Eclipses of the Sun and Moon: 1501-2100

Visit the USNO Eclipse Portal for maps, global circumstances, local circumstances, and animations for all solar and lunar eclipses from 1501 through 2100 inclusive. The information on this site, provided by H.M. Nautical Almanac Office, is obtained from the same software used in the production of our joint publication, The Astronomical Almanac.
http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclbin/query_usno.cgi

Also of interest:
Maps of Recent and Upcoming Eclipses of the Sun and Moon
vhttp://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/UpcomingEclipses.html

WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Sciences announced [May 3rd 2005] the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 14 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

The election was held during the business session of the 142nd annual meeting of the Academy. Election to membership in the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 1,976.

Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States. Today's election brings the total number of foreign associates to 360.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.

Additional information about the institution is available on the Internet at http://national-academies.org. A full directory of members can be found online at http://national-academies.org/nas.

Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are:

Avinash Dixit; John J. F. Sherrerd 1952 University Professor of Economics;

Robert Keohane; professor of international affairs;

Klainerman, Sergiu; professor, department of mathematics, Princeton University

Kollár, János; professor of mathematics, department of mathematics, Princeton University

Polyakov, Alexandre M.; Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University

Schüpbach, Gertrud M.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of molecular biology, department of molecular biology, Princeton University

Silhavy, Thomas J.; Warner-Lambert Park-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, department of molecular biology, Princeton University

Source: 72 New Members Chosen by Academy, News: The National Academies, 3 May 2005

What is Google Print?
Google's mission is to organize the world's information, but much of that information isn't yet online. Google Print aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily – right in your Google search results.

How does Google Print work? Just do an ordinary Google search. When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see the page of the book that has your search terms, along with other information about the book and "Buy this Book" links to online bookstores (you can view the entirety of public domain books or, for books under copyright, just a few pages or in some cases, only the title’s bibliographic data and brief snippets). You can also search for more information within that specific book and find nearby libraries that have it.

Where do these books come from?
The book content in Google Print comes from two sources: publishers and libraries.
Source: Google Print beta http://print.google.com/ (27 April 2005)

Philip Morrison, builder of first atom bomb, dies at age 89.

"Dr. Philip Morrison helped assemble the first atomic bomb with his own hands, and then campaigned for the rest of his life against weapons that could deliver such devastation... In four decades as a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Morrison was known as a spellbinding speaker and an inspirational popularizer of science, the original teacher of "physics for poets". He was known to the public though his PBS series "The Ring of Truth", and for a long-running and prolific stint as the book reviewer for Scientific American." Source: Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 26 April 2005, pg. B.9

Links from Massachusetts Institute of Technology About Philip Morrison
Institute Professor Philip Morrison dies at 89
Video (courtesy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology)   Philip Morrison on MIT World - Video

George T. Reynolds, a physicist whose foresight laid the groundwork for successful research efforts at Princeton University and many other institutions, died of cancer Tuesday, April 19, at his home in Skillman, N.J. He was 87.

Reynolds, whose career at Princeton began as a graduate student in the early 1940s and continued as a faculty member for four decades, was a leading research director in the fields of cosmic rays, high energy particle physics and biophysics. He was known for his outstanding ability to recognize the potential of research projects and then to attract extraordinary scientists -- including several Nobel Prize winners -- to work on those projects.
more Ruth Stevens (News@Princeton)   Posted April 21, 2005; 08:06 p.m.   PDF (48 Kb)

Hans Bethe, a titan of physics and conscience of science, dies at age 98.

"Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, the last of the giants of the golden age of 20th-century physics and the birth of modern atomic theory, and one of science's most universally admired figures, died quietly yesterday evening at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 98."
Source: Cornell University News, 7 March 2005

Links from Cornell University About Hans Bethe
Obituary
Abouth Bethe
Lectures by Bethe
Commerative Videos (courtesy of Cornell University)  Windows Media | QuickTime

Fine Hall Library has changed the loan period for its materials to 28 days for faculty, graduate, and undergraduates for Mathematics and Physics materials. Following the 28 day loan period the books must be discharged and returned to Fine Hall. The Faculty in the Mathematics and Physics departments requested the shorter loan periods so that more important books would be available on the shelves for consultation. This change was made with the approval of the Molecular Biology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology departments. The new loan period applies to materials with SK or SM. Books in the Biology collection with SZ collection designations have the option of two renewals.

The Crafoord Prize 2005 is awarded to James E. Gunn, Princeton University, USA, P. James E. Peebles, Princeton University, USA, and Martin J. Rees, Cambridge University, UK   "for contributions towards understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe".
Source: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences  --   Press Release (English)

Barbara Maher, a professor at the University of Lancaster, was awarded "... the Chree Medal & Prize for her pioneering work using the magnetism in rocks and soil to understand how changes in the Earth's climate have been caused by humans and by natural events in the past."

A complete list of the recipients of the Institute of Physics Awards 2005, distributed [20 January 2005] in London, has been posted at IoP's website http://www.ioppublishing.com/news/879.

Peter Sarnak has been awarded one of the highest honors in mathematics, the American Mathematical Society's Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory.

The award, which is given every three years, carries a $5,000 prize and was presented to Sarnak Jan. 6 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, Ga. The American Mathematical Society cited Sarnak for his "fundamental contributions to number theory," including his book "Random Matrices: Frobenius Eigenvalues and Monodromy," which he co-wrote with Nicholas Katz, Princeton professor of mathematics.

"The philosophy the book presents has had a major impact on the direction of work in analytic number theory," according to the mathematical society. The society also cited two papers by Sarnak, "in which this philosophy is tested in a more difficult specific case."

Sarnak, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton, also is a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980 and came to Princeton in 1991. He chaired Princeton's mathematics department from 1996 to 1999.
Princeton University Announcements (posted 1/7/05)

Cornell University Library and Project Euclid are pleased to announce the availability of the backfile for
Communications in Mathematical Physics (1965 - 1996) http://projecteuclid.org/cmp (637 issues; 4804 articles).
The CMP backfile is available on an Open Access basis.

Cornell University Library is a member of the EMANI initiative and the retrodigitization and delivery of the CMP backfile have been made possible through funding from this project: EMANI (Electronic Mathematical Archiving Network Initiative) http://www.emani.org/

Communications in Mathematical Physics
Publisher: Springer-Verlag (Springer Science + Business Media)
Fulltext v1 - v182 (1965 - 1996)
http://projecteuclid.org/cmp
ISSN 0010-3616 (print); 1432-0916 (electronic)

Post-1996 content is available from Springer LINK

The total article count in Project Euclid, as of 12/28/04, is now 28,150.

