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Gravitational collapse
Quasi‐stellar radio sources, a subject of intense interest since their discovery in 1960, were the central theme of the International Symposium on Gravitational Collapse and Other Topics in Relativistic Astrophysics, held in Dallas, December 16 to 18, 1963. During the meeting, at the request of L. V. Berkner, it was renamed the John F. Kennedy Memorial Symposium. The author of this review of the discussions is a physicist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University.
COPFIC report on teaching physics in the four‐year colleges
…a summary of the results of a recent study carried out by the AAPT‐AIP Committee on Physics Faculties in Colleges, otherwise known as COPFIC, with specific reference to problems affecting the preparation of students for graduate‐level work in physics
AIP annual report 1963
This review of activities of the past year has been prepared by the director of the American Institute of Physics and accepted by the AIP Governing Board as the Institute's annual report to its member organizations.