Dear Physics Community,
Spring term is underway, and so far, so good. I want to thank everyone for their patience with the continued COVID restrictions. I believe MIT will relax our protocols a little soon. By the end of the month, I hope we can have food, probably of the pre-prepared kind. Here is the most recent information from MIT about where we are in the pandemic.
I keep track of a lot of Course 8 alumni. One of them, David Wargo, BS 1980, works in media finance in New York and makes documentaries. He bought the rights to a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “American Prometheus,” and has set about getting a movie made. We talk every few months about navigating Hollywood. He has lined up Christopher Nolan (Inception) to direct and put together a cast that includes Matt Damon, interestingly cast as Gen. Leslie Groves. Here is a pre-trailer and a newspaper article on the film. I’m going to try to convince David to give us a pre-screening. He did this before with his documentary on radar. Watch the trailer, if only to see how creepy Oppenheimer was.
It began to sleet while finishing this (Friday, 1:45 pm). Be careful; things are a mess outside.
Peter
PS I post links to physics news as I find them. If you see something exciting or write a cool paper, let me know.
Above the Fold
- Congratulations to David Shoemaker for election as an AAAS Fellow
- Welcome to this year’s cohort of Pappalardo Fellows!
Announcements
- Lab Director for Undergraduate Laboratory in Quantum Science at University of Chicago here
- Fellowship Opportunities with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency here
- Threat Detection Technology Postdoctoral Research Scientist positions here
- ASU Thesis: Seeking Research Participants here
- Michigan Tech. Univ. Physics Graduate Program here
Physics
- Discovery of the Higgs Boson public lectures by Frank Taylor