World Renowned Geometer S.-S. Chern Dies Shiing-Shen Chern, one of the outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century, passed away in Tianjin, China, on Friday, December 3, 2004, at the age of 93. S.-S. Chern was one of the creators of modern differential geometry as it is known today. Fifty years ago, his global viewpoint, emphasizing relations with topology, was revolutionary. One of his early successes was his elegant proof of the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem, which, together with concepts such as Chern classes and Chern-Simons invariants, made a lasting imprint on the subject. S.-S. Chern was the founding director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. After holding professorial positions at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley, he returned to China in his retirement and founded the Nankai Institute of Mathematics. He received the first Shaw Prize in 2004. Read more about Chern in an interview that appeared in Notices of the AMS.
[Item posted to AMS website 12/6/04]

Math in the Movies   http://world.std.com/~reinhold/dir/mathmovies.html

There are many learned (and not-so learned) professions that get a bad rap in the world of cinema. Scientists, and mathematicians in particular, tend to be portrayed alternately as either evil madmen or troubled geniuses. Through this website, Arnold Reinhold offers his informed and honest appraisals of mathematicians (and their math, of course) in various films. To get a sense of the project, visitors may want to begin by listening to an interview with Reinhold, provided by the Studio 360 radio program on National Public Radio. After listening to the delightful interview, visitors will want to browse through the reviews, which offer a star rating for the film overall, and of course the portrayal and accuracy of the math in the film. Some of the films profiled are A Beautiful Mind, Straw Dogs, Good Will Hunting, and of course Pi. Overall, a site that's worth a few visits, and quite a bit of fun. This site is also reviewed in the December 17, 2004 NSDL MET Report. [KMG]

The Library and OIT have jointly purchased a license for EndNote. Students and faculty may acquire if from Software Sales at a greatly reduced cost. A three year license, available for both institutional and personal purchase, costs $30 per computer. (When students graduate or otherwise leave the university, they may take their copy of EndNote with them.) The software is available for the Win or Mac platform. It is available at: OIT's Software Sales, 113 Frist Campus Center, 258-9160. If Library staff need EndNote installed on their work pc, they should request that it be installed by sending an email to lsupport@princeton.edu. The Library now has its own EndNote licenses for staff use. If you have any questions about these software products, please call Software Sales at 8-9160.

Effective on or about December 15, 2004 a portion of IVY LANE will become ONE WAY.

The new One Way traffic pattern will begin from the entrance to Parking Lot 26 going west to Washington Rd. Traffic will no longer be permitted to turn off Washington Road onto Ivy Lane. Anyone seeking to travel east on Ivy Lane from Washington Road must now use either Prospect Avenue or Faculty Road, and then come west on Western Way.

Traffic will continue a two-way pattern in and out of Parking Lot 26 and along Ivy Lane to the east of the entrance to Parking Lot 26.

A new pedestrian walk way has been installed at the North East corner of Washington Road and Ivy Lane to take pedestrian traffic off of the south side of Ivy Lane.

Appropriate signage will be installed to direct both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

This One Way traffic pattern is necessary to safely provide access in and out of the new Lewis Library construction area. The change is expected to remain in affect for a 2 year period.

This change will not affect the Shuttle Stop on Ivy Lane.

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. This means your search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications."
Source: Goolge Scholar http://scholar.google.com 19 November 2004

Originally seen on SPARC Open Access News.

The Council of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) http://www.imstat.org/ has decided to deposit all the articles from its four journals in arXiv http://arxiv.org/ . Quoting from the new policy http://www.imstat.org/publications/arxiv.html (November, 2004): 'Won't IMS lose subscriptions by placing all its journal articles on arXiv? After talking with many librarians responsible for subscription decisions (including those at U. C. Berkeley, Courant Institute, U. of Minnesota, and U. of Washington) we believe the answer to this question is not many. Librarians are telling us they want to subscribe to journals in a traditional journal structure as provided by Project Euclid, with more advanced searches than Google, and a pleasant means of browsing issues. Such facilities are not provided by arXiv. IMS plans to continue to work with Euclid to improve the quality and attractiveness of Euclid's offering, and to maintain the identity of Euclid as the primary sourc! e of IMS journal content which should be supported by institutional subscriptions....What should authors do next? If you aren't familiar with arXiv, visit arXiv and learn how to post your preprints there. Make a habit of doing so whenever you submit to a journal, and when a final version is accepted by a journal, update your preprint to incorporate changes made in the refereeing process, so a post-refereed pre-press version of your article is also available on arXiv. As far as we know, no journals in mathematics or statistics forbid posting of preprints on arXiv, though some journals in other fields of science and medicine do forbid it. For papers you are publishing with IMS, let us know if there is an arXiv version so we can update it with the published version as soon as that is available.'

At the same time the Council of the IMS agreed to submit the following paragraph to the NIH as a comment in support of its OA plan: 'IMS has recently adopted a policy http://www.imstat.org/publications/arxiv.html of open access to its publications.... IMS executives believe the public interest is well served by open access to peer-reviewed scientific publications, and that scholarly societies such as IMS can continue to flourish, with support from library and membership subscriptions, even if all of the content they publish becomes available on public digital repositories.'

Posted by Peter Suber to Open Access News at 11/11/2004 10:32:26 PM

The society gives the Lilienfeld Prize, which includes a $10,000 award, "for outstanding contributions to physics by a single individual who also has exceptional skills in lecturing to diverse audiences." The prize citation notes his "pioneering and creative work in applying advanced techniques in experimental physics to significant problems in biological physics."

Past recipients of the Lilienfeld award have included Stephen Hawking and Nobel laureates Frank Wilczek and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.

Austin, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, joined the Princeton faculty in 1979 as an assistant professor of physics and has been a full professor since 1989. In 1999, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Source: Princeton University Announcements (October 27 2004)

THE EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH, CERN, celebrates its 50th anniversary on 29 September. A sort of United Nations of physics, with numerous European member states and many more non-European affiliates, the Geneva-based CERN has been the site of several notable achievements and discoveries in the area of elementary particle physics. These include the observation (1973) of neutral-current weak interactions, a type of scattering event in which two particles interact via the interchange of a heavy neutral boson force particle; later the production (1983) of that same force particle, the Z boson, and its charged cousins, the W+ and W- bosons; the creation of the World Wide Web (1990) as a means of transferring huge amounts of data; hints of a novel kind of new nuclear matter (perhaps quark-gluon plasma) amid high-energy, heavy-ion collisions (2000); and creation of slow-moving anti-hydrogen atoms (2002). The Large Electron Positron collider (LEP), recently retired, was the scene of additional high-precision measurements of the weak nuclear force and other aspects of the standard model. LEP is lending its 27-km-round tunnel for the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in which two beams of 7-TeV protons (or heavy ions) will be collided head on. Out of the violence of these smash-ups, physicists hope to achieve such long-sought goals as producing the Higgs boson and various members of a family of supersymmetric particles (consisting of boson cousins of known fermion particles and fermi cousins of known boson particles), and maybe even discern evidence for the existence of extra dimensions. Completion is expected in the year 2007. (See http://intranet.cern.ch/Chronological/2004/CERN50/)

Source: The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 701 September 17, 2004 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

To reach the library staff by email, please use finelib@princeton.edu The Biology Library email address (biolib@princeton.edu) is still functional, but any messages to that address will automatically go to finelib@princeton.edu

To reach the librarians (both can answer questions about any of the collections):
Mitchell Brown (Math/Physics/Statistics) 258-3150
Steve Adams (Biology) 258-5484

To reach the staff:
Judy Shipley 258-3187 or 258-3188
Cheryl Alabré 258-3187 or 258-3188
Sarah Lafata 258-5406
Doug McGilvra 258-8187 or 258-3188
Chung-Li Kang 258-1097
Donna Wolfe 258-8601 (Supervisor)
Fine Library FAX 258-2627

Welcome to the improved Library web site!
http://libweb.princeton.edu/

For the start of the 2004 Fall semester, the Library has streamlined its web site to better serve users. We have made these changes and improvements based on user testing conducted last Spring with Princeton students and faculty. We hope that you find the refreshed site easy to use and we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments to libweb-l@princeton.edu

Some of the new features include:

Find Articles
Find Articles allows you to search indexes and databases that list articles and other research material in journals, newspapers, etc. Search by subject, title, keyword, or e-tool (book reviews, dictionaries, documents, etc...) This site replaces the Article Indexes and Research Databases link.

