Veritas, Vol. 06, No. 12, March 21, 1966

              SPEAKING OF PEOPLE
THE BI-WEEKLY NEWS LETTER

For Faculty and Staff
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March 21, 1966
Voi. 6, No. 12
RESEARCHERS GATHER WITH UM AS HOST
Scientists who deal with the blazing fury
____________________of invisible particles racing at velocities
approaching the speed of light will meet this week (March 21-23) as guests of the University. Dr. Daniel R. Wells, UM physicist, will serve as host to the ninth annual Air Force Research Contractors Meeting on Ion and Plasma Propulsion at the Holiday Inn, on S. Dixie Highway across from the main campus.
The contractors are scientific investigators seeking, with support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the key to unlock the secrets of hot fully ionized gases. These problems are closely related to the problem of controlled thermonuclear power. This is the energy that lights up the stars, and it is expected to become man's major source of power for the next one million years of life on Earth, "and for exploration of the distant planets.
The scientists pursue their research by reproducing in the laboratory small chambers of plasma, or super-heated gases, like those that feed the flames on the surface of the Sun.
The participants in the meeting will include about 40 scientists and engineers from university and industry laboratories, and about the same number from Air Force and other service scientific branches of government.
The meetings are held at different university campuses each year, and this is the first to be held in the state of Florida. Opportunity is provided for the investigators to exchange information and ideas, and to review and assess the progress made during the preceding 12 months. The sessions are not open to the public.
SEPS TO PRESENT TWO-DAY SEMINAR
Four visiting authorities in the atmospheric sciences will take part in a Seminar on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics under the auspices of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences on Thursday and Friday (March 24-25) at the Computing Center.
Dr. Francis Bretherton of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University, England, will lecture on “Internal Gravity Waves in Shear Flow” Thursday at 2 p.m. in Room 206. Dr. Bretherton is principal lecturer in geophysics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Mass. Dr. Eric B. Kraus, senior scientist at Woods Hole, will speak on “Stress on the Sea Surface” in the same room at 3:40 Thursday.
Friday, Dr. Claes Rooth, assistant chairman of the Department of Theoretical Oceanography and Meteorology at Woods Hole, will .ecture on “Effect of Suspended Matter on Motion in the Atmosphere and the Ocean” at 2 p.m. in Room 101. At 3:40, Dr. T. V. Davies, of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., will discuss the “Role of Ozone in Atmospheric Oscillations” in the same place.
All sessions of the Seminar will be open to the public and guests are welcome.
Fred McCall, director of bands, was elected president of the American Bandmasters Association at the group’s Chicago convention. He had previously served as vice president and chairman of the membership committee...
Mrs. Susana B. Lacy, administrative assistant in the foreign student office, is on leave this month to serve as translator at the OAS Conference in Panama, called to revise the charter...
Dr. Wallace E.Miller, chairman of orthopaedics, served on a panel for the Method of Selection of Residents at a Joint Committee meeting on Orthopaedic Research and Education in Dallas...
Dr. August L. Freundlich, chairman of art and director at the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, was a guest on a special program on radio station WBBM in Chicago. The program is designed to encourage Chicagoland residents to visit this area and was pre-taped in Miami...
Dr. Clarence P. Idyll, chairman of fishery sciences, wrote a chapter entitled “Fisheries and Aquatic Resources” in the Origins of American Conservation, a book published by the Natural Resources Council of America...
Dr. Gilbert B. Snyder, chief of the division of plastic surgery, has been elected editor of the Bulletin of the Florida Cleft Palate Association...
Dr. Robert M. Diamond, director of instructional resources, spoke recently to the Art Directors Club of Greater Miami on “The Instructional Graphic Artist - A Key to Educational Improvement.”...
Dr. Doran D. Zinner, microbiology, will speak on “What the Private Practitioner Can Do” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Dental Schools at the Americana Hotel, Miami Beach, March 28-31.