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Volume 10, No. 7 October 2002. |
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The Montana Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) hosted the Western Regional Space Grant Meeting at Big Sky, October 26-28. The meeting began with an optional astrogeology/astrobiology tour of Yellowstone National Park on the 26th, with guide Jim Schmitt, MSU Department Head of Earth Sciences, providing insight into the unique nature of Yellowstone vulcanism. The meeting was attended by forty-eight representatives from the 19 western state Space Grant Consortia, personnel from NASA Headquarters, Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center, and JPL, as well as two astronauts -- MSU's own Loren Acton and Bonnie Dunbar, who has flown on the shuttle five times, including two flights to Mir. On Friday afternoon, MSGC representatives had an opportunity to highlight their accomplishments and programs. Jim Manning (Taylor Planetarium-Museum of the Rockies) and Bob Madsen (Chief Dull Knife College) each discussed how Space Grant funding from MSGC has acted as a springboard for outstanding new programs at their institutions. The highlight of the entire meeting was the presentation on the MSGC/SSEL ballooning program made by the BOREALIS students: Sean Kirn (flight director), Ryan Belohlavek, Cal Coopmans, Mark Munro, and Malina Schindel. Beldon Wire and Cable
Makes Donation to Physics: Outreach in the community: "The Diode-Pumped CW Raman Laser: Classical, Quantum, and Thermo-Optic Fundamentals", Peter Aaron Roos, Oct. 3. Awards Honors and New Positions Jason Scott has been awarded a $1500 stipend from the Undergraduate Scholars Program to work with Piet Martens on the analysis of EUV coronal loop data obtained by TRACE and SOHO. "Houston, we have a problem", Loren Acton, Zoot Enterprises, Inc., Oct. 3 "Active Region Magnetic Flux Systems", Richard Canfield, in Connections and Reconnections in Solar and Stellar Coronae, COSPAR, Houston, TX, Oct. 10-11. "Yohkoh Observations of Reconnexion", P.C.H. Martens, COSPAR World Space Congress, Houston, TX, October 10, 2002. "Using Theoretical Physics to place ultimate bounds on technology: from wormholes to the warp drive", Bill Hiscock, Auburn University, Oct. 11. "Laser cleaning of gold coated polymers", Recep Avci, the "2002 Subsurface Symposium" (INRA), Oct. 13-16 "Re-viewing solar magnetic field generation in the light of Helioseismology", Dibyendu Nandi, GONG Meeting on Helioseismology and the solar interior, Big Bear Lake, CA, Oct. 25. "Excitations in Magnetic Thin Films and Nanostructures", National Science Foundation, $253,992, Craig Zaspel. Proposals Funded A New Core course, The Art and Science of Holography, Physics 353N, was approved and will be taught Spring 2003. The course was developed with support of a grant from the Hewlett Foundation ($2,500 6/01-6/02), Randy Babbitt. “Applications of Optical Coherent Transient Technology: Pulse Shaping, Spectral Filtering, Arbitrary Waveform Generation, and RF Beamforming,” AFOSR/ DEPSCOR, PI: W. R. Babbitt, co-PI: Mingzhen Tian, $310,067 plus $155,034 match, 7/02-7/05. “Wide-Bandwidth and Multidimensional Analog Signal Processing,” DARPA, Lead: W. R. Babbitt, Co-PIs Kelvin Wagner, Univ. of Colorado and Randy Equall, Scientific Materials Corp., and Kris Merkel, Krishna Rupavatharam, and Rufus Cone at MSU, $1.9M, 10/02-9/04. “Spatial Spectral Coherent Holographic Integrating Processor-S2-CHIP: Device characterization, performance evaluation, and optimization,” Montana Board for Research and Commercialization of Technology, PI: W. R. Babbitt, co-PIs: Kris Merkel and Mark Ivey, $149,420, 11/02-7/03. “The Road Less Traveled...”, Larry Hambly, Exec. Vice President (Retired), Sun Microsystems, Inc., Oct. 4. “Cosmology, Coincidence and Conspiracy”, Ira Wasserman, Cornell University, Oct. 11. “Science Goals and Development of the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope”, Stephen L. Keil, Director, National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, New Mexico, Oct. 18. “Unitivity, An Axiomatic Approach To The Universe or The Universe In A Magic Mirror, Simple As One, Two, Four”, Leroy Amunrud, PhD (Ret), Wibaux, MT, Oct. 25. SeminarsCondensed Matter -
"Thermal Stability of Thin Ti Films on Al Single Crystal Surfaces", C.V. Ramana, Oct. 28.
