking names. Maybe a prof is doing research you find interesting, or you were in a class they taught (definitely not necessary), or a friend spoke highly of them, etc. You don’t need to have met the prof before. 5) Fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/tWstcghbxy2tf5e39<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_tWstcghbxy2t…> If you have any questions beforehand, stop by my office hours: https://scholar.harvard.edu/david-morin/office-hours or Prof. Georgi's: https://sites.harvard.edu/hgeorgi/ These hours are set up at the beginning of each week, but check them during the week for any changes that may come up. Frequently asked questions are located at: https://www.physics.harvard.edu/undergrad/faqs-concentrators We look forward to having you officially join the department! DJM

7 months, 3 weeks

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Academic Advising Report

by Morin, David

Concerning the Academic Advising Report in my.harvard, the report can be misleading, so please ignore it, at least as far as the Physics and Chem/Phys concentration requirements go. It might say that some requirements aren’t satisfied when in fact they are. And conversely it might say that some requirements are satisfied when they aren’t. (However, the Gen Ed and Distribution parts of the report are probably accurate, so do pay attention to those.) The requirements that you should be looking at are the official requirements listed in the Fields of Concentration: https://handbook.college.harvard.edu/files/collegehandbook/files/harvard_co… (Click on the index at the beginning to go to the Physics or Chem/Phys pages.) If you want to submit an exception to the Advising Report to make it more accurately reflect your requirement status, feel free to do so. But again, it doesn’t matter. If you do submit an exception, please include a short explanation in the description box.

8 months, 4 weeks

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Phys 191

by Morin, David

For those of you who will be taking Phys 191 this year, you are strongly encouraged to take it now in the fall. The enrollment in the spring is always much higher, so if you take it now in the fall you’ll get far more professor time, and things will be much calmer.

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Phys, Chem/Phys Advising

by Morin, David

I hope everyone has had an enjoyable summer. The new semester is fast approaching, so here we go... This email is relevant to the Physics and Chem/Phys concentrators among you. It's a long email, but please pay special attention to the "YOUR TASK" item below. THE SHORT VERSION: Email your concentration advisor and set up a zoom meeting sometime between Mon 8/16 and Wed 8/25 (Thurs 8/26 is the course registration deadline). Your advisor will lift the hold on your crimson cart (sometimes called “study card”). More info on the various dates can be found here: https://college.harvard.edu/guides/course-preview-period THE LONG VERSION: (1) A picture of your Individual Concentrator Advisor should show up in your my.harvard list of advisors. If it doesn't, or if there are any issues (you want to change advisors, etc.), please let me know right away. (However, I’ll be away from 8/14 to 8/21.) (2) All of you automatically have Prof. Georgi (Head Tutor) and me (Co-Head Tutor) as academic advisors. You can talk with us about anything at any time, ranging from course selection, to future plans, to lab work, to concentration requirements. Our office hours are posted at: www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hgeorgi<http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hgeorgi> and https://scholar.harvard.edu/david-morin/office-hours, zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95258793192?pwd=cEViNis1d1ozNDk3MmdpWjRyOVY1QT09<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_j_9525…> We encourage you to drop by zoom, but email also works. (3) In addition, we give all of you another faculty advisor. The purpose of this Individual Concentration Advisor is to act as a mentor, and to help you down the Physics or Chem/Phys path. However, concerning concentration requirements, Prof. Georgi and I have seen all the ins and outs and variations on these, so we encourage you to save such questions for us. In short, when talking with your faculty advisor, you can pretend that there are no course numbers or requirements to worry about. Just get some real physics advice about what subjects are good to know, what lab experience is good to have, etc. You can view your faculty advisor in my.harvard. (4) YOUR TASK: Email your faculty advisor to set up a meeting to discuss your classes and future plans and such. In addition to providing you with advice, your advisor will also provide you with the necessary electronic signature on your crimson cart. If you'd like to also meet with Prof. Georgi and/or me, by all means stop by zoom, but please do so in addition to (not instead of!) seeing your individual advisor. NOTE: Occasionally more than one email is needed to set up a meeting with your advisor. All of us let an email slip away now and then. So don't hesitate to send a second email after a day or two if you haven't heard back. Also, ***PLEASE CC THE FACULTY ASSISTANT** for your advisor on your FIRST email, unless you're sure that your advisor will get back to you right away (and definitely cc if a second email is required). This person can be identified by clicking on your advisor on the page: www.physics.harvard.edu/people/faculty<http://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/faculty> The Faculty Assistant is listed below the advisor's research blurb. If you have trouble getting a response from your advisor, let me know, and we can always switch advisors. (5) The Physics FAQ page is: https://www.physics.harvard.edu/undergrad/faqs-concentrators Please let me know if there's a topic you would like added. Enjoy the last few days of summer! DJM