Library A-Z
Browse an alphabetical list of informational links about the Library or search by keyword. Use the A-Z list when you have difficulty finding what you need on the Library site.

Schedule a Research Appointment
Any Princeton user who needs research assistance may use this form to set up a consultation with a librarian. Pleaset fill out the form and a librarian will contact you.

Highlighted Library News
Updates on Library renovations, resources, exhibits, and other Library happenings will now be more prominently displayed.

Looking for the following links?
These links are still available; they are now listed under Books, Articles and More.
Click on Data, Digital Maps, E-Journals and more to find these resources:
E-Journals
E-Journal Finder
E-Books, Digital Collections, Images (now called E-Books/E-Texts, Digital Projects, Images)
E-Reference Shelf
CPANDA
GIS, Digital Maps
Numeric Data (now called Data)
Internet Search Engines
Find these links on the Campus Libraries main page:

Designated Locations in Princeton Libraries (now called Main Catalog Location Codes)
Library Call Numbers and Locations

Quoting from the cover page:
This digital archive contains mainly unpublished personal papers and photographs of Alan Turing from 1923-1972. The originals are in the Turing archive in King's College Cambridge.

It contains letters, obituaries and memoirs written by colleagues and used by Sara Turing for her biography of her son (Heffers: Cambridge, 1959); talks and publications on the Automatic Computing Engine, his work at the National Physical Laboratory, the theories of computable numbers, digital computers, morphogenesis and the chemical development of cells.

Source: George S. Porter, California Institute of Technology, george@library.caltech.edu (posted to SLA-PAM, 25 August 2004)

Journal of Geophysics and Engineering- JGE is published in partnership with the Nanjing Institute of Geophysical Prospecting. JGE's main focus is applied science and engineering, but also covers all earth physics disciplines. (www.jge.iop.org)

Journal of Neural Engineering- JNE bridges the gap between neuroscience and engineering and includes coverage at the molecular, cellular and systems levels. (www.jne.iop.org)

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment- JSTAT is an electronic-only journal created by SISSA and IOP. JSTAT brings together cutting-edge research in all aspects of statistical physics, with an emphasis on experimental work. (www.iop.org/EJ/JSTAT)

Physical Biology - Peer reviewed journal fostering the integration of biology with the more quantitative fields of physics, chemistry, computer science and other math-based disciplines. (www.physbio.org)

Updated version of the AMS Journal Pricing Survey has just been posted, with information known as of 1 July 2004.

http://www.ams.org/membership/journal-survey.html

This survey contains prices and pages, 1994-2004, for the 270+ mathematics titles American Mathematical Society tracks.
Source: Paula Shanks [American Mathematical Society], Acquistions Librarian, Mathematical Reviews

The Geosciences and Map Library will begin moving to Fine Hall Annex Library on Tuesday, July 6th. For 2 weeks, from Monday July 5th through Monday July 19th the library will be CLOSED to the public. We will reopen with regular Geociences Library summer hours on Tuesday, July 20th.

Document delivery, ILL and Borrow Direct services will be suspended during the move. You may continue to send library mail to the Geosciences Library. We will send additional information regarding hours and services when we reopen. The library will remain in these temporary quarters until the Peter B. Lewis '55 Library (the science library) opens in early 2007.

If you need to contact us during this period or have questions about the move or services, please call (609) 258-3267 or send email to geolib@princeton.edu

Re: Fine Hall Annex
Construction will continue in Fine Hall Annex through July 16th. Patrons needing materials from that collection should continue to request them at the temporary Annex Desk in Fine Hall Library or complete the Annex request form at http://libweb.princeton.edu/services/annex.php. Paul Diskin will accept article and book requests and retrieve materials from the collection. The Annex Desk will be staffed Monday through Friday, 9 am to 4:30 pm.

Contact the desk at 258-4529 or send email to fineanx@princeton.edu. This is the preferred way of requesting physical materials since we anticipate that there may be times during the Geosciences Library move when the Annex collection may not be immediately accessible. Interlibrary loan and Article Express/Document Delivery service will continue as usual, but there may be some delays. ReCAP staff, currently located in Fine Hall Library, will continue to work on the Annex collection. Borrow Direct requests will be suspended during the period. For at least the next five months, staff are asked not to transfer any volumes to the Annex. The only exceptions to this are new titles purchased for the Annex or single newly bound serial volumes.

Once the Geosciences Library reopens on July 20th, we will send additional information regarding operation and services for both Geosciences and Fine Hall Annex Libraries.

Tuesday June 29th, the driveway between Jadwin Hall and the Armory will be resurfaced. The plan is to start about 9 am after (everyone is in work and parked) and to be finished no later than 3 pm.

Excerpt from: Princeton Weekly Bulletin vol.91, no.10 (November 19, 2001)

"Princeton NJ -- Peter Lewis, a member of the Princeton class of 1955 and a trustee of the University, is making a gift of $60 million to support the construction and the programs of a new science library at Princeton that will be designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Frank Gehry. The library is expected to be located near the corner of Ivy Lane and Washington Road, with a connection to the existing math-physics library in Fine Hall."

Compendex (EI Compendex Plus) is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary engineering database covering the world's significant engineering and technological literature and referencing over 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials.

From approximately March 8, 2004 through June 1, 2004, the walkway on the east side of Washington Road from Ivy Lane to Fine Tower will be closed due to the construction of the Science Library. We are sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.

If there are any questions, please contact Elise DeMeo or Amy Carmody at 258-6681.
George Glahn, Manager of Civil Engineering

The American Physical Society announces a new series of stories describing groundbreaking results in the history of physics. The stories explain in lay language selected papers from APS's online archive of physics research, which extends back to the first issue of the Physical Review in 1893. The occasional series, called "Landmarks," appears on the Physical Review Focus web site, http://focus.aps.org, with the first installment published 20 February. The Focus site is a free service from APS and primarily describes recently published results. To receive weekly summaries of the latest Focus stories, go to http://focus.aps.org/e-mail_list.html.

David Ehrenstein
Editor, Physical Review Focus
http://focus.aps.org/

The Library's SFX Implementation Committee has decided to change the name of the PULinks article linking service to Find it @PUL. The change will take effect on February 6th.

