PUBLICATIONS AND MEETING REPORTS PAPERS PRESENTED IAU/URSI Symposium on Radio Astronomy and Galactic Systems, Netherlands Noorwijk, The August 24-September 1, 1966 A. E. E. Rogers and A. H. of Cassiopeia A Barrett, Anomalous OH Absorption in the Direction Symposium "Higher Nervous Activity, " Spain September 5-9, W. S. IV World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, 1966 McCulloch, Cybernetic Problems of Learning (invited) XVth General Assembly of the International Scientific Radio Union, Munich, Germany September 5-15, A. H. 1966 Barrett, Unique Radio Frequencies from Space Second International Biophysics Congress, Vienna, Austria September 7-9, 1966 W. A. Rosenblith, The Philosophy of Educating Biophysicists (invited) Molecular Spectroscopy Symposium, Ohio State University, Columbus, September 6-10, T. F. Ohio 1966 McNelly and C. H. Perry, The Infrared and Raman Spectra of KTaO 3 J. F. Reintjes, Jr. and C. H. Perry, Low-Frequency Vibrations in Ammonium Chloride and Ammonium Bromide E. F. Young and C. H. Perry, Infrared Transmission Spectra of Single Crystals of Cubic Perovskite Fluorides Brookhaven Conference on Atomic Beams and Nuclear Moments, California, Berkeley September 12-14, University of 1966 K. W. Billman, J. G. King, and S. in Beam Resonance Experiments G. Kukolich, Square-Wave Phase Modulation S. G. Kukolich, Measurement of Hyperfine Structure in the Ammonia Inversion Spectrum with a Two-Cavity Maser EUCHEM Far Infrared Conference, September 12-16, C. H. Culham Laboratory, Culham, Abingdon, England 1966 Perry and T. F. McNelly, Ferroelectric "Soft" Mode in KTaO 3 (invited) University of Grenoble Seminars, Grenoble, September 18-21, France 1966 F. Bitter, Histoire des Champs Magn6tiques Intenses, et de Leurs Contributions a la Physique (invited) xvi MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) National Electronics Conference, Chicago, Illinois October 3-8, 1966 J. Andersen and H. B. Lee, Realizability Conditions for the Driving-Point Impedances of RLCT Networks in Which the Reactances Exhibit Semiuniform Loss T. S. Huang, Digital Picture Coding American EEG Society Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado October 6-9, 1966 J. S. Barlow and Thelma Estrin, Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Rhythmic Afterwaves (Afterdischarge) to Flashing in Man Thirty-first Convention, Audio Engineering Society, New York October 10-14, 1966 G. C. Maling, Jr. and U. Ingard, Electrothermal Response of Lead-ZirconateTitanate Fourth Canadian Symposium on Electronics, Montreal, Quebec October 13-14, 1966 D. Kleppner and R. F. C. Vessot, Communications System for Spacecraft Relativity Experiments (invited) Optical Society of America Meeting, San Francisco, California October 19-21, 1966 C. H. Perry, Solid State Spectroscopy in the Far Infrared (invited) Conference on Photographic Interaction between Radiation and Matter, Washington, D.C. October 26-29, 1966 M. U. Palma, The Fate of Holes Photoliberated within the Volume of Silver Halide Crystals Council of American Science Writers, Gatlinburg, Tennessee October 30-November 2, 1966 D. Kleppner, Time and the Ultimate Limit to Precision NEREM-66, Boston, Massachusetts November 2-4, 1966 S. J. Mason, Reading Machine Studies for Sensory Aids Seventy-second Meeting Acoustical Society of America, Los Angeles, California November 2-5, 1966 W. L. Henke, Dynamic Articulatory Model of Speech Production U. Ingard and M. Schulz, Acoustic Amplification in a Plasma M. Schulz and U. Ingard, Lateral Acoustic Instability xvii MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) 1966 Thermionic Conversion Specialist Conference, Houston, Texas