RelAstro- "Iron fluorescent line profiles from black hole accretion with hot spots", Keigo Fukumura, Oct. 17. "A Twisted Tale: What magnetic helicity can tell us about the solar dynamo", Dana Longcope, Oct. 24. "Weyl - Wigner – Moyal formalism (and beyond)", Hector Calderon, Oct. 31.
Special SADE Seminar- "A review of stellar activity", Dana Longcope, Oct. 30
Galina Malovichko and Valentin Grachev traveled to The Center at Salmon Lake, Missoula, Oct.11-12, to participate in 8TH Annual Conference for the State of Montana, “Working Together to Unlock the Mysteries of Science”, Oct. 12. Bill Hiscock traveled to Auburn University Oct. 9-12 to participate in the Preliminary Design Review of AubieSat 1, Auburn's student CubeSat project, as well as to give a physics colloquium. Bill Hiscock and Clarice Koby attended the meeting of the National Council of Space Grant Directors, Oct. 26-31, in Dorado, Puerto Rico, and Maho Bay, St. John, USVI. As Chair of the National Council, Bill presided over the meeting. Participants included over 200 representatives of Space Grant colleges and universities nationwide, as well as representatives from NASA HQ, NSF, and seven NASA Centers. Dick Canfield and Piet Martens attended the COSPAR World Space Congress, Houston, TX, Oct. 10-17. Alisdair Davey and Meredith Wills-Davey visited Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, CO, Oct. 18-22. Alisdair Davey travelled to Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL, England for a joint, VSO/EGSO meeting. VSO = Virtual Solar Observatory. EGSO = European Grid of Solar Observatories, Oct. 2-13. Recep Avci and Mehmet Karahan traveled to Boise, ID, to attend the "2002 Subsurface Symposium" (INRA), Oct. 13-16. George Tuthill attended a meeting of CLT-WEST institutions held in Portland, OR, Oct. 3 & 4. Piet Martens and Jun Sato attended the COSPAR meeting in Houston, TX, Oct. 7-12. Jerry Lapeyre attended the annual Synchrotron User's meeting in Berkeley, CA, Oct. 9-13. He also traveled to Madison, WI, to attend a Synchrotron meeting, Oct. 24-29. Ron Hellings traveled to Noordwik, Holland and Paris, France, to attend LISA working group meeting and work with I. Cugnard of the MeudonObservatory, Oct. 26-30. Dibyendu Nandi attended the GONG Plus 2002 Meeting in Big Bear, CA, Oct. 25-Nov. 3. Aleksander Rebane visited the Air Force Research Lab in Dayton, OH, for collaboration, Oct. 31-Nov. 3. “Characterization of nanosize defects in photonics materials. Lithium Niobate”, Galina Malovichko, Valentin Grachev (Presented by Galina Malovichko), National Science Foundation Experimental Program To Stimulate Competitive Research, 8TH Annual Conference for the State of Montana, “Working Together to Unlock the Mysteries of Science”, The Center at Salmon Lake, Oct. 12. “Light-induced recharge processes in oxide materials”, Valentin Grachev, Galina Malovichko, Ortwin Schirmer (presented by Valentin Grachev), 8TH NSF EPSCoR Annual Conference for the State of Montana, Oct. 12. "SADE: The Student Astrophysical Dynamo Explorer", Martens, P.C.H., Acton, L.W.A., Klumpar, D., Kankelborg, C. (MSU), Stern, R. (LMSAL), Peres, G. (OAP), and Culhane, L. (MSSL). COSPAR World Space Congress, Houston, TX, Oct. 10-17. "Analysis of a coronal loop on the limb", Cirtain, J.W.; Martens, P.C.H.; Winter, H.D., COSPAR World Space Congress, Houston, TX, Oct. 10-17. "The Inadequacy of Temperature Measurements in the Solar Corona Through Narrow-band Filter and Line Ratios", P.C.H. Martens, J. Cirtain, and J. Schmelz 2002, ApJ Letters, 577, L115-L117. "Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics -- Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting", COSPAR Colloquia Series, Volume 13, 442 pages, P.C.H. Martens and D. Cauffman (eds.), ISBN: 0-08-044060-6. (Elsevier: Dordrecht). "Blind Deconvolution of the SXT PSF Core Part", S. Gburek, J. Sylwester, and P.C.H. Martens, in: "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.), pp. 417-418. (Elsevier: Dordrecht). "The Origin of Prominences and Their Hemispheric Preferences for Chirality and the Skew of Overlying Loops", P.C.H. Martens, in: "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.), pp. 135-138. (Elsevier: Dordrecht). “Temporally overlapped linear frequency chirped programming for true-time delay amplification”, R. Reibel, Z. Barber, M. Tian and W. R. Babbitt, Opt. Lett. 27, 494 (2002). “High bandwidth spectral grating programmed with linear frequency chirps”, R. Reibel, Z. Barber, M. Tian, and W. R. Babbitt, J. Lumin. 98, 355-365 (2002). “Temporal and spatial behavior of photon echoes stimulated from long pulses”, M. Tian, Z. Barber, T. Chang, R. Reibel, and W. R. Babbitt, J. Lumin. 98, 367-374 (2002). “Nutational stimulated photon echoes”, M. Tian, R. Reibel, Z. Barber, and W. R. Babbitt, Opt. Lett. 27, 1156 (2002). “Optical pulse shaping using optical coherent transients”, Z. Barber, M. Tian, R. Reibel, and W. R. Babbitt, Opt. Exp. 10, 1145-1150 (2002) “Amplification of high bandwidth phase modulated signals at 793nm”, R. Reibel, Z. Barber, M. Tian, W.R. Babbitt, Z. Cole, and K.D. Merkel, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 19, 2315 (2002). “Coherent integration of 0.5 GHz spectral holograms at 1536 nm using dynamic biphase codes”, Z. Cole, T. Böttger, R. Krishna Mohan, R. Reibel, W. R. Babbitt, R. L. Cone and K. D. MerkelAppl. Phys. Lett 18, 3525-3527 (2002). “Analytic Solutions of the Maxwell-Bloch Equations for High Photon Echo Efficiency of Multiple Pulse Sequences”, L. Tsang, C. Sjaarda Cornish, and W. R. Babbitt, accepted for publication in JOSA B. "Tunable External Cavity Diode Laser Based On Integrated Waveguide Structures", Kevin S. Repasky, Jennifer Williams, John L. Carlsten, Elizabeth J. Noonan, and Gregg W. Switzer was submitted to Optical Engineering. "Thermal Stability of Thin Ti Films on Al Single Crystal Surfaces", C.V. Ramana, Bum Sik Choi, R.J. Smith, Byoung Suk Park, Adli A. Saleh, Dong Ryul Jeon, R. Hutchison, S. P. Stuk , submitted to Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology. "Thermal Stability of Thin Ti Films on Al Single Crystal Surfaces", C.V. Ramana, Bum Sik Choi, R.J. Smith, Byoung Suk Park, Adli A. Saleh, Dong Ryul Jeon, R. Hutchison, S. P. Stuk, submitted to Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, October, 2002. "Insights on turbulent flows in the solar interior from the behaviour of dynamo generated magnetic fields", Dibyendu Nandy & Arnab Rai Choudhuri, submitted to the proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop on "Turbulence, waves and instabilities in solar system plasmas". “Observation of geometric phase using photon echoes”, M. Tian, R. Reibel, Z. Barber, J. Fischer, and W. R. Babbitt, submitted to Phys. Rev. A Rapid Communications. “High Bandwidth Linear Sideband Chirped Programming for Optical Coherent Transients”, R. Reibel, Z. Barber, J. Fischer, M. Tian, and W. R. Babbitt, Submitted to Optics Express. "LISA, binary stars, and the mass of the graviton" Curt Cutler, William A. Hiscock, Shane L. Larson, accepted for publication in Physical Review D, gr-qc/0209101. "Quasi-Stable Microwave Envelope Pulse Proagation in Wide Ferrite Films", Craig Zaspel, J. Appl. Phys.
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Loren Acton, B.S. '59, Research Professor of Physics, was one of two recipients of the Blue and Gold Award, the top award for MSU alums. Acton and Bruce Jacobsen of Grand Forks, N.D., received their awards in a ceremony October 4 sponsored by the MSU Alumni Association.
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Wishing you a great All-American Thanksgiving |
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Compiled & Edited by:Rose Waldon |
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