Stephen Harker's Home Page (Netspace)

1 Introduction
    1.1 Other documents
2 Useful Links
    2.1 ADFA
    2.2 Monash
    2.3 TU Delft
    2.4 Physics
        2.4.1 Other publishers
        2.4.2 Some Facilities and Organisations
        2.4.3 Useful Software
        2.4.4 Equipment Suppliers
    2.5 Australian
        2.5.1 Bushwalking
    2.6 The Netherlands
    2.7 Travel
    2.8 Books
    2.9 Photography
3 World War One Aviation
4 L^AT_EX
    4.1 TEX related
    4.2 Generally useful L^AT_EX styles
    4.3 Physics related L^AT_EX styles
5 About this page

1 Introduction

I completed both BSc and MSc degrees at the former Department of Physics, now School of Physics, Monash University and a PhD with Glen Stewart at the former School of Physics, now part of PEMS, ADFA (academically part of UNSW). I worked as a postdoc at ADFA with Don Chaplin and Wayne Hutchison. In 2000 I worked in the Netherlands as a postdoc with Paul Gubbens at IRI.

As a matter of military interest I have scans of a small selection of photographs taken by my father during the Korean War while serving with 77 Squadron RAAF as Engineering Officer at Kimpo and Seoul in Korea. Additionally some taken in Japan at Iwakuni, Kintai and Tokyo.

1.1 Other documents

Some useful documents in, mainly in pdf format. My own documents were created from L^AT_EX source using either pdflatex or dvips plus ps2pdf (part of ghostscript). The version of pdflatex I used is that which came with the Texlive CD-ROM. Some documents are linked off site.

The Mössbauer nomenclature guide as recommended by ICAME (1993).
The American Physical Society (APS) style guide.
The Institute of Physics (IoP) style guide for manuscript preparation.
The NIST (US) style guide for physics.
A NASA guide titled Clarity in Technical Reporting.

2 Useful Links

This shows a collection of sites that I have found interesting or useful.

2.1 ADFA

ADFA home page (UNSW).
pems page.
Library page.
WebMail page.
ICTS page.
My previous IRI Home page.

2.2 Monash

Monash University Home page.
Physics Home page.
The Monash library Home page.
The Monash ITS home page.

2.3 TU Delft

The TU Delft Home page.
The Radiation Radionuclides & Reactors (science part of former IRI) Home page.
The TU Delft Library Home page.

2.4 Physics

ACT branch of the Australian Institute of Physics.
The Institute of Physics.
The American Physical Society.
The American Institute of Physics.
The International Union of Crystallography.
International Centre for Diffraction Data.
Physics World (IOP).
A guide for manuscript preparation to APS journals.
A guide author services for info on manuscript preparation for IoP journals.
The AIP journal style guide.
General instructions for submission to EuroPhysics Journal are given on the EDP server.
Instructions for authors for IEEE journals.
Australian e-print archive au.arXiv.org mirror.

2.4.1 Other publishers

Elsevier publishers and their Physics entry point.
Springer publishers.
Taylor and Francis publishers.

2.4.2 Some Facilities and Organisations

ANSTO operates Australia's research reactor and some accelerators, see also the Australian Neutron Beam Users Group.
Argonne and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in the US.
University of Bayreuth.
The CSIRO is Australia's overall governmental scientific research organisation, I don't understand their current structure (and it seems to change regularly). The Telecommunications & Industrial Physics unit is one relevant group.
The DSTO is Australia's Defence Science agency.
The Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin.
The Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble.
The Mössbauer Effect Data Center.
Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland and their muon facility.
Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK and the ISIS facility.
TRIUMF in Canada.

2.4.3 Useful Software

The following programs are useful and either free or shareware.

