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Volume 10, No. 2. March, April, May, 2002. |
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John Carlsten was appointed to the Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) as faculty representative. Bill Hiscock has been appointed to the Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC), as the RVP's representative. “Orientation dependence and electric-field effect in the relaxor-based ferroelectric crystal (PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3)0.68(PbTiO3)0.32,” by Chi-shun Tu, C.-L. Tsai, J.-S. Chen, and V. Hugo Schmidt, Phys. Rev. B 65, 104113 (2002). “Phase transitions and domain structures in relaxor-based ferroelectric (PbZn1/3Nb2/3O3)0.915(PbTiO3)0.085, C.-S. Tu, V.H. Schmidt, and I.C. Shih, Ferroelectrics Letters 28, 115-121 (2001). “Bound Charge Diffusion and Polar Nanocluster Dynamics in Proton Glass Crystals,” V.H. Schmidt, CP582, Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics 2001, (AIP Conf. Proc. vol. 582, Melville, New York, 2001, H Krakauer, Ed.), pp. 165-174. Publications Submitted: “Orientation-dependent dielectric anomalies in relaxor-based crystal (PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3)0.68(PbTiO3)0.32 (PMN-32%PT),” by Chi-Shun Tu and V. Hugo Schmidt Publications Accepted: “FTIR and DSC studies on mechanically deformed b-PVDF films” by S. Lanceros-Mendez, J.F. Mano, A.M. Costa, and V.H. Schmidt, to appear in J. Macromolecular Science. “Dielectric anomalies of relaxor-based single crystal (PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3)0.68(PbTiO3)0.32 (PMN-32%PT)” by V. Hugo Schmidt, Chi-Shun Tu, and J.-S. Chen, to appear in Ferroelectrics. “Electromechanical properties of mechanically deformed b-PVDF films,” S. Lanceros-Mendez, J.F. Mano, V. Moriera, A. Marekvia, A.M. Costa, G. Bohannan, and V.H. Schmidt, Proc. 10th Internat. Mtg. on Ferroelectricity, Madrid, Aug. 2001, to appear in Ferroelectrics. "Confronting Neutron Star Cooling Theories with New Observations", S. Tsuruta, M.A. Teter, T. Takatsuka, T. Tatsumi, and T. Tamagaki, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 571, (June 1 2002). "MHD Shock Conditions for Accreting Plasma onto Kerr Black Holes - I", M. Takahashi, D. Rilett, K. Fukumura, and S. Tsuruta, Astrophysical Journal (June 2002). "SADE, The Student Astrophysical Dynamo Explorer", Martens, P.C.H., Acton, L.W.A., Klumpar, D. (MSU), Stern, R. (LMSAL), Peres, G. (OAP), and Culhane, L. (MSSL), submitted to COSPAR. “Measurement of dielectric and conductive properties of solid ionic conductors,” Hugo Schmidt, PNNL, Richland, WA, Feb. 28. “Fractal model for dielectric relaxation in deuteron pseudospin glass “DRADP”,” V.H. Schmidt and D. Arbogast, presented by V.H. Schmidt at 4th IDMRCS (International Discussion on Materials Research in Correlated Systems), Hersonnisos, Crete, Greece, June 17-24, 2001. "Overview of Rare Earth Materials for Spectral Hole Burning, Lasers, and Quantum Information Applications", Rufus Cone, Optec Colloquium, Apr. 1. "Two-photon coherence and two-photon absorption in organic molecules", Aleks Rebane, Optec Colloquium, Apr. 15. "Adventures in Raman-assisted four-wave-mixing", Pete Roos and Lei Meng, Optec Colloquium, Apr. 29 "Using Nuclear Reaction Techniques to Characterize the Oxidation of Heat Shield Materials for Aerospace Applications", Cynthia Tripp, Andrew