Department of Physics

University of WI-Whitewater

Minutes for the Faculty Meeting for April 1st meeting

 

            Meeting started 2:31 pm.

 

I.          Attending:        J. Constantinescu;  G. Chulick; P. Rybski;  S. Sahyun;  Jeffrey Polak (SPS

                                    representative)

 

            Absent:            R. Benjamin (illness);  S. DasGupta (not called)

           

II.        Sahyun/Chulick moved approval of Meeting Minutes of March 18th meeting with editorial

                        changes.  Approved on a voice vote.

 

III.       Announcements

 

            None:  delayed until April 8th meeting

 

IV.       Old Business

 

            A.        Liquid Nitrogen tank relocation:  delayed until April 8th

 

                        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.

 

V.        New Business

 

            A.        Department server purchase:  delayed until April 8th

 

                        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.        Curriculum

 

                        Constantinescu/Sahyun moved the deletion of the following physics courses: 

                        Physics 173 (Physics Laboratory I);  Physics 175 (Physics Laboratory II);  Physics

                        210 (Descriptive Physics).  Discussion ensued.  Passed on a voice vote.

 

Sahyun/Chulick moved to adjourn at 2:37 pm.  Approved on a voice vote.

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

Paul M. Rybski, Secretary of the Day

 

 

Xc:       Chancellor Jack Miller

            Provost Richard Telfer

            Dean Howard Ross

            Dean Lee Jones

            Archivist Karen Weston