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This is not close to home but I attended Vigier 9 last year and
there are a lot of similar minded folks there.<br>
its an option<br>
<pre wrap="">Preliminary announcement for the 10th Symposium in honor of Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier
UNIFIED FIELD MECHANICS II
Portonovo, Italy
24 July (Monday) to 28 July (Thursday) 2016
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Prior Symposium website:
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Please send Titles / Abstracts to
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Sincerely,
Cochairmen Profs.
Richard L. Amoroso
Louis H. Kauffman
Peter Rowlands
Gianni Albertini</pre>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Dr. Wolfgang Baer
Research Director
Nascent Systems Inc.
tel/fax 831-659-3120/0432
E-mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wolf@NascentInc.com">wolf@NascentInc.com</a></pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/2/2015 1:44 PM, John Duffield
wrote:<br>
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interested in a conference that’s closer to home. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
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lang="EN-US"> General
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:general-bounces+johnduffield=btconnect.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">mailto:general-bounces+johnduffield=btconnect.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>John Williamson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 02 November 2015 09:44<br>
<b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General
Discussion
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"><general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nick Bailey
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nick@bailey-family.org.uk"><nick@bailey-family.org.uk></a>; 'Anthony Booth'
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:abooth@ieee.org"><abooth@ieee.org></a>; 'Ariane Mandray'
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ariane.mandray@wanadoo.fr"><ariane.mandray@wanadoo.fr></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [General] Conference, spring/summer 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Dear
all,<br>
<br>
I am thinking of calling a conference in late spring or
summer of next year to alternate with the SPIE
conference in odd years.<br>
<br>
One possible venue is somewhere in Scotland (see copy of
email I have sent to the head of Science and engineering
at Glasgow below).<br>
<br>
Alternatively anywhere else in Europe would be fine -
for other members of the group who may like to host it.
Martin and I have held workshops at various venues
before. Our modus operandi has that we put a few folk up
with ourselves or with friends- the rest fend for
themselves.<br>
<br>
In the first instance all we really need is a big enough
room, nearby places to eat, and local accomodation.<br>
<br>
A couple of thousand (Pounds, Dollars or Euros), would
be enough for me to host this in my home town of Troon,
on the west coast of Scotland. There are plenty of
facilities here, provided we do not clash with the open
golf (held here once every four years or so). With a
bit more we could begin to sponsor some of the younger
members who could not afford to come to SPIE. There are
even good campsites locally, for those who want to
travel really cheaply. <br>
<br>
I would like to know who might be interested, and also
if anyone knows of any sources of funding we may be able
to look to. We can do a sort of proceedings - and just
post it to research gate, Vikra and/or Academia.edu. In
another forum (Fanaten) we have produced a confernce
book ... and this may also be possible.<br>
<br>
What does everyone think?<br>
<br>
Regards, John (W).<br>
<br>
Text of today's email to Muffy Cladr (Head of Science
and engineering at Glasgow) follows .......<br>
<br>
Dear Muffy,</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">I
enjoyed your talk last Monday, it was a breath of fresh
air. I think I can throw some light on some of the
points you raised on the NSS and on citations. I’m
afraid I had to leave soon after your talk – so missed
the discussion. You asked for feedback – and also on
ideas to take Glasgow forwards. That is what this note
is about.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">I
want to give feedback on citations, on the NSS scores
and how they might be improved and on a means to move
Glasgow’s position up the rankings with respect to other
Russel group Universities. I will cover the citations
here, but will leave the NSS stuff to another note which
was originally intended to be just for those teaching
Mathematics in engineering, but which covers the points
on the NSS and which I will circulate in engineering.
The new action is the possibility of organising a
possible set of conferences somewhere in Scotland on a
new cross-disciplinary topic across physics,
mathematics, computer science, chemistry and
engineering, to be held in “even” years and to match up
with a biennial conference in the California in “odd”
years. </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">The
first such would be held in 2016 and even years
thereafter. It could become very very big indeed and
may, in the longer term, represent an unprecedented
opportunity to help take the university to nearer to the
top of the Russell group.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Now
you probably do not know even who I am, since you have
not been active in any of the fields where I am
well-known, so I will first fill you in on some relevant
aspects. </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Firstly-
on the citations mystery. I think that may be, at least
partly, down to me. I am the highest cited researcher (I
think) in engineering in Glasgow. Also my citations,
being mostly in physics journals, also count towards
those for physics. This citation count is on a
relatively small number of publications (about a
hundred) but most with a very high impact, most
published in the top journals, and covering three
widely-separated fields. Most of the citations have no
other Glasgow co-authors – so cannot count for others.