Another page of interest for crystallography related programs.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) publishes many useful tools. The AARNET site is a major Australian mirror of these and many other programs.
The ftnchek program performs syntax checking of Fortran programs (still F77).
The Fortran FAQ site lists useful Fortran related urls and answers questions. See also the Fortran library.
For a GPL'd Fortran (F77) compiler see g77 (or gcc), there are now two projects for a GPL'd F95 compiler: g95 and gfortran (see also this wiki).
The NIST, netlib and statlib sites have useful routines and resources.
Ghostscript and related tools deal with PostScript. See also SourceForge. It can also be obtained from CTAN mirrors (see section 4.1) or this Australian mirror.
The gnuplot plotting package (sourceforge). The pgplot, plplot and psplot graphics subroutine libraries.
The ImageMagick program allows graphic format changes. Australian mirror AARNET. The Gimp is a general graphics image manipulation program.
The R statistics and graphics program (Australian mirror) is a GPL'd equivalent of S+. A web link to the documentation of the latest version is given here.
General Linux sites: linux.org and linux.com. An Australian general site. See also Security and documentation (Australian mirror) and Printing. Some distributions: Redhat, Debian, Mandrake, S.U.S.E and Yellow Dog (PPC). Some Australian suppliers: Linux System Labs. See also Linux Australia. The Australian AARNET site mirrors many of the distributions.
Maxima is a GPL'd symbolic maths program (for more detail see sourceforge) somewhat similar to the commercial Maple and Mathematica. Australian mirror.
Octave is a GPL'd program very similar to the commercial Matlab.
The Persistence of Vision (povray) ray tracing program. Australian mirror AARNET.
The kermit communications program.
The xfig and jfig drawing programs.

2.4.4 Equipment Suppliers

Detectors: Bicron, Canberra and Ortec.
Chemicals: Goodfellow, Merck, Selby, Sigma-Aldrich. A buyers guide is ChemSources.
Johnson Matthey for metals.
Oxford Instruments for cryogenics.
Mössbauer: Wissel
Vacuum systems: Alcatel, Balzers, BOC Edwards and Javac.
Some Australian suppliers/agents: Alphatech, Coherent Scientific, Difftech, John Morris, Lastek, Oxford Scientific, Sietronics and Stanton Scientific.

2.5 Australian

Some useful/interesting sites in Australia.

Australian Federal government entry point. Some highlights: the Australian Bureau of Statistics has some useful facts, particularly in the Statistical Profile. Geoscience Australia has mapping information. Bureau of Meteorology has climate and weather information.
Australian WhitePages and YellowPages telephone directories. See Australia Post for postal information.
The Age newspaper in Melbourne.
The Australian and other Murdoch group news.
The Canberra Times is the Canberra local newspaper.
The ABC is the national broadcaster, this is their news.
The SBS is Australia's multicultural broadcaster, this is their news.
The National Trust ACT, NSW and Victoria.
Australian plants, birds, mammals, marsupials, venomous creatures (snakebite), animals, and wildlife in general.
The Duyfken replica project, a replica of the first Dutch ship known to have visited Australia.
The shipwreck (including Batavia) galleries at the West Australian Maritime Museum. A replica built in the Netherlands was brought to Sydney and used as the Netherlands Olympics team headquarters (2000). Maritime Museums in Sydney and South Australia.
Some useful ACT links: City Search, restaurants, ACT government, bus service, tourism, Canberra eGuide, War Memorial, National Gallery, ABC Canberra and nearby towns.
Some useful Victorian links: City Search, Travel and Tourism, Public transport, Visit Victoria, ABC Melbourne and Tourism Victoria.
Some military museums in Australia: Moorabbin, Temora, South Australia, the RAAF museum, Army Corps Museums, the Puckapunyal tank museum and the Flying boat museum. Another site with a more comprehensive list.

2.5.1 Bushwalking

My brother's home page contains information and links about cross-country skiing and bushwalking in Australia.
Bushwalking in Australia, ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. The Internet Archive copy of Murray Dow's website of his old Canberra Times articles of bushwalks near Canberra.
Some good walking/photo sites Geoff Wise, John Chapman, Allan Mikkelsen, Dave Noble and John Evans.
Some equipment manufacturers/sellers: Bogong, Jurkiewicz, Mont, Mountain Designs, Paddy Pallins, Snowgum, Wilderness Equipment and One Planet. See also the magazine Wild.
National parks in ACT, NSW, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and West Australia. See also this site.
For maps see the Melbourne Map Centre and Geoscience Australia.

