ICarbS, Volume 1, Issue 2

Contents Piscator and Brecht: Closeness Through Distance by John Willett / 79 Erwin Piscator: A Checklist by Jurgen Stein / 95 Town Life in Southern Illinois during the Great Depression by David E. Conrad and Glen M. Jones / 121 Walt Whitman Answers a Collector by E. Earle Stibitz / 141 The Mexican Revolution of 1910: Perspectives from the Francisco Vazquez Gomez Papers by Anthony Bryan /145 Manuscript Collections in Morris Library by Ralph E. McCoy / 153 Illustrations Erwin Piscator in 1964 / 80 Erwin Piscator in 1941 / 86 Piscator t.l. to Brecht / 92 Nollendorfplatz theater poster / 100 Caricature of Erwin Piscator / 110 Herrin coalmine crew / 124 Flood ravaged Southern Illinois family / 130 Walt Whitman a.l.s. to a book collector / 142-143 Vazquez Gomez appointed Professor / 146 Teo Otto set design / Cove

Stretched Polymers in Random Environment

We survey recent results and open questions on the ballistic phase of stretched polymers in both annealed and quenched random environments.Comment: Dedicated to Erwin Bolthausen on the occasion of his 65th birthda

Non-Abelian Born-Infeld theory without the square root

A non-Abelian Born-Infeld theory is presented. The square root structure that characterizes the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action does not appear. The procedure is based on an Abelian theory proposed by Erwin Schr\"{o}dinger that, as he showed, is equivalent to Born-Infeld theory. We briefly mention other possible similar proposals. Our results could be of interest in connection with string theory and possible extensions of well known physical results in the usual Born-Infeld Abelian case.Comment: 9 pages, no figures, revtex

Integrity and passion in teaching

Issue topic: Festschrift in honour of Erwin Buck

PENGARUH MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN WAYANG KERTAS TERHADAP NILAI KARAKTER SISWA SEKOLAH DASAR

Indonesia has abundant cultural diversity. Each region has its own cultural characteristics. Currently, elementary school students' love for art has begun to fade, even though there are so many arts developing. By modifying the puppets into paper puppets, it is easy to make and use them as learning media. Elementary school is a fundamental and strategic education, because it is a golden period and laying the foundation for child development. In addition, the environment plays a very large role in the formation of attitudes and children, namely character. Character is a characteristic that is attached to a person, manifested through moral values and then becomes the hallmark of a person who is formed in life. The purpose of this study was to prove the effect of the application of paper puppet learning media on the character values of elementary school students. The type of research used is experimental research with one-group pretest posttest design technique. The results of the study using paper puppet learning media made students' character values stronger. This can be seen from the average value before being given treatment, the results are 92.63 while after being given treatment the results are 160.72. Based on the analysis of paired sample t-test data, it is known that Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.000 <0.05, in general it can be concluded that there is an effect of the application of the Paper Puppet Learning Media on the Character Values of Elementary School Students

Muir String Quartet, December 8, 2006

This is the concert program of the Muir String Quartet performance on Friday, December 8, 2006, at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Quartet in E-fla Major, op. 64, no. 6 by Franz Joseph Haydn and Five Pieces for String Quartet by Erwin Schulhoff. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

The Templeton Debates: God and Government

Debate with Erwin Chemerinsky

Boxy/peanut/X bulges, barlenses and the thick part of galactic bars: What are they and how did they form?

Bars have a complex three-dimensional shape. In particular their inner part is vertically much thicker than the parts further out. Viewed edge-on, the thick part of the bar is what is commonly known as a boxy-, peanut- or X- bulge and viewed face-on it is referred to as a barlens. These components are due to disc and bar instabilities and are composed of disc material. I review here their formation, evolution and dynamics, using simulations, orbital structure theory and comparisons to observations.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures, invited review to appear in "Galactic Bulges", E. Laurikainen, R. Peletier, D. Gadotti, (eds.), Springe

Critical behavior of the massless free field at the depinning transition

We consider the d-dimensional massless free field localized by a delta-pinning of strength e. We study the asymptotics of the variance of the field, and of the decay-rate of its 2-point function, as e goes to zero, for general Gaussian interactions. Physically speaking, we thus rigorously obtain the critical behavior of the transverse and longitudinal correlation lengths of the corresponding d+1-dimensional effective interface model in a non-mean-field regime. We also describe the set of pinned sites at small e, for a broad class of d-dimensional massless models