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Meehl as colleague.

The author summarizes some memories and impressions of Paul Meehl as graduate advisor, classroom teacher, and departmental colleague.

Appreciating a Hiley Respected Colleague

One cannot sensibly introduce Basil Hiley’s work as a mathematical physicist without his collaboration with David Bohm, lasting from 1962, when Basil went to Birkbeck College, to Bohm’s death in 1992. The beginning of their careers shows an astonishing similarity in the study of collective phenomena—Bohm in plasmas, Basil in molecules. However, their topics changed drastically over time, and th...

Evangelos Anastassakis: Scientist, Colleague and Friend

I first met Evangelos at the University of Pennsylvania in the Fall of 1969. Fred Pollak and I had started setting up a Raman laboratory at Brown University and, given Fred’s interest and experience in uniaxial stress techniques, we had decided to launch a program for measuring the effect of such stress on Raman phonons in solids, in particular semiconductors. We decided to begin with silicon. ...

Ambient Telepresence: Colleague Awareness in Smart Environments

Ambient Telepresence is a method to support informal awareness in distributed collaborative work, and to promote a sense of presence of people who are in fact not co-located. In this approach, everyday things that people use are augmented with awareness technology, creating a smart environment in which information on background activity can be collected and interpreted. This information is tran...