Interview with Robert O\u27Brien, January 9, 2006

Robert O\u27Brien was interviewed on January 9, 2006 by Michael J. Birkner about his military service during World War II and his years as a student at Gettysburg College. He discusses his childhood and time at Muhlenberg College, before he enlisted in the US Navy Air Corps and served at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida. After the war he came to Gettysburg on a basketball scholarship. He discusses his experience as a physics major, fraternity brother, and college athlete. Length of Interview: 94 minutes Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit -- http://gettysburg.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16274coll

Restricting SLE(8/3) to an annulus

We study the probability that chordal $\text{SLE}_{8/3}$ in the unit disk from $\exp(ix)$ to 1 avoids the disk of radius $q$ centered at zero. We find the initial/boundary-value problem satisfied by this probability as a function of $x$ and $a=\ln q$, and show that asymptotically as $q$ tends to one this probability decays like $\exp(-cx/(1-q))$ with $c=5\pi/8$ for $x\in[0,\pi]$. We also give a representation of this probability as a functional of a Legendre process.Comment: 28 pages, corrected proof of asymptotic dependenc

Boston University Messiaen Project, October 12 and 13, 2007

This is the concert program of the Boston University Messiaen Project international conference on Friday, October 12, and Saturday, October 13, 2007, at the College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. The conference featured lectures by Yves Balmer, Karin Heller, Stephen Butler Murray, Martin Lee, Andrew Shenton, Mark DeVoto, Wai Ling Cheong, Luke Berryman, Thomas Peattie, Peter Bannister, Vincent Benitez, Robert Sholl, Alexandre Abdoulvaev, Robert Fallon, Adam Gustafson, Douglas Shadle, Stephen Schloesser, Alexander Rehding, Sander van Maas, Ryan W. Dohoney, and David Cannata. Works performed on the concert on Saturday, October 13, 2007 in the Concert Hall were "Fantasie pour violon et piano by Olivier Messiaen, "Un reflet dans le vent" by O. Messiaen, "Ondine" by Claude Debussy, "Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses" by C. Debussy, "Brouillards" by C. Debussy, "Feuilles mortes" by C. Debussy, "La colombe" by O. Messiaen, "Deux romances de Paul Bourget" by C. Debussy, "Deux morceaux de soir" by C. Debussy, and "Poèmes pour Mi" by O. Messiaen. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

The Book of Ruth, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah

Reviewed Book: Hubbard, Robert L. The Book of Ruth. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989. New international commentary on the Old Testament. Reviewed Book: Robertson, O Palmer. The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990. New international commentary on the Old Testament