The average impact (per paper – on citations (about 100
per paper) is far higher than that that for any of these
journals (max about 4 per paper) – and my contribution
is therefore part of the reason why the journals I
submit to are “high impact” in the first place. I could
well be wrong on this, but will copy it to research and
teaching staff and folk will correct me if I am wrong.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">For
comparison, the excellent (but no longer with us)
Richard de la Rue used to beat me on the h-index count–
but not on the number of citations. He is (rightly!)
co-author on hundreds of Glasgow papers, but most of
these have had little or no impact (as measured by
citations). I have not checked, but I am pretty sure I
have the top two (and quite possibly more) cited papers
for the whole of Glasgow engineering. Further, Richard
having left us will have had little effect on the
Glasgow citation count, as many Glasgow co-authors
remain. The effect of his excellence is now “frozen in”,
at least for the time being.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">To
numbers: Google scholar lists me with more than 10000
citations and an h-index of 42. Most of the citations
are to papers in the top peer reviewed journals in
whichever field. Though some of these papers are now
rather old, they were both wide-ranging and seminal so
there remains very high citation rate to them per year.
</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">While
citations in peer-reviewed high quality journals do not
count strongly in the recent ref , they may do so again
in future. They DO count strongly for many of the
“international rankings” (40 percent in some cases, I
believe). I have not bothered to work out how high the
impact on Glasgow would be if I left – but am pretty
sure that would, by itself, drop Glasgow right out of
the “top 100 universities” in most international counts
for engineering. Because of the numbers it would also
have some significant impact on the rankings “all of
science” for Glasgow as well.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">The
reason that my citations are so high has been because of
work at the absolute top international level in three
distinct fields. Work in particle physics (at CERN)
pushed experiments which turned out to be seminal in two
different areas. This led (and still leads) to a very
large number of citations. There followed a move to
more practical science, to micro-electronics in
industry. Here I was lucky enough to be given much
freedom (and a very large budget ) to develop the
experimental, device and material science needed to make
a real impact and move the world forwards. I imagined,
designed and developed the first electronic device to be
called “nano” (not by me but by others), the “quantum
point contact”. Again this was seminal work, again
leading to lots of citations. </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Two
years after my design of two devices in particular the
“quantum point contact” and the “quantum dot” (yes that
was me – I invented the worlds first (semiconductor)
quantum dot), most of the contributions at the major
international conferences were derivative of the work on
the experiments and devices I had designed. They still
are – hence the continuing high citation rate. </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">This
early work was why, in the late eighties, a certain
Steve Beaumont got in touch asking to be included in the
international collaboration I was putting together at
the time. I said ok. I then wrote a (series of) grants
(Steve put in quite a useful contribution there too).
One was called Quantecs, worth a good few millions at
the time. I’m sure it is likely that “Quantics”, our
present big grant, was not named after it – but there is
always that chance! This early work had a large impact
in the standing of Glasgow in the world and continues to
do so. </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">I
am afraid I have been a bit of a disappointment to many
here at Glasgow, as that field was dropped to work on
something completely different. This was partly because
it was exactly what I wanted to do, partly because I
felt it was far more important to the progress of world
science but also because Glasgow could not then get its
act together (and still cannot) to measure the basic
properties of what were (and still are in some respects)
world-leading devices. I have a few dozen of in my desk
drawer that I designed, developed experimental equipment
to measure, and published papers on in the eighties and
nineties. In Glasgow, we did not (and still does not!)
have the capability to measure them in the (fractional)
quantum Hall regime for which they were designed. If I
am wrong, please let me know and you can measure them if
you want to!</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Instead,
I have been working for the last decades on a very high
risk, potentially very high impact piece of theoretical
work (see below), covering the basis of most of science.
