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Volume 10, No. 5 August 2002 |
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New Circuit Analysis Software Acquired for Physical Measurements II. The Physics Department recently negotiated a purchase agreement with Electronics Workbench to acquire a ten-seat license for the educational version of their MultiSim 2001 and UltiBoard 2001 suite. The software has been installed in the Physics Department computer lab and will be used in the Physical Measurements II course, Fall 2002. Dustin Rich, a Mechanical Engineering major/Physics minor, has returned for his senior year and will continue optics and solid modeling work in the Cone/Sun group along with a spectroscopy experiment. Dustin spent the summer doing an internship at Boeing in Everett, WA, where he worked in 777 Tool Engineering and was involved in both design and production shop liaison activities. The internship provided valuable experience with engineering and business practice in the aviation industry. Dustin will give a poster at the OpTec Meeting. Cooper McCann, a Junior in Physics, carried out a project on interferometric characterization of vibration with Charles Thiel, Yongchen Sun, and Rufus Cone. Cooper will present a talk on this at the OpTeC Meeting. "What is the role of the kink instability in eruption of X-ray sigmoids?" by R. Leamon, R. Canfield, Z. Blehm and A. Pevtsov, SHINE workshop, Banff, AB, Aug. 18-22. "Helicity of a magnetic cloud and its progenitor active region" by B. Lundberg, R. Leamon and R. Canfield, SHINE workshop, Banff, AB, Aug. 18-22. Awards Honors and New Positions This fall John Carlsten will have a 50% position with the National Science Foundation as a Program Manager in the Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics Program in the Physics Division. The work for NSF will mostly be done off-site, on-line, from Bozeman, with occasional trips to Washington DC as needed. Teleconferencing capabilities at the Burns Telecommunication Center will be used for the NSF Senior Staff Meetings. Sean Kirn, Physics undergrad, has assumed responsibilities as project leader for the student balloon project BOREALIS. Ahmed Khallaayoun has assumed responsibilities as project leader for SPOT (Space Public Outreach Team). An MSGC activity, whose trained MSU students offer a variety of presentations to K-12 classrooms across the state, including ones on Mars missions (this grew from MPOP) and one on NASA's Sun-Earth Connection program. "Do Quark Stars Exist?" Sachiko Tsuruta, Institute of Astronomy, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Aug. 14."Precessing Neutron Stars," Bennett Link, Radio Pulsars Workshop, in Hania, Crete, Aug. 26-29. "Using MeV ion backscattering/channeling and Monte Carlo simulations to characterize the composition and structure of buried metal-metal interfaces", Dick Smith, "Applied Surface Modeling: Experiment, Theory, and Simulations" conference, held Aug.21-23, 2002, at the OAI, Cleveland, OH. "Cascaded Injection locked diode laser transmitter for lidar measurements" NASA STTR. Kevin Repasky, $99,000. DoD DURIP, “Heat Capacity Apparatus,” by Yves Idzerda, John Neumeier, and Hugo Schmidt, for $206,000 for period 4/1/03 to 3/31/04. Proposals Funded "Temporal and Spectral Studies of the Central Compact Source of Cassiopeia A", NASA, $47,880. Sachiko Tsuruta. "Integrated Modeling of Flare X-ray and EUV Emission for HESSI, TRACE, and Yohkoh", Piet Martens, ~ $282k, FY 03-05. “Electromechanical Properties of Smart Polymers” Graduate Fellowship funded by MONTS at $40,000 for 2 years, awarded to Laura Lediaev, a new physics graduatestudent, supervised by Hugo Schmidt, George Tuthill, and Aleksandra Vinogradov.Jil Hallenberg’s NASA Graduate Fellowship was renewed for a second year for her M&IE M.S. thesis work on piezoelectric and conducting polymers in Hugo Schmidt’s lab. SeminarsCondensed Matter “Hole Doping Modulated Charge Transfer Mechanism in Colossal Magnetoresistance