Stephenson, C.V. Ramana, and R.J. Smith (Montana State University-Bozeman), Choi-Bum-Sik (Jeonju University, Korea), S. Thevuthasan, V. Shutthanandan, (Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland WA), The Annual Meeting of the Montana Academy of Sciences, University of Great Falls, MT, Apr. 20. "Restraining the Laws of Nature with a Single Layer of Atoms", C.V. Ramana, Choi Bum-Sik, R. J. Smith, Montana State University Bozeman, Physics Department, The Annual Meeting of the Montana Academy of Sciences, University of Great Falls, MT, Apr. 20. "Initial stages of oxidation of the ceramic matrix composite ZrB2(SiC) at high temperatures", C. Tripp, A. Stephenson, M. Loeffler, Bum-sik Choi, R.J. Smith, V. Shutthanandan, S. Thevuthasan, 104th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, St. Louis, MO, Apr. 29- May 1. DoD DURIP, “Polarizing Microscope and Heat Capacity Apparatus,” by Hugo Schmidt, for $131,681 for period 4/1/02 to 3/31/03. NSF, “Mesoscale, Memory, and Nonlinear Effects in Pure and Disordered Ferroelectrics,” PI Hugo Schmidt and Co-PI George Tuthill, for $298,000 for period 5/1/02 to 4/30/05. REU Supplement to NSF DMR Support for three undergraduate students, $22,500, 6/1/02 5/31/03, Dick Smith. Proposals Funded "Thermal Evolution and Related Problems of Neutron Stars", NASA Astrophysical Theory Program, $166,083, Sachiko Tsuruta. Murdock Charitable Trust, a "partners in science grant" titled Measurement of Tropospheric and Stratospheric Ozone Concentrations in South Central Montana, $14,000, John Belz, and will support Sandra Shutey of Butte H.S. for two summers' (and some academic year) research with BOREALIS. “Characterization of High-Strain Piezoelectric Crystals,” DEPSCoR grant to Hugo Schmidt, $236,393 for 3 years starting about May 1, 2002. “Electromechanical Properties of Smart Polymers” Graduate Fellowship funded by MONTS at $40,000 for 2 years, awarded to Zhiguo Wang, an M&IE Ph.D. student entering fall 2002, to be supervised by Aleksandra Vinogradov, George Tuthill, and Hugo Schmidt.DOE EPSCoR grant “Basic Electron Transfer Science & Electro-Optic Materials,” PI - Jerry Bromenshenk (UM), Technical Lead – Lee Spangler (MSU Chem.), 11 project leaders in this U-system-wide project; Physics project leaders are Alex Rebane and Hugo Schmidt who is also MSU Coordinator; total award $810,000 for period Jan. 2001 through Dec. 2003. NSF funded an RET (Research Experience for Teachers) supplement for our “REU Program in Materials Research,” PI - Hugo Schmidt and Co-PI – Stephen Hill, which ran through summers 1999-2001. In summer 2001 the program supported high school teachers Dennis Richards (Fort Ellis Academy) and Terry Meyer (Medical Lake, WA) and 8 undergraduates from around the U.S. Yves Idzerda (PI) and Hugo Schmidt (Co-PI) requested renewal of this program for summers 2002-5. Two M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust grants for high school teacher summer research were renewed for a second year, for summer 2002 research for David and Joy-Lyn McDonald of Sidney, MT High School. David will work on “Growth of ferroelectric crystals and measurement of their dielectric and piezoelectric properties” in Hugo Schmidt’s lab. Joy-Lyn will work on “Visualization of microscopic structure at the interface between thin metal films for magnetic sensors” in Richard Smith’s lab. The MAP program funded two Native