Dear Physics Community,

To the memory of George Floyd, murdered on May 25, 2020, by four police officers in Minneapolis. MIT’s Vigil for George Floyd here.

Academic Continuity Meeting (Monday)

Advisories

• Use of common space during re-opening
• Major Immigration update from ISO – what we know about the Administrations’ shocking order from late last week.  I will find out what MIT is doing and report back.

Quiet room reservation – available during the summer.  Details here.

Campus space – “Office Hours” with Krystyn team about access to buildings. modifications for distancing, etc. here.

Two-semester options for Fall – some details about plans here. The presentation was followed by a wandering discussion.

Physics Department

Neutron star – finding the neutron star equation of state (EOS) has been a long quest.  A new paper indicates that the center of a neutron star weighing more than 1.4 solar masses could be purely quarks.  Stay tuned…

Unruh radiation – is the idea that an accelerating body has a black body temperature and radiates a black body spectrum.  There is a nice derivation here. I keep coming back to this paper about how you might see it at a storage ring, but can never quite get there.

Los Endos

What we need now: Monet.

Peter