Matthusen, Jeff Snyder and Ryan Smith, UW Department of Music Ryan Smith, Jeff Snyder, and Paula Matthusen are three composition students applying concepts of Chaos and Complexity Theory to their compositional and performative processes. The three composers will briefly discuss their current works and how they are borrowing these theories. Performances of current works are also being arranged. 2000 Physics and Medicine Get Together to Cure Brain Cancer Gelsomina De Stasio, UW Department of Physics Malignant brain cancers are expected to affect 35,239 of the 275,306,000 people in the United States in 2000, according to the year 2000 census. These malignant cancers are resistant to currently available therapies, and stimulate the search for new therapeutic strategies, such as neutron capture or radiotherapy, enhanced by a locally accumulated sensitizer.
Gadolinium is a candidate radiosensitizer and neutron capture agent.
We must find a Gd compound that targets all and only cancer cells, and accumulates in cell nuclei, before it can be suggested for clinical trials. Among the most recent results, we will present the micro-localization of gadolinium in glioblastoma cells in culture and tissue sections. These experiments demonstrate the need for close collaboration of physicists and medical doctors to address the elusive goal of curing malignant brain cancers. A brief overview of other experiments will include the microchemistry of bacteria, rocks, colossal magnetoresistive materials, tribology and archaeology specimens, demonstrating the interdisciplinarity of our approach. The Earth and other planets, the Sun and other stars, and perhaps even the Galaxy have magnetic fields generated by complex turbulent flows of conducting fluids or plasmas.