Black Holes and Scalar Fields

No-hair theorems in theories of gravity with a scalar field are briefly and critically reviewed. Their significance and limitations are discussed and potential evasions are considered.Comment: 16 pages, contribution to the Classical and Quantum Gravity Focus Issue "Black holes and fundamental fields

Policy and Practice Brief: Supporting the Employment Outcomes of SSI and SSDI Beneficiaries in Section 8 or Subsidized Housing; A Model of Policy Supporting Effective Employment Practice

This brief provides an overview of the Family Self-Sufficiency Program administered by Housing and Urban Development. Comparisons and contrasts between Family Self- Sufficiency, and the Ticket to Work and Benefits Planning are drawn as is a template for combining these important employment resources to affect successful employment outcomes

Q-Curvature, Spectral Invariants, and Representation Theory

We give an introductory account of functional determinants of elliptic operators on manifolds and Polyakov-type formulas for their infinitesimal and finite conformal variations. We relate this to extremal problems and to the Q-curvature on even-dimensional conformal manifolds. The exposition is self-contained, in the sense of giving references sufficient to allow the reader to work through all details.Comment: This is a contribution to the Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Geometry Conference in honor of Thomas P. Branson, published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA

“The Dashing Subaltern”: Sir Richard Turner in Retrospect

When war came to Canada in August 1914, thousands rallied to the call to arms. Colonel Sam Huges the charismatic and controversial Minister of Militia and Defence scrapped his department’s meticulous plans for mobilizing the nation’s militia and assumed control with amazing, almost fortuitous, results. By September, 33,000 recruits were training at a hastily constructed Camp Valcartier, Quebec. A month later the first contingent of the legendary Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) sailed for England (the largest military force ever to cross the Atlantic up to that time)