[NEIU Physics Students] FW: Hundreds of Summer Research Jobs and a Physics Haiku Contest

[Acioli, Paulo]

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary White [mailto:gwhite at aip.org]
Sent: Wed 12/20/2006 1:27 PM
To: Acioli, Paulo
Subject: Hundreds of Summer Research Jobs and a Physics Haiku Contest
 
Greetings, especially those of a seasonal nature!

Here's the short scoop, more detailed, um... details, follow:

1) Summer research jobs available by the scores at www.the-nucleus.org ! 
or go straight to http://www.the-nucleus.org/research/index.cfm 

2) Compose a lovely,
    physics-suffused haiku, win
    i-tunes, warm fuzzies.

That's a haiku (5 syllables, then 7, then 5 more), and I'm sure you and your students can do better! Enter the physics haiku contest at 
www.the-nucleus.org 

3) Travel awards are available ($200) for SPS research sessions at the April 2007 APS meeting in Jacksonville, FL, http://www.spsnational.org/meetings/calendar/2007/january.htm , deadline January 10, 2007.

4) Looking for family-friendly graduate departments for your students? See 
http://cswp.womeninphysics.org/results.php .

5) Need a classic physics T-shirt for the holidays? Try one of these on for size.
http://store.aip.org/sps/shop.do?cID=5 .

6) GET SOME DATES! Find five special dates celebrating historic events in low-temperature physics on the SPS Calendar and win an Absolute Zero prize package (Ok, OK, I sincerely apologize for using a shameless attention getting gimmick.)

Find your chapter's copy of the big light blue SPS poster calendar, locate the five dates and send them in to sps at aip.org using the subject line "Absolute Zero dates," include the list of the five dates indicating which is most interesting to you and why, and we'll send you some cool toys. It's our way of bringing attention to the upcoming public television special Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold. Other details below. Gary White
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Here's the long version of the bullet points above:

1) Over a thousand summer research positions at over 100 institutions are awaiting your scrutiny.The summer research clearinghouse has been a great success for the past three years in helping physics students get hooked up with the right summer research position. Compare opportunities, search by stipend, geographic location, etc.
www.the-nucleus.org or go straight to http://www.the-nucleus.org/research/index.cfm .


2) We want you and your students to write physics-related haiku(s) and share them with us.  Multiple entries are allowed and encouraged.  Entries must conform to the following guidelines:
1.	All submissions must follow the 5-7-5 form of classic Japanese haiku;
2.	All submissions must be related to physics; and
3.	Haiku entries must be submitted by January 15, 2007.
Judging will be based on the physics content and adherence to more subtle aspects of the haiku form as explained at the site linked below.
http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/ .

Up to three entries (as chosen by The Nucleus staff) will receive $15.00 gift certificates to either i-tunes or Amazon.com.

As an example, here's a submission from Dave Donnelly, The Nucleus Editor himself, the last time we ran this contest....

Baffling entropy
Opaque as the winter fog
What does it all mean?

We had over 100 entries last time and many of the best were published in several different physics print publications. For more haiku examples see
http://www.the-nucleus.org/bulletinboard/TDetails.cfm?TID=32 .


3) Give your students a chance to tell others about their research or about your chapter's outreach project! SPS will sponsor a session at the APS April meeting, April 14-17, 2007, and provide $200 for the first 10 people to submit abstracts for the session. This is a tradition at many major national physics meetings now, so that physics undergraduates can be introduced to the cultures of a variety of physics societies. See details at 
http://www.spsnational.org/meetings/calendar/2007/07aps_april.pdf .


4) Wondering about family-friendly physics departments, or female-friendly physics departments? Check out these survey responses from over 100 graduate physics departments: http://cswp.womeninphysics.org/results.php ---this is the result of some very diligent work by the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics of the American Physical Society, and especially by Marc Sher.


5) The SPS store has T-shirts and other physics-y items for sale. Check it out at http://store.aip.org/sps/shop.do?cID=5 .


6) GET SOME DATES!...You should have received a big packet recently that included the big blue SPS poster calendar. It's almost a meter square and it has all kinds of important meeting dates and deadlines highlighted. If it's not splayed out along the halls of your favorite physics building, then put it up today....On the calendar, intermixed among the deadlines are five historical dates that are important in the history of low-temperature physics. These are the dates that can lead your students to nice physics prizes---see the rules below. (Sorry for the misleading play on words in the headline above---I couldn't resist.)

- 	Find the five special "Absolute Zero" dates on the calendar
	and win fabulous physics prizes!

-	Just e-mail sps at aip.org using the subject line "Absolute
	Zero dates," include the list of the five dates indicating
	which is most interesting to you and why.

- 	We'll send you an "Absolute Zero" prize package including
	an SPS Absolute Zero "Lava lamp" LED pen and rainbow glasses
	if you are among the first 100 national SPS members to submit.

SPS has partnered with others in the physics community to promote an upcoming public television special, Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold, coming in Spring 2007. The website is already up and it is very nice. Check out how your chapter can become involved with celebrating low-temperature physics in 2007 at
http://www.absolutezerocampaign.org/ .

Sincerely,

Gary White
Director, Sigma Pi Sigma and Society of Physics Students
Assistant Director of Education
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740
Tel: 301-209-3007
Fax: 301-209-0839




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