<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- saved from url=(0067)vol8.htm --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>CSSP Newsletter</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-16"> <LINK href="../images/css.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background=../images/cssplogo.jpg> <A name=up></A> <TABLE id=Table1 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=615 align=left border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=left><IMG src="../images/csspbanner.jpg" border=0> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=615><TABLE id=Table2 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=top background="http://www.bibalex.org/CSSPNewsletter/images/spacer.gif"> <TD vAlign=top bgColor=#ffffff colSpan=3 height=6><IMG height=6 src="../images/spacer.gif" width=615> </TD> </TR> <TR background="http://www.bibalex.org/CSSPNewsletter/images/spacer.gif"> <TD vAlign=top align=left width=487 background=../images/spacer.gif height=300><TABLE align=right> <TBODY> <TR> <TD align=left><SPAN class=title1>Volume :</SPAN> </TD> <TD align=left><B>8</B> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD align=left><SPAN class=title1>Issued :</SPAN> </TD> <TD align=left><B>July 2005</B> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <TABLE id=Table3 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" background=../images/spacer.gif border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD align=left><SPAN class=title1> <P align=justify><FONT color=#163e72 size=1>Center for Special Studies and Programs (CSSP), a research center established in July 2003 in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, aims to play a significant role in the progress of science and technology in Egypt. The CSSP will help researchers and scientists to get the best support needed to advance their work through international collaborations.</FONT> </P> </SPAN></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD align=left height=5><SPAN class=title1><IMG src="../images/spacer.gif"> </SPAN></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><SPAN class=title1>Dear //Name//,</SPAN> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD height=25><BR> <BR> <TABLE border=1> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><SPAN class=title1>In our newsletter this volume:</SPAN> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><A href="vol8.htm#Nobel Laureate Lectures at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina">Nobel Laureate Lectures at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina</A> <BR> <A href="vol8.htm#The BA Visitors Information">The BA Visitors Information</A> <BR></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD background=../images/spacer.gif height=24><IMG height=24 src="../images/spacer.gif" width=36> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 width="100%" cellpading="0"> <TBODY> <TR class=title2 bgColor=#4274a9> <TD width=5></TD> <TD height=20><IMG height=20 src="../images/spacer.gif" width=1 align=absMiddle> <FONT color=white>&gt;&gt;</FONT> <A name="Nobel Laureate Lectures at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina"></A><FONT color=white>Nobel Laureate Lectures at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina</FONT> </TD> <TD align=middle><A href="vol8.htm#up"><FONT color=white><IMG alt=Up src="../images/icon_up.gif" border=0> </FONT></A></TD> <TD width=5></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width=5 bgColor=buttonface></TD> <TD class=txt bgColor=buttonface colSpan=2 height=20><DIV align=center><BR> <B> <P><FONT size=3>Nobel Laureate</P> <P><FONT size=4>Professor Douglas D. OSHEROFF</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=3>at the</P> <P>Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center </P> <P>Saturday, 9 July 2005, 10:00 am</P> <P>Two Lectures</P> <P><FONT size=4>"So, What Really Happens at Absolute Zero?"</P> <P><FONT size=3>and</P> <P><FONT size=4>"The Discovery of Superfluid Helium Three As Seen Through the Eyes of a Graduate Student"</FONT></P> </DIV> <P><FONT size=2><U>Douglas D. OSHEROFF</P> <P>An American physicist, he was the co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of superfluidity in the isotope helium-3, along with David Lee and Robert Richardson.</P> <P>Prof. Osheroff was a graduate student working with Lee and Richardson in the low-temperature laboratory at Cornell. The team investigated the properties of helium-3 under temperatures of just a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero (-273 C). Osheroff noticed minute jumps in the internal pressure of the sample of helium-3 under investigation, and he drew the team"s attention to these small deviations. The researchers eventually concluded that the helium-3 had undergone a phase transition to a superfluid state, in which a liquid"s atoms lose their randomness and move about in a coordinated manner. Such a substance lacks all internal friction, flows without resistance, and behaves according to quantum mechanical laws rather than to those of classical fluid mechanics. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 enabled scientists to study directly in macroscopic or visible-systems the quantum mechanical effects that had previously been studied only indirectly in molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles.</P> <P>Prof. Osheroff received a bachelor"s degree (1967) from the California Institute of Technology and a doctorate (1973) from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He conducted research at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1972 to 1982, and headed solid-state and low-temperature research there from 1982 to 1987. He became a professor at Stanford (Calif.) University in 1987.</P> <P align=right> Attendance is open to the public free of charge <BR>  The lecture is in English with simultaneous translation into Arabic </P></TD> <TD width=5 bgColor=buttonface></TD> </TR> <TR class=title2 bgColor=#4274a9> <TD width=5></TD> <TD height=20><IMG height=20 src="../images/spacer.gif" width=1 align=absMiddle> <FONT color=white>&gt;&gt;</FONT> <A name="The BA Visitors Information"></A><FONT color=white>The BA Visitors Information</FONT> </TD> <TD align=middle><A href="vol8.htm#up"><FONT color=white><IMG alt=Up src="../images\icon_up(1).gif" border=0> </FONT></A></TD> <TD width=5></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width=5 bgColor=buttonface></TD> <TD class=txt bgColor=buttonface colSpan=2 height=20><P><A href="http://www.bibalex.org/English/visitors/visitorinfo/info.htm" target=_blank><IMG alt="visitors info" hspace=3 src="../images/BA.jpg" align=left border=0> </A>Information about the BA location, admissions, opening hours, guided tours and more is available on the BA website. </P> <P align=right><A href="http://www.bibalex.org/English/visitors/visitorinfo/info.htm" target=_blank>more...</A> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P></TD> <TD width=5 bgColor=buttonface></TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE></TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=left background=../images/spacer.gif><BR> <SPAN class=title1>Important Links:</SPAN> <UL> <LI><A class=Important href="http://www.bibalex.org/biovisionalexandria/" target=_blank>BioVisionAlexandria</A> <LI><A href="http://www.bibalex.org/English/researchers/CSSP/cssp.htm" target=_blank>CSSP Home Page</A> <LI><A href="http://www.bibalex.org/SuperCourse/Index.htm" target=_blank>Supercourse</A> </LI> </UL> <BR> To view all CSSP newsletters : <A href="http://www.bibalex.org/English/researchers/CSSP/archive.htm" target=_blank>CSSP Newsletter Archive</A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=left background=../images/spacer.gif><BR> <BR> <A href="http://www.bibalex.org/CSSPNewsletter/comments.aspx?Mail=//EMail//">Click here to provide your feedback or comments</A> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD height=10><BR> <BR> <BR> <TABLE id=Table4 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class=footer vAlign=top>Bibliotheca Alexandrina - P.O. 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