http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ -- Best regards, Frank Frank E. Taylor CERN MIT ATLAS Collaboration Bldg. 26 - Rm 569 188-3-015 77 Mass. Ave. Route de Meyrin 385, CH-1211 Geneva 23 Cambridge, MA 02139 Switzerland USA Office: +41-22-767-6373 Office: 617-253-7249 FAX: +41-22-767-8350 FAX: 617-258-6923 CELL: 857-891-8579 (USA & Europe) CERN CELL +41 76 487 3563 email: [log in to unmask] web: http://www2.lns.mit.edu/~fet/atlas_mit.html On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Ray F. Cowan wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This week we meet at *1 PM Eastern*, Thursday, June 11, for our weekly LQS > meeting. Dial-in is 510-665-5437, passcode 7336. > > We'll take round-table reports first, followed by discussion of an > interesting preprint from the arXiv on science communication with the > general public: http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0906.1755 > > The paper "Astronomy and the Media: a love story?" discusses the state of > science communication with the general public and provides some ideas on how > to improve it. Several astronomy-related areas are discussed, including > dark matter. The focus is on astronomy, but much of the discussion is > relevant to all of physics. > > The meeting agenda and the paper can be found at > http://dmtpc.mit.edu/MaKaC/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=170 > > Hope you can join in. > > Thanks much, > --Ray >