{"id":1570,"date":"2013-09-24T13:29:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/?page_id=1570"},"modified":"2014-09-25T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:59:53","slug":"other-professional-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/faculty-emeriti\/semon\/other-professional-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Professional Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Summer Research Assistant, Los Alamos, wrote programs to reduce data from neutron scattering experiments, using the CDC 7600 and 6600 systems.<\/li>\n<li>Summer Research Assistant, Kitt Peak, included observing on the solar telescope, and writing programs to reduce solar magnetograms, using a CDC 6600 system<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrom Quarks to Quasars,\u201d two three-day short courses by Professor M. Dresden (SUNY at Stonybrook) and Professor A.S. Goldhaber (SUNY at Stonybrook),<\/li>\n<li>Mt. Holyoke College, Fall, 1976 and Spring, 1977.<\/li>\n<li>Judge for Maine State Science Fair, Summer, 1977.<\/li>\n<li>Visitor, Center for Radiophysics and Astrophysics, Cornell University, Summer, 1977.<\/li>\n<li>Traveled to Kansas State University to continue research with Professor C. M. Sorensen, Summer, 1978.<\/li>\n<li>Traveled to the University of Colorado to continue research with Professor J.R. Taylor, Summer, 1978; Winter, 1978; Summer, 1979.<\/li>\n<li>Traveled to the University of South Carolina to work with Professor Y. Aharonov, Summer, 1979; Summer, 1980.<\/li>\n<li>Accident Reconstruction for the Office of Wilkinson and Assoc., South Paris, Maine, Spring, 1979.<\/li>\n<li>Co-organizer of the Meeting of the New England Section of the American Physical Society, September, 1980.<\/li>\n<li>Teacher, Maine Summer Humanities Program for Gifted and Talented Rural High School Students, Bowdoin College, June-July, 1981; July-August, 1982<\/li>\n<li>Accident Reconstruction for the Office of John Hamilton, and for the Office of the District Attorney, Fall 1981-present.<\/li>\n<li>Referee for Foundations of Physics for papers on the Aharonov-Bohm Effect, 1979-present.<\/li>\n<li>Two 8 \u00bd x 11 Color Photographs, published in Paul Reps: Letters to a Friend, Stillgate Publishers (S Acworth, New Hampshire), 1981.<\/li>\n<li>Guest Teacher, 4-H Group for Gifted and Talented Grade School Children, Auburn, Spring, 1982.<\/li>\n<li>Accident Reconstruction for the Office of Berman, Simmons and Goldberg, Lewiston, Maine, 1984.<\/li>\n<li>Accident Reconstruction for the Androscoggin County Office of the District Attorney, 1988.<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Editor, American Journal of Physics, May 1988-May, 1990.<\/li>\n<li>Accident Reconstruction for the Office of Pat Winburn, Manchester Center, VT, 1991-1992.<\/li>\n<li>Accident Reconstruction for the Office of Burres, Fidnick and Sheppard, Amherst, MA 1989-1991.<\/li>\n<li>Referee for papers submitted to Foundations of Physics, Physical Review A, Canadian Journal of Physics, and the American Journal of Physics (ongoing).<\/li>\n<li>Accident Reconstruction for the office of Wheeler &amp; Arey, Waterville, ME, 1996 \u2013 present.<\/li>\n<li>Textbook Reviewer for Prentice-Hall, Brooks-Cole, Wadsworth, Springer-Verlag Pub.<\/li>\n<li>Accident Reconstruction for the Office of V. 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