People, Papers, Presentations

Karen Broker, professor of visual arts, was a featured artist in the 2005 Historic Houston Heights Home & Garden Tour April 1-3.

Jane Chance, professor of English, delivered an invited lecture on “Beowulf: The Hero and the Monster” for Houston Early Music prior to Benjamin Bagby’s performance of “Beowulf” at the Anglo-Saxon at Trinity Church Feb. 1. She also delivered the invited lectures “J.R.R.Tolkien, Scholar and Fantasist: ‘I am in Fact a Hobbit’” in the Notable Persons Stream at Rice Alumni Weekend Feb. 26 and “Saint Agnes and Constantia in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s Conversion Works and Aelfric’s Anglo-Saxon Legend: Feminizing the Founding of the Early Church” in the Medieval Seminar Series at the Institute for Medieval Studies, U. of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, March 10.

Carl Rau, professor of physics and astronomy, was appointed adjunct professor at Northeastern U. (NEU), Shenyang, China, by the president of NEU. He presented colloquia and seminars at NEU; at Fudan U., Shanghai; and at Southeastern U., Nanjing, titled “Exploring the World of Artificial Magnetism from Thin Films to Patterned Nanostructures.” He was keynote speaker at the National Vacuum Metallurgy and Surface Engineering Conference at NEU, presenting a lecture titled “Magnetic Surface Engineering.” Rau presented the Zhong-Guan-Cun Forum Lecture at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Semiconductors, Peking U., Tsinghua U., Bejing. He was keynote speaker at the topical conference “From Thin Films to Nanostructures” at the Department of Physics of the U. of Lodz, Poland.Rau presented a paper at the International Conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids in Genova, Italy, titled “Spin-Resolved Magnetic Studies of Focused Ion Beam Etched Nano-Sized Magnetic Structures.” He presented a paper at the ninth joint MMM/Intermag Conference in Anaheim, Calif., titled “Magnetic Domain Structures of Focused Ion Beam Patterned Cobalt Films using SIMPA,” and a paper at the fifth international symposium on Metallic Multilayers (MML ’04) in Boulder, Colo., titled “Spin-Resolve Magnetic Studies of bct FE(100)/Mn/bct Fe (100)/fcc Pd(100) Films Using Scanning Ion Microscopy with Polarization Analysis.”

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