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       SEMINAR OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS
        Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
		CSI 929  (http://science.gmu.edu/physics/)
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             The New Workplace: An Opportunity for Physics

                             John S. Rigden
                    American Institute of Physics

It is obvious to everyone that the place of physics in society has
changed over the past five years.  The physics-support environment,
dominated for the past 40 years by Federal sources, has also changed
and will continue to change in the short term.  If the discipline of physics
is to remain a vital presence on the university campus, it must adapt to
this new environment or suffer the consequences.  Physics alumni have
a story to tell us; this story together with the evolving character of the
workplace presents physicists with an opportunity, a significant
opportunity.  To take advantage of this opportunity, we must
reconceptualize ?the physicist? and recalibrate both our perceptions and
expectations.    
	               Monday , October 21 1996
                                 5:00 pm
                        Room 206, Science & Tech. I
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