At that time, all the current buttons in OpenURL compliant databases will be replaced with a revised Find it@PUL button.

The service remains the same; it provides users searching many of the Library indexes/databases with the ability to link to the full text of an article (if available) or to other options for obtaining the article. The committee believes that the name change will make it clearer to users that linking options are available when the Find it@PUL button appears in a list of search results.

In addition, all of the databases that provide linking, including Proquest and Web of Science, now have the capability of displaying our custom button. Therefore, the SFX image will be removed from our menu and database list, and the service will now be referred to only as Find it @PUL. The producer of the software, Exlibris, continues to call their linking software SFX (for special effects).

"Mystery remains as journal withdraws paper"
J Whitfield
Nature 426, 594 (11 December 2003); doi:10.1038/426594a

Excerpt from Nature article:
[LONDON]
A mathematics journal has withdrawn a paper that claimed to crack one of the discipline's great mysteries after reviewing and accepting the work and publishing it online.

On 18 November, Nonlinear Analysis published a paper by Elin Oxenhielm - a postgraduate student in mathematics at the University of Stockholm, Sweden - which presented itself as a solution to the second part of Hilbert's sixteenth problem, one of a set of challenges laid out by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1900.

If a solution were validated, mathematicians agree, it would be a significant step towards a complete solution to the problem. Oxenhielm predicts just that: "We could find one in a year or so, if we're lucky," she says.

The work was described in a 24 November press release from Oxenhielm and covered in several media outlets including the BBC. But the paper immediately came under fire from mathematicians. "It's completely inadequate - I can't imagine who would have thought it was a proof," says John Mather of Princeton University, New Jersey.

Citation: Elin Oxenhielm, "On the second part of Hilbert's 16th problem", Nonlinear Analysis doi:10.1016/j.na.2003.10.002 (Article in Press) Science Direct

October 2: 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature: John Maxwell Coetzee (South Africa)

Citation of the Academy: "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider".

October 6: 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology: Paul C Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield

Citation of the Academy: "for their discoveries concerning ‘magnetic resonance imaging’"

October 7: 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics: Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, and Anthony J. Leggett

Citation of the Academy: "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"

October 8: 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"

Citation of the Academy: Peter Agre: "for the discovery of water channels" and Roderick MacKinnon: "for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels".

October 8: 2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2003 is to be shared between: Robert F. Engle and Clive W.J. Granger

Citation of the Academy: Robert F. Engle: "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)" and Clive W. J. Granger "for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)".

October 10: 2003 Nobel Prize for Peace: Shirin Ebadi

Citation of the Academy: "for her efforts for democracy and human rights".

Distributed Full Text Search of Math Books Now Available

The university libraries of Cornell, Göttingen, and Michigan are pleased to announce the first public availability of a significant body of mathematical monographs with access provided through a distributed full text search protocol. The virtual collection, comprising more than 2,000 volumes of significant historical mathematical material (nearly 600,000 pages), resides at the three separate institutions and is provided through interfaces to the three entirely different software systems. Public interfaces to the collection may be found at:

http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/mathall/
and
http://mathbooks.library.cornell.edu/

These two public interfaces reflect different development efforts at Michigan and Cornell, each with their own perspective on how to best mediate the search through the protocol, and each based on the protocol.

The protocol for this distributed search was developed by the three participating institutions over the last two and a half years, with generous support provided by the National Science Foundation. Working from the roots of the DIENST and the then-emergent OAI protocols, the project team focused on creating a new protocol--dubbed CGM, for "Cornell, Göttingen, Michigan"--that was consistent with OAI, borrowed from DIENST, and added mechanisms for full text searching. The protocol and more project information are available at http://www.library.cornell.edu/mathbooks/.

While our testing has found that network latency and the vicissitudes of different production environments do present challenges, our results indicate that a distributed full text search is certainly viable. We believe that the CGM protocol is relatively unique in providing production-level full text access to distributed collections.

We invite feedback on the effectiveness of the protocol from both users of the materials and from digital library developers. Although essentially a first prototype with significant needs for extension and refinement, we believe that our progress to-date should be encouraging for digital library developers interested in federating collections. And, further, the collection itself is a rich resource for the study of mathematics history and a number of related disciplines. The collections at Cornell and Michigan are both fully searchable, and while the Göttingen collection currently includes bibliographic information and page images, Göttingen is actively seeking funding to create full text for its volumes.

We welcome all feedback. Please send comments to cgm-feedback@umich.edu.

We hope that the documentation on the protocol (currently found at http://www.library.cornell.edu/mathbooks/cgmverbs.xml) will spur others to add CGM-capability to their systems. The software created through this NSF-funded grant will be made available in a number of ways. The API developed by Göttingen, allowing them to provide access through the Agora software, will soon be available to other Agora sites. The functionality developed by Michigan will be included in release 11 of the DLXS digital library software (September, 2003). And Cornell is exploring distribution and support models for its electronic publishing software, DPubS, the system also behind Project Euclid (http://ProjectEuclid.org). If you are interested in using the raw protocol mechanisms at Cornell, Göttingen and Michigan in your development efforts, please contact:

Andrea Rapp, Göttingen rapp@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de
David Ruddy, Cornell dwr4@cornell.edu
John P. Wilkin, Michigan jpwilkin@umich.edu

July 9: In Pursuit of Simplicity the manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra

Prof. Dijkstra's manuscripts (and some other things) online: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

In Pursuit of Simplicity
the manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra

".....Like most of us, Edsger always believed it a scientist's duty to maintain a lively correspondence with his scientific colleagues. To a greater extent than most of us, he put that conviction into practice. For over four decades, he mailed copies of his consecutively numbered technical notes, trip reports, insightful observations, and pungent commentaries, known collectively as "EWDs", to several dozen recipients in academia and industry. Thanks to the ubiquity of the photocopier and the wide interest in Edsger's writings, the informal circulation of many of the EWDs eventually reached into the thousands.

Although most of Edsger's publications began life as EWD manuscripts, the great majority of his manuscripts remain unpublished. They have been inaccessible to many potential readers, and those who have received copies have been unable to cite them in their own work. To alleviate both of these problems, the department has collected over a thousand of the manuscripts in this permanent web site, in the form of PDF bitmap documents (to read them, you'll need a copy of Acrobat Reader). We hope you will find it convenient, useful, inspiring, and enjoyable. "

May 19: Einstein Archives to Be Available Online

PASADENA, Calif. - More than 900 scientific and nonscientific documents of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era, Albert Einstein, will soon be available online for the first time.

The Einstein Archives Online website, at http://www.alberteinstein.info/, will also be accompanied by an extensive database of archival information. It will be launched on May 19 during a daylong symposium on his life and work, to be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The new website is the result of an ambitious cooperative effort between the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology. It will enable access to some 3,000 high-quality digitized images. Thirty-nine documents will also be provided (in PDF format) as they appear in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, published in German by Princeton University Press, with historical and scientific annotations in English; some of the documents are accompanied by English translations.

