joe mccauley ' s papers vince , as promised , these are a couple of references that i have for joe mccauley ' s papers . whether the specific papers are of interest to what exactly we ' re doing or not , i cannot say . on the other hand , given uh ' s drive to create an " econophysics " specialization within the physics department , i thought we could both help them * and * drive it towards a direction that it could be of use to us . i think that they would very much like to hear what the industry would like to see from such a specialization . some of the things that have been discussed as course offerings would be : basic physics courses ( mechanics , nonlinear dynamics , stat . physics , math methods ) various finance courses like options , banking , etc . statistics , math methods , and statistical physics ( that could teach topics like brownian motion , lognormal distributions , fractals , levy flights , and statistics of ' large deviations ' , which are of interest comp science ( java , c + + , data structures , algorithms ) monte carlo simulations etc setting up some sort of exchange , where at minimum we could get summer interns from this program , would also be beneficial to both sides . even better , a wider collaboration between enron and the physics department could be set up . after this message , i will inform joe mccauley and larry pinsky ( departmental chair person ) of your suggestions on how to proceed . i will send shirley their contact information to arrange for a visit at the beginning of june . thanks , yannis