For the last few years, physicists have been studying a new phenomenon on the US West Coast and Canada. Showing up in surprising ways, usually after conference dinners, this phenomenon is called Lynda Williams, the Physics Chanteuse, and she definitely goes beyond the Standard Model. Lynda has featured in prestigious publications like the New York Times, the Herald Tribune and the CERN Courier, and now she's coming to CERN to debut her new act, 'Maxwell's Equations'. Lynda's day job is teaching physics at the San Francisco State University, but by night she is transformed. At the 1997 Particle Accelerator Conference, she was Sally Bowles, belting out a most indiscreetly quantized version of Cabaret. And at the 44th Midwest Solid State Conference she was Marilyn Monroe, tickling delegates' diodes with 'Carbon is a Girl's Best Friend.' Who will she be at CERN on 6 August at 18:00 in the main auditorium? You'll have to come along to find out, but the programme for an hour's worth of physics entertainment kicks off with the World première of 'Maxwell's Equations', a karaoke style sing-a-long song that derives Maxwell's Equations of Electromagnetism in both integral and differential form. Sung in gaussian units, Maxwell's Equations features Gauss's Laws, Ampère's Law, Faraday's Law and the Wave and Continuity Equations. 'Maxwell's Equations' is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. But the finale will be a song-fest of Lynda's greatest hits including 'Supersymmetry', 'Big Bang', 'Love Boson', 'Hi Tek Girl', 'Quark Quark', and 'Mien SM'. And who knows, there may be one or two new numbers written specially to mark the occasion of Lynda's first visit to CERN. Don't miss it! - James Gillies (James.Gillies@cern.ch )
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