JUAN G. ROEDERER

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

NEW!!

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.

FINALLY TO COME IN 2008!!!

Juan G. Roederer, Physics and Psychophysics of Music, 4th edition, Springer-Verlag, New York (in preparation).
For new text of Introduction, 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:

When and where did information appear first in the Universe? (Chapter in Bioinformatics, J. Seckbach, ed., Kluwer Academic Publ., 2004)
Biological Conditions for the Emergence of Musical Arts in a Civilization of Intelligent Beings (to appear in Between Worlds, D. Vakoch ed., MIT Press, 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