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SAVE THE DATE - May 1, 4:30pm Awards Celebration, followed by the End of Year party

by Davis, Jolanta M.

Dear Physics Community, Please join us Monday, May 1, 4:30 pm Jefferson 250 for an Awards Celebration to celebrate the achievements of winners of the following prizes: Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics Carol Davis Award White Teaching Prize Merit Fellowship Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize David J. Robbins Prize Following the ceremony, everyone is invited to the End of Year Party with appetizers and an open bar with wine and beer (bring an ID with your birth date) We hope you will be able to join us! [cid:8f95a1fa-7658-4cd5-b5eb-6d678960162e]

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OUT OF FREE TICKETS - Re: 6 FREE TICKETS to the Screening of "A Compassionate Spy" at Brattle Theater!

by Clarke, Dionne L

Hello everyone, Thank you for your interest in the film! We are out of the free tickets, but please do consider attending this wonderful event! ________________________________ About “A Compassionate Spy” On Sunday April 30 at 5:15, the Brattle Theater on Harvard Square, as part of the Boston Independent Film Festival, will be screening the new documentary film "A Compassionate Spy," (https://iffboston.org/series/the-festival/screening/compassionate-spy-a<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__iffboston.org_series_t…>) which tells the story of Theodore "Ted" Hall, a '44 honors graduate of the Harvard physics department who at 18 was recruited during his junior year by the Manhattan Project (along with fellow students Roy Glauber, Kenneth Case and Fred De Hoffman . Beginning work at Los Alamos in January 1944, Ted was assigned to the Experimental Division of the bomb lab at Los Alamos where he was tasked with refining the complex implosion design used to successfully detonate the plutonium bomb used for the Trinity test and on Nagasaki. Ted Hall died of renal cancer in 1999 without ever being prosecuted, despite his having been identified in Soviet spy cables as a KGB spy at Los Alamos. Fortunately he had made a video tape, at the suggestion of his attorney "for the historical record." Meant to be kept locked away until Ted's and his wife's deaths, in it Ted explains what he did and why and was was provided to the filmmakers, by his widow Joan, a remarkable and sharp-witted woman of 90 who also agreed to be interviewed in detail for the film about he and Ted's 51 years together living always under the threat of arrest by the FBI or later, at Cambridge University, by MI5. The film shows that Ted Hall's decision to share the bomb's design was motivated by a fear (shared by many senior physicists at Los Alamos), of what the US would do if it emerged from WWII with a monopoly on the bomb -- a fear that is documented in the film by another physicist, Daniel Axelrod, whose book "To Win a Nuclear War," <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__press.uchicago.edu_ucp…> based on Pentagon and NSC documents, shows how the Truman administration was pushing the industrialized manufacture of 400 atomic bombs by 1950 with the intention of launching a pre-emptive first strike on the USSR to prevent it's becoming a second nuclear power -- a plan scotched after the Soviets exploded a carbon copy of the "Fat Boy" Nagasaki bomb on Aug. 29, 1949. The film's producer Dave Lindorff, an investigative reporter and discoverer of the story, will be at the screening and will host a Q&A discussion after the film. Here's a review by the Guardian following the film's debut last month in London: Five Stars: 'A Compasionate Spy - Love story of a spy who tried to stop nuclear war<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_fi…> Dave Lindorff, producer 'A Compassionate Spy'