An extensive archival database and finding aid will allow for the direct searching and browsing of more than 40,000 records of Einstein and Einstein-related documents. These concern his scientific and nonscientific writings, his professional and personal correspondence, notebooks, travel diaries, personal documents, and third-party items.

The website was developed in collaboration with the Information Technology and Photo-Reprography Departments of the Hebrew University's Jewish National & University Library (JNUL), the David and Fela Shapell Digitization Project at the JNUL, and with Princeton University Press. The archival database will present records for all items that have been edited and annotated by scholars, and that have appeared since 1987 in The Collected Papers. These will include some 500 items that were not part of the original collection, but that were uncovered during the past 25 years. The eight volumes that are available so far contain Einstein's writings and correspondence from his youth to age 40. They include his major papers on the theory of special relativity, general relativity, the quantum theory of light and matter, as well as a wealth of lesser-known contributions to many aspects of science, education, international reconciliation, Zionism, and pacifism.

Einstein's personal papers were bequeathed to the Hebrew University in his last will and testament of 1950. The Albert Einstein Archives has been housed at the Hebrew University's JNUL since 1982.

The Einstein Papers Project at Caltech is a multidisciplinary research and editorial team engaged in the collection, selection, and scholarly annotation of The Collected Papers, an edition of 25 planned volumes of Einstein's writings and correspondence.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was envisaged by its founders as a "university of the Jewish people." Its foundation stone was laid in 1918, and its doors opened in 1925. Today, its student body totals around 23,000 and its tenured academic faculty numbers 1,200. The university is Israel's leading academic center for research and postgraduate study.

Founded in 1891, Caltech has an enrollment of some 2,000 students, and a faculty of about 280 professorial members, 65 research members, and some 560 postdoctoral scholars. Over the years, 30 Nobel Prizes and four Crafoord Prizes have been awarded to faculty members and alumni.

The Jewish National & University Library is the central library of the Hebrew University and the national library of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Founded in 1892 as a world center for the preservation of books relating to Jewish thought and culture, it assumed the additional functions of a general university library in 1920.
Source: Contact: Mark Wheeler   (626) 395-8733   wheel@caltech.edu

May 19-20: National Academies to Webcast May Symposium on STM Journal Publishing
The "Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications" will be presented by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on May 19-20 at the NAS Auditorium, 2100 C Street NW, in Washington, D.C. The meeting will be free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. NAS will broadcast an audio version of the symposium live on the Web.

The Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications will be held on May 19-20, 2003 in the auditorium of the main National Academies building, located at 2100 C Street, NW. The symposium will undertake a broad look across the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal enterprise to provide a better understanding of the implications of electronic publishing of STM journals on the health of scientific, engineering, and medical research. The symposium will bring together experts in STM publishing, both producers and users of these publications, to:

1. Identify the recent technical changes in publishing, and other factors, that influence the decisions of journal publishers to produce journals electronically;
2. Identify the needs of the scientific, engineering, and medical community as users of journals, whether electronic or printed;
3. Discuss the responses of not-for-profit and commercial STM publishers and of other stakeholders in the STM community to the opportunities and challenges posed by the shift to electronic publishing; and
4. Examine the spectrum of proposals that has been put forth to respond to the needs of users as the publishing industry shifts to electronic information production and dissemination.


Steering Committee (all terms end on August 31, 2003)

Edward H. Shortliffe (chair), Columbia University
Daniel Atkins, University of Michigan
Floyd Bloom, The Scripps Research Institute
Jane Ginsburg, Columbia Law School
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
Jeffrey Mackie-Mason, University of Michigan
Ann Okerson, Yale University
Mary Waltham, Publishing Consultant

May 03: Princeton affiliates can get the full text of Ph.D. dissertations from United States universities from 1997 to present. The dissertations are full-text, full-images of documents available:   UMI Digital Dissertations

April 29: Random Matrix Theory issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, edited by Peter Forrester, Nina Snaith and Jac Verbaarschot.

The issue contains a collection of invited and submitted papers from the leading practitioners in the field, and is divided into the following subject areas:

Number Theory ** Statistical Mechanics ** Integrable Systems ** Integration Formulas, Mesoscopic and Disordered Systems ** Non-Hermitian Random Matrix Theories ** Quantum Chaos ** Special Random Matrix Ensembles.

Review articles set the context and research papers report the latest developments. All papers have been peer-reviewed to ensure that the usual high quality standards of the journal have been maintained.

April 25: J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36 (April 2003)
Special issue on `Recent Advances in the Theory of Quantum Integrable Systems'

This is a call for contributions to a special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General dedicated to the subject of Quantum Integrable Systems as featured in the international workshop on Recent Advances in the Theory of Quantum Integrable Systems (RAQIS03), 25--28 March 2003, LAPTH, Annecy-le-Vieux, France (wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/lapth/RAQIS03/). Participants at that meeting, as well as other researchers working in the field of the theory of quantum integrable systems, are invited to submit a research paper to this issue. The Editorial Board has invited Daniel Arnaudon, Jean Avan, Luc Frappat, Éric Ragoucy and Paul Sorba to serve as Guest Editors for the special issue.

March 21: Recent development for New Journal of Physics (NJP) (www.njp.org).

"Providing a valuable new benefit to readers, the entire content of NJP can now be displayed by subject category, enabling you to search and browse with greater efficiency for research articles across all areas of physics. This alternative means of navigating the journal comes in addition to the familiar incremental table of contents by which you can easily view the most recent additions to the journal."

To search NJP by article subject category, please visit the ‘Articles by subject area’ link on the journal homepage or go to www.iop.org/EJ/cluster/-search=jnl/njp.

New Journal of Physics (www.njp.org), co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, is a free-to-read, electronic-only journal, publishing original research in all areas of physics. The cost of the peer-review and production process is financed by an author article charge.

Dr Tim Smith, Publisher
New Journal of Physics
Institute of Physics
njp@iop.org
www.njp.org

March 18: Princeton University Campus Community Worldwide Alert
We are reaching out to all Princeton University community members in light of heightened security concerns related to President Bush's announcement on Iraq and medical travel advisories related to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization

In addition to checking your Princeton e-mail and the Princeton University home page frequently for broadcast messages, we urge all Princeton community members abroad to visit the State Departments emergency alert Web site at http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html for the latest travel and personal safety advisories available to American citizens.

For individuals abroad or planning international travel in the near future, we recommend frequent visits to the CDC Travelers’ Health Web page at http://www.cdc.gov/travel/ and its Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Web page at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/.

For alerts related to domestic security, please visit the federal Department of Homeland Security site at http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/. For information related to safety and security at Princeton University, visit the Department of Public Safety site at http://www.princeton.edu/publicsafety.

If you have specific health related questions or are experiencing upper respiratory symptoms with a recent history of travel to Asia, contact Dr. Peter Johnsen of University Health Services at johnsenp@Princeton.EDU.

For all other questions related to travel or personal safety while abroad, contact travel@princeton.edu.



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January 20: Five earn Sloan Foundation fellowships
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The Alfred Sloan Foundation has selected five Princeton researchers to receive fellowships to support research in computer science, mathematics, physics and economics.

