JUAN G. ROEDERER

Preparing a lecture on music perception at the
Great Organ of St. Johannis in Göttingen, Germany, October 2009

Address:

Juan G. Roederer

Geophysical Institute - University of Alaska Fairbanks

903 Koyukuk Dr; PO Box 757320

Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320; USA
Short biography

Phone: 1-907-474-5099; Fax: 1-907-474-7290

Email: jgr@gi.alaska.edu
Long biography

LATEST PAPER

Valeria Troitskaya and East-West Scientific Cooperation during the Cold War: A Personal Account. Contribution to a book on Valeria Troitskaya, to be published in Moscow (in Russian), edited by Katherine Heirtzler, daughter of Valeria Troitskaya (click here).

NEW SUBJECT

"Bad Habits" in Quantum Mechanics, in the Proceedings of the AAAI Fall2010 Symposia. click here.

LATEST BOOK

Juan G. Roederer, Physics and Psychophysics of Music, 4th edition, Springer-Verlag, New York (2008).
For the text of the introductory first chapter, click here.

BOOK ON INFORMATION

Juan G. Roederer, Information and its Role in Nature, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (May 2005).
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Readers are encouraged to download the author-prepared (and regularly updated) list of errata.
For a comprehensive 6-page summary, intended mainly for physicists, click here.

HISTORY

My tenure as the Director of the Geophysical Institute (1977-1986), a brief personal account
Oral history interview on my tenure as Vice Chairman and Chairman of the US Arctic Research Commission (1985-1991)
Early cosmic ray research in Argentina (1949-1959), a personal account (Physics Today, January 2003, available at www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-1/p32.html . For a Spanish version click here)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Neurobiological Foundations of Religion and Science, in Seckbach and Gordon, eds., Divine Action and Natural Selection: Questions of Science and Faith in Biological Evolution, World Scientific Publ. Co. (2008).
Biological Conditions for the Emergence of Musical Arts in a Civilization of Intelligent Beings (Chapter in Between Worlds, D. Vakoch ed., MIT Press, 2008)
When and where did information appear first in the Universe? (Chapter in Bioinformatics, J. Seckbach, ed., Kluwer Academic Publ., 2004)
On the Concept of Information and its Role in Nature (Entropy, Vol. 5, 1-31 (2003), available at www.mdpi.net/entropy/papers/e5010003.pdf)
On the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Physics Today, September 2001).
Communicating with the Public, Politicians and the Media (published by COSTED)

FUNNY PICTURES

The many faces of a physicist (including famous pictures from Institute party skits)

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Address:
Juan G. Roederer
Geophysical Institute - University of Alaska Fairbanks
903 Koyukuk Dr; PO Box 757320
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320; USA	Short biography

Phone: 1-907-474-5099; Fax: 1-907-474-7290
Email: jgr@gi.alaska.edu	Long biography