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Page 1: Physics Department Computer resources Physics colloquium series Careers in physics program Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff SPS &

Physics Department • Computer resources• Physics colloquium series • Careers in physics program• Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff• SPS & T-shirt design contest• Undergraduate honors and award programs• Lab teaching assistant, tutoring, and grading opportunities• Research opportunities• Presentations by undergraduate research students

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Physics Department

• Computer resources– Presentation by Ching-Wan Yip and Tim Miller.

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Physics Department

Physics colloquium series

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Careers in physics program

Coordinated by Professor Dany Kim-Shapiro –

Events:Thursday Sept. 16th: Mark Wilson – Editor for Physics Today

Tuesday Oct 12 – Hank Yochum – Sweet Briar College

(?) November – Mark Roberson – MCNC

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• Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staffNew Faculty Members:

Jed Macosko Assistant Professor of Physics -- undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT and UC-Berkeley and post doctoral training at UNM – expert in biophysics experimental researchLukasz Turski – Visiting Professor of Physics -- Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences -- College of Science of Cardinal Wyszynski University –

collaborating with Professor Bill Kerr and his students. New Staff Members:

Jiwen Liu, Swati Basu, Mick Knaggs

New Graduate Students: Matthew Cass, Todd Fallesen, and Ye Yuan

New Undergraduate Students (juniors):Zachary Abernathy, Kevin Berardinelli, Richard Gaut, Jared Hill, Katherine Lee, John McQuirt, Thomas Rutledge, Tyler Zimmerman

New Prospective Undergraduate physics majors:

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• Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff

Undergraduate Physics Majors: Zachary Abernathy, Ivan Azarov, Kevin Berardinelli, Matthew

Caudill, Ierisha Davis, Richard Gaut, Kristen Hall, Jared Hill, Charles Inman, Katherine Lee, Ben Martin, John McQuirt, Thomas Rutledge, Bryan Stephens, Jacqueline VanDeventer,Tyler Zimmerman

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• Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff

Physics Graduate Students: Yonas Abraham, Doug Bonessi, Matthew Cass, Faith Coldren,

Kevin Conley, David Evanich, , Todd Fallesen, Jason Grigsby, William Hirsch, William Hodge, Kris Huang, Anne Jeffers, Jerrold Kielbasa, Nicole Levi, Wenhua Liu, Lu Peng, Yong Qiu, Matt Rave, Jean Rockford, Ping Tang, Gang Xiong, and Ye Yuan

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Since last spring:

Students who completed their graduate work: Chanté Singleton – Completed her MS degree with Daniel

Bourland medical physicist at Anderson Cancer Institute in Savannah, GA.

Virginia Lockamy – Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim-Shapiro resident in medical physics at U. Minn.

Xuili Xu -- Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim-Shapiro postdoctoral position at NIH

Keijing Chen -- Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim-Shapiro postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins University

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Physics Department VIP Staff:Judy Swicegood – Administrative Coordinator

Gale Burns – Secretary

Chin-Wan Yip – Instructional Technology Analyst

Machele Cable – Physics Laboratory Manager

Bob Morris – Machine Shop Instructor

Burak Uçer – Laser specialist

Tim Miller – Computer cluster administrator and guru

Research Group VIP Staff:

NanoTech: Richard Czerw, Ben Harrison, Jiwen Liu, Scott Webster Fetrow Group: Mick Knaggs and Stacy Knutson

Kim-Shapiro Group: Jinming Huang, Swati Basu, Man Cho

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Physics Department Faculty:

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Rick Matthews (Chair) – Olin 217

Paul Anderson – Olin 308 Natalie Holzwarth – Olin 300

Keith Bonin – Olin 310 William Kerr – Olin 310

Bob Brehme (emeritus) Dany Kim-Shapiro – Olin 208

Eric Carlson – Olin 306 Jed Macosko – Olin 215

David Carroll – Olin 214 Fred Salsbury – Olin 301A

Greg Cook – Olin 304 Howard Shields (emeritus) – Olin 216

Jacquelyn Fetrow – Olin 301B Lukasz Turski – Olin 303C

Martin Guthold – Olin 302 Jack Williams (emeritus)

George Holzwarth (emeritus) – Olin 300 Richard Williams – Olin 212

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• Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff

Please see Judy Swicegood in Olin 100 To prepare your photo for our display case.

