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New Books List for October and November 2006

The following books were received at the Physics Library during October and November 2006. Please check library stacks or ask library staff for assistance. Check MadCat to see if anyone has the book checked out or request that a book be sent to a library near you with our Book Retrieval Service.

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QC795.32 R3 A77 2006 . . . . ADVANCED MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES FOR RADIATION DOSIMETRY. Edited by Khalil Arshak and Olga Korostynska. Norwood, MA: Artech House, 2006.

ONLINE ONLY . . . . ADVANCED SUMMER SCHOOL IN PHYSICS 2005: FRONTIERS IN CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS: EAV05. (Proceedings) Edited by Oscar Rosas-Ortiz. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 809] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/809.jsp)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . BEAM COOLING AND RELATED TOPICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Sergei Nagaitsev. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 821] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/821.jsp)

QB981 H428 2006 . . . . BRAVE NEW UNIVERSE: ILLUMINATING THE DARKEST SECRETS OF THE COSMOS. By Paul Halpern and Paul Wesson. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2006.

ONLINE ONLY . . . . CAPTURE GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY AND RELATED TOPICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Andreas Woehr. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 819] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/819.jsp)

QC173.454 A48 2006 . . . . CONDENSED MATTER FIELD THEORY. By Alexander Altland and Ben Simons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

ONLINE ONLY . . . . EFFECTIVE MODELS FOR LOW-DIMENSIONAL STRONGLY CORRELATED SYSTEMS. (Proceedings) Edited by Ghassan George Batrouni. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 816] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/816.jsp)

QC175.16 P5 A24 2006 . . . . EVOLUTION OF PHASE TRANSITIONS: A CONTINUUM THEORY. By Rohan Abeyaratne and James K. Knowles. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

ONLINE ONLY . . . . 1ST CRISIS IN COSMOLOGY CONFERENCE, CCC-I. (Proceedings) Edited by Eric J. Lerner. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 822] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/822.jsp)

Q111 S71 v.217 . . . . THE FLOW EQUATION APPROACH TO MANY-PARTICLE SYSTEMS. By Stefan Kehrein. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2006. [Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, no. 217] (Available on the Internet at http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=1615-0430&volume=217)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . GAMMA-RAY BURSTS IN THE SWIFT ERA. (Proceedings) Edited by Stephen S. Holt. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 836] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/836.jsp)

QC174.12 B457 2006 . . . . GEOMETRY OF QUANTUM STATES: AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT. By Ingemar Bengtsson and Karol Zyczkowski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

ONLINE ONLY . . . . HADRON SPECTROSCOPY. (Proceedings) Edited by Alberto Reis. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 814] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/814.jsp)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . INNOVATIONS IN NONLINEAR ACOUSTICS: ISNA 17. (Proceedings) Edited by Anthony A. Atchley. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 838] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/838.jsp)

QC355.3 P43 2007 . . . . INTRODUCTION TO OPTICS. 3rd Edition. By Frank L. Pedrotti, Leno S. Pedrotti, and Leno M. Pedrotti. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2006.

ONLINE ONLY . . . . IONIZATION, CORRELATION, AND POLARIZATION IN ATOMIC COLLISIONS. (Proceedings) Edited by Azzedine Lahmam-Bennani. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 811] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/811.jsp)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF WAVE PHENOMENA. (Proceedings) Edited by Borje Nilsson. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 834] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/834.jsp)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . MULTIPARTICLE DYNAMICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Vladislav Sima´k. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 828] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/828.jsp)

QC427.4 M577 2006 . . . . MULTIPLE SCATTERING OF LIGHT BY PARTICLES: RADIATIVE TRANSFER AND COHERENT BACKSCATTERING. By Michael I. Mishchenko, Larry D. Travis, and Andrew A. Lacis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

QC794.6 S85 W65 2006 . . . . NOT EVEN WRONG: THE FAILURE OF STRING THEORY AND THE SEARCH FOR UNITY IN PHYSICAL LAW. By Peter Woit. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

TA1750 I5917 2002 . . . . OPTICAL AND LASER DIAGNOSTICS. (Proceedings) Edited by C. Arcoumanis and KTV Grattan. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003. [Institute of Physics Conference Series, no. 177]

ONLINE ONLY . . . . P-ADIC MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Andrei Yu, Zoran Rakic, and Igor V. Volovich. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 826] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/826.jsp)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE (Proceedings) Edited by Paula Heron. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 818] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/818.jsp)

QC21.3 T564 2004 . . . . PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS: EXTENDED VERSION. 5th Edition. By Paul A. Tipler and Gene Mosca. New York: W.H. Freeman, 2004. (gift)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PLASMA-2005 ON RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF PLASMAS. (Proceedings) Edited by Marek J. Sadowski. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 812] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/812.jsp)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . QCD@WORK. (Proceedings) Edited by Pietro Colangelo. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 806] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/806.jsp)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . QUANTUM MECHANICS: ARE THERE QUANTUM JUMPS?: AND ON THE PRESENT STATUS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Angelo Bassi. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 844] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/844.jsp)

QC175 C4643 2006 . . . . SLOW RAREFIED FLOWS: THEORY AND APPLICATION TO MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS. By Carlo Cercignani. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006. [Progress in Mathematical Physics, v. 41]

ONLINE ONLY . . . . SUPERSTRONG FIELDS IN PLASMAS. (Proceedings) Edited by Dimitri Batani. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 827] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/827.jsp)

Q111 S71 v.216 . . . . THEORY OF THE MUON ANOMALOUS MAGNETIC MOMENT. By Kirill Melnikov and Arkady Vainshtein. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2006. [Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, no. 216] (Available on the Internet at http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=1615-0430&volume=216)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . LECTURES ON THE PHYSICS OF HIGHLY CORRELATED ELECTRON SYSTEMS X. (Proceedings) Edited by Adolfo Avella. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 846] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/846.jsp)

ONLINE ONLY . . . . TWENTY-FIFTH PHYSICS IN COLLISION. (Proceedings) Edited by Vladislav Simak. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 815] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/815.jsp)

TA1707 X27 2004 . . . . X-RAY LASERS 2004: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON X-RAY LASERS. (Proceedings) Edited by Jie Zhang. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2006. [Institute of Physics Conference Series, no. 186]

ONLINE ONLY . . . . WATER DYNAMICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Kazuyuki Tohji. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 833] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/833.jsp)