President Simmons called the meeting to order at about 4:03. The usual motion to end at 6:00 PM was made, seconded, and approved. The minutes from the September 7, 2004 meeting were approved.

Professor Herbert Fried presented a Memorial Minute for Anthony Houghton, Professor Emeritus of Physics. The minute is attached and will be entered into the permanent records of the Faculty and copies sent to members of the immediate family.

Anthony Houghton, a world-renowned Condensed-Matter, Theoretical Physicist, and Professor of Physics at Brown University, died of cancer on 28 July 2003.

Born on October 4, 1935 in Heanor, England, Tony received a BSc Degree in Mathematical Physics fromthe University of Birmingham in 1956, and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1959. He carried out post-doctoral research at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), at the University of California at San Diego, and at McMaster University in Ontario.

In 1963 Tony joined Brown as an Assistant Professor of Physics, and rapidly rose through the academic ranks, becoming Associate Professor in 1967 and Professor in 1971; he served as Department Chair from1992 to 1998. Tony held Visiting Professorships at many European and American institutions, winning Science Research Council Fellowships, and an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award; he was also a fellow of the American Physical Society.

During his career at Brown, Tony made lasting contributions to Condensed-Matter Physics, as the author or co-author of more than 90 papers on Superconductivity, Disorder and Critical Phenomena. During his career, Tony ventured into new Physics with energy and determination; he worked through everycomplicated calculation himself, and understood each detail of everything he published.

Tony approached teaching with the same passion and diligence, as, over the years, he taught courses fromthe most elementary to the most advanced. Tony was a totally honest person, motivated by a profound sense of right and wrong; and as Chair, he strove to build and maintain a world-class Physics Department, about which he cared very deeply.

Of course, there was more to his life than Physics at Brown. He was devoted to this wife, Patricia. Beside his wife, he leaves a sister, Pamela Deane, and two nephews, Andrew and Michael Deane, all of Toronto. Many of us in the Physics Department were his long-time friends. It is sad and bitter to lose a trusted colleague, but losing a friend cuts deeper. Tony was a fine person; he led an impeccable life; and we miss him very much.