Department of Physics

University of WI-Whitewater

Agenda for April 8th meeting

 

I.          Attending:        R. Benjamin, J. Constantinescu;  G. Chulick;  S. DasGupta

                                    (teleconference);  P. Rybski;  S. Sahyun;  Jeffrey Polak (SPS

                                    representative)

           

II.        Approval of Meeting Minutes of April 1st meeting

 

III.       Announcements

 

            A.        Chairıs Announcements

 

            B.        Committee Reports

 

                        1.         Curriculum

                        2.         Graduate Council

                        3.         Library

                        4.         SPS

                        5.         Upham renovation

                        5.         Webpage

 

            C.        Announcements from the Floor

 

IV.       Old Business

 

            A.        Liquid Nitrogen tank relocation

 

                        The Liquid Nitrogen tank must be relocated before the beginning of Phase 2B

                        because the room in which it is currently stored (across from Upham 131) will

                        disappear when Phase 2B begins late this summer.  Two locations are possible:  (1) 

                        in a closet next to the NE entrance to the Upham extension;  and  (2)  in a closet

                        immediately east of Upham 141E that currently holds the multimedia control

                        electronics for Upham 141E and the room immediately east of it.

 

            B.        Cuuriculum

 

                        1.  Deletion of Physics 282 (Engineering Mechanics-Dynamics)

 

                        2.  Schedule change for Physics 280 (to become Physics 305)

 

V.        New Business

 

            A.        Department server purchase

 

                        Sahyunıs FALCON server has proved extremely valuable as a repository for documents and data used for many purposes by departmental faculty.  However, this was a machine purchased for his own research with startup funds.  Now that he needs it for research, too much space is being taken up by others using it as the departmental server.  Many years ago, we had a Linux-based server (FEYNMAN.PHYSICS.UWW.EDU) created by Jeffrey Rufinus for his own use.  However, our needs were different at the time, so the server was allowed to die when Jeff moved to a different university.  As is apparent from the utilization of FALCON, we now have many needs for such a machine.  Given the flexibility of the new Power Macs, Sahyun and Rybski propose the purchase of a MiniMac with substantial hard drive space as the permanent departmental server, to be named EINSTEIN.PHYSICS.UWW.EDU.

 

            B.        Other Business

 

 

 

Ms. Lynn Miller will be Secretary of the Day