The recipients are: Moses Charikar, assistant professor of computer science; Wee Teck Gan, assistant professor of mathematics; Steven Gubser, associate professor of physics; Han Hong, assistant professor of economics; and Christopher Tully, assistant professor of physics.

The winners, who were among 117 recipients nationwide, each will receive $40,000 in unrestricted research support. The highly selective fellowships are designed to help researchers who are at an early stage of their careers and show exceptional promise. The Sloan Foundation gives the awards annually in seven fields, which also include chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, and neuroscience.

January 20: Three Mathematics professors honored by American Mathematical Society

Three Princeton mathematics professors have been honored by the American Mathematical Society for their advances in the field.

John Mather won the 2003 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics, which the society jointly awards every three years with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics to recognize outstanding contributions to applied mathematics.

Nicholas Katz and Peter Sarnak received the 2003 Levi L. Conant Prize, an annual award that recognizes an outstanding expository paper published in one of the society's journals in the preceding five years.

Mather was honored for his "exceptional depth, power and originality," the society said. Some of Mather's earliest work in topology has had important applications in economics and physics. He has also made major contributions to dynamical systems theory.

Mather, who holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton, has been a faculty member since 1974.

Katz and Sarnak were honored for their expository paper, "Zeroes of Zeta Functions and Symmetry," published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society in 1999. "The paper, a model of high-level exposition, presents a rich mix of intensive numerical exploration, conjectures and theorems," the society said.

Katz holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton and has been a faculty member since 1966. Sarnak joined the Princeton faculty in 1991 and was a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1999 to 2002.

The American Mathematical Society, with 30,000 members, offers programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses, strengthen mathematical education and foster awareness and appreciation of mathematics.
Source: Announcements, Princeton University website (posted 16 January 2003)

January 6: Refworks -- Online Bibliographic managmeent service

Princeton University Library has acquired a site license for RefWorks, a web-based bibliographic management service. RefWorks is a very useful tool for creating a personal, searchable, database of citations. These citations may be formatted and merged into Microsoft Word documents as footnotes or a custom bibliography. RefWorks can format both references and manuscripts into various writing styles, such as MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, NLM, IEEE, and more. Because it is web-based and the bibliographic records reside on a server, not on a personal computer, RefWorks enables users to access their own citation collections from any networked computer (Mac, PC or UNIX). RefWorks is free for Princeton students, faculty, and staff. Sign up for an individual account at: http://www.refworks.com/refworks. For more information on how to use RefWorks see: http://www.pppl.gov/library/RefWorksweb/RefWorks.htm

December 21: Cellule MathDoc (Grenoble) is pleased to announce the birth of the NUMDAM web site.
http://www.numdam.org
(http://www.numdam.org/en for an English version)

The NUMDAM program (NUMérisation de Documents Anciens Mathématiques, with the full support of CNRS) aims to offer worldwide access to digitized mathematical litterature which has been published in France.

This first showing concerns the full run of two maths serials:
– Annales de l’institut Fourier [1949-2000] (1798 articles, 51 000 p.),
– Proceedings of Journées Équations aux dérivées partielles (469 articles, 5 400 p.)

On January 2003, 7-8, a conference
Journées Équations aux Dérivées Partielles : a century quarter digitized
will take place in Nantes : PDE's and NUMDAM (with special emphasis on intellectual property, author rights and Digital Mathematics Library).
http://www.math.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/edpa/numdam


December 19: The Mathematics Surveys
Proposal by Jim Pitman (Departments of Mathematics and Statistics .The University of California, Berkeley, pitman@stat.berkeley.edu)

This is a proposal to construct a new means of organizing, communicating and archiving mathematical knowledge, by a faithful representation of that knowledge in cyberspace. The purpose is first of all to provide a peer-reviewed survey of all of mathematics, professionally organized, fully searchable, navigable and retrievable, continuously archived and updated, and available free online to anyone with Internet access, in perpetutity. This is to be achieved by creation of an electronic journal, The Mathematics Survey (or MathSurvey for short), which would be a multi-layered network of richly interlinked electronic survey journals, one in each branch of mathematics.
See: http://www.mathsurvey.org

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October 20: Physics Reviews -- Review article from IoP journals

Institue of Physics launches Physics Reviews. Physics Reviews brings together all review articles published in IOP's journals, including topical reviews and those from our dedicated review journal Reports on Progress in Physics.

"The review articles in [IoP] journals are already among the most widely downloaded and heavily cited, and cover all areas of physics. [IoP] Editors regularly identify topical areas of interest and commission leading scientists to write expert commentary on them. Review articles are more important than ever for researchers who are increasingly overloaded and pressed for time. They are often useful as guides to raw data and original research material. They also serve as a valuable tool for researchers wishing to keep abreast of the latest developments. Intended to bring unity and cohesion to a field, review articles are especially important to newcomers to a research area."
Lucy Pearce, Senior Product Manager, Institute of Physics Publishing

The articles in Physics Reviews can be displayed by subject, by journal or by date. The service is free to all but access to the full text of articles identified in it is subject to subscription status. Non-subscribers of the source journals can purchase the articles online by simply clicking on the full text PDF links.

Physics Reviews is bound to become every scientist's encyclopedia of physics. It can be found online at http://reviews.iop.org.

October 14: PULinks/SFX begins today!    
This system enables users to link directly from bibliographic databases to full text when available in e-journals and aggregator packages. It also gives users other immediate links to various service options available from the library.

Users can currently link out from all RLG databases, ISI databases, as well as those from Silver Platter, CSA, and Proquest. Other providers will be enabled in the upcoming weeks.

For more information see: http://libweb.princeton.edu/sfx/SFX_More_Info.htm

October 7-11: Announcement of the 2002 Nobel Prizes and the Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

October 7: 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology: Sydney Brenner (United Kingdom) , H. Robert Horvitz (USA), and John E. Sulston (United Kingdom)
Citation of the Academy: "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"

October 8: 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics: Half jointly to Raymond Davis Jr.(USA) and Masatoshi Koshiba (Japan)
Citation of the Academy: "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
and half to Riccardo Giacconi (USA)
Citation of the Academy: "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"

October 9: 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2002 "for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules"

with one half jointly to John B. Fenn (USA) and Koichi Tanaka (Japan)

Citation of the Academy: "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"

and the other half to Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland and USA)

Citation of the Academy: " for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution".

October 9: 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2000: Daniel Kahneman, USA and Israel, and Vernon L. Smith, USA.
Citation of the Academy: Daniel Kahneman "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"
and
Citation of the Academy: Vernon L. Smith "for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms"

October 11: 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature: Imre Kertész (Hungary)
Citation of the Academy: "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"

October 11: 2002 Nobel Prize for Peace: Jimmy Carter Jr. (USA) former President of United States of America
Citation of the Academy: "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

September 21: PawPoints now availble for photocopies.

Princeton University Online Card Office Paw Points Program -- Registration Can be used for making photocopies.

September 10: Borrow Direct is here!
The Princeton University Library is now participating with an expedited, book delivery service that enables faculty, staff and students to place requests for books that are not currently available in the Princeton collections.

