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News bulletin from Luzon, Philippines; Upton Close; Cedric Foster; John Daly; Joseph C. Harsch
No full textRecording of multiple news programs from various networks: A news bulletin from Luzon, in the Philippines; Upton Close, World Parade (NBC, WKY); Cedric Foster (Mutual, KOCY); John Daly, The World Today (CBS, KOMA); Joseph C. Harsch, The Meaning of the News (CBS, KOMA)
'Brannen and Cedric Foster Cuts'
No full textKVNU sound disc: Lacquer disc; 16 in.; 33 1/2 rpm. Side 1: Charles F. Brannan (Secretary of Agriculture) comes to Cache Valley to talk to farmers. Side 2: Cedric Foster (reporter) news opening, sponsored by Johnson Ready Mix Concrete Company in South Logan. Recorded by KVNU in Logan, Utah
Interview with Cedric Boeckx
No full textCedric Boeckx is a Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Most recently he was an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author and editor of various books on syntax, minimalism and language (from a biolinguistic perspective). He is also the founding co-editor, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann, of the Open Access journal Biolinguistics. The interview came to fruition after we had the idea of asking various linguists the following question: "What is the right place for linguistics?". At first, we were looking for short, straightforward answers. The question soon proved to be hard to approach that way, and Prof. Cedric Boeckx was kind enough to accept our invitation for a more thorough elaboration on the subject, under the "Interview" section of our journal, which he generously granted us on November 7th, 2011, at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, a day before his "Introduction to Biolinguistics" workshop, also there, and for which we are also very thankful. This text is a virtually word-for-word transcription of the recorded 2-hour long interview, subject only to minor revisions by our editorial team and some comments by the interviewee. We hope that the final result is of interest to students, researchers and people alike
Cedric Dover, April 15, 1948
No full textPortrait of Cedric Dover. Written on recto: For Harold with every good wish, Cedric. Written on verso: The late Cedric Dover, Eurasian at one time on the faculty at Fisk University, and author of the famous book on Negro art, for which Harold Jackman furnished much of the material; Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; 101 Central Park West; Cannot be reproduced without permission; April 15, 1948
Anti-Building with Cedric Price
No full textTom Dyckhoff explores the life and work of forward-thinking architect Cedric Price, and in doing so, examines the work of The Portland Inn Project, in enacting part of Price's research through The Portland Thinkbelt, a yearly summer programme on Portland St, Stoke-on-Trent, which uses street level learning to make The Potteries Thinkbelt real.
Often referred to as “architect and thinker” – or “philosopher architect” – Cedric Price is a tricky person to pin down. He thought differently about what architecture could do – the way it could shape human relations. And for a generation of architects – including Richard Rogers and Norman Foster – he was an inspiration.
He was an expansive optimist who believed in architecture's potential to delight and to nurture change. At first glance his projects (some of which could be called buildings, some of which are more like grand plans) can appear fantastical, other-worldly – but they were deeply serious proposals.
Such as the Fun Palace – in collaboration with the theatre director Joan Littlewood – an egalitarian arts centre able to be constantly reconfigured according to the needs of its users. Or the Potteries Thinkbelt: a detailed plan for the regeneration of a large area of post-industrial Staffordshire into a new kind of mobile democratic university.
Cedric Price was interested in lightweight structures with fixed lifespans. His proposals often included instructions for demolition. And it’s perhaps fitting that one of his very few surviving works – the Snowdon Aviary at London Zoo (now reinvented as Monkey Valley) – is less a building than a giant high-tech tent.
Cedric Price was a technophobe technocrat; a romantic logician; a moralist and hedonist; a radical man of the people in a crisp collar and plummy voice; an architect who – at times – seemed very much anti-building.
Featuring Eleanor Bron, Anna Francis, Samantha Hardingham, Paul Hyett and Jude Kelly.