American high school students, Natasha Don’t Mix and Maria Brien, to work in Hugo Schmidt’s lab in summer 2001. NSF funded an REU grant to AdvR (Phil Battle, PI) for undergraduates Will Rewitz and Kim Wendell to study ferroelectric and conductive properties of KTP (potassium titanyl phosphate) in Hugo Schmidt’s lab. The NASA Reduced Gravity Flight Program approved proposals “Advanced Materials for Three-Dimensional Zero-Gravity Position Control” by Jil Hallenberg and Hugo Schmidt, which four undergraduates flew in August, 2001, and “CUBESAT Satellite Antenna Test” by Jil Hallenberg, Steve Jepsen, David Klumpar, and Hugo Schmidt, for four undergraduates to fly in March, 2002. REU Supplement to NSF Grant DMR 0077534, $7500, to support one undergraduate student for summer and academic year 02-03, Dick Smith. “Electron Quantum Phenomena in Metallic Atomic Wells: Ag and Au on Crystalline Fe(100)”, Jens Paggel, Freie University, Berlin, Mar. 1. “Stochastic Effects in Mean Field Dynamos”, P. Hoyng, SRON Laboratory for Space Research Utrecht, The Netherlands, Mar. 8. "The Science Citation Index via the Web of Science", Brenda G. Mathenia, Reference Librarian, MSU Libraries, Mar. 22. “The Science of Singing”, Professor Daniel M. Boye, Physicist and Opera Singer (Bass-Baritone), Physics Department, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, Apr. 5. “Up on the Rooftop: Detecting Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays”, Michelle B. Larson, Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, CalTech, Apr. 12. “Archimedes, the World's First Mathematical Physicist”, John Cladis, Lockheed Martin, Apr. 19. “New Optical and Electrooptical Materials”, Douglas Keszler, Oregon State University, Apr. 26. “Image - A Global Look at the Magnetosphere”, Chris Gurgiolo, Bitterroot Basic Research, May 3. Special Colloquia - Condensed Matter Faculty Candidates "Colossal magnetoresistance and electronic phase segregation: is there a connection?" John Neumeier, Florida Atlantic University, Apr. 11. “Domain patterns, dynamic properties, and interaction in arrays of micrometer size magnetic elements”, S.O. Demokritov, Fachbereich Physik, University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Apr. 15. "How to force defects to work for you? Lithium Niobate", Galina Malovichko, Department of Physics, University of Osnabrueck, Germany, Apr. 22. Seminars
Condensed
Matter Physics Light Sources of the Future", Yves Idzerda, Mar. 18. "Restraining the Laws of Nature with a Layer of Atoms", Dick Smith, Mar. 25. “Spring and Point Charge Model for Calculating Properties of GaN and Epitaxial Layers of Ga(Al)N that Provide a 2D Electron or Hole Gas Layer”, Hugo Schmidt, Apr. 1. "Spectroscopy of Rare Earth Ions in Sol Gel-derived Silicate Glasses", Prof. Daniel M. Boye, Davidson College, NC, Apr. 4.
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Relativity and
Space Science Seminar "The Precession Frequency of a Neutron Star", Bennett Link, Mar. 21. "Sensitivity of MOSES to Chromospheric Spectral Line Profiles", C. C. Kankelborg, Mar. 28. "Coronal Mass Ejections: The Calm Before the Storm", Prof. Richard Wolfson, Middlebury College, Apr. 5. "LISA and Time Delay Interferometry", Shane L. Larson, California Institute of Technology, Apr. 11. "Is It Cosmological Or Just A Foreground?" Louis Rubbo, Apr. 18. "Parametric Inversion methods for MOSES", Lewis Fox, Apr. 25.
