Dear Physics Community,

A week of grinding toward Fall.  In the Department, we are working through how to deliver graduate exams.  Today, we had a terrific 90-minute meeting with our Society of Physics Students (Anjali Nambrath, Jeffery Yu, Abby Stein, Sujay Kazi, and Debaditya Pramanik.  Guidance about the ICE rules for our first-year graduate students remains ambiguous, even as we try to figure out how to help them get here. We did finally get clarity on the Visitor Policy for Fall, i.e. don’t.

Physics

• Jobs – I received announcements from AAPT and ORNL.
• More jobs – an alum and friend called me.  He is with Liedos, which helps the federal, state, and local governments in various ways.  he was asking if I knew some close to graduating who would like to spend some time exploring at Liedos on a project involving shock waves, plasmas, and atmospheric physics.  Could be a graduate student, could be undergrad intern.  If this sounds interesting, let me know and I will put you in touch.
• This week, I learned from Tran, that Dave Jackson, who wrote “Classical Electrodynamics” did his Ph.D. at MIT with Vicky Weisskopf, which was news to me.
• Will Oliver has a paper in about creating big atoms to quantum compute with.
• Buzzing gravity in Quanta, Wilczek paper, 

Los Endos

Really out of gas.  Have a good weekend!

Peter