It was to have the freedom to do this, in work-time as
my research, that I took a factor of two pay cut at the
time, refused offered salaries in the early nineties of
120 grand (four times my then Glasgow salary), and moved
from industry into academia. The new work required the
understanding of wide areas of science, from (classical
and quantum) field theory to nanotechnology, from the
Standard Model to pre-Einstein relativity and from
computer science to the mathematics of reality. It may
have been expected that other areas, such as string
theory, may have been important too – but these proved
dissappointing. It has taken some time, but work on the
new theoretical basis is now yielding fruit. The work
had, up until last year, yielded few publications, so
does not figure in the last ref. Neither have I been
writing grants. The salaries on offer on a grant simply
do not attract the caliber of people required, so are a
complete waste of time. The collaboration has been with
many other high-level workers worldwide, including
academics, industrialists and the independently wealthy.
</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">So
what is this other research – and why might it be that
thing that could put Glasgow and Scotland back to the
cutting edge of progress in world science? </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">The
new thread was one tried by Einstein for 3 decades or so
and also by Dirac, de Broglie, and so on. They were
looking for an underlying theory of how “elementary”
particles worked. What they were made of. What was the
origin of matter, time and space. What is an
“elementary” particle such as the electron? What is
charge, quantum mechanical spin, the reason for the
quantum and relativistic nature of space and time? That
sort of thing. I have been doing this because I think I
can make a contribution. I have been a “world changer”
already in two different fields, as my record proves.
Compared to those contributions, of international import
though they were, the present work is at a different
kind of level to that which is usually referred to as
having “impact”. This is indeed “world changing”.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">What
is it? It is an underling theory of space-time, matter
and light. It is a new theory based on a new linear
equation. The Dirac equation (the basis of relativistic
quantum mechanics), as it should have been. Starting
with just space and time the theory claims to describe
BOTH light and matter. Exactly. Just and no more. If
true (and this is the big if), the new theory is to
present science as atoms were to Chemistry, relativity
and quantum mechanics were to physics, Wittgenstein was
to western Philosophy, and Pask was to cybernetics. An
understanding of how things really work at the sub
“elementary” particle level. A complete new framework
for thinking. A framework where one can imagine and
design new devices, new materials, and new systems.
Sub-electron electronics. Sub-quantum chemistry. The
underlying mechanics, subject to computer simulation, of
the fundamental underlying processes of space, time and
mass-energy.</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Needless
to say this is, potentially, very very big indeed. Dirac
big, Maxwell big, Maybe even Einstein or Leonardo big.
Either very very big, or just plain wrong. Unlike some
controversial areas there is little risk though. It is,
after all, only a theory!</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Controversial
or not: so far so good. The new theory has been “out”
since last August. Since then, some top physicists have
been trying very very hard to put a dent in it – but
no-one yet has managed. One of the reviewers of one of
my recent papers said explicitly that it reminded him of
Einstein’s seminal work. It is, at the very least, an
alternative to alternatives such as the various string
theories.</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Further,
though controversial for the time being, it is only a
theory. Most theories prove wrong. Good grief, all of
the current theories of science have areas where they do
not describe all of experiment correctly. This one does
not, as far as I know. You mentioned in your talk that
others had called your work “good”. That goes for me too
– up till now. Further, the new all-Scots
Williamson-Maxwell theory seems sound. At least it is
so far, so good.</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">I
have always had a small (but very international)
fan-club on the theoretical basis of earlier ideas.
There was much theoretical progress on many theoretical
fronts over a couple of decades, mostly on complex, hard
to solve, non-linear models. </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Since
I invented the new, linear, relativistic theory last
year, affairs have been moving rapidly. There were
invitations to speak at three international conferences
this summer. I used to think it strange at one time if
not invited as a keynote speaker at least one
international conference per year, and had to turn down
many invitations in the eighties and nineties. My last
invited, plenary, keynote talk at an international
conference (on computing!) had been in 2012. Things are
hotting up again now: I was invited to speak at three
this year – in Moscow (theoretical physics), Berlin
(general physics) and San Diego (Engineering). I had to
turn two of the invitations down, for financial reasons.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Though
there are, presently, no other Glasgow co-authors, the
new theory is by no means all my own work. It is not a
“one-man-band”. There are a whole lot of (also very
good) international collaborators. My contribution to
the work is (at least!) matched by my good friend and
co-worker of three decades, Martin van der Mark (in
Holland). There are contributions from many others –
Stephen Leary, Tim Drysdale Richard de la Rue and John
Weaver here at Glasgow. Phil Butler in New Zealand.
