UD Physics & Astronomy

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Current UG & G Majors: 166
Research Grants: $7.3 million/yr

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Nov 16th: DPA-BRI team arrives at the South Pole to work on Ice Top project. UDaily and News Journal stories.
Oct 22nd: New Center for Spintronics & Biodetection website.
Sept 12th: DPA Astronomers part of team that discovered a new planet near former giant red star. See UDaily.
Nov 26th: Delaware Space Grant Research Symposium 12:00 - 4:30 in Trabant Center.
Oct 17th: College of Arts and Sciences will hold a two-day symposium of talks by prominent UD faculty on the research and careers of the new Nobel laureates for 2007. Edmund Nowak, associate professor of physics and astronomy, will speak Wed. Oct 17th at 1:00 about Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance. UDaily.
Oct 21 DPA Picnic
Sept 26th: Daicar-Bata Graduate Fellowship award winners Thomas Madura and Rupsi Pal announced.
July 2nd: George Hadjipanayis, R.B. Murray Professor and Chair, has been named to the Electron Energy Corporation Board of directors. Press Release
June 27th: Bartol Research Institute, DPA and University of Delaware have been granted full collaborator status on the VERITAS project, which Dr. Jamie Holder has been a major contributor prior to coming to Delaware.
Aug 8th: Three undergrads, Mohamed Bah, Liz Van Wie and Andrew J. Sweriduk, will present the results of their research at the Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, and Mathematics Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium from 1:00 - 3:00 in McKinly Lab. UDaily
June 15th: James Roth, Senior Electronics & Instrument Specilaist's experience on Ice Top is featured in UDaily special on Polar Research.
June 1st: Recent grad Steve Anton receives SPS leadership award . UDaily
June 1st: Henry Glyde presented a talk on "Access to Major International Facilities" to the US Liaison Committee to IUPAP at the National Academies in Washington.
May 31st: Jamie Holder is hosting this years VERITAS Summer Collaboration Meeting May 31st thru June 2nd. VERITAS home
May 31st: Abdullah Ceylan - Ph. D. Thesis Defense - "Core/Shell Structured Magnetic Nanoparticles Synthesized by Inert Gas Condensation", 10 am in 215 Sharp Lab
May 31st: Liviu Zarbo - Ph. D. Thesis Defense - "Mesoscopic Spin Hall Effect in Semiconductor Nanostructures", 2 pm in 215 Sharp Lab
May 31st: Souleymane Omar Diallo and Henry Glyde's Physical Review Letter on "Bose-Einstein Condensation in solid ⁴He" is highlighted by Physorg Science News.
May 25th : Office of Graduate Studies has awarded V. Nefer Senoguz the 2007 Theodore Wolf Prize for outstanding dissertation in the physical and life sciences. UDaily
May 23rd: John Gizis' promotion with tenure to Associate Professor has been approved by the University of Delaware Board of Trustees, effective Sept 1st.
May 26th: University of Delaware 158th Commencement and Department Convocation.
May 25th : A figure from a paper published by Assistant Professor Michael Shay and Post Doc Paul Cassak was featured on the cover of Physical Review Letters
May 23rd: DPA faculty on team building giant neutrino telescope at the South Pole. UDaily
May 23rd: Three Charter High School of Wilmington students made US Physics Team. Charter physics teacher, Dave Stover, is a former DPA graduate student and adjunct instructor.
May 16th: Undergraduate Awards, 225 Sharp Lab, 5:00 PM.
May 14th: New faculty: Matt DeCamp, Jamie Holder and Yi Ji each receive $25 K UDRF grants.
May 5th: DPA undergraduate students to present their work at UD's UG Research Symposium.
May 5th: Grad student Meijun Lu awarded Bill N. Baron Fellowship Award from Institute of Energy Conversion.
May 4th: DPA Master Machinist Tom Reed honored with UD Excellence in Service Award. UDaily
May 2nd: Department Chair George Hadjipanayis and Assistant Professor Michael Shay visit Washington, DC to advocate increased funding.
April 20th: DPA faculty among researchers to receive $1.9 million grant for new "Center for Spintronics and Biodetection". UDaily
April 4th: Sr. Assoc Dean and Professor George Watson announced that three DPA graduate student are among the 2007 recipients of the NSF GK-12 Fellowships. They are; Chris Russell, Tom Ekiert and Tom Madura for the second time. Congratulations!
April 3rd: Dean Tom Apple announces Professor John Xiao as the College of Arts & Sciences 2007 Outstanding Scholar Award winner. New UDaily article
April 24th: Dr. Takaaki Kajita will deliver the Swann Lecture titled, "The discovery of small neutrino masses", on Tuesday, April 24th at 4:00 PM in 116 Gore Hall. The lecture is free of charge and open to the public.
April 25th: 2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics Symposium. In conjunction with Penn Physics & Astronomy and The Franklin Institute.
March 30th: Ph.D. Thesis Defense, Souleymane Omar Diallo, "A neutron scattering study of the momentum distribution of atoms in liquid and solid helium".
March 22nd: Professor Sui-Tat Chui awarded DOE grant to design low-cost MRAM chips.