The requesting system is easy to use and begins with a search in the Library's Main Catalog. If an item is not available (eg. charged to another patron, on-order, on reserve), a simple click on the at the top of the catalog record will display information about the service and a link for Patron Login.


After entering the Patron's ID from the back of the Princeton ID card, the user will then search the combined catalog of all seven, participating libraries (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale). Once the title is located, the request can be submitted. Status reports will be sent electronically to the user, including notification of the availability of the item at the chosen pickup location.

For additional information about Borrow Direct, see "Library News" on the library home page: http://libweb.princeton.edu/

Information sessions will be offered soon to our Circulation and Information Desk staff -- please watch for further announcements.

All questions and comments about this new service can be sent to the Borrow Direct staff at: bdirect@princeton.edu

Ebrary E-Books now available
The Library has subscribed to another collection of electronic books, Ebrary. Unlike Knovel or 24/7 which focus on science and technology titles, Ebrary offers general humanities and social science titles from academic and trade publishers. Users need to download a reader, which is free, in order to view the books. These materials are available to Princeton faculty, staff and students and there is no charge to our users for viewing, printing, or downloading material from the Ebrary collection. See the Library's web page on digital collections for a link to the Ebrary collection.

Establishing an account on ebrary.com gives you the ability to:

• Make bookmarks and page notes for any available book.
• Highlight text in any available book.
• Get reports on your activities, e.g., searches, purchases, bookmarks, etc.
• Be notified of new features as they are added.

June 17: Update: University libraries have designs on the future, Marilyn Marks, Vol. 92, No. 29, June 17, 2002

'"The job of building new libraries is getting more exciting but also more complicated by the day," said University Librarian Karin Trainer. "It's simply that the shape of information technology is changing so rapidly, particularly in the sciences. It's very difficult to predict how to configure space that will be appropriate when a new library actually opens." It is not unusual for five years to pass between first planning a new library and the library's opening, she said -- a lifetime in terms of technology.' more

May 13: Regular library hours throughout Examination Period (May 15-24) and reduced hours during Intersession (May 28-June 9, 2002).

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April 25: Plasma Physics Library Renamed in Honor of Harold Furth
On Thursday, April 25, Princeton University will change the name of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Library to honor former PPPL Director Harold Furth, who died in February. The dedication of the Harold P. Furth Library follows a 1 p.m. memorial service at the Laboratory.

Furth, a pioneer in the U.S. fusion program and the originator of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor project, died February 21 in Philadelphia at the age of 72. Furth was a giant of fusion science and a person of untiring energy and boundless optimism. He was Director of PPPL from 1981 through 1990 and a Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University from 1967 to 1999, when he became Professor Emeritus.

Furth made a career of research on controlled fusion, making countless contributions to the science of fusion plasmas (a hot, ionized gas) and the fundamentals of plasma physics. He provided scientific and managerial leadership to the world fusion program throughout his career. Furth, who was active in research at PPPL and a regular library user until shortly before his death, held more than 20 patents and had published more than 200 technical papers.

The Plasma Physics Library was established in the 1950s as a small collection of theoretical papers about controlled thermonuclear research. Now the Library is a national resource for information on plasma physics and nuclear fusion. It is part of the Princeton University Library system and contains highly specialized collections that provide essential support for the Laboratory's research and for graduate students in the Program in Plasma Physics and the Program in Plasma Science and Technology.

April 18: BECMatters! -- A special service for the Bose-Einstein condensation and matter wave community

BECMAtters brings together information for the Bose-Einstein condensation and matter wave community, including relevant news items, conference information and listings and links to essential web sites. The service is free and combines new articles on BEC topics from a variety of Institute of Phyiscs electronic journals.

Institute of Physics Publishing's (IOPP) Journals included:
Journal of Physics A: Mathematics and General Journal of Physics B: Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter New Journal of Physics Chinese Physics	Chinese Physics Letters Classical Quantum Gravity European Journal of Physics Journal of Optics B: Quantum Semiclassical Optics Nonlinearity

April 2: New Electronic Journal subscriptions
Princeton now has access to the following new electronic journal package:

Thieme E-Journals.
See the list of titles at: http://libweb5.princeton.edu/ejournals/browse_zd.asp?index=Publisher&key=Thieme

The Thieme (Georg Thieme Verlag; Stuttgart New York) e-journal package consists of 94 primarily medical and chemical titles. The titles have been added to the Library E-Journal page and the Main Catalog.

March 29: New Electronic Journal subscriptions
Princeton now has access to the following new electronic journal package:

Emerald e-journals
http://www.emeraldinsight.com

Click on Emerald Journals for an alphabetical list of the journals online. -- Engineering and Materials Sciecne

Emerald is a trading name of MCB UP Ltd and publishes 130 journals on management, library & information services, and engineering and applied science & technology. The full text archives go back to 1994. These will be available soon in the Online Catalog and Library Web.

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February 5: New expanded Fine Hall Library InterLibrary Services and Document Delivery available for faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students.


ArticleExpress - New Service It is designed to provide article-length copies from books, journals and other texts whether held either at Princeton or at other institutions in a short time frame. Articles delivered to you electronically will generally be available within 24 to 48 hours; print delivery may take longer. Document Delivery and InterLibrary Services It has several new features, including the ability to: track the progress of requests edit previously submitted requests make renewal requests online receive articles electronically If you are using the service for the first time, you will need to register as a new user even if you were previously registered for the Biology Library online interlibrary services at Princeton. This will enable you to take advantage of new features, such as electronic delivery of articles.

January 28: New Princeton University Library web site http://libweb.princeton.edu. A redesigned version of Princeton Library that takes advantage of several new features:
• New design for Electronic Journals Listings
• New listings for Databases and Reference Tools
• Easier navigation to Library Services and information About the Library.

January 18: Regular library hours throughout Examination Period (January 16-28) and reduced hours during Intersession (January 28-February 3).

Hours: Intersession Friday, January 25, 2002-Sunday, February 3, 2002
Friday, January 25:	8:30 am -- 6:00 pm
Saturday-Sunday January 26-27:	1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
Monday - Friday January 28-February 1:	8:30 am -- 6:00 pm
Saturday, February 2:	1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm
Sunday, February 3:	1:00 pm -- 1:00 am
Other Library Hours

January 7: Psychology Library Bound Journal Collection Back on Main Campus, Effective Monday, January 7, 2002
"I am pleased to announce that Psychology Library bound journals will move back to Main Campus and will be housed in Fine Hall Library (the Math/Physics and Biology Library), entrance on Washington Road. Once in the library, there will be signs directing you where to go. All staff and students must go to Fine Hall Library themselves to use this collection. The Fine Hall Librarian will be placing a photocopy machine with a copy card box and a coin box next to our collection of bound journals as soon as possible. This should make photocopying of articles easy for everyone.

A reminder that teaching faculty can make requests for journal articles by using "Article Express", which can be reached by linking on the "Interlibrary Loan" form on the Main Library Homepage or the Psychology Library Homepage. Articles will be delivered to your desktop or mailbox within 24-48 hours. [Note: Also available from the Fine Hall Library homepage.]