Niels Gresnigt in China. Half a dozen folk down in
England (mostly academics). Dozens of folk in America
(mostly California, for some reason) People in France,
Germany, Sweden … people on every continent except
Antartica. These are good people, but the contribution
is usually limited to that appropriate to an
acknowledgement. It is Martin, Stephen (who has now left
Glasgow) and I who are the only authors on the papers.</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Anyway
… back to the conference I am thinking about helping to
organise. I have organized conferences and workshops
before, both in nanotechnology and in quantum field
theory. I have organized a series of workshops in the
past in various places round Europe. One of our group
owns a Farmhouse in Sancerre, overlooking the river and
with a room big enough to take 40 or so. Martin has a
big room at the top of his house which will take 30. We
have had workshops in both venues. We have, so far
simply declared where and when they will be, invited
folk, limited the numbers to our capacity, arranged a
projector and screen and they have paid their own way.
Though this model is still possible, the numbers
interested are now getting too big for this for this and
we need to have access to larger facilities. </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Two
years ago, after students kept badgering me to explain
topics they found hard – quantum mechanics, relativity,
quantum electrodynamics – just standard stuff from
science but at a high level. I would help but the number
of people trying to crowd round a table whenever I
explained anything got a bit too big so I said I would
get a room. I took the big lecture theatre in the
Rankine and said I would give a series of lectures
covering “all of science”. One lecture at a time – at
8am on a Friday morning. First lecture – 30 folk,
second one – about a hundred – with videos and cameras.
Third one – folk standing at the back. Moved to a (much)
bigger lecture theatre. Next one: there were three
hundred or so folk – many having traveled from places
such as Edinburgh or Dundee that morning, standing
outside in the dark and the rain at 8am on a dark Scots
winter morning. There is a huge appetite for
understanding how things work!</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Many
colleagues that I know of from maths, physics, chemistry
and engineering attended as well. The feedback indicates
that many of them enjoyed these talks and learned
something themselves. I had hoped to extend the series
further this year – but have not been able to do so due
to commitments in other work-areas.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">I
have no idea how many folk will want to come if I
announce a workshop/ conference. This depends, of
course, as to whether it is restricted to invitation
only or is open. It could be a hundred or three
hundred, depending on the marketing. </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">The
eventual scope may be similar to that of a workshop I
was invited to in Autumn of last year, at Imperial.
Access to a big lecture theatre, plenty of good
restaurants in the vicinity, invitation only, further
sort it out yourselves. Despite the lack of formal
structure, there were many big names there in several
fields. These included Roger Penrose (Oxford, physics),
Tim Palmer (Oxford, climate change), and Basil Hiley
(Birkbeck, fundamentals of quantum mechanics). There
were folk contributing from the U.S. by video-link.
There were a hundred plus folk there. I had lunch on the
first day with Roger, Basil and Tim. The discussion was
on quantum mechanical wave-function collapse (mostly me
Basil and Roger). Spent subsequent hours with those two
on the following evening and morning. These are the kind
of folk I hope to invite. The conference will be on the
nature of light, material particles and "quantum
collapse".</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">I
am far too busy to organize much. The main thrust of
present research is to develop publicise and publish
papers in the area of the new theory, not mess about
with administration. I have no funding and no time or
inclination to spend much time looking for funding (my
teaching load has been increased fourfold in the last
few years – to the point where I am now responsible for
about a tenth of all the FTE undergraduate student
experience in Engineering ). I intend to apply for some
funding this year – but only to try to mitigate my
teaching load. </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">The
main requirement for the conference will be for access
to a reasonably big lecture theatre, preferably
somewhere in beautiful Scotland, and with decent
accommodation and a campsite (for some very
enthusiastic, but poor PhD’s) nearby. Date: sometime in
late spring or for over the summer 2016 (to repeat every
even year thereafter). Extent: three days to a week. Is
there a possibility of finding some internal funding to
help with this enterprise?</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">To
others in science and engineering: is there anyone else
out there who would like to help?</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Regards,
John Williamson.</span><span
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