2016 Definition and 207 Threads

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone has heard back from the DOE regarding the SULI applications. I applied to the following labs: - Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (astronomy, plasma physics) - Los Alamos national lab (astronomy, condensed matter) In the key dates it says that all offers...

I keep a daily journal and for next year's journal, I'd like to find an online 2016 calendar that could be imported into a word processor (LibreOffice) as a text document so that each day would have date, day of the week, and annotations about holidays. So the document would look like...

Who are the top contenders for 2016 POTUS and what are the major issues (and each contenders' stance on them)? Discuss, discuss, discuss... All I know is that Hillary and Trump look like the most popular at the moment.

(The AAPT 2015 Summer Meeting in College Park just ended... and I see that some (but not a lot of) information is already up for the next meeting: the 2016 Winter Meeting in New Orleans.) https://www.aapt.org/Conferences/wm2016/ [The site might not be ready for prime-time yet... the html page...

Hi all, my name is Brandon and I'm new to these forums I'm going into my 5th year at university and am majoring in Chemical Engineering. From my understanding, those who choose to go into industry after graduating are usually in process, petroleum, etc. However, I am rather more interested...

Generally is it as difficult to get into a PhD program in physics during the spring then it is during the fall? I'm asking because many of the schools I'm applying to say that most students are admitted during the fall but they give you the option to apply for the spring as well.

When they say the Obamas are lobbying to bring the 2016 summer olympics to Chicago, what are they actually doing? Are they bribing, or return some political favor back?. What exactly is lobbying?