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Moscow, ID 83844-0903
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updated: 11-8-2009
Rembrance Service for George: The Department of Physics held a rememberance service for George Patsakos onThursday, Nov. 5th at 4 pm in the Silver Room in the Student Union Building on the UI Moscow campus. Over 50 friends, family and colleagues were in attendance to share memories and respect for him. He was remembered as a great physicist, a broad thinking and warm and gentle human being. We will miss you George.
Students Post-UI Plans of our some of our graduates can be reviewed here. As you can see there are many possibilties and paths available to someone with a bachelors degree in physics. These options are onlyl scratching the surface. Best of luck to all of our graduates. (6-2-08)
Our Department Awards Banquet was held on April 25. There was a great turn-out and a fun time was had by all. Our guest speaker was Prof. M. Grant Norton from WSU who talked about materials science thorugh history. Kevin de Bogart, Shilpa Chava and Jaime Hass were honored with awards given by our Department Chair, Wei-Jiang Yeh. To see pictures of the fun time click on the 2008 Awards Banquet page.
The UI Society of Physics Students presented two Demo Shows on Saturday March 30th. Students and their parents and many others were in attendance at both shows. Demonstrations of the principles of mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and thermodynamics were featured. (4-3-08)
Assistant Professor Chris Berven hosted three third grade classes where the students saw presenations on the solar system, saw a comet made in front of them and went on tours of one of our nano-physics reserach labs. (3-6-08) To read the Argonaut article about the event click here.
Prof. Ruprecht Machleidt and co-authors have just published in Physical Review Letters an explanation for a 5 decade old problem of why carbon-14 has such a long life-time. Although used successfully for many years, until now, no-one knew the underlying physics of why C-14 dating worked. Thanks to Dr. Machleidt's work, this valuable technique is on firm scientific ground. For more information click on the links for the Today@Idaho or the AIP Physics News Update. (2-26-08)
A total lunar eclipse will occur the evening of Feb. 20, 2008. This will be the last one until Dec. 2010! For more information, check out the eclipse page. (Updated on 2-21-08 with links to photos taken by others and Dr. Berven.)
Prof. Wei-Jiang Yeh has been appointed as term chair of the Department of Physics as of October 8, 2007. Congratulations!
Prof. George Patsakos gave his last colloquium before he retires at the end of this term on April 30th . His presentations were always a hit and they will be missed and hope they will not be the last. Click on this link to see pictures of this event. Thanks George!
The Department of Physics on April 27 held its annual awards banquet. Our Advisory Counsel was in attendance along with our many student award winners. Our after dinner presenter was J. Michael Scott of the USGS and UI. The title of his presentation was Americas Conservation Landscape 2076: Where? What? Who?.
The Department of Physics on April 20th celebrated the contributions of Luanne Semler and Prof. George Patsakos to the department at a party to honor their retirements at the end of the school year. Fifty well-wishers were in attendance and a good time was had by all.
Prof. Berven on Wednesday April 18 gave a preseation to a local Cub Scout Troop on Astronomy. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate and no telescope observing could be done. It is hoped that a new night for observing the stars will be possible in the near future.
A new term in upon us. Check out our updated website. The links to the lectures have been updated. There is a link to exciting job opportunties at PNNL. We also are in midst of finding a new chair for our department. Come join us when our candidates visit us and give their colloquia. We expect some facinating presentaitons.
