Dear Physics Community,

Note: there will not be community messages over the three day weekend.  I will be using the time to fix the website.

What a week!  All kinds of things happened.  Some real grinding.  I’ve heard from Cathy that she and her team got all the grades from instructors today, so thanks for the attention.

Advisories

• Please nominate a worthy colleague for the Dresselhaus lectureship
• Guidance on remote student appointments for Summer and Fall

Academic Continuity Meeting

Owing to a Lightning Restart meeting, I missed the 8 am Academic Continuity Meeting for the first time.  Rob Simcoe attended.

Cecilia – report on testing

David K – is everywhere, including leading an ethics panel on the restart.  Slides here.

Physics Department

Quantum radar – if you have time, learn about it, it is an amazing feature of entanglement.  Story here, paper here.

Mathematicians – may be out of a job – AI-driven programs now do integrals and may prove theorems.  Great Quanta article here.

Los Endos

GLX – Lechmere station closes for a year.  This is worth paying attention to.

Peter

P.S. I am posting these messages in my blog roll here. Thanks to Physics Council, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Cathy Modica, Vicky Metternich, and Christina Andujar for input and comments on these messages.