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in Solid State Physics

The enclosed documents were submitted to the Faculty

of Science for their consideration at the Faculty Meeting

November 17th, 1966. In this meeting, the Faculty went on record

as supporting the Department of Physics in this venture and asking

Senate to likewise approve and support this idea of a Summer School

in Solid State Physics.

The Faculty vote on its recommendation was unanimous,

and the three Department Heads present explicitly stated their

endorsement and support for the request of the Department of Physics.

To eliminate any misunderstanding, it should be made quite

clear that this Summer School is not part of the University offering

as far as courses or any such things are

. concerned, that the parti-

cipants are expected to come from around the world, and that the

Summer School will, of course, be accessible to all those graduate

students of the University who have an interest in the topics to be

dealt with.

I hereby ask Senate to give its support to the Faculty

recommendation.

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K. E..

Rieckhoff,

Acting Dean of Science

FACULTY OF SCIENCF

Proposed Summer School in Solid State Physics

With reference to the attached ieter (Document 2-E) the

President has suggested to Dr. Macri ng that, while he considers

this to be an excellent idea, it would be good to obtain the support

of the Faculty of Science and of Senate for the idea before getting

the Board to sign on.

On the request of Dr. Haering, I an-i

presenting his .idea to the Faculty with the request to bring the matter

before Senate for Senate's endorsemert and support.

KER:inc

K. E. Rieckhoff,

Chairman

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Dear President:

I would like to inform you of our dçpartment's

plan to establisha

continuing

two week summer school

in Solid State Physics associated with Simon Fraser

University. The following is a summary of our present

thinking

on this 'subject:

(1)' The proposed summer school would deal with

selected topics in Solid State

Physics

and

would be organized by members of the SFU

Physics Department. The summer school would

invite four of the world's foremost Solid

State Physicists to deliver a series of

lectures to participants selected from all

parts of the world. About thirty participants

are envisaged.

(2)

The

summer school would be held at the Cheakamus

Inn

at Alta Lake, B. C.

(3)

The budget for the summer school would be

the vicinity of $20,000 to $25

000. This

amount would cover travel and living expenses

plus honoraria for speakers ($7,000) plus

living

expenses and partial travel expenses

for participants.

(4)

The above funds would be raised by me from

such sources as NATO, NRC, AECL, NSF.

(5)

The proceedings of the summer school would be

published annually in book form.

The above terms conform very closely to those for

the summer school in Quantum Optics which I recently

arranged

behalf of the Canadian Association of

Physicists. The idea for an SP

J Summer School in Solid

State Physics came to me during somediscussions with

Professor Alves Martins, a member of the NATO

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Council. Professor Martins visited Vancouver in order

to inspect the NATO sponsored summer school of which I

was the director. He was evidently favourably :impressed.

In any case he urged me to organize another'smmer school

and to ask for more money (I asked for $6,000 on behalf

of CAP and received this amount).

There can be no doubt that the iniiation of such a

program would have a tremendous impact on or Solid State

program at SFU. Furthermore, the annual publication

arising from such a summer school could have imortant

implications on our library acquisition program, since

such a publication has considerable bargaining" power.

Our Physics Department is wholey in favour of such a venture

and I am confident that such

a summer school would be a huge

success.

Now comes the hitch. In order to attract speakers

of the caliber we have in mind, it is necessary to make

arrangements well in advance of the summer school date.

Last year, for instance, I obtained my first acceptances

nine months in advance. The difficulty is that the outcome

of 'NRC and NATO irants will, of course, not be known until

the spring of 197. I would therefore like to ask whether

you, on behalf of Simon Fraser University, would be prepared

to support this venture in the event that the full amount

of financial support cannot be obtained from the various

agencies above. Your support of' this venture would in all

likelihood be needed only during the first critical year of

the operation of our summer school since I will make it quite

plain to the granting agencies that this is a continuing

program and that our request will be an annual one;

I realize that this is an extremely critical budget

year for Simon Fraser University and that the above request

might very well be construed as a frill on our program.

However, I am reasonably certain that no SFU funds will, in

fact, be required to mount this program. The funds involved

would represent a research income of our department over and

above any which was declared in the departmental budget. I

personally would prefer to keep the budet appiicatio in its

present form during this first year of the operation of the

summer school although the summer school might well appear in

subsequent budgets. What we really require for this year

is your assurance that the university's contingency fund

would come to our help if the anticipated revenues from grant-

ing agencies fall short of our requirements.

Yours sincerely

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R. R. Haering, Head

Department of Physics

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