A recent publication in Nanotechology by members of the Department of Physics has was downloaded over 250 times in less than two months. The paper Transport properties of
hybrid nanoparticle nanowire systems and their application to
gas sensing by co-authored by Dr. Vladimir Dobrokhotov, Assistant Professor C. Berven, Associate Professor Dave McIlroy, and Professor Grant Norton (WSU), is now part of the top 10% of all Institute of Physics articles in terms of popularity. (posted 10-3-2006)
Assistant Prof. You Qiang, Physics Department, gave recently an invited talk at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah. The title is "Doped ZnO Semiconductor Nanoclusters: Ferromagnetism and UV Photoluminescence above Room Temperature". (posted 10-3-2006)
The Department of Physics will be hosting a graduation party for all of its graduating undergraduate and graduate students and their families and friends. The party will be at the UI golf course clubhouse on Saturday May 13th starting at 6pm. (flyer)
Vladimir Dobrokhotov and his advisor Prof. Berven have had two papers on the electronic dynamics of Carbon Nanotubes accepted for publication in the journal Physica E. The two papers are titled "Structure Changes of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes by the Presence of an Ionic Shell" and "Electronic Transport Properties of Metallic CNTs in an Axial Magnetic Field at nonzero Temperatures: A Model of an Ultra-small Digital Magnetometer"
The Department of Physics presented a public lecture on November 17 titled "Einstein's Miracle Year" given by Professor of Physics Emeritus Phil Deutchman. We had upwards of 160 people attend and much fun was had by all.
Prof. Berven on October 14 gave an invited talk at the weekly Washington State University Chemical Engineering/Materials Science seminar titled "Gas Sensing with GaN Nanowires"
Ruprecht Machleidt, Acting Chair and Professor of Physics,
presented the weekly colloquium to the Argonne National
Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois, on Friday, November 4, 2005. His talk was entitled "The Nuclear Force Problem:
Is the Never-Ending Story Coming to an End?"
Jiji Antony, graduate student of physics, gave an oral presentation entitled"Room Temperature Ferromagnetic and UV Optical Properties of Co-Doped ZnONanocluster Films" at the 49th annual conference on Magnetism and MagneticMaterials, Jacksonville, Florida, November 7-11, 2004.
You Qiang, Assistant Professor of Physics, attended the 2004 MRS Fallmeeting in Boston, Nov. 29 to Dec. 3, 2004, and presented an invited talk titled "Nanocomposites made out of nanoclusters as building blocks for spaceapplications."
Dr. You Qiang, Assistant Professor of Physics, visited the
Departments of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, November 2 - 4, 2004, where he presented the Physics Colloquium entitled "Magnetism of Nanoclusters and Nanocluster Assembled Materials: Synthesis, Mass Selection and
Applications".
Dr.Berven, visited the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri-Rolla October 7 9, 2004, to present at the Physics Colloquium a talk entitled "Understanding Elecronic Tranport in 1D Arrays of Metal Nanoparticles".
The Society of Physics Students is sponsoring a Physics Demo Night at 6:30pm Tuesday, October 26 in EP 122. Open to all! Let Russ 'the Demo Guy' guide you through a fun evening of amazing physics demonstrations.
Ruprecht Machleidt, Professor and Acting Chair of Physics, presented the keynote talk at the workshop on Nuclear Forces and the Quantum Many-Body Problem held at the DOE-funded national Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle. The title of his talk was, "Towards a consistent approach to nuclear structure: Effective Field Theory of two-and many-body forces".
University of Idaho alumnus John W. Norbury has been named the new head of the Physics Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts
. He graduated from the University
of Idaho
in 1983 with a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear and particle physics.
Assisatnt Professor You Qiang gave an oral presentation entitled"Room Temperature Ferromagnetic and UV Optical Properties of Co-Doped ZnONanocluster Films" at the 49th annual conference on Magnetism and MagneticMaterials, Jacksonville, Florida, November 7-11, 2004.
The Department of Physics is sponsoring a at 6:30pm Tuesday, October 26 in EP 122. Open to all! Let Russ 'the Demo Guy' guide you through a fun evening of amazing physics demonstrations.
The Socitey of Physics Students sponsored a picnic for all of those in the physics department and their friends on Saturday the 18th at Ghormley Park. The weather was poor but the food and company were great.
Assistant Professor You Qiang presented an invited talk on"Synthesis and Applications of Oxide Nanoclusters and Nanocluster-Assembled Materials" at the 41st Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society (CMS) in Richland, WA, on June 23, 2004.The work he presented resulted from a collaboration with Jiji Antony, Donald R. Baer, Sweta Pendyala1 and Chongmin Wang.
