Calendar: 1961-1962 Page 427

xlvi ANNUAL REPORT Queen Mary College He and Dr Wilkinson attended the Gordon Conference in the United States in August 1960 and presented papers on the infra-red absorption and reflection of crystals The spectroscopy group presented four papers at the European Molecular Spectroscopy Symposium at Bologna in September 1959 and two papers at the Symposia of the Royal Society in November 1959 and May 1960 Professor Domb attended the international conference on Many Body Problems at Utrecht in June and also the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics meeting of the Commission on Thermo- dynamics During the summer vacation he acted as consultant to the Mathematics Division of the National Physical Laboratory Professor Champion lectured to the Institute of Physics London Branch on The electronic properties of diamonds He and Dr Dean gave papers to the Diamond Conference at Reading and with Dr Dean and Mr Lightowlers he gave paper at the Crystal Defects and Luminescence Conference at Turin on Defects in diamonds and luminescence Dr Chapman presented report part of the British National Report to the XIHth General Assembly of the International Scientific Radio Union held in London on the atmospherics research group's investiga- tions He was moderator and chairman for Commission IV sessions on the properties of natural radio noise He was invited to serve on the Pharmaceutical Society's Board of Examiners as Chairman of the Physics panel Dr MacKay visited the United States in 1959 to lecture at the Symposium on Principles of Sensory Communication and in 1960 to lecture at the California Institute of Technology Symposium on Cerebral Systems He lectured also at New York University College of Medicine the National Bureau of Standards Washington and the University of Illinois He and Mr Wilson presented joint paper to the Experimental Psychology Society Dr Burge and Mr Giles presented report at the Inter- national Conference on Nuclear Structure in Kingston Ontario in September 1960 Dr Μ Fisher gave seminars at the University of Reading and the National Physical Laboratory on Random Walks at Imperial College and the Brunei College of Technology on Analogue solution of integral equations and at the University of Bristol on Polymer configura- tion and The Ising model He was Visiting Physicist during July at Brookhaven National Laboratory Associated Universities Inc in New York Dr Wilkins read paper in Stockholm in September 1960 at the first joint meeting of the International Union of Biology and of Biochemistry Various members of the Biophysics Research Unit attended the con- ference in Cambridge of the International Union of Crystallography where several papers were presented Dr Burge and Dr Silvester presented paper at the