November 2-5, 1966 W. Engelmaier and R. E. Stickney, Thermionic and Adsorption Characteristics of Monocrystalline and Polycrystalline Tungsten Filaments Exposed to Oxygen D. R. Wilkins and E. P. Gyftopoulos, Transport Theory for Low-Energy Plasmas with Applications to Thermionic Converters Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts November 2-5, 1966 R. R. Bartsch, Characteristics of the Beam-Plasma Discharge Afterglow S. R. J. Brueck and A. Bers, Acoustic Instabilities in a Semiconductor in Parallel Applied Electric and Magnetic Fields J. F. Clarke and L. M. Lidsky, Nonclassical Diffusion Produced by a Resonant Helical Magnetic Field Perturbation J. A. Davis, A Sheet Model of the Beam-Plasma Interaction G. Lampis, Afterglow Measurements of a Laser-Produced Helium Plasma L. M. Lidsky, J. F. Clarke, and D. J. Rose, Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Velocity Diffusion in a Nonadiabatic Injection System M. A. Lieberman and A. Bers, Ion Oscillations Excited by Electron Beam-Plasma Interactions M. A. Lieberman and A. Bers, Quasi-linear Theory of Narrow-Bandwidth Convective Instabilities W. H. Manheimer and T. H. Dupree, Particle Diffusion and the Nonlinear Landau Damping of Waves R. Parker and A. Bers, Excitation and Propagation of Ion-Cyclotron Waves in a Bounded Plasma D. J. Rose and J. C. Woo, Physical Model of a Plasma Column Universal Instability H. M. Schneider, A Charge Sheet Model for Plasma Slab Oscillations J. C. Woo and D. J. Rose, Generation of a Quiescent High-Density Arc Plasma B. L. Wright, Relaxation Rates from the Observed Time Dependence of the Electron Velocity Distribution Function Plasma Physics Seminar, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California November 4, 1966 M. Schulz, Acoustic Instabilities in a Plasma (invited) Physics Department Colloquium, Lowell Technical Institute, .Lowell, Massachusetts November 16, 1966 J. G. King, Searching for Nothing, or Null Experiments I Have Known (invited) Argonne National Laboratory Symposium on Vacuum Technology, Argonne, Illinois November 17, 1966 F. Rosebury, Vacuum Equipment - Materials of Construction (invited) xviii MEETING PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) Eastern EEG Association Meeting, New York November 28-30, 1966 J. S. Barlow and R. A. Di Perna, A High-Speed Multichannel Analog System for Reconversion of EEG Inked Traces to Their Electrical Forms JOURNAL PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (Reprints, if available, may be obtained from the Document Room, 26-327, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139; ) G. D. Blum and R. Weiss, An Experimental Test of the Freundlich Red Shift Hypothesis (Phys. Rev.) D. L. Bobroff and H. A. Haus, Impulse Response of Active Coupled Wave Systems (J. Appl. Phys.) J. D. Bruce, Review of "Matrices and Linear Transformations" by Charles G. Cullen (Proc. IEEE) N. I. Durlach, On Application of the EC Model to Interaural JND's (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.) M. Eden, On a Relation between Labelled Graphs and Permutations (J. Combinatorial Theory) G. Fiocco, On the Production of Ionization by Micrometeorites (J. Geophys. Res.) M. Halle and S. J. Keyser, Chaucer and the Study of Prosody (College English) R. P. V. Kiparsky, A Phonological Rule of Greek (Glotta) G. H. Matthews, Two-Way Languages (Inform. Contr.) C. H. Perry and T. F. McNelly, Ferroelectric "Soft" Mode in KTaO 3 (Phys. Rev. ) R. R. Pfeiffer, Anteroventral Cochlear Nucleus : Waveforms of Extracellularly Recorded Spike Potentials (Science) A. E. E. Rogers, J. M. Moran, P. P. Crowther, B. F. Burke, M. L. Meeks, J. A. Ball, and