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FW: DSOFT Pre-doctoral Research Experience (PRE) Network

by Georgi, Howard

From: Rehman, Talha <trehman(a)fas.harvard.edu> Hi Howard, Can you please share this with the SPS students mailing list? Dear soft matter community, DSOFT is launching a Pre-doctoral Research Experience (PRE) Network to facilitate connecting undergraduate and master's students seeking research experiences in soft matter with professors/PIs interested in supporting soft matter PREs. The overarching goal of the PRE Network is to build bridges between students and PIs across the globe to broaden participation and provide more equal access to opportunities in soft matter research. PIs and students who submit their information via the forms below by Friday, May 5, 2023 will become part of the 2023-24 DSOFT PRE Network. Please see below or this webpage for more information: https://engage.aps.org/dsoft/resources/pre-net Questions? Contact DSOFT Secretary/Treasurer Rae Robertson-Anderson (randerson(a)sandiego.edu<mailto:randerson@sandiego.edu>) or DSOFT Student Representative Lebo Molefe (lebo.molefe(a)epfl.ch<mailto:lebo.molefe@epfl.ch>). Warm regards, Lebo Molefe ________________ Lebo Molefe PhD candidate in EMSI lab (emsi.epfl.ch<https://emsi.epfl.ch/>) Student representative, APS DSOFT Executive Committee<https://engage.aps.org/dsoft/home> Chair, APS DSOFT Communications & Outreach Committee lebo.molefe(a)epfl.ch<mailto:lebo.molefe@epfl.ch> _______________________ Pre-doctoral Research Experience (PRE) Network The DSOFT Pre-doctoral Research Experience (PRE) Network is aimed at facilitating connection between undergraduate and MS students seeking research experiences in soft matter with PIs interested in supporting soft matter PREs. The overarching goal of the PRE Network is to build bridges between students and PIs across the globe to broaden participation and provide more equal access to opportunities in soft matter research.* PIs and students who submit their information via the forms below by Friday, May 5, 2023 will become part of the 2023-24 DSOFT PRE Network.** Are you a PI interested in hosting/supporting a pre-doctoral (undergraduate or MS) student for summer 2023, fall 2023 or spring 2024? Fill out this form<https://info.aps.org/e/640833/research-experience-network-pi/2pj6mm/9110231…> to advertise your research opportunity and gain access to applications from interested pre-doctoral students.*** Upon review of your submission, you will receive a link to the student applications. Are you an undergraduate or MS student looking for a research experience for summer 2023, fall 2023 or spring 2024? Complete this application<https://info.aps.org/e/640833/rch-experience-network-student/2pj6mq/9110231…> to share your profile with PIs with open positions.*** Upon review of your application, you will receive a link to the list of PIs in the PRE Network and their research projects. * DSOFT is not offering funds to support PREs nor will we evaluate student applications or PI research descriptions. Research stipends and/or housing support will need to be negotiated between the PI and student and adhere to all institutional guidelines. Evaluation of student applications is also the responsibility of the PI offering a PRE. ** This network is restricted to members of DSOFT. If you are not currently a member of DSOFT, you can join here<https://info.aps.org/e/640833/membership-join-cfm/2pj6mt/911023164?h=XeHQGq…>. Student membership in APS is free for the first year, and all students may join up to two divisions or topical groups for free. *** Submitting this form does not guarantee a PRE opportunity nor does it commit you to offering and/or accepting a PRE position. It simply shares your information and grants you access to the PRE Network.

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7 FREE TICKETS! Re: REMINDER - 4/30 - Subsidize Your Ticket to the Screening of "A Compassionate Spy" at Brattle Theater!