2.6 The Netherlands

The VVV site has some useful information.
Guide to Hotels in the Netherlands.
Some sites to visit in South Holland.
Some places to visit in Delft.
Walking in the Netherlands.

2.7 Travel

The Rough Guides web site.
The Lonely Planet web site.
The Excite travel web site.
The Travelmate site has useful information for touring in Australia.
The only walking I managed while in Europe was day walking along Hadrian's Wall. I based myself at Haltwhistle and day walked to sites such as Vindolanda in a series of daywalks. Some galleries of pictures are Carlisle and the wall.

2.8 Books

Amazon and Amazon (UK).
Blackwells.
BookFinder.
The Internet Bookshop.
Evelyn Leeper's lists of bookstores worldwide.
McGill's bookshop in Melbourne.
SlowGlass bookshop in Melbourne.
Technical bookshop in Melbourne.

2.9 Photography

I use an old manual Minolta SRT-101 with the Minolta 28 mm f/2.8, 35-70 mm f/3.5, 58 mm f/1.4, 135 mm f/3.5, 200 mm f/4 and 300 mm f/4.5 lenses plus the Vivitar extension tube set. See the Minolta User's Group (MUG: nl, us) for more information. See also PhotoZone, photo.net and Tony Spadaro.

Initially I had my slides and negatives digitised commercially. More recently I bought an ACER (now BENQ) ScanWit 2720S film scanner. I use Ed Hamrick's Vuescan which is much superior to the supplied scanning software. A useful site for information on scanning is Wayne Fulton's Scantips.

3 World War One Aviation

Some performance data for WWI aircraft taken from various sources is given in this document. These can be compared, for the British, with an article of unknown provenance and a 1920 Flight table. Some summaries of British aircraft test results of which the first fourteen are of interest for WWI (14 MB, 64 pages). A STAe test report on a captured Fokker DVII is of interest. The Cranfield Aerade site includes some translated German WWI documents through the Cranfield searchable NACA archive and some ACA/ARC technical reports. A searchable archive of scanned images of Flight Magazine.

Some notes I took when reading Hooton's War over the Trenches; also available in a spreadsheet format.

4 L^AT_EX

I have been a satisfied user of T_EX and friends since the late 1980's, particularly L^AT_EX. L^AT_EX is a set of macros based on the T_EX typesetting language, both of which are available in free, shareware and commercial versions for most platforms (e.g. unix, VMS, DOS, Windows and Mac). Most of these implementations are described on the T_EX Users Group homepage (see section 4.1). I wrote a local thesis style adfathesis.cls which can also be obtained from Comprehensive T_EX Archive Network (CTAN) sites and mirrors, in particular try the UNSW CTAN mirror (see section 4.1). Another style that may be useful locally is a modification of the standard letter class to have a letterhead that is a reasonable approximation to the ADFA letterhead (we don't have the Optima font on the Physics computer). This is phsletter.cls with it's options fax and memo. This class may be modified to suit other departments and may be obtained from phsletter.zip,

4.1 T_EX related

Some useful T_EX and L^AT_EX related links are given below.

