Dear Physics Community,

Some goods news: MIT has become a vaccination site and will deliver vaccines to the whole MIT community (50,000 people) regardless of where they get their health care.  Details here, LRR letter here.

The Thursday lunch was about international engagements, prompted by our colleague Prof. Gang Chen’s awful situation.  Report here: covid-19 fundamental.

Peter

Above the Fold

• Mitfundops Reminder MIT JWEL Grants in Education Innovation pK12 Higher Education and/or Workforce Learning
• GAO Report “Agencies Need to Enhance Policies to Address Foreign Influence” here

Announcements

• CampusAccess-Spring2021-8AMUpdate

Physics

• KATRIN neutrino measurement and a new way of measuring neutrino mass from Joe

Dear Physics Community,

I am still reeling from last week and distracted/scared/discombobulated by Inauguration tomorrow, plus not feeling well.  Some good things may be happening: the SARS-Cov-2 mRNA in the waste water may be dropping, MIT vaccinations have started, and preparations are underway to welcome our students back for Spring. The shortest (Dec. 22)  and coldest (Jan. 17) days of the year are behind us. Finally, MIT has a couple of timely seminars: “Coping with Politically Charged Trauma”, here.

Peter

Above the Fold – MartinLuther King day

• MLK Day Message from Jon Bagger, CEO of APS
• Nominations for MLK Visiting Professor at MIT

Announcements

• Dan David Doctoral and Post Doctoral scholarships
• IDEAs Social Innovation Challenge announcement
• Apply for a Graduate Student Instrumentation Award in High Energy Physics here
• David Martin from the Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) gave our lunch talk Thursday, slides here.  Whether or not your research connects with industry or business, if you are interested in connecting, please contact David.

Physics

• Simons-Heising shape of science lecture series
• Frank Wilczek in Quanta
• Will Oliver quantum Computing news
• Medical Physics Presentation January 25, 2021 announcement here
• Designer molecules from Ronald Garcia Ruiz

Dear Physics Community,

Sorry, but I do not have words for this week.

Peter

Above the Fold

• Sara Seager officer of the order of Canada
• L’Oreal award for women post docs. Lindley had one of these
• PRISM student conference here
• MIT COVID-19 Vaccination status update, Jan 4, 2021
• American Chemical Society Leadership Training – here
• Mandatory harassment training 

Announcements – Fellowships and Positions

• Google internships from Michael Brenner at Harvard
• San Diego State University Master’s Physics and at the Computational Science Research Center
• Repperger Research Intern Program here
• Post doc position in Nuclear/AMO at Stanford here
• Undergraduate research at Notre Dame through REU here
• Los Alamos Rosen Scholar Program here
• L’Oreal award for women post docs. Lindley had one of these

Announcements – Grants

• NIST precision measurement grants
• d’Arbeloff proposal announcement

Announcements – Lectures and Programs

• IAP Technology Licensing Office Intellectual Property Speaker Series
• Teaching and Learning Lab panel on Assessment and Assignments for Remote Learning with Michelle here

Physics

• Quanta physics 2020with several MIT related work
• Article on Science and Government from Science
• Sara Seager in Technology Review
• Biomass from people compared to biomass of everyone else
• Physics World best books of the year, with David K and Sara S

Random Stuff of Note

• Why New York drops a ball on New Year’s Eve.
• 737-MAX flying again