 Congratulations to the group of Rufus Cone who have just had one of their papers selected as a Phys. Rev. B Editors' Suggestion. For each issue, the editors list a small number of papers published in Physical Review B that the editors and referees find of particular interest, importance, or clarity.
Optical decoherence and energy level structure of 0.1%Tm3+:LiNbO3
Y. Sun, C. W. Thiel, and R. L. Cone [Phys. Rev. B 85, 165106 (2012)] Published Fri Apr 6, 2012
Dick Smith 04/12/12
Congratulations to Senior Courtney Peck on her award of a National
Science Foundation Graduation Research Fellowship. Courtney is one of
our top seniors, and winner of one of the Chamber of Commerce Awards
for Excellence. Courtney has decided to continue
with graduate study in solar physics at UC - Boulder. We wish her well.
Dick Smith 04/10/12
For Zach Dupree, Physics and Math double major, MSU has been all about connections. Zach is a McNair Scholar who aspires to earn a doctorate in astrophysics.
Read more about his experience...
Dick Smith 04/10/12
SSEL: Hiscock Radiation Belt Explorer a 100% success!
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Dick Smith 03/06/12
30th Annual Awards for Excellence to honor 40 MSU seniors and their mentors, Tuesday, Feb. 21, MSU Campus
Congratulations to Courtney Peck, Physics Major, and her mentor, Assoc. Prof. Jiong Qiu. Congratulations also to two other student winners who have had affiliations with the department, Ryan Hannahoe and Casey Donoven. Honored students were nominated by faculty in their college or department. Qualified seniors must have at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale, as well as demonstrated campus leadership and community service. The award-winning students each selected a mentor who will be honored with them at the event. The MSU Alumni Foundation and the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the banquet.
Dick Smith 02/21/12
How the Sun Gets Its Spots: New Theory Proposed for Solar Mystery.
Reports on the Ph.D. thesis work of Postdoctoral Associate Sara Jaeggli is showing up in a variety of sources on the internet. The articles describe her investigation of the formation of molecular hydrogen within the dark region of the sunspot. Sarah recently joined the group of Charles Kankelborg and is workiing on the IRIS project. Read more at Yahoo, Space.com and Sara's homepage...
Dick Smith 02/06/12
Workshop Held in Honour of Dick Canfield and His Contributions to Solar Physics
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Dick Smith 02/06/12
Congratulations to John Neumeier, Ben White, and their collaborators for a PRL in the Feb. 3rd issue, titled "Giant Nernst Effect and Bipolarity in the Quasi-One_Dimensional Metal Li0.9Mo6O17". The article received acknowledgement as "Editors Suggestion" and was further selected for a Synopsis in Physics.Very nice! Read more...
Dick Smith 02/03/12
The LIGO collaboration with member Neil Cornish have another article just published in Physical Review Letters, Dec. 30, 2011 issue, titled "Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data". Congratulations, Neil!
Dick Smith 01/06/12
Pure Gold Award to Charles Kankelborg
Congratulations to Charles on his Pure Gold Award. Charles was nominated by one of his PHSX 261 students as "one of those blessed instructors who can bring brightness and life into any subject...always willing to take time out to speak with his students, regardless of office hours, about anything from homework to hobby electronics...[with only] two expressions from the Professor: a straight face when in serious thought, or a hearty smile at all other times." Congratulations, Charles! Read more...
Link to MSU Pure Gold
Dick Smith 01/06/12
New KITP Scholar
The scientific reputation of Nico Yunes has been acknowledged with selection as a KITP Scholar for 2012-2014. The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics supports research efforts of faculty at non-major-research institutions to participate in high quality scentific symposia on topics of emerging importance in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Assistant Professor Anton Vorontsov was selected as a KITP Scholar for 2010-2012.
Link to the KITP program
Dick Smith 01/06/12
Celebrating Einstein
The Montana Space Grant Consortium has provided support for an Educational Enhancement Project under the direction of Assistant Professor Nico Yunes. Celebrating Einstein will include a week long event held in Bozeman, Montana in March of 2013 with a public lecture series by world-leading experts on black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology, a scientific relativity conference held at Montana State University, local elementary and middle school classroom lectures by MSU graduate students and an Art Exhibit on General Relativity and Gravitational Waves by an MSU professor held at the Exit Gallery. The highlight of the week will be a multimedia music performance held at the Emerson Cultural Center, featuring a live orchestra combined with gravitational wave sounds transposed and amplified to the audible range of human hearing, together with original poetry and film that will include the scientific visualization of black hole collisions and gravitational waves. The performance of the original music score will be professionally recorded and combined with the visual and audio elements to create a multimedia product for use in planetariums, theaters, classrooms, and outreach events. Celebrating Einstein will expose students and the general public to the world of relativity and gravitational waves, one of NASA’s primary research goals. Watch for it!
Dick Smith 01/06/12
The latest issue of Confluence from the College of Letters and Science features several articles about recent activities in the Physics Department, including: "Mystery of Missing Sunspots (p18), 2011 Fred L. Scarf Award to Andres Munos-Jaramillo (p22), the MSGC Research Symposium and our newest faculty member in the department, Nico Yunes (p30). Enjoy!
Link to a pdf of the magazine here.
Dick Smith 01/06/12
2012 Harvey Prize Winner
The 2012 Harvey Prize is awarded to Dibyendu Nandi of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata for his advances in the use of kinematic dynamo models to elucidate the typical and atypical solar cycle, and for his outstanding leadership within the solar physics and space climate communities. This prize is awarded by the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society each year.
More details here).
Dibyendu Nandi was a member of Piet Marten's research group from 2002 to 2008, and has collaborated closely with several of our faculty since his graduation, including visits of at least a month once a year. Much of the work that the Karen Harvey prize was awarded for was done while Dibyendu was here. That makes for four Karen Harvey prize winners in or from our solar group: Dana Longcope in 2003, Jiong Qiu in 2007, Brian Welsch (Loncope Ph.D. student) in 2010, and now Nandi. We believe that there is no solar physics group in the country that gets close to that record.
Congratulations to Dibyendu and to the entire solar physics group.
Link to MSU news item
Dick Smith 01/03/12
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