The T_EX Users Group (TUG).
A T_EX advocacy article and this site for other useful introductory material.
The Comprehensive T_EX Archive Network (CTAN) has at least two mirrors in Australia: AARNET and UNSW.
Catalogue to the UNSW or AARNET CTAN mirrors.
An FAQ for T_EX and L^AT_EX.
The Guide to Graphics and L^AT_EX by Keith Reckdahl, describes how to import graphics from various formats and use them in L^AT_EX is very useful.
The Short Guide to L^AT_EX by Tobias Oetiker et al., this is a very good document to some basics of using L^AT_EX.
A short introduction to setting up metafont to produce classic T_EX bitmap fonts. A list of Metafont links.
A beginners introduction to L^AT_EX.
A Short Math Guide for LaTeX is available from the AMS. See this page for other formats.
A guide to publishing L^AT_EX documents on the web.
A comprehensive list of L^AT_EX symbols.
A sampler of fonts available for T_EX.
A very out of date copy of Liam Quinn's list of Metafont based fonts.
International ispell is a T_EX aware spelling checker.
For dynamic computerised overheads see beamer, ifmslide, TeXPower, PPower4, pdfscreen or pdfslide. See also this overview.
For posters the a0poster package combines with the textpos package. See this site for an example. Here are a few alternative methods: one, two and three.
To convert documents to or from T_EX.

4.2 Generally useful L^AT_EX styles

amslatex package that helps achieve improved mathematics typesetting.
booktabs style for improved tables.
endfloat style which helps with archaic submissions requiring figures and tables at the end.
fancyhdr style which gives more control of the header.
ntgclass classes with more attractive layout than the default.
memoir another class with more attractive layout.
setspace style which is useful for double spaced text.

4.3 Physics related L^AT_EX styles

There are classes for electronic or manual submission of articles to a wide range of journals, in particular

the revtex for American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics journals,
the (or hrefhttp://ctan.unsw.edu.au/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle/ CTAN) elsarticle package for Elsevier journals,
the iopart for Institute of Physics journals,
the Europhysics Journal (EPJ) macros.
Class files for some IEEE publications.
Class files for some Springer journals.
Class files for the IUCr may be obtained by anonymous ftp.
The AASTeX macros for astronomers.
Generic information relating to T_EX and L^AT_EX macros for Astronomers.

Many other packages for various journals are available at CTAN ftp sites or from the journals themselves.

5 About this page

This page was written in L^AT_EX and converted to html using tth. If you don't see a greek alpha: α, then click here to see how to correct the problem in your browser.

