lctg2022
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| Date | Topic and links | Attaches | # |
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| Jan 5, 2022 | Best of Freakonomics, an interview with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, moderated by Faith Salie. Recorded at the 92nd Street Y on May 2015. | 26 | |
| Jan 12, 2022 | Downdraft Radar Technology (Dr. Jim Evans) video shown as part of presentation Slides | Downdraft Radar Presentation | 35 |
| Jan 19, 2022 | Quantum Mechanics Part 1 (Charlie Holbrow) | Quantum Mechanics presentation | 39 |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Potpourri * Meandering Rivers (John Rudy) Concord River is a good example. e.g., https://www.ausableriver.org/blog/why-do-streams-meander Mark Twain and Fenimore Cooper * Sweet Summations in Short (Charlie Holbrow) * Single Slit Interference Explained (Bob Melanson) | Meandering Rivers presentation Sweet Summations presentation Slit Interference presentation | 36 |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Manufacturing Chips (Dan Gamota, son of our George, works for a chip manufacturer) | Chip Manufacturer presentation | 40 |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Virus package update; both real-time (e.g., Defender) and off-line (e.g., Malware Bytes). Consider Windows 10 & Windows 11(TPM), but also Mac/OSX. presentation notes SE Labs tests How a guy hacked a crypto wallet (32m) | Virus Update Presentation | 31 |
| Feb 16, 2022 | Potpourri Charlie Holbrow explains Lagrangian points, especially L2. Followup to Virus topic: Browser Guards (Drew King) slides | Lagrangian Points presentation Browser Guards presentation | 34 |
| Feb 23, 2022 | planning meeting no presentation | 16 | |
| Mar 2, 2022 10am | George Gamota Space Update | Space Update presentation | 30 |
| Mar 2, 2022 7pm | Managing File Size - for Photos, email, PDF documents, etc. (Allan Sherman) Allan was the lead of this group in the past and is well respected by those who know, or meet, him. He also discusses his life in New Zealand for the past two years. | Managing File Size presentation | 27 |
| Mar 9, 2022 | The secret of Tuxedo Park (PBS American Experience) [53m] Where did "Tuxedo" come from?[5m] | 25 | |
| Mar 16, 2022 | Potpourri Upgrading to Windows 11 and getting around the Windows 11 machine requirements (Drew) Feynman: Fun to Imagine (Jiggling Atoms, Fire, and Rubber Bands) How to build a tin can (12m) The Physics of Curling (11m) How Curling Stones are Made (6m) | slides from Windows 11 presentation Windows 11 presentation | 30 |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Women in Science: David Kahan presenting an overview of the history and accomplishments of women in science over the years. | Women in Science presentation | 25 |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Quantum Physics Part 2 (Charlie Holbrow) Related presentations by Charlie: Quantum Mechanics I and Quantum Physics | Quantum Physics presentation | 33 |
| Apr 6, 2022 | John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854 (Jerry Slate) John Snow (1813 – 1858) was a British physician who became interested in the transmission of cholera. At the time, airborne transmission of disease, miasma, was the accepted model for cholera. When Snow showed his data on the cholera epidemic of 1854 (in a manner not previously seen), there was much resistance in the scientific community to a paradigm shift. | John Snow/Cholera presentation | 27 |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Craig Fields on DARPA (not recorded at speaker's request) Honest remarks and a lively conversation with the person who ran DARPA from 1974-1990. DARPA=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | not recorded | 37 |
| Apr 20, 2022 | Potpourri GPS Jamming (Bob Primak) slides Bowling Balls, Lanes, and Science | GPS Jamming presentation | 34 |
| Apr 27, 2022 | How Air Traffic Control has been impacted by STARS (Mel Weinzimer) STARS=Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System, developed by Raytheon and the FAA as part of the Terminal Automation Modernization and Replacement (TAMR) Program. | ATC/STARS presentation | 42 |
| May 4, 2022 | Michael Faraday: Student of the Natural World (Franklin Segall, M.D.) | not recorded | 34 |
| May 11, 2022 | James Clerk Maxwell: Scientist as Magician (Franklin Segall, M.D.) | not recorded | 38 |
| May 18, 2022 | Rumford – From Woburn Farmboy to Count of the Holy Roman Empire. (Howard Cohen) From Wikipedia: Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th-century revolution in thermodynamics. slides | Rumford presentation | 32 |
| May 25, 2022 | Scheduling meeting | 29 | |
| June 1, 2022 | Bitcoin and Web3 - Their Technology and Impact on the World; and NFT - Non Fungible Tokens (Jerry Harris [Lex]) Suggested video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g presentation slides | Bitcoin Web3 presentation | 44 |
| June 8, 2022 | A. A. Michelson – The Prodigy of High Precision Measurements (Daniel Kleppner) | High Precision presentation | 27 |
| June 15, 2022 | Solar Panels and Energy Storage Devices (Mark Sandeen) – why or why not, and savings, pluses and minuses | Solar Panel presentation | 44 |
| June 22, 2022 | Internet fast lanes, stock trading, net neutrality. (Bob Primak) | Internet Trading presentation | 27 |
| June 29, 2022 | Scientific CCD Development at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Christopher Leitz) The Advanced Imager Technology group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory designs and fabricates detectors and readout circuits for imaging applications in support of National Security and scientific exploration. Dr. Leitz outlines their history in providing these devices for the scientific community and highlights future directions in CCD development, notably new detector materials, new fabrication processes, and new readout amplifiers for applications in astrophysics, astronomy, and particle physics.presentation slides, slide 19 has an embedded movie | CCD Development Presentation | 28 |
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