Special Seminars Loren Acton and Jun Sato traveled to Palo Alto, CA, to work at Lockheed Martin on the Yohkoh Galileo Archiving Project, Mar. 1-10. On April 4th and 5th Loren traveled to Palo Alto, CA, for a proposal review and to work on a Yohkoh termination plan. Recep Avci traveled to San Francisco, CA, to review proposals (as a member of the review panel) for the Institute for Regulatory Science. Then attended annual NASA Meeting in Houston, TX, Mar. 3-10. He also attend the Annual APS March Meeting in Indianapolis, IN, Mar. 20-24. Recep traveled to Las Vegas, NV, to attend the Las Vegas 2002 Scanning Probe Microscopy, May 25-30. Daniel Bambeck, Hector Calderon, and Ijaz Zafarullah attended the Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting held in Sacramento, CA, Mar. 28-31. Randy Babbitt, John Carlsten, Aleks Rebane, Mingzhen Tian, Kent Hill, Mikhail Drobijev, Pete Roos, Lei Meng and Zeb Barber attended a conference on Laser and Electo-Optics in Long Beach, CA, May 18-24. John Belz traveled to Salt Lake City, UT, for collaboration, Apr. 11-14, and attended a meeting in Palo Alto, CA, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, May 12-14 and 28-30. Robert Boyd attended the annual NASA Meeting in Houston, TX, Mar. 7-10, and traveled to Las Vegas, NV, to attend the Las Vegas 2002 Scanning Probe Microscopy, May 25-30. Dick Canfield and Dana Longcope participated in a MURI mini-workshop, Berkeley, CA, Apr. 28-May 1. John Carlsten visited ILX Lightwave and Directed Energy Solutions in Denver, CO, Mar. 9-16. From Denver John traveled to Anaheim, CA, for an OFC Conference. Rufus Cone traveled to Lyon, France, to give a presentation on current research, attend a thesis defense for former student, and research collaboration with colleagues. Neil Cornish attended the LIGO/LISA Gravitational Wave meeting held in Baton Rouge, LA, Mar. 19-24. Neil then attended the Pacific Coasts Gravity Meeting in Davis, CA, Mar. 25-31, and the NW APS Conference in Banff, Canada, May 16-20. Alan Craig traveled to College Park, MD, to attend the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference/19th IEEE Symposium of Mass Storage, Apr. 13-19. Alan also attended an IEEE Workshop in Albuquerque, NM, May 11-15. Alisdair Davey and David McKenzie traveled to Palo Alto, CA, for Yohkoh Galileo project collaboration, Mar. 3-6. Greg Francis attended the NW APS Conference in Banff, Canada, May 16-20. Nicole Hallenberg traveled to Norfolk, VA, for project training and to give a technical presentation, May 14-27. Ron Hellings traveled to Berkeley, CA, for collaboration with D. Backer of the Univ. of CA, May 23-25. Yves Idzerda participated in a site review for the Energy Recovery Linac, Ithaca, NY, Mar. 7-10. On Mar. 10-16 Yves traveled to San Diego, CA, for collaboration and to present a colloquium and to Baltimore, MD, to discuss collaborations at the Naval Research Lab, Mar. 28-Apr. 2. Yves also attended the organizing committee meeting for the PCSI Conference, Chicago, IL, May 4-5 and a DARPA Seedling Biofilms Conference in Jackson Hole, WY, May 13-15. Yves attended the NW APS Conference in Banff, Canada, May 16-20. Charles Kankelborg and Mike Obland traveled to Pasadena, CA, for Space Grant CubeSat working meeting, Apr. 3-6. Dave Klumpar participated in a NASA National University Satellite Programs workshop at JPL, Pasadena, CA, Apr. 3-6. Jerry Lapeyre attended an ONR workshop on Ferroelectric Semiconductor Interfaces in Kailua Kona, HI, Apr. 6-13. Jerry also traveled to Kansas State for collaboration and gave a colloquium, Apr. 19-29. Jerry traveled to Tucson, AZ, to visit ASU in Tempe, May 25-29. Dana Longcope participated in a Sac Peak Workshop in Sacrament Peak, NM, Mar. 11-14. Tetsuya Magara spent time in Santa Barbara, CA, working on a scientific