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2006-05-18: Interview with Brian Murchison
No full textStudent guest host Stephanie Wiechmann speaks with law professor Brian Murchison about his recent activities, including chairing the search for W&L president Ken Ruscio and his own service as acting dean of the law school at Washington and Lee
2005-07-12: United States Supreme Court with Ann Massie
No full textProfessor Brian Murchison speaks with Washington and Lee Law Professor Ann Massie about current cases and events of the United States Supreme Court
2005-08-02: Interview with Joe Grasso and Tom Cantos
No full textProfessor Brian Murchison speaks with Vice President for Administration Joseph Grasso and University Architect Thomas Contos about facilities projects and new construction at Washington and Lee
2005-08-09: Back to School at Washington and Lee Law
No full textProfessor Brian Murchison speaks with Associate Dean for Student Services Sydney Evans, Director of Law Admissions Andrea Hilton Howe, Professor Sally Wiant, and Visiting Professor Stephanie Tai about the return of law students to campus and the upcoming school year at Washington and Lee
2005-11-08: Election Night with Brian Richardson
No full textStudent guest host Stephanie Wiechmann speaks with journalism Professor Brian Richardson and student Paul-Devin Kuettner about politics on election night 2005
Science with the Murchison Widefield Array
No full textSignificant new opportunities for astrophysics and cosmology have been identified at low radio frequencies. The Murchison Widefield Array is the first telescope in the southern hemisphere designed specifically to explore the low-frequency astronomical sky between 80 and 300 MHz with arcminute angular resolution and high survey efficiency. The telescope will enable new advances along four key science themes, including searching for redshifted 21-cm emission from the EoR in the early Universe; Galactic and extragalactic all-sky southern hemisphere surveys; time-domain astrophysics; and solar, heliospheric, and ionospheric science and space weather. The Murchison Widefield Array is located in Western Australia at the site of the planned Square Kilometre Array (SKA) low-band telescope and is the only low-frequency SKA precursor facility. In this paper, we review the performance properties of the Murchison Widefield Array and describe its primary scientific objectives. \ua9 2013 Astronomical Society of Australia.Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye
W&L Law Reads: All the President\u27s Men
No full textThe second annual W&L Law Reads event was held on Thursday, February 5, 2016. The law library hosted an interdisciplinary panel discussion about Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward\u27s 1974 book All the President\u27s Men, featuring Professor of Law Brian Murchison, Professor of Law Emeritus Lewis Lash LaRue, Professor of Politics Mark Rush, and Professor of Journalism Pam Luecke. W&L Law librarian Andrew Christensen moderated the discussion
The Murchison widefield array correlator
No full textRestricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)The Murchison Widefield Array is a Square Kilometre Array Precursor. The telescope is located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. The MWA consists of 4 096 dipoles arranged into 128 dual polarisation aperture arrays forming a connected element interferometer that cross-correlates signals from all 256 inputs. A hybrid approach to the correlation task is employed, with some processing stages being performed by bespoke hardware, based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, and others by Graphics Processing Units housed in general purpose rack mounted servers. The correlation capability required is approximately 8 tera floating point operations per second. The MWA has commenced operations and the correlator is generating 8.3 TB day-1 of correlation products, that are subsequently transferred 700 km from the MRO to Perth (WA) in real-time for storage and offline processing. In this paper, we outline the correlator design, signal path, and processing elements and present the data format for the internal and external interface
Speech and the Truth-Seeking Value
No full textCourts in First Amendment cases long have invoked the truth-seeking value of speech, but they rarely probe its meaning or significance, and some ignore it altogether. As new cases implicate questions of truth and falsity, thorough assessment of the value is needed. This Article fills the gap by making three claims. First, interest in truth-seeking has resurfaced in journalism, politics, philosophy, and fiction, converging on a concept of provisional or “functional” truth. Second, the appeal of functional truth for the law may be that it clarifies thinking about a range of human priorities—survival, progress, and character—without insisting on truth in an absolute or transcendent sense. Third, the law’s current treatment of truth-seeking in First Amendment cases turns on whether a case implicates the truth of the past, present, or future. Cases about past truth involve its knowability; cases about present truth involve its hiddenness; and cases about future truth involve its falsification. Because judicial treatment of truth-seeking in each of these groupings is underdeveloped, legal thought can benefit from literary works by three major novelists: Paul Scott, author of Staying On; Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Never Let Me Go; and Ian McEwan, author of Atonement. Each of these works clarifies an important aspect of the truth-seeking value of expressive freedoms. The Article concludes by considering the value’s limitations, focusing on the complex setting of campaign finance
2006-05-11: Journalism by Rick Bragg
No full textStudent guest host Stephanie Wiechmann presents writing by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Bragg
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