AT&T physicist to deliver the Leigh Page Lectures
Horst Stormer, director of the Physical Research Laboratory at AT&T Bell Laboratories, will deliver the Leigh Page Lectures sponsored by the department of physics. The three-part lecture series is free and open to the public.
Mr. Stormer will begin the series on Monday, Sept. 8, with a lecture titled "Billiard in Flatland," which is an introduction to semiconductors and two-dimensional electron systems. He will deliver his second lecture, "Eddies in Flatland," a discussion of fractional quantum hall effects, on Wednesday, Sept. 10. His final talk in the series, "Dumbbells in Flatland," will focus on composite fermions in two dimensions; it will take place on Friday, Sept. 12. All of the lectures will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 57 of the Sloane Physics Laboratory, 217 Prospect St.
Mr. Stormer was born and educated in Germany. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in 1977, then joined the company's technical staff a year later. In 1983, he was appointed head of the electronic and optical properties of solid research department. He was appointed director of AT&T's Physical Research Laboratory in 1992 and now holds the title adjunct physics director.
A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society, Mr. Stormer has been honored with the American Physical Society's Buckley Award and with the Otto Klung Physics Award from Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany.
How to break 'plexiglass ceiling' is topic of talk on women in medicine
Dr. Saralyn Mark, the medical adviser to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health, will offer some advice to women beginning their careers in medicine in a talk on Monday, Sept. 8. Her talk, titled "Women in Medicine: How to Deal with the Plexiglass Ceiling," will take place noon-1:30 p.m. in Rm. 206 of the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, 295 Congress Ave. (enter via the 2nd-floor bridge from the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar St.) The event, sponsored by the Offices for Women in Medicine and Academic Development, is free and open to the public.
Dr. Mark is an endocrinologist and a geriatrician. As the medical adviser to the Office on Women's Health, she is responsible for the development and analysis of initiatives and programs on women's health across the life span and fosters collaborations between health care organizations and scientific agencies to increase their focus on women's health issues. She is also an assistant clinical professor in the departments of medicine, endocrinology and metabolism at the University of California at San Francisco.
For further information, call 785-4680.