program and to attend ITP Conference on Solar Magnetism, Jan. 11-Mar. 19. Tetsuya attended a Spring meeting of ASOJ in Ibaragi, Japan, Mar. 24-Apr. 4. Sytil Murphy attended an OFC Conference in Anaheim, CA, Mar. 13-24. Ezanna Negusse traveled to Huntsville, AL, to attend the NCBPS 2002 Conference. Stephane Regnier attended a mini SSL workshop in Berkeley, CA, Apr. 27-May 2. Damon Resnick, Johnathon Holroyd, Thomas Stolz, and Sara Maccagnano attended the NW APS Conference in Banff, Canada, May 16-20. Carla Riedel traveled to Upton, NY, to participate in the ongoing "Experiment 931" at Brookhaven National Labs, Mar. 28-31. Hugo Schmidt traveled to Houston, TX, for K-135 Reduced Gravity Flight Opportunity, Mar. 9-13. Dick Smith, Jerry Lapeyre, Chintalapalle Ramana, and Cynthia Tripp traveled to Indianapolis, IN, to present papers, and attended the APS meeting, Mar. 15-24. George Tuthill traveled to Washington, DC, to give a talk at NSTA symposium on Online Professional Development for K-12 Teachers of Science, May 16-17. Lou Locke, 1954 B.A. writes "I enjoy your newsletters even though I know practically no one now there. Have not really followed up on the physics degree (although I just finished Julian Barbour's "End of Time" book lately) having gotten interested in computers in 1955 while living up in Canada. Accepted the position of Director of Computer Center (now ITS) at MSU in 1969 because Apollo was into the tin bending stage and the interesting parts were over. Decided in 1981 that I had done enough damage at MSU so retired and moved home to Havre. Northern's Computer Center director had recently died so President Erickson offered his job to me. After eighteen years at Northern - in June of 1999, I retired again. Currently have a few computer consulting contracts and am doing a fair amount of community work. Probably won't be too many in the Physics department around this summer, but I'll stop in anyway when I'm there. Keep up the good work." Michelle Larsen (PhD '01) accepted a postdoc position at Caltech and will be working with a Cosmic Ray physicist there to build a research level cosmic ray detector array in Los Angeles. They are going to do this by placing detectors on the roofs of area high schools. The project is called CHICOS, you can read about it at http://www.chicos.caltech.edu. Michelle will be working with the schools to bring them into the project, giving presentations in the LA area to inform the community about the project. Michelle will also be developing materials for teachers and students to learn about cosmic rays and help them use the data collected by the array in the classroom. Michelle says "I am very excited to be back in a campus physics department again and working on such an insightful and exciting project. It will be a challenge, but I am willing to give it my all." Mark Weber (PhD '99) has accepted a research position with the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Mark writes "It's affiliated with Harvard, but not actually part of the University (to the best of my knowledge). This is basically the same job I applied for around graduation. You might recall that they flew me out for an interview at that time. Anyway, I got the position this time around. Woo-hoo! My job title will now go up from 'PostDoc' to 'Astrophysicist'." Tsunefumi Tanaka (PhD '97)accepted a position in the physics department at Cal-Poly. Cindy Rakowski (formerly Cindy Cross) (BS '86) is working at PNNL (ETB 1329), in the hydrology group. Cindy said she does CFD modeling of flow in rivers, the focus is typically near hydroelectric projects. Bill McHargue (BS '94)
visited the department in January. One of Bill's recent pursuits is
BattleBots! The URL for his robot:
http://McHargue.Org/William/BattleBot/ Kenneth Evenson, B.S.
