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The Holloman Summer Scientific Seminars,cosponsored by the University of New Mexico and the Air Force Missile Development Center, will take place again this year at the Little Theater of the Cloudcroft Lodge in Cloudcroft, N. M. The dates are June 19–30 and the subject is astrophysics. The program will consist of five lectures on ergodic theory by Eberhard Hopf, five lectures on celestial mechanics by R. S. Richardson, and two lectures each by Otto Struve, Donald H. Menzel, Gerard P. Kuiper, Carl Sagan, Seth B. Nicholson, John D. Strong, Herbert Friedman, N. U. Mayall, John D. Kraus, and George Gamow. A day‐by‐day program is available and arrangements to attend any or all of the lectures may be made by writing to Dr. J. R. Foote, P.O. Box 1053, Holloman AFB, N. M.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057526

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

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Under the sponsorshipof the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a number of advanced study institutes will be held in NATO countries during the coming summer and fall. Those dealing with physics and related areas are listed below. Requests for further information should be sent directly to the individual institutes.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057527

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

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The National Science Foundationhas awarded 357 new grants totaling $3.2 million under its undergraduate research participation program, which is now in its third year. The grants, together with 165 awards made last year, will give several thousand undergraduate science students an opportunity to work alongside established scientists in college and university laboratories and in other research institutions. During the summer, 2400 students will take part in the program, and about 1900 will participate during the 1961–62 academic year. Of the total number of students, NSF estimates that 12 percent will work in physics, 37 percent in chemistry, 26 percent in the biological sciences, 13 percent in engineering, and the remainder in astronomy, mathematics, and other fields. The stated aims of the program are to help build the interest of superior students in research, to widen their understanding of scientific method, and to improve their ability to employ scientific investigative procedures.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057528

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

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On March 13the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation designated 1333 students from 381 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada as Woodrow Wilson Fellows for 1961–62. Chosen from among more than 10 000 nominees, the winners represent the largest number elected by the foundation in its 15‐year history. Students in mathematics and the natural sciences account for 15.9 percent of the total. The awards cover the first year of graduate study and are intended to encourage the fellows to consider college teaching as a career. Nominations are made by the students' professors, and candidates are screened by 15 regional committees before the final selection is made. Sir Hugh Taylor, president of the foundation, estimated the total value of this year's awards at $3 million.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057529

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

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The National Academy of Scienceshas announced the completion of its “Planet Earth” film series. Produced under a grant from the Ford Foundation, the collection includes thirteen 27‐minute, 16‐mm educational films covering topics in geophysical research which were stressed in connection with the International Geophysical Year. Although inspired by the IGY, the series reviews the development of man's knowledge of the earth since ancient times. Hugh Odishaw of the NAS acted as director of the series, and it was produced by Lothar Wolff of Louis de Rochemont Associates, Inc. The series was issued by the Academy in cooperation with the WGBH Educational Foundation of Cambridge, Mass.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057530

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

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Two new technical advisory committeeshave been established by the National Bureau of Standards, one on calibration and measurement services, and the other on engineering and related standards. William Wildhack, special assistant to the director of the Bureau, is chairman of both committees.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057533

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

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Plansto construct a new radio telescope, perhaps as large as 250 feet in diameter, were disclosed recently by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to the Senate Aeronautical and Space Science Committee. A request for funds to start construction of the facility, to be located at Goldstone, Calif., was included in a tentative NASA budget drafted for the coming fiscal year. Intended as a principal station for communication with satellites and space probes, it has been proposed that the instrument be built as part of a deep‐space network to include two other radio telescopes now under construction in Australia and in South Africa.

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057534

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057535

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057539

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0031-9228    

DOI:10.1063/1.3057543

出版商:AIP    

年代:1961

数据来源: AIP