Please check your mailboxes in the Physics Dept. Office (Olin 100 or 108) for important announcements

– All declared physics majors have mailboxes in Rm. 108 and graduate students have mailboxes in Rm. 100.

– Judy needs some forms by Sept. 1st from all undergraduate graders and teaching assistants.

– To obtain keys to rooms in Olin Physical Lab, please see Machele Cable in Olin 110.

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Judy Swicegood & Gale Burns

Physics majors’

mail boxesFaculty, staff, &

graduate student mail boxes

Bill, Will, Matt, Jason,David

You are here

First floor of Olin Physical Laboratory

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Second floor of Olin Physical Laboratory

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Kris, Ivan, Anne, Matt, Lu, Wenhua, Jerry, Gang, Kevin

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Dany Kim-Shapiro

Richard Williams

David Carroll

Advanced Lab

Electronics Lab

Conference Room

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Third floor of Olin Physical Laboratory

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Greg Cook

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Paul Anderson

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William Kerr

Yonas, Ping, Qui

Yip

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Jacque Fetrow

Fred Salsbury Luckasz

Turski

Stacy, Mick, Michael, Ye

Current journals

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Physics Department

• SPS (Society of Physics Students)– Coordinated by Professor Martin Guthold – first meeting in

a few weeks

• T-shirt design contest– T-shirt comments by Natalie Holzwarth

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• Undergraduate honors and award programs– Presentation by Professor W. C. Kerr.

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• Lab TA, Tutorial, and Grading Opportunities– Undergraduate TA’s and graders have forms in their mail

boxes and should return them to Judy Swicegood soon.– Announcements by Professor Keith Bonin

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• Research opportunities– Undergraduate students are especially encouraged to

participate; course credit, Wake Forest University Fellowships, or individual faculty grants

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Web site: http://www.wfu.edu/undergraduate_college/research-fellowship/

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Web site: http://www.wfu.edu/undergraduate_college/research-fellowship/

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Research Group Area of research Slots Current students

Keith Bonin Laser and optical physics, biophysics

~1 Doug Bonessi, Jean Rockford

David Carroll Nano-technology ~5 Faith Coldren, Jerry Kielbasa, Nicole Levi

Martin Guthold Atomic force microscopy of biological molecules

~1 Wenhua Liu, Lu Peng, Saami Yazdani, Minnu Mudigonda,Bryan Stephens*

Jed Macosko Biophysics ~2 Jean Rockford

Dany Kim-Shapiro

Biophysics ~1 Matthew Cass, Kris Huang, Anne Jeffers, Ivan Azarov, Kevin Berardinelli, Toyin Okanlawon, Rachel Maree*

Richard Williams

Solid state and laser physics

~2 Yonas Abraham, Jerry Kielbasa, Yong Qiu, Gang Xiong

Physics Research Participation – Experimental Physics

*Undergraduate students

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Research Group Area of research Slots Current students

Paul Anderson Gravitational physics ~2

Eric Carlson Particle physics and astrophysics

~1 Bill Hirsch

Greg Cook Gravitational physics and computational astrophysics

~1 David Evanich, Jason Grigsby, Matthew Caudill*

Jacquelyn Fetrow

Computational biophysics ~3 Ryan Huff, Michael Hicks*

Natalie Holzwarth

Computational materials physics

~3 Yonas Abraham, Kevin Conley, Ping Tang

William Kerr Computational solid state physics

~1 William Hodge, Matthew Rave

Rick Matthews Computational solid state physics

~1 Ben Martin*

Fred Salsbury Computational biophysics ~2 Ye Yuan, Jared Hill*

Physics Research Participation – Theoretical/Computational Physics

*Undergraduate students

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Undergraduate physics students who participated in research this summer:

At WFU:

Ivan Azarov (Dany Kim-Shapiro)Matthew Caudill (Greg Cook)

Michael Hicks (Jacquelyn Fetrow)Jared Hill (Fred Salsbury)

Bryan Stephens (Martin Guthold)

Elsewhere:

Ierisha DavisBen Martin