Refereed publications

[1]: S. J. Harker and R. J. Pollard, J. Phys. Condens. Matter, 1, 8269 (1989).
[2]: S. J. Harker and R. J. Pollard, Nucl. Instrum. Methods B, 76, 61 (1992).
[3]: S. J. Harker, G. A. Stewart and A. V. J. Edge, Solid State Commun., 100, 307 (1996).
[4]: W. D. Hutchison, S. J. Harker, T. D. St Quintin, G. A. Stewart, A. Grayevsky and N. Kaplan, Solid State Commun., 104, 113 (1997).
[5]: S. J. Harker, J. M. Cadogan, G. A. Stewart, S. J. Kennedy, S. J. Campbell and A. V. J. Edge, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 183, 101 (1998).
[6]: G. A. Stewart, S. J. Harker and D. M. Pooke, J. Phys. Condens. Matter, 10, 8269 (1998).
[7]: W. D. Hutchison, M. J. Prandolini, S. J. Harker, D. H. Chaplin, G. J. Bowden and B. Bleaney, Hyperfine Interact., 120-121, 215 (1999), Proceedings of HFI '98.
[8]: W. D. Hutchison, S. J. Harker, D. H. Chaplin, T. Funk and E. Klein, Hyperfine Interact., 120-121, 193 (1999), Proceedings of HFI '98.
[9]: K. Nishimura, K. Mori, S. Ohya, S. Muto, W. D. Hutchison, S. J. Harker and D. H. Chaplin, Hyperfine Interact., 120-121, 203 (1999), Proceedings of HFI '98.
[10]: G. A. Stewart, S. J. Harker, M. Strecker and G. Wortmann, Phys. Rev. B, 61, 6220 (2000).
[11]: M. J. Prandolini, W. D. Hutchison, D. H. Chaplin, S. J. Harker, G. J. Bowden and B. Bleaney, Physica B, 284-288, 1712 (2000), Proceedings of LT22.
[12]: S. J. Harker, G. A. Stewart and P. C. M. Gubbens, J. Alloys. Comp., 307, 70 (2000).
[13]: P. C. M. Gubbens, B. D. van Dijk, A. M. Mulders, S. J. Harker and K. H. J. Buschow, J. Alloys. Comp., 319, 1 (2001).
[14]: G. A. Stewart, J. Zukrowski, P. C. M. Gubbens, R. van der Nol and S. J. Harker, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 236, 93 (2001).
[15]: K. Nishimura, W. D. Hutchison, D. H. Chaplin, S. J. Harker, K. Mori and S. Ohya, Hyperfine Interact., 133, 121 (2001), Proceedings of HFI 2000.
[16]: S. J. Harker, B. D. van Dijk, A. M. Mulders, P. C. M. Gubbens, G. A. Stewart, C. F. de Vroege and K. H. J. Buschow, J. Phys. Condens. Matter, 14, 2705 (2002).
[17]: G. A. Stewart, W. D. Hutchison, S. J. Harker and D. H. Chaplin, Phys. Rev. B, 66, 134415 (2002).
[18]: W. D. Hutchison, D. H. Chaplin, S. J. Harker and G. J. Bowden, Hyperfine Interact., 136/137, 307 (2001), Proceedings of HFI 2001.
[19]: A. M. Mulders, C. T. Kaiser, S. J. Harker, P. C. M. Gubbens, A. Amato, F. N. Gygax, A. Schenck, P. Dalmas de Réotier, A. Yaouanc, K. H. J. Buschow and A. A. Menovsky, Phys. Rev. B, 67, 014303 (2003).
[20]: T. J. Hicks, D. J. Goossens, S. J. Harker, A. M. Mulders and S. J. Kennedy, Physica B, 345, 86 (2004), Proceedings of the Polarised Neutrons and Synchrotrons X-rays for Magnetism (2003).
[21]: P. C. M. Gubbens, R. van der Nol, S. J. Harker, R. van Geemert and K. H. J. Buschow, J. Alloys. Comp., 402, 21 (2005).
[22]: S. J. Harker, W. D. Hutchison, D. H. Chaplin and G. J. Bowden, Hyperfine Interact., 158, 175 (2005), DOI 10.1007/s10751-005-9026-2.
[23]: W. D. Hutchison, S. J. Harker, D. H. Chaplin and G. J. Bowden, Hyperfine Interact., 159, 331 (2005), DOI 10.1007/s10751-005-9123-2.
[24]: W. D. Hutchison, G. A. Stewart, S. J. Harker and D. H. Chaplin, Hyperfine Interact., 159 (2005), DOI 10.1007/s10751-005-9089-0.
[25]: K. M. Spiers, J. D. Cashion, K. A. Gross and S. J. Harker, in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga, edited by N. Savvides, The Australian Institute of Physics, 2004, 28th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga, 03/02/04 to 06/02/04, http://www.aip.org.au/wagga2004/.
[26]: G. A. Stewart, S. J. Harker, I. M. McPherson and A. V. J. Edge, in 16th National Congress 2005 Australian Institute of Physics Congress Proceedings CD-ROM, edited by M. Colla, pp. 190-193, Australian Institute of Physics, 2005, CMMSP PWE88.
[27]: S. J. Harker, G. A. Stewart, P. C. M. Gubbens and C. F. de Vroege, J. Alloys. Comp., 402, 17 (2005).
[28]: S. J. Harker, T. J. Hicks, S. J. Kennedy and D. Yu, Physica B, 397, 15 (2007), Proceedings of PNCMI 2006, Berlin.
[29]: S. J. Harker, G. A. Stewart, H. Okimoto, K. Nishimura and W. D. Hutchison, Hyperfine Interact., 208, 39 (2012), DOI 10.1007/s10751-011-0445-y.
[30]: S. J. Harker, G. A. Stewart, W. D. Hutchison, A. Amiet and D. Tucker, Hyperfine Interact., (2015).

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