Our bound journal collection will remain in Fine Hall Library until it is moved back into Green Hall after renovations in September of 2002.

Thank you to everyone involved in making this move."

Mary Chaikin
Psychology Librarian

January 2: The Essential John Nash: Writings of the 1994 Nobelist featured in a new major motion picture
Edited by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), 2001. $29.95 / £19.95
Princeton University Press website http://pup.princeton.edu/

Table of Contents PREFACE by Harold W. Kuhn vii INTRODUCTION by Sylvia Nasar xi Chapter 1: Press Release--The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1 Chapter 2: Autobiography 5 Photo Essay 13 Editor's introduction to Chapter 3 29 Chapter 3: The Game of Hex by John Milnor 31 Editor's Introduction to Chapter 4 35 Chapter 4: The bargaining problem 37 Editor's Introduction to Chapters 5, 6, and 7 47 Chapter 5: Equilibrium Points in n-Person games 49 Chapter 6: Non-Cooperative Games Facsimile of Ph.D. Thesis 51 Chapter 7: Non-Cooperative Games 85 Chapter 8: Two-Person Coooperative Games 99 Editor's Introduction to Chapter 9 115 Chapter 9: Parallel Control 117 Chapter 10: Real Algebraic Manifolds 127 Chapter 11: The Imbedding problem for Riemannian Manifolds 151 Chapter 12: Continuity of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Equations 211 AFTERWORD 241 SOURCES 243 Other Princeton books by Harold W. Kuhn: Classics in Game Theory. Contributions to the Theory of Games, Volume 1. (AM-24). Contributions to the Theory of Games, Volume 2. (AM-28).

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November 21: Annual Reviews - Free Articles on Bioterrorism.
Annual Reviews has selected articles from its online database of over 5000 review articles for key topics such as anthrax, bioterrorism, explosives detection, treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder, public health aspects of complex emergencies, military nutrition research, psychology and international relations theory, ending revolutions and building new governments.

URL: Free Articles on Bioterrorism -- http://www.annurev.org/biohazards/
Source: Samuel Gubins, President & Editor-in-Chief, Annual Reviews (November 21, 2001)

ANTHRAX Michèle Mock and Agnès Fouet Annual Review of Microbiology, 2001 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS-A PRIMER FOR MICROBIOLOGISTS Robert J. Hawley and Edward M. Eitzen Jr. Annual Review of Microbiology, 2001 EXPLOSIVES DETECTION A Challenge for Physical Chemistry Jeffrey I. Steinfeld and Jody Wormhoudt Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 1998 THE PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF COMPLEX EMERGENCIES AND REFUGEE SITUATIONS M.J.Toole and R.J. Waldman Annual Review of Public Health, 1997 ENDING REVOLUTIONS AND BUILDING NEW GOVERNMENTS Arthur L. Stinchcombe Annual Review of Political Science, 1999

PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENTS FOR POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER A Critical Review E.B. Foa and E.A. Meadows Annual Review of Psychology, 1997 RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATION Roger Friedland Annual Review of Sociology, 2001 DEVELOPMENT AND BIOMEDICAL TESTING OF MILITARY OPERATIONAL RATIONS Karl E. Friedl and Reed W. Hoyt Annual Review of Nutrition, 1997 DETERRENCE AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT Empirical Findings and Theoretical Debates Paul K. Huth Annual Review of Political Science, 1999 PSYCHOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY J.M. Goldgeier and P.E. Tetlock Annual Review of Political Science, 2001

November 19: Lewis gift to support Gehry-designed science library Princeton Weekly Bulletin vol.91, no.10 (November 19, 2001)




"Princeton NJ -- Peter Lewis, a member of the Princeton class of 1955 and a trustee of the University, is making a gift of $60 million to support the construction and the programs of a new science library at Princeton that will be designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Frank Gehry. The library is expected to be located near the corner of Ivy Lane and Washington Road, with a connection to the existing math-physics library in Fine Hall.

The announcement of the gift and the selection of Gehry were made by the trustees at their Nov. 10 meeting. A timetable for the project is being developed."



November 2: R. Byron Bird (of Bird, Stewart, & Lightfoot -- Transport Phenomena -- fame) has written a microbiography covering the water front of 300 years of mathematical physicists and fluid dynamicists. Source: George Porter, Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science, CalTech. Posted to SLAPAM-L (November 2, 2001

R Byron Bird. "Who was who in transport phenomena". Chemical Engineering Education 35(4):256-65 Fall 2001.

October 8-12: Announcement of the 2001 Nobel Prizes and the Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

October 8: 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology: Leland H. Hartwell (USA), R. Timothy (Tim) Hunt (Great Britain), and Paul M. Nurse (Great Britain)
"for their discoveries of 'key regulators of the cell cycle'"

October 9: 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics: Eric A. Cornell (USA), Carl E. Wieman (USA) and Wolfgang Ketterle (GER)
"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates."

October 10: 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: one half jointly to William S. Knowles (USA), and Ryoji Noyori(Japan)
"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
and the other half to K. Barry Sharpless (USA)
"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"

October 10: 2001 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2000: George A. Akerlof (USA), A. Michael Spence (USA), and Joseph E. Stiglitz (USA)
Citation of the Academy: "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."

October 11: 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature: V.S. Naipaul (UK)
Citation of the Academy: "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."

October 12: 2001 Nobel Prize for Peace: in two equal portions, to the United Nations (U.N.) and to its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.
Citation of the Academy: "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world."

September 29: "THE ITALIAN NAVIGATOR HAS LANDED" was the wartime coded message announcing the successful first operation of a nuclear reactor, on December 2, 1942. The expression refers to Columbus's exploration of continents previously unknown to Euroeans, but also could apply to the exploration of another unknown continent, the atomic nucleus. This exploration was exemplified in the work of Enrico Fermi, the man who oversaw that first reactor. September 29, 2001 is the centenary of Fermi's birth, and celebrations are planned at a number of institutions, such as Fermilab (http://www.fnal.gov/pub/events/special.html), the University of Chicago (http://fermi_remembered.uchicago.edu), and the University of Pisa (http://docenti.ing.unipi.it/dimnp/fermi2001/index.htm). A US Department of Energy website (http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/fermi.html) summarizes some of the accomplishments of this great experimentalist and theorist. Many objects in the world of physics bear his name an element (100), a national lab (Fermilab), a Presidential award, an institute (at the Univ Chicago), a unit of distance (10^-15 m), one of the two broad categories of particle (fermion), an energy level (condensed matter physics), a type of interaction, a constant, a temperature, a gas, and now a brand new US postage stamp.

June 23: Originally announced 08 May 2001
The Annals of Mathematics is now an arXiv overlay journal

"We are pleased to announce that the Annals of Mathematics is now on-line and an arXiv overlay journal. We would like to thank the Annals editorial board, and especially Robert MacPherson, for helping make this possible. That the Annals is an overlay means that all articles in the Annals from November 1998 onward have been contributed or will be contributed to the mathematics arXiv. In addition the Annals web site has hyperlinks to the arXiv copies.

You can also now search or browse Annals articles within the arXiv,