Physics, MSU, 1955, died recently in Boulder, Colorado. Ken grew up in
the Gallatin Valley and was roughly contemporaneous with Bob Swenson and
Loren Acton. He visited the department and gave a
colloquium in 1993, and was at that time recognized as one of MSU's
Centennial Alumni. Since his initial appointment as Assistant Professor of Physics at MSU in 1974, Larry has served with distinction as one of the University's best instructors and as an untiring advocate for good teaching. In May of this year, Dr. Kirkpatrick retired from his position, after nearly 3 decades of service. Dr. Kirkpatrick received his PhD in Physics from MIT in 1968, with a thesis in experimental particle physics. His undergraduate degree was obtained as WSU (Pullman) in 1963. Some contributions to the profession include: from 1998 – 1995, coach of the US Physics Team, a team of five high school students chosen from across the country that competed in the International Physics Olympiad each summer. During his tenure as coach, the US Team won its first silver and gold medals and received the highest individual score in the world. Larry and Gerry Wheeler wrote a textbook for the conceptual physics market that has become the second most widely adopted book; he has been a field editor for Qauntum magazine since the third issue appeared in 1991. Larry has been extremely active in AAPT, having served as chair of two Area Committees and the Nominating Committee. He served on the Executive Board as an At Large Member from 1992-95 and was elected to the presidential chair in 1996. As president of AAPT, Kirkpatrick brought much visibility to MSU, and helped establish the reputation of the Physics Department as one of the nation's leading centers for the improvement of science education. Larry has been the recipient of numerous awards over the years, including Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Teaching Award – MSU, 1979. Distinguished Service Citation – AAPT, 1982. Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Teaching – MSU, 1982. Recognition of Superior Service to Science Education, Mt. Science Teachers Asso., 1990. For nearly three decades, Larry Kirkpatrick provided distinguished service to MSU as a master teacher, a tireless advocate for good teaching practices, and as a faculty colleague who made numerous significant improvements to the undergraduate curriculum in the Physics Department. |
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Larry Kirkpatrick teaching his class on the last day of the Academic Year, May 10, 2002. |
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During the department's annual End-of-the Year Awards reception, held April 25th, awards were presented to: Shane Ackerly - AJMJ Outstanding Senior Mike Obland and Pete Roos - Outstanding TA Yves Idzerda - Outstanding Faculty Colleague Jerry DiMarco - Outstanding Staff Member PhD: "Laser Frequency Stabilization to Spectral Hole Burning Frequency References in Erbium-Doped Crystals: Material and Device Optimization", Thomas Böttger, Apr. 18. PhD: "High Bandwidth Optical Coherent Transient True-Time Delay", Randy Reibel, May 10. Masters: "Design, Simulation and Experimental Realization of Waveguide-Coupled MicroRing Resonator", Ye Liu, Apr. 22. Awards
Honors and New Positions Jil Hallenberg received a NASA Graduate Fellowship that includes a stay at NASA Langley from January through August 2002, working with Joycelyn Harrison on polyimide piezoelectric polymers. Her M.S. research in Hugo Schmidt’s lab is with PVDF piezoelectric polymers and conducting polymer electrodes. Three students received Undergraduate Scholars Program awards. George Tuthill supervises Izaac Spencer's award research, while Hugo Schmidt is supervising the work of Michelle Galvin and Michael Patterson. Two students are putting their piezoelectrics training to use in Seattle. Darin Arbogast is working at Boeing after getting his M.S. here, and Rusty Stuver is at General Dynamics after obtaining his B.S. They share a house in Maple Valley. Jeannie Gunderson received an Employee Recognition Award from President Gamble in the large ballroom of the SUB. A cheering section that completely filled the seats around one of those large, round tables represented the Physics Department. The president took time to read only a tiny fraction of the grateful comments so many of you wrote about Jeannie, but that was enough to prove our tremend-ous affection and appreciation for her. The award includes a gold pin, a plaque, and enough money to take all of us out to dinner. Thanks, Jeannie, for your patience, competence, and cheerful spirit. Chelle Crowder, who transferred to our undergraduate program from Linfield College, received a Graduate Achievement Award on May 10 as the outstanding Master of Science candidate at MSU. Her graduate work was done in David Dickensheets' lab (ECE), where she built an instrument prototype for remote exploration. Larry Kirkpatrick has been reappointed as Chair of the AIP Committee on Media and Government Relations for 2002-03. Malina Schindel and Seth Timpano have been selected to receive Montana Space Grant Fellowships. This honor reflects the students' past achievements as well as their present and future commitment to the aerospace sciences and engineering.
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Congratulations!! |
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Reece Ryan Reibel Born: May 30, 2002 Weight: 7 lb. 6 oz. Length: 20" Son of Randy and Sandy Reibel |
Tia Sophie
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Compiled & Edited by:Rose Waldon |
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