G. M. Hyde, The Position and Angular Extent of OH Emission Associated with the H II Regions W3, W24, W49, and NGC 6334 (Astrophys. J. ) C. E. Shannon, R. G. Gallager, and E. R. Berlekamp, Lower Bounds to Error Probability for Coding on Discrete Memoryless Channels (Inform. Contr. ) C. G. Shull, K. W. Billman, and F. A. Wedgwood, Experimental Limit for the Neutron Charge (Phys. Rev.) M. H. Schulz III, Debye Shielding and Virtual Plasma Oscillations (Am. J. Phys.) R. E. Stickney, R. F. Keating, S. Yamamoto, and W. J. Hastings, Angular Distribution of Flow from Orifices and Tubes at High Knudsen Numbers (J. Vac. Sci. Tech.) M. Takata, W. F. Pickard, J. Y. Lettvin, and J. W. Moore, Ionic Conductance Changes in Lobster Axon Membrane when Lanthanum Is Substituted for Calcium (J. Gen. Physiol. ) xix JOURNAL PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (continued) P. D. Wall, The Laminar Organization of Dorsal Horn and Effects of Descending Impulses (Abstract) (J. Physiol. ) P. D. Wall, The Mechanisms of General Anesthesia (Anesthesiology) P. D. Wall and W. H. Sweet, Temporary Abolition of Pain in Man (Science) ,D. R. Wilkins and E. P. Gyftopoulos, Theory of Thermionic Converter ExtinguishedMode Operation with Applications to Converter Diagnostics (J. Appl. Phys.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION D. B. Geselowitz, Green's Theorem and Potentials in a Volume Conductor (IEEE Trans. (BME)) R. Golub and G. L. Guttrich, Level Shifts Due to the Confinement of an Atom by Conducting Walls (Phys. Letters) jG. L. Guttrich and K. W. Billman, A Search for a Shift in the Transverse Electromagnetic Mass of the Electron (Phys. Letters) U. Ingard and H. Lewenstein, Flexible-Membrane Fabry-Perot Interferometer (Am. J. Phys.) G. C. Maling, Jr. and U. Ingard, Electric Response of Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics to Temperature Fluctuations (Rev. Sci. Instr.) M. Schulz, Possibility of Ion-Wave Amplification in a Plasma (Phys. Fluids) TECHNICAL REPORTS PUBLISHED (These and previously published technical reports, if available, may be obtained from the Document Room, 26-327, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.) 453 Herman J. Pauwels, Noise Sources Describing Quantum Effects in the Laser Oscillator 454 J. Charles Ingraham and Sanborn C. Brown, Plasma Diagnostics 455 Robert D. Hall and Roger Greenwood Mark, Acoustically Evoked Potentials in the Rat during Conditioning SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS J. Andersen and H. B. Lee, Realizability Conditions for the Driving-Point Impedances of RLCT Networks in Which the Reactances Exhibit Semiuniform Loss (Proc. National Electronics Conference, Vol. 22) A. B. Baggeroer, Maximum a posteriori Interval Estimation (WESCON/66 Technical Session 7, Paper 7/3) - SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS (continued) T. S. Huang, Digital Picture Coding (Proc. National Electronics Conference, Vol. 22) R. M. Logan, J. C. Keck, and R. E. Stickney, Simple Classical Model for the Scattering of Gas Atoms from a Solid Surface. II. Additional Analyses and Comparisons (Rarefied Gas Dynamics Fifth Symposium, Academic Press, New York, 1967, pp. 49-66) D. L. Snyder, A Theory of Continuous Nonlinear Recursive Filtering with Application to Communication and Radar Problems (WESCON/66 Technical Session 7, Paper 7/2) M. W. P. Strandberg, Spectroscopy at Microwave Frequencies (NASA Special Publication, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. ) H. L. Van Trees, Detection and Continuous Estimation : The Fundamental Role of the Optimum Realizable Linear Filter (WESCON/66 Technical Session 7, Paper 7/1) xxi