Beam tracing with diffraction

Laurence Taylor, Evelyn Hesse, Z. Ulanowski, Paul H. Kaye, Antti Penttila, Timo Nousiainen, ‘Beam tracing with diffraction’, poster presented at the 15th Electromagnetic & Light Scattering Conference, Leipzig, Germany, 21-26 June, 2015.Non peer reviewe

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief Kevin C. Culum Carol A. Donaldson Editors Alan J. Hall Michael V. Harrington Susan G. Ridgeway Cynthia Kegley Smith Barbara J. Tucker Staff Lori Ann Harper Margaret C. Hesse Robyn D. Jarnagin John A. Kutzman Lance Lovell Duncan A. Peete Joan Poston Tia Rukel Robbin Cynthia H. Schott John R. Velk Faculty Advisor William L. Corbet

Recent approaches to Holocaust memory work: Lithuania and the British at the turn of the millennium

I gave a paper on the British/Lithuanian ITF 'Liaison Project' as part of a panel on 'National and Transnational Narratives of the Holocaust' at the 'Holocaust Memory Re-Visited' conference, Uppsala University, 21-23 March 2013. Included here are the conference programme and a review of the conference that appeared in 'H-Soz-u-Kult', which is based at the Humboldt University, Berli

Scattering of non-uniform incident fields by long cylinders

Copyright University of BremenWe investigate experimentally far-field scattering from cylinders with illumination non-uniform along the axis of the cylinder. Scattered intensity as a function of angle in two orthogonal directions is examined. Variation along the scattering angle is found to be little affected by the illumination profile. However, variation in the transverse direction follows closely the Fourier transform of the illumination pattern and reproduces the angular distribution of the incident wave. These finding apply to circular as well as hexagonal cross-section cylinders

Who Were the Greatest Women Artists of the Twentieth Century? A Quantitative Investigation

Recent decades have witnessed an outpouring of research on the contributions of women artists. But as is typical in the humanities, these studies have been qualitative, and consequently do not provide a systematic evaluation of the relative importance of different women artists. A survey of the illustrations of the work of women artists contained in textbooks of art history reveals that art historians judge Cindy Sherman to be the greatest woman artist of the twentieth century, followed in order by Georgia O'Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Frida Kahlo. The life cycles of these artists have differed greatly: the conceptual Sherman, Hesse, and Kahlo all arrived at their major contributions much earlier, and more suddenly, than the experimental O'Keeffe and Bourgeois. The contrasts are dramatic, as Sherman produced her greatest work while in her 20s, whereas Bourgeois did not produce her greatest work until she had passed the age of 80. The systematic measurement of this study adds a dimension to our understanding of both the role of women in twentieth-century art and the careers of the major figures.

Ferdinand Schweins und Otto Hesse / neu hrsg. von Gabriele Dörflinger, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Die Doppelbiographie entstand 1903 anlässlich des Zentenarfeier der Erneuerung der Heidelberger Universität durch Karl Friedrich. Ferdinand Schweins (1780-1856) war 40 Jahre lang Ordinarius für Mathematik der Heidelberger Universität. Unter ihm wurde Heidelberg zum Mittelpunkt der kombinatorischen Schule, die sich allerdings bereits überlebt hatte. Die Vorlesungsankündigungen belegen, dass Schweins neben der Kombinatorik nur elementare Veranstaltungen anbot. Otto Hesse (1811-1874) dagegen wirkte nur 12 Jahre von 1856-1868 in Heidelberg. Unter ihm hob sich das Niveau der Mathematikveranstaltungen und er zog zahlreiche namhafte Studenten an. Seinen Forschungsschwerpunkt bildete die Geometrie. Der Aufsatz wurde durch Portraits von Ferdinand Schweins und Otto Hesse angereichert