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Volume 10, No. 6. September 2002 |
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Awards Honors and New Positions Emily Armitage, Michael Chase, Dustin Cram, and Wayne Janssen were awarded $1500 stipends from the Undergraduate Scholars Program to work with Charles Kankelborg on the MOSES project. The students are in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program, and have been working on mechanical and thermal design of the MOSES rocket payload. "Using 'EIT Waves' to Determine Coronal Properties", M. J. Wills-Davey, NATO Advance Research Workshop: Turbulence, Waves, and Instabilities in the Solar Plasma, in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 16-20."Overview of Activities in Optical Coherent Transient Signal Processing", Randy Babbitt, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "1-2-3-Photon Absorption Properties of Tetraphyrrolic Molecule", Aleksander Rebane, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Observatio of Geometric Phase in Three-Level Atomic Systems Unin Photon Echoes", Mingzhen Tian, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Optical Pulse Shaping using Optical Coherent Transients", Zeb Barber, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Spectral Hole-burning with Mode-Locked Lasers", Joe Fischer, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Laser Diode Frequency Noise Power Measurements" Sytil Murphy, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "The Laser Source Development Program", Kevin Repasky, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Energies of 4fN and 4fN-15d States Relative to Host Bands in Rare-Earth- Activated Optical Materials", Charls Thiel, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "New Aspects of Line Broadening in YAG Laser Materials", Yongchen Sun, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Montana State University REU Site Program: A Materials Research Education", REU proposal to NSF, Neumeier, Idzerda, and Schmidt). "REU Solar Physics Program at Montana State University", NSF, PI Piet Martens, Co-I David McKenzie, $235,999, three years. "Multi-wavelength Characterizasions of Variations in Solar Emission Measure and Irradiance Throughout the Activity Cycle", NASA, PI Loren Acton, Co-I David McKenzie, $392,663, three years. "Progenitors to Geoeffective Coronal Mass Ejections: Filaments and Sigmoids", NASA, PI David McKenzie, Co-I Robert Leamon, $307,259 over three years. Proposals Funded "Aerospace Workforce Development Program", NASA, PI Bill Hiscock, $100,000, Oct. 1, 2002 -- Sept. 30, 2003. "Continuous-wave Raman Laser in H2", Lei Meng, Sept. 6. “Magnon Modes for Thin Circular Vortex State Magnetic Dots”, C. E. Zaspel, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Montana/Western, Sept. 13. “Novel Laser Sources: Science and Applications”, Kevin Repasky, Montana State University, Sep. 20. “A New Millenium Look at Select Technologies - Spacecraft, Laser Defense, Non-Moving Machinery”, Dr. William Burt, Program Manager, TRW Space & Electronics Inc., Sept. 27. Chef's Hat Optional...
On December 2, 1969, an aspiring culinary expert was born
on a farm near the small Arkansas town of Jasper. Unlike typical
deliveries of modern days this newborn was delivered at home by his
father, who also delivered three other siblings at their home. Today, he
works as a custodial engineer on the second floor of the EPS building.
Anyone studying in the atrium at night can confirm that one of Benjamin’s
favorite hobbies is listening to music. This includes bands such as Pink
Floyd and his favorite, Kiss. In a brief interview, he disclosed that his
favorite color is red, his favorite food is chicken fried steak, his
favorite president is Abraham Lincoln, his favorite male celebrities are
Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, and his favorite female celebrity is
Goldie Hawn. He also revealed himself to be an outdoorsman by relating
his joy in riding motorcycles, riding mules, and taking scenic drives in
the country. He plans to marry his fiancé this coming January, move to
Washington the following summer, and enroll in culinary school.
