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Volume 10, No. 8. November/December 2002 |
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Why Pure Science? Victor Frederick Wissekopf, 1908-2002 Why pure science? in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1965) 21 4-8
Awards Honors and New Positions Dana Longcope has been selected as the first recipient of the Karen Harvey Prize, the Solar Physics Division's "early career" prize. Give hearty congratulations to Dana. Another feather in his cap. He wears them well. “Thermal Stability of Thin Ti Films on Al Single Crystal Surfaces”, Smith and Chintalapalle Ramana, AVS International Symposium, Denver, CO, Nov. 4-8.
"Using MeV Ion Backscattering/Channeling to Characterize the Composition and Structure of Buried Metal-Metal Interfaces", Dick Smith, 17 I
Iinternational Conference on the Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Denton, TX, Nov. 12-16. "Recent Additions to the Nobel Laboratory Series using the 2 MV HVE Accelerator at Montana State University”, Dick Smith, 17 International Conference on the Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Denton, TX, Nov. 12-16.
"DEM Modeling of Coronal Loops: Forward Analytical Models", Piet Martens, Coronal Loops Workshop, IAS, Paris, France, Nov. 13-15.
"Measurements of Flux Cancellation During Filament Formation". Piet Martens, MURI consortium meeting, Berkeley, Dec. 5.
"Acquisition of a rapid prototyping system (RPS) for printed circuit boards (PCBs)", DURIP, $65,305, John Hermanson and John Getty. "Rare-earth Material Development for Persistent Spectral Hole Burning Computing Systems", AFOSR, $361,687, Y. Sun, Rufus Cone, and Charles Thiel. "Cascaded injection locked diode laser transmitter for LIDAR measurements", NASA STTR program, $99,189, Kevin Repasky. "Spectroscopic Measurements of Er3+:LuAG", Scientific Materials Corporation, $7,245, Y. Sun. “Thin Film Oxide and Magnetic Systems”, Roger L. Stockbauer, Department of Physics and Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Louisiana State University, Nov. 1. “Novel Laser Sources: Science and Applications, Part II”, Kevin Repasky, Montana State University, Nov. 8. “National Teachers Enhancement Network: A Physicist’s View of Online Outreach”, George Tuthill, MSU, Nov. 22. "Expotential Growth: Epoch of Fossil Fuels", Jack Drumheller, MSU (Retired), Dec. 6. " The Porphyrins – Colorful Molecules of Life", Mikalai Kruk, MSU, Dec. 13. SeminarsCondensed Matter: "Determination of Electronic and Magnetic Structures of Sr2FeMoO6 by Polarized X-ray Absorption" Damon Resnick, Nov. 4. "Characterization of Strontium Titinate/Fe3O4 and TiN/Fe3O4 Interfaces", Alex Lussier, Nov. 4. "Pb(ZrTi) oe co-modified by La and Li promising material for fatigue free capacitors for nonvolatile memories", V.L. Sobolev, Dept. of Physics, SD School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, Nov. 22. "Crystal orientation and cutting techniques and problems", Recep Avci, Nov. 27. "Steric Effects on the Metallic-Mirror to Transparent-Insulator Transition in YHx", Troy Messina, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Dec. 20.
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Seminar: "Precession as a Probe of Neutron Star Physics", Bennett Link, Nov. 14. "Spinning the Bottle: Precession of a Triaxial Neutron Star, Part II", Bennett Link, Nov. 21. "An Introduction to Pixons", Lewis Fox, Dec. 5. .Alisdair Davey attended the Birds of a Feather VSO Session at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco on 6th December 2002 and a mini VSO workshop on the 7th at Stanford. Dick Smith and Chintalapalle Ramana attended the annual AVS International symposium in Denver, CO, Nov. 4-8. Dick Smith attended the 17 International Conference on the Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Nov. 12-16, Denton, TX. Dick Smith and Dr. Ramana visited the Ion Beam Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, from Dec 9-18. They performed experiments to characterize the oxidation of thin films serving as oxidation resistant coatings on steel components for future solid oxide fuel cells. Sachiko Tsuruta served on a NASA theory proposal review panel in Washington, DC, Nov. 4-7. Piet Martens attended the Coronal Loops Workshop, IAS, Paris, France, November 13-15, the SMEX prepatory meeting, CfA, Cambridge, MA, December 2-4. We (CfA/MSU) will propose a mission called DCoDE: Dual-Channel Coronal Dynamics Explorer. Piet attended MURI consortium meeting, December 5, Berkely, the AGU, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 6, and the Internal VSO Meeting, in Stanford, Dec. 7. David McKenzie and Piet Martens travelled to Cambridge, MA, to discuss a future space mission proposal with Harvard's Center for Astrophysics. Hugo Schmidt traveled to Pucon, Chile, to attend an ONR workshop on Multifunctional Materials, Oct. 25-Nov. 4. Hugo Schmidt and Jil Hallenberg attended the Biomimetics Conference held in Albuquerque, NM, Dec. 7-11. George Tuthill attended a conference on on-line professional development for science teachers held in Cambridge, MA, Dec. 7-11. Dick Smith and C.V. Ramana conducted experiments at Pacific Northwest National Labs in Richland, WA, Dec. 8-21. Dick Smith presented papers at the 49th AVS Symposium in Denver, CO, Nov. 3-8, and at the 17th International Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research in Denton, TX, Nov. 12-17. Dana Longcope