With thanks to Sir Peter Cook, Hans Ulrich Obrist and everyone involved with the Portland Inn Project
CEDRIC J. POWELL
No full textCEDRIC J. POWELL
Inducted: 2010
Citation:
For exceptional scientific and organizational work in establishing the physical basis (and infrastructure) for electron spectroscopies of solids, especially as applied to quantitative surface analysis and surface standards
Tenure: 1962-2006
Birth: 1935; Perth, Australia
Education:
University of Western Australia, BS (Physics), 1956
University of Western Australia, PhD (Physics), 1962
Positions held:
Physicist, Atomic Physics and Optical Physics Divisions, Institute for Basic Standards, 1962-1978
Chief, Surface Science Division, Center for Chemical Physics, 1978-1991
Leader, Surface Spectroscopies and Thin Films Group, Surface and Microanalysis Science Division, 1991-1994
NIST Fellow, Surface and Microanalysis Science Division, 1994-2006
NIST Scientist Emeritus, Surface and Microanalysis Science Division, 2007-Present
Honors:
US Department of Commerce Silver Medal (1983) and Gold Medal (1986)Award of Merit, American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) (1988)
Riviere Prize, UK ESCA Users Group (1992)
Creation of Cedric Powell Award by ASTM Committee E-42 on Surface Analysis (1993)
Creation of Powell Prize by the Surface Analysis Society of Japan (1995)
Albert Nerken Award, American Vacuum Society (2001)
Technology Prize, International Union of Vacuum Science, Technique, and Applications (2007)
Memberships:
American Physical Society, American Vacuum Society, American Assn. for the Advancement of Science
ASTM Committee E-42 on Surface Analysis, chairman (1980-85)
Board of Trustees, Gordon Research Conferences (1982-88), chairman (1985-86)
Board of Directors, American Vacuum Society (1988-89)
ISO Technical Committee 201 on Surface Chemical Analysis, chairman (1992-98)
Publications:
Co-editor of 3 books, co-author of 5 NIST databases, and an author of more than 240 publications including:
Powell, C. J., “Contrasting Valence-Band Auger-Electron Spectra for Silver and Aluminum”, Phys. Rev. Letters 30, 1179 (1973)
Powell, C. J., “Attenuation Lengths of Low-energy Electrons in Solids”, Surface Science 44, 29 (1974)
Powell, C. J., “Cross Sections for Ionization of Inner-shell Electrons by Electrons”, Rev. Mod. Phys. 48, 33 (1976)
Powell, C. J. and Seah, M. P., “Precision, Accuracy, and Uncertainty in Quantitative Surface Analyses by Auger-Electron Spectroscopy and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 8, 735 (1990)
Tanuma, S., Powell, C. J., and Penn, D. R., ""Calculations of Electron Inelastic Mean Free Paths. II. Data for 27 Elements over the 50-2000 eV Range,"" Surface and Interface Analysis 17, 911 (1991)
Powell, C. J. and Jablonski, A., “Evaluation of Measured and Calculated Electron Inelastic Mean Free Paths Near Solid Surfaces,” J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 28, 19 (1999
Inferring effective field observables from a discrete model
No full textAspin system on a lattice can usually be modeled at large scales by an effective quantum field theory. A key mathematical result relating the two descriptions is the quantum central limit theorem, which shows that certain spin observables satisfy an algebra of bosonic fields under certain conditions. Here, we show that these particular observables and conditions are the relevant ones for an observer with certain limited abilities to resolve spatial locations as well as spin values. This is shown by computing the asymptotic behaviour of a quantum Fisher information metric as function of the resolution parameters. The relevant observables characterise the state perturbations whose distinguishability does not decay too fast as a function of spatial or spin resolution.The author is grateful to Tobias Osborne for discussions leading to this work. This work was supported by the ERC grants QFTCMPS and SIQS, by the cluster of excellence EXC 201 Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research, and by the research fund of Hanyang University (HY-2016-2237)
Paige, left, eating a sandwich with young man at right
No full textWritten on back: Cedric Foster 1948 Philadelphia Mutual Net. Demo
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