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Lamont Weekly Report – March 24, 2006

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W Palisades, New York 10964

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- Letter from the Director

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<>LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

I flew down to Gainesville, Florida on Tuesday, where it was warm and sunny - when it wasn't warm and raining - to serve on a Visiting Committee for the University of Florida. It was interesting to dig into the infrastructure of a State University with 50,000 graduate and undergraduate students on a single campus, and understand how they made it work. It was a culture so different from ours that it was difficult to recognize it as the same profession (sometimes)!.

I flew down to Miami today (Friday) to meet with some good friends of Lamont, and then home on Friday night.

This Sunday the 2006 Public Lecture series kicks-off with what I am sure will be an excellent presentation by Dave Walker entitled "Is the Earth's Core Leaking?" - 3:00 pm, Monell Auditorium.

For the first time we will charging a $5 admission fee, because attendance at every talk last year exceeded the capacity of the auditorium. If your friends or neighbors have an interest, encourage them to attend and certainly feel free to come along with them. (Staff themselves will not be charged the admission fee.)

Subsequent lectures are:

April 9 - Climate Change Problem: A Permanent Underground Carbon Storage Solution? - Juerg Matter

April 30 - The 100th Anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906: What Have We Learned SInce Then About the Earthquake Process and Prospects for Earthquake Prediction? - Lynn Sykes

May 21 - The Katrina Disaster: A poor world tragedy in a rich country - John Mutter

Have a great weekend - I shall be glad to get home after a week on the road, even though the climatic conditions will be less favorable.


- Mike





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