by Clarke, Dionne L

Hello everyone, We just received 7 free tickets to the screening of a Compassionate Spy! Please email me ASAP if you would like an electronic ticket for yourself or for a friend! This is a lovely gift, so we do ask that you stay for the post film Q n A! Tickets will be given out on a first come first serve basis. Please let me know if you want a ticket by tonight at 11:59PM. From: "Clarke, Dionne L" <dlclarke(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 10:28 AM To: "sps-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu" <sps-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu> Subject: [SPS] Re: REMINDER - 4/30 - Subsidize Your Ticket to the Screening of "A Compassionate Spy" at Brattle Theater! Hi team, As a quick reminder, there is still time to get your subsidized ticket to the screening of, “'A Compasionate Spy - Love story of a spy who tried to stop nuclear war<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__iffboston.org_series_t…>” on Sunday, April 30! 1. Complete this Google form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_FArQ934og5y1…> to let us know if you are interested in a subsidized ticket. 2. Buy your ticket here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__iffboston.org_series_t…>. 3. We reimburse you for $10 of the ticket cost! **This notice is intended for the undergraduate cohort** From: "Clarke, Dionne L" <dlclarke(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 7:08 PM To: "sps-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu" <sps-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu> Subject: [SPS] 4/30 - Subsidize Your Ticket to the Screening of "A Compassionate Spy" at Brattle Theater! Hello everyone, Would you like to catch a 5-star film for ONLY $5? The Physics Department is subsidizing tickets to the screening of, “'A Compasionate Spy - Love story of a spy who tried to stop nuclear war<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__iffboston.org_series_t…>” on Sunday, April 30th. Already bought your ticket? NO problem! We are providing partial reimbursements to subsidize your ticket purchase to this screening. How to Get Subsidized! 1. Complete this Google form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_FArQ934og5y1…> to let us know if you are interested in a subsidized ticket. 2. Buy your ticket here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__iffboston.org_series_t…>. 3. We reimburse you for $10 of the ticket cost! Fill out the google form and let us know if you are interested by Friday, 4/28 !! Google Form: https://forms.gle/FArQ934og5y1My4R9<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_FArQ934og5y1…> Also, let’s give a HUGE thank you to Santiago Giner for this wonderful idea! ________________________________ About “A Compassionate Spy” On Sunday April 30 at 5:15, the Brattle Theater on Harvard Square, as part of the Boston Independent Film Festival, will be screening the new documentary film "A Compassionate Spy," (https://iffboston.org/series/the-festival/screening/compassionate-spy-a<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__iffboston.org_series_t…>) which tells the story of Theodore "Ted" Hall, a '44 honors graduate of the Harvard physics department who at 18 was recruited during his junior year by the Manhattan Project (along with fellow students Roy Glauber, Kenneth Case and Fred De Hoffman . Beginning work at Los Alamos in January 1944, Ted was assigned to the Experimental Division of the bomb lab at Los Alamos where he was tasked with refining the complex implosion design used to successfully detonate the plutonium bomb used for the Trinity test and on Nagasaki. Ted Hall died of renal cancer in 1999 without ever being prosecuted, despite his having been identified in Soviet spy cables as a KGB spy at Los Alamos. Fortunately he had made a video tape, at the suggestion of his attorney "for the historical record." Meant to be kept locked away until Ted's and his wife's deaths, in it Ted explains what he did and why and was was provided to the filmmakers, by his widow Joan, a remarkable and sharp-witted woman of 90 who also agreed to be interviewed in detail for the film about he and Ted's 51 years together living always under the threat of arrest by the FBI or later, at Cambridge University, by MI5. The film shows that Ted Hall's decision to share the bomb's design was motivated by a fear (shared by many senior physicists at Los Alamos), of what the US would do if it emerged from WWII with a monopoly on the bomb -- a fear that is documented in the film by another physicist, Daniel Axelrod, whose book "To Win a Nuclear War," <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__press.uchicago.edu_ucp…> based on Pentagon and NSC documents, shows how the Truman administration was pushing the industrialized manufacture of 400 atomic bombs by 1950 with the intention of launching a pre-emptive first strike on the USSR to prevent it's becoming a second nuclear power -- a plan scotched after the Soviets exploded a carbon copy of the "Fat Boy" Nagasaki bomb on Aug. 29, 1949. The film's producer Dave Lindorff, an investigative reporter and discoverer of the story, will be at the screening and will host a Q&A discussion after the film. Here's a review by the Guardian following the film's debut last month in London: Five Stars: 'A Compasionate Spy - Love story of a spy who tried to stop nuclear war<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_fi…> Dave Lindorff, producer 'A Compassionate Spy'

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