Manganites,” Kurash Ibrahim, Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Beijing, China and Lawrence Berkeley Labs, Berkeley, CA, Aug. 23. Optics Group " Nanooptics: new techniques and applications,” Alfred (Fredy) Meixner, University of Siegen, Germany, Aug. 21. Summer 2002 REU Student Condensed Matter Presentations Friday, August 9, Dayton Conference: "Liquid AFM imaging of collagen and antibodies," Kelly Cole (Bozeman). "Imaging J-aggregates & dendrimers with the Atomic Force Microscope," Jenny Foster (Geneseo, NY). "Building an X-ray absorption fuel cell," David Larson (Arcata, CA)."Magnetic anisotropy and the Kerr Effect," Vanessa Pool (Santa Cruz, CA). "Surface roughness of thin magnetic films," Kathy Hadley (Yakama, WA)."Titanium heat stability on Al(110) surface," Paul Stuk (Deland, FL). "ISS study of the interface between Ti films and an Al substrate," River Hutchison (Claremont, CA). "Active vibration isolation for space applications," Paul Cook (Bozeman). "Looking at complex permittivity: Characterizing a ferroelectric KTP crystal using impedance spectroscopy," Nick Plumb (Colorado Springs, CO). Sachiko Tsuruta participated in Sir Martin Rees' 60th Birthday Conference on Making Light of Gravity at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Jul. 8-12. She also visited the Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching, Germany, during Jul. 13-Aug. 22. Dick Smith spent two weeks conducting experiments at Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland WA, using the ion beam facilities in the Environmental and Molecular Sciences Lab. Bennett Link I attended the workshop "Radio Pulsars", in Hania, Crete, Aug. 26-29. I gave a talk entitled, "Precessing Neutron Stars". Robert Leamon attended SHINE workshop in Banff, AB, Aug. 18-22. Charles Kankelborg visited NASA Wallops Flight Facility, and attended a Mission Initiation Conference for the MOSES rocket, Jul. 31-Aug. 4. "Jerry DiMarco traveled to Boise for the summer AAPT meeting and attended workshops presented by Vernier Software and Technology as well as sessions held by the Physics Instructional Resource Association (PIRA)." "Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics -- Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting", COSPAR Colloquia Series, Volume 13, P.C.H. Martens and D. Cauffman (eds.). (Elsevier: Dordrecht). “Orientation-dependent dielectric anomalies in relaxor-based crystal (PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3)0.68(PbTiO3)0.32 (PMN-32%PT)” by C.-S. Tu and V. H. Schmidt, Symposium Proc. of Materials Research Society (MRS), in press (2002). Publications Submitted ”Using metallic interlayers as interface stabilizers to promote epitaxial growth of metals on metals”, C. V. Ramana, Bum-Sik Choi, P. Masse and R.J. Smith, submitted to PRL, Aug. 2002. “Using MeV ion backscattering/channeling and MC simulations to characterize the composition and structure of buried metal-metal interfaces”, R. J. Smith, C.V. Ramana, Bum-sik Choia, Adli A. Salehb, N.R. Shivaparanc, V. Shutthanandand, submitted to Applied Surface Science, Aug. 2002. “The intermediate phase in relaxor-based ferroelectric crystal (PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3)1‑x(PbTiO3)x” by Chi-Shun Tu, V. Hugo Schmidt, and I.-C. Shih, submitted to Phys. Rev. B – Rapid Communications. Publications Accepted "The Inadequacy of Temperature Measurements in the Solar Corona Through Narrow-band Filter and Line Ratios", by P.C.H. Martens, J. Cirtain, and J. Schmelz, accepted for ApJ Letters (Oct. 1, 2002 issue). |
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Samina & Ijaz Zafarullah are the proud new parents of Isha! She was born 8/3/02, weighed 7 lbs. and was 21 inches long. Congratulations Samina and Ijaz!! |
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2002 incoming Graduate Students
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Compiled & Edited by:Rose Waldon |
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