Dr. Melko’s talk on Aug. 31, 2009

Welcome back, everyone! I hope you all had a great summer, researching, studying, travelling, etc.

Yesterday we had our first department colloqium, which was given by Dr. Melko from University of Waterloo.  Dr. Melko did really good job in organizing his talk, and if you are interested in his other talks, please kindly go to this link.

References from yesterday’s talk (partial) are as follows.

• Sandvik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 227202 (2007)
• Wolf et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070502 (2008)
• Levin and Wen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110405 (2006)
• Kitaev and Preskill Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110404 (2006)
• Sandvik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 207203 (2005)
• Holzhey et al. Nucl. Phys. B 424 44 (1994)
• Calabrese and Cardy, J. Stat. Mech: Theory Exp. P06002 (2004)

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First of all, I wanted to thank Prof. Lu and Lisa for helping me schedule this seminar to our department. How wonderful! Especial thanks went to Prof. R. Thompson who did research of my bio and introduced me to audience as if I were an very important person, which was such an honor!

I was impressed to see my seminar was well attended. Thank you all to be there! I was even glad that we had such a lively discussion about USC Libraries services and resources, which helped me know where to go and how to provide you services and resources.

Some concerns from audience in the seminars were

• proxy server should be more stable and much faster for users’ off campus access
• USC catalog records should be more accurate and complete
• Grand depository’s access is better than before, but still needs to be cleaned up in order to access many collection there

It was also good to know that

• physics and astronomy users are excited to know the Springer e-collection available at USC
• current journal e-subscription satisfies users’ needs at some degree
• many enjoy the back file access of Science Citation Index via WoS (yeah!)

last but not the least, I want to thank you all again! Please keep in mind that I am your librarian. Please do feel free to contact me for any questions, concerns and advice you might have.

Let’s build Norah’s ideal library together!