Attended the APS meeting held in Orlando, FL, Nov. 9-13. John Neumeier attended an AGU meeting held in San Francisco, CA, Nov. 23-Dec. 12. Randy Babbitt traveled to Denver, CO, for technical discussions with colleagues, Nov. 18-24. Dibyendu Nandi traveled to Big Bear, CA, to attend a GONG Plus 2002 meeting, Oct. 25-Nov. 3. Gerald Lapeyre attended the AVS meeting held in Denver, CO, Nov. 3-8. Bill Hiscock traveled to Las Vegas, NV, to discuss National Space Grant program with the Board of Directors of Arthur C. Clarke Foundation, Nov. 30-Dec. 3. On Dec. 4-7 Bill traveled to Washington, DC, to the participate in NASA EPSCoR Foundation and Coalition Board Meetings. Ali Belarouci traveled to Minneapolis, MN, for semiconductor processing at the University of Minnesota, Dec. 3-18. Charles Kankelborg attended a MOSES meeting at Mullard Space Science Laboratory in London, UK, Nov. 18-24. Tetsuya Magara attended the SPA fall meeting in San Francisco, CA, Dec. 4-10. Yves Idzerda traveled to Chicago, IL, to attend an organization committee meeting for the PCSI conference, Nov. 2-3. Yves Idzerda, Johnathon Holroyd, Damon Resnick and Craig Zaspel attended the 47th Conference in Magnetism and Magnetic Materials in Tampa, FL, Nov. 9-16. Jonathan Cirtain and Henry Winter traveled to Paris, France, to attend a conference on Coronal Loops, Nov. 8-17. Phillip Himmer, MS '92 Physics, gave his PhD dissertation defense entitled "Silicon Nitride Deformable Mirros for Focus and Aberration Control in Micro-Optical Systems" (Montana State University in Electrical and Computer Engineering) on Nov. 5. Kamalesh Chatterjey, MS'01 Physics, wrote that he survived the first written qualifying exam at MIT last January; this January he faces part II of the examination. After taking a quick look at Experimental particle physics here, he joined a group in experimental condensed matter physics, led by Eric Hudson. See http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/eric_hudson.htm . Hudson plans to study High Temperature super-conductivity (HTSC) using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM). The group is building the instrument, with more features than other groups. The group plans to extend STM to non conducting materials (with resolution comparable to STM, in contrast to conventional AFM), a striking new technique to do STM study of HTSC, and ESR using STM. Kamalesh says that he will make use of all his strengths in analogue electronics. There are existing techniques and circuits for Pico-ampere measurements with high bandwidth, but pushing 10 or even 100 times better is a real challenge. "Progress in Relating Rare Earth Ion 4f and 5d Energy Levels to Host Bands in Optical Materials for Hole Burning, Quantum Information, and Phosphors", C. W. Thiel, Y. Sun, and R. L. Cone, Modern Optics, Dec. 2002. "Coherent Integration of 0.5 GHz Spectral Holograms at 1536 nm using Dynamic Bi-Phase Codes", Z. Cole, T. Böttger, Krishna Mohan, R. Reibel, W. R. Babbitt, R. L. Cone, and K. D. Merkel, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 3525-3527 (2002).
"YOHKOH-SXT OBSERVATIONS OF RECONNEXION", P.C.H. Martens, Advances in Space Research. "SADE, The Student Astrophysical Dynamo Explorer", Martens, P.C.H., Acton, L.W.A., Klumpar, D., Kankelborg, C., Stern, R.A., Peres, G., and Culhane, J.L. Advances in Space Research. "Analysis of a Coronal Loop on the Limb", Cirtain, J.W.; Martens, P.C.H.; Winter, H.D., Advances in Space Research. "What is the role of the kink instability in eruption of X-ray sigmoids?", Leamon, R.J., Canfield, R.C., Blehm, Z., and Pevtsov, A.A., Astrophysical Journal.
``Photospheric and Coronal Currents in Solar Active Regions'', Burnette, A.B., Canfield, R. C., and Pevtsov, A.A., Astrophysical Journal. ``On the Origin of Stellar Activity'', Canfield, R. C., Advances in Space Research. "Material Optimization of Er3+:Y2SiO5 at 1.5 mm for optical processing, memory, and laser frequency stabilization applications", Thomas Böttger, Yongchen Sun, Charles W. Thiel, and R. L. Cone, Proceedings of the SPIE 4988, December 2002. ”Using metallic interlayers to stabilize abrupt, epitaxial metal-metal interfaces", C. V. Ramana, Bum-Sik Choi, P. Masse and R.J. Smith, Physical Review Letters, 2003. “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 Choi, Adli A. Saleh, N.R. Shivaparan, V. Shutthanandan, Applied Surface Science, 2003. “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, Journal of Vacuum Sci.e and Technology, 2003. "Tunable external cavity diode laser based on integrated waveguide structures", Kevin Repasky, Jennifer Williams, John Carlsten, Elizabeth Noonan, and Gregg Switzer, Optical Engineering. "Programmable Sub-kHz Laser Frequency Stabilization at 1523 nm using Persistent Spectral Hole Burning", Thomas Böttger, G. J. Pryde, and R. L. Cone, to appear in Opt. Lett., Feb. 2003.
"Material Optimization of Er3+:Y2SiO5 at 1.5 mm for optical processing, memory, and laser frequency stabilization applications", Thomas Böttger, Yongchen Sun, Charles W. Thiel, and R. L. Cone, Photonics West 2003, San Jose, California, Jan. 2003. “Using Ti Interlayers as an Interface Stabilizer to Promote Epitaxial Growth of Fe on Al(100) Surfaces", Dick Smith and Chintalapalle Ramana, AVS International Symposium, Denver, CO, Nov. 4-8. |
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Compiled & Edited by:Rose Waldon |
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