Assistant Professor You Qiang presented another invited talk on"Novel Magnetic Core-shell nanoparticles for biomedicalApplications" at the International Conference on "Nanoparticles from theVapor Phase Synthesis with Chemical and Biochemical Applications" in Davos,Switzerland, August 8-13, 2004.
Assistant Professor You Qiang presented an invited talk on "Synthesis and Applications of Oxide Nanoclusters and Nanocluster-Assembled Materials" at the 41st Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society (CMS) in Richland, WA, on June 23, 2004. The work he presented resulted from a collaboration with Jiji Antony, Donald R. Baer, Sweta Pendyala1 and Chongmin Wang.
Assistant Professor You Qiang presented another invited talk on "Novel Magnetic Core-shell nanoparticles for biomedical Applications" at the International Conference on "Nanoparticles from the Vapor Phase Synthesis with Chemical and Biochemical Applications" in Davos, Switzerland, August 8-13, 2004.
Prof. Berven attended the Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society in San Francisco, California to present an invited talk entitled “Understanding Electronic Transport in 1D Arrays of Metal Nanoparticles”.
Prof. Berven attended the American Physical Society’s March Meeting in Montreal, Québec, to present a talk titled “Modeling of Nanoparticle Based Logic Gates.”
UI Physics Undergraduate Tyrel Johnson '05 will be interning this summer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA from June 13th to August 21st. He doesn't know the subject of his research yet but he is very excited none-the-less. At the end of the internship he will participate in an intern symposium at which he will present a ten-page paper on his research. Good job Tyrel.
UI Physics Undergraduate Mike Fernald '05 was awarded an American Association of Physicists in Medicine Summer Undergraduate Fellowship for 2004. He will be interning with Dr. Thomas Bortfeld of Massachusetts General Hospital. His project is titled "Experimental Verification of 4D IMRT Treatment Plans." The competition for these ten awards is fierce so he is a member of a very select group. Well Done Mike!
UI Physics Undergraduate Sandra Wright '04 was accepted to the graduate physics program at the University of Nevada, Reno where she is interested in studying plasma physics. We'll miss you Sandra.
UI Physics Undergraduate Kathryn Tomaszewski '07 was awarded a summer internship at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland through the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). It's a ten-week program and she's excited at the prospect of doing research on obscure subjects like dark matter, dark energy and black holes. Congratulations Kathryn!
Assistant Professor You Qiang recently visited theNano-functional Materials Laboratory, Department of Urban Planning and Environment Technology & Department of Materials Science and Engineering,Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. He gave an invited talk about "Mass Selection, Deposition and Magnetism of Nanoclusters". His trip is supported by Japanese NITECH 21st Century COE Programme on Environment Friendly Materials.
Assistant Professor You Qiang was recently invited by three Chinese institutions to give talks and discuss possible nanomaterials research collaborations between the US and China.
Prof. Berven received a grant from the Idaho EPSCoR program office for the purchase of a new CRYO Industries 3He cryostat. The cryostat, with the capability to cool samples down to 300 mK, is scheduled for delivery in May 2004. The low temperatures and large 8T magnet installed in it will enable Prof. Berven's research group do transport measurements that will access the smallest energy features of nanoscale materials and devices.
Assistant Professor You Qiang was invited by the Washington State University Department of Physics give a colloquium on Nov. 4, 2003 on his group's work entitled "Controllable Nanostructured Materials Made Out of Nanocluster Building Blocks"
The Society of Physics Students and the Department of Physics are sponsoring a Physics Demo Night that will be held on Thursday, October 16, 6:30 pm in the Engineering/Physics building, room 122. Come watch Russ 'The Demo Guy' break stuff, burn stuff and blow stuff up. See what physics is like without all that math.
The Department of Physics will jointly hoist the American Physical Society's Northwest Section meeting in May of 2004 with their colleagues in the Department of Physics at Washington State University (10 miles over the state line in Pullman, WA).
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