Dear Physics Community,

Quiet today – no Academic Continuity Meetings until Tuesday and fewer zoom meetings than usual.

Physics Department

Donald Kuth – Who doesn’t love Tex for writing papers?  Simple, great-looking output, Turing complete.  Originally written by Donald Knuth to publish his own books on programming – masterpieces in their own right.  Quanta has his bio here.  If you can get away from zoom for a while, you could read his series, The Art of Computer Programming.

UROPs – the Department is working with faculty and undergraduates to create as many UROPs as we can.  They will be remote and MIT has produced a guide to help faculty learn how to make the most of remote UROP experiences.

Light-by-light scattering – after reading the ATLAS paper yesterday, I went and found the paper describing the first observation of the scattering of light by light.  The work was done by Robert Wilson, who later was founding Director of Fermilab.  The paper, here, is marvelous.  This could be a Junior Lab experiment.

Los Endos

This might have been the toughest week so far – living with lots of uncertainty, but having to make important decisions.  This three day weekend is most welcome.  Please enjoy it.

Peter