Seminars
Astrophysics and
Space Science Seminar
Rel/Astro
Seminar
Special Seminar "Electronic Structures of Metal Chalcogenides EuX (X=O, S, Te) and Bi2Te3", Hoon Kon, Advanced Light Source, Berkeley, CA, Sept. 9. Bill Hiscock traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 6-11, to attend meetings of the EPSCoR Foundation and Coalition, and the National NSF EPSCoR meeting. Bill Hiscock traveled to Cornell University Sept. 19-22 to attend the New York State Space Grant Meeting. Bill Hiscock and Dave McKenzie attended a meeting of the Space Science Network Northwest at Big Sky, Sept. 25. Dick Smith spent two weeks (9/23-10/4) conducting experiments at Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland WA, using the ion beam facilities in the Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory. The ion beam lab at EMSL is now under the direct supervision of Dr. V. Shutthanandan (Shuttha), a graduate from Dick's group (PhD, MSU,1994). Yves Idzerda, Johnathon Holroyd, Alex Lussier, Ezana Negusse, Damon Resnick, Thorsten Schiffer, and Thomas Stolz travelled to the NSLS (National Synchrotron Light Source) on Long Island, NY to conduct experiments, Sept. 13-26. Alex and Johnathon also attended a course on EXAFS (Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure) at NSLS. George Tuthill traveled to Washington, DC, to attended a MASA Mission Meeting, Sept. 28-Oct. 1. Dibyendu Nandi, Tetsuya Magara and Meredith Wills-Davey attended the NATO Workshop on Turbulence, Sept. 13-21, in Budapest, Hungary. Meredith Wills-Davey attended the 10th European Solar Physics Meeting in Prague, the Czech Republic, September 9-14 Xiaofang Chen (M.S. '00) and her husband relocated to Rochester, NY for his new job. Their son, Alan, was born in Rochester in May. Right now Xiaofang is very busy taking care of their son and is very happy. After their son gets a little older she will plan the next step of her career. Phil Battle (Ph.D. '93) and his wife Janie are the proud parents of Annie Jane. Weighing 7 lbs. 12 oz., she was born Sept. 5th. Congratulations! "Unequal arm space-borne gravitational wave detectors", Shane Larson, Ronald Hellings, and William A. Hiscock, Phys Rev D66, 062001 (2002). New graduate student Hu Cao is first author on “Investigation of electromechanical properties of Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-38%PbTiO3 single crystal” by Hu Cao and Haosu Luo, Ferroelectrics 274, 309-315 (2002). "Heat conduction and magnetic phase behavior in electron doped Ca1-xLaxMnO3 (0≤x≤0.2)" J. L. Cohn and J. J. Neumeier, Phys. Rev. B Rapid Commun. 66 (2002) 100404. "LISA, binary stars, and the mass of the graviton", Curt Cutler (AEI), William A. Hiscock (Montana State), Shane L. Larson (Caltech) submitted to Phys Rev D (gr-qc/0209101) "Low-Energy Ion-Beam Induced Effects in Al(100) Surface Studied Using Rutherford Backscattering and Channeling", C.V.Ramana, B.S. Choi, and R.J.Smith*, submitted to Applied Surface Science, September 2002. |
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"Using Coronal Wave Propagation as a Temperature Diagnostic", M. J. Wills-Davey, 10th European Solar Physics Meeting, Prague, the Czech Republic, Sept. 9-14. "Rotating Sample Holder for Angle-Dependent Optical Studies", Dustin Rich, Norm Williams, Gregory Reinemer and Rufus Cone (presented by Dustin Rich), OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Er:YSO-A 1.5 Micron Spectral Holography Processing Material and Laser Wavelength Reference", Tom Böttger, Charles Thiel, Yongchen Sun and Rufus Cone (presented by Tom Böttger), OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Cascade Injection Locking System for Amplificatio of High Bandwidth Signals", Steve Jia, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Demonstration for Highly Efficient True Time Delay with OCT", Hongyan Li and Steve Jia, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Multi-photon Absorption Properties of Tetraphyrrolic Molecules", A. Karotki, M. Drobizhev, A. Rebane, C. Spangler (presented by Aleks Karotki), OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Waveguide Lasers", Jennifer Williams, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Micro-Assemblies", Brian Matosich, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Fast EUV Imaging and Spectroscopy", Charles Kankelborg, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14. "Progress on a Tunable Yellow Solid-State Laser for Eu:YSO and the SHB Memory Project", Pete Sellin, OpTeC Conference, Sept. 13-14.
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