Dear friends,

Here is more news from the department -- one of the interesting 
things to happen to me is that each time I send out a newsletter, 
is that it triggers some others to note their good news that I 
omitted.  So rather than apologize for omitting things, I am pleased
that we are getting to hear of an expanded range of activities,
awards, and plans.    Please send me your items and periodically
I will send them out to us all.

1)  Jac Verbaarschot is this year's Simon Fellow in the department.
He is organizing a workshop next week that should be interesting
to many:

     The James  H. Simons  workshop on Random  Matrix Theory will take
     place from  February 20-23.  Close to 20 experts in Random Matrix
     Theory  from  different fields  in physics  and  mathematics will
     discuss recent developments in their speciality. The lectures are
     presented in the  Math Commons Room (Math  Tower 4-125) between 9
     a.m. and  5.30 p.m.. A  detailed  description of  the workshop as
     well as the program can be found  at
     http://tonic.physics.sunysb.edu/~verbaarschot/simons/index2.html.
     Everyone is cordially invited to attend the lectures and
     discussions. To register for  the conference dinner (at a cost of
     US$ 40)  please conntact the organizer
     (verbaarschot@tonic.physics.sunysb.edu) before  February 15th.

2)  The recent Vol 51 of the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle
Science had three of its 13 articles authored by our faculty:
one by Gerry Brown, one by Madappa Prakash and James Lattimer
and one by Chang Kee Jung and Clark McGrew and two co-authors.

3)  In listing the recent fellowships awarded, I should add the
Optical Society of America fellowship givin in 2001 to Adjunct
Professor Lou DiMauro.

Also, I take pleasure in noting that Adjunct Professor Ilan
Ben Zvi won the 2001 Brookhaven Science and Technology award.

4) Luis Orozco was awarded the APS Division of Laser Science
Distinguished Travelling Lecturer for 2002 - 2004.   Perhaps
Luis can capture this eminent speaker for a Stony Brook
Colloquium?

5) Former grad student Hsiao-Wen Chen(Ken Lanzetta supervisor) 
won a prestigious and highly competitive Hubble Fellowship by 
the Space Telescope Science Insitute, to be taken at MIT.  

6) The 1998 SuperKamiokande paper "Evidence for Neutrino Oscillations"
has now vaulted into first place for citations of experimental
particle physics.  Chang Kee Jung's group is a key player in the
SuperKamiokande program.

7)  The musical comedy, Fermat's Last Tango (off Broadway) will
be shown (from DVD) from 5:00 to 7:00 on Feb. 21 in the Math Common
Room (Math 4-125).  We hear that it is stimulating and entertaining.

8) The graduate student brochure that you all received copies
of is a very valuable introduction to the activities of the department
and should be very useful in attracting students to our program
and in describing us to our colleagues.   We are grateful to Peter
Stephens and many others of you for the long work in producing this 
document.  It is now available from the department web page in its
entirety.   Please be sure to get this brochure into circulation
at other universities and to friends who are in a position to
recommend graduate schools to their students.

The brochure is available at the Physics and Astronomy web page:
http//insti.physics.sunysb.edu/Physics/