March 20th: Professor Stephen Barr recognized for work relating science and religion.
March 14th: Assistant Professor Michael Shay wins NSF Career Award.
March 2nd: Dr. Szalewicz's group unveils secrets of water in Science article.
March 16th: Department announces University Graduate Awards:
- Ralitsa Dragomirova, Competetive Fellows Award, Advisor: Branislav Nikolic
- Hao Zhu, Dissertation Fellows Award, Advisor, John Xiao
- Sasikumar Palaniyappan, Dissertation Fellows Award, Advisor, Barry Walker
March 2nd: Dr. Thomas Gaisser's research on IceCube is highlighted as UD researchers mark International Polar Year.
Jan 5th: IceCube in Science magazine. IceCube is a collaboration that includes a team from DPA's Bartol Research Institute.
Dec 7th: Henry Glyde discusses "Superflow in solid helium" in Nature.
March 9th: Friday 4:00 pm, 130 Sharp Lab Future Scientist and Engineer Series II Professor Michael Shay will present Living with a Star, the Emerging Science of Space Weather for high school and undergraduate students.
Spring 2007: Department offers two new Astrophysics courses; PHYS333 and PHYS833.
Nov 1st 2006: Dean Tom Apple announced the reappointment of Dr. George Hadjipanayis as Chair of the department, effective September 1, 2007.
Oct 31st 2006: Post Doctoral Associate Mike Bonder was quoted in an article in MIT's Technical Review regarding the benefits of using nanoparticles in new cancer detection and treatments.
Oct 13th 2006: Faraday & Franklin lecture by Sir John Muerig Thomas of the University of Cambridge, co-sponsored by the DPA is Friday, October 13th at 4:00 pm in Mitchell Hall. This lecture will also be webcast live in case you are not on campus.
Oct 6th 2006: Two faculty members recently featured in publications. Dr. Stan Owocki's work was referenced in Science News and Dr. Michael Shay and colleagues published a letter in Nature.
Sept 6th 2006: Daicar-Bata Graduate Student Prize and Outstanding TA awarded.
- Best Research Paper - Sasikumar Palaniyappan
- Highest GPA - Meijun Lu
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant - Tareque Aziz
August 24th 2006: Main office moves to newly renovated space in rooms 217 and 219
August 1st 2006: First issue of new biannual Department Newsletter published.
August 2006 Department Newsletter
June 30th 2006: Dr. Paul Saulnier, Ph.D. U of D 1991, was recognized for excellence in teaching by the students, faculty and Board of Trustees at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, where he was also just promoted to full Professor in the Physics Department. Senior Associate Dean and UniDel Professor George Watson was his advisor
May 27, 2006: Department to confer degrees to 16 at Convocation. Congratulations to the following students:
- Ph D Physics: Omololu Akin-Ojo
- Ph D Physics: Lai Jiang
- MS Physics: Amita Goyal
- BS Physics: Jason Bostron, Lauren Brown, Dan Cutright, Stephanie Einstein, Rebekah Evans, Robert Graham, James Healy, Emily Huskins, Kaitlin Kellogg, Erik Pearson, Michael Schiavoni, Andy Talarowski, Leigh Tetor
May 8, 2006: Three New Faculty to join the DPA soon.
May 2, 2006: The DPA together with the Society of Physics Students, Secular Students Alliance (SSA) and Beta Beta Beta will host Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, 3:00 PM Rm 100 Sharp Lab. Seth Shostak was one of the first astronomers to take the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence seriously. His talk will discuss current efforts in SETI and in the emerging field of astrobiology.
April 27, 2006: UD and the Franklin Institute will host a symposium on “Helium Nanodroplets: Novel Finite Quantum Fluids and a Chemical Laboratory” from 8:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m., at the Trabant University Center in honor of J. Peter Toennies, Director Emeritus, Max-Planck Institut, Gottingen, Germany and Giacinto Scoles, Donner Professor of Science at Princeton University. DPA Professor Krzysztof Szalewicz organized the symposium.
April 25, 2006: George Watson, senior associate dean of UD's College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Physics, along with faculty from several other departments have received a $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant to improve science education. Check story on UDaily.
April 3, 2006: Four DPA graduate students get Graduate Awards. Shahida Dar was awarded a University Graduate Fellowship, Nefer Senoguz and Liviu Zarbo received University Dissertation Fellowships and Souleymane Omar Diallo a University Graduate Scholarship
Feb. 28, 2006: Dr. Henry R. Glyde was recently awarded a three year grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) in the amount of $540,559 for continuing his research project titled, "Neutron Scattering Studies of Classical and Quantum Fluids in Nanoporous Media".
Feb. 28, 2006: Dr. John E. Gizis, UD assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has been awarded a three-year, $241,000 grant from the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) to study a developing planetary system about 180 light-years from Earth. Check UDaily.
Feb. 24, 2006: Future Scientist and Engineer Series II Leonard Shulman B.S. EE , PE Working in Antarctica - A personal perspective Len Shulman has visited the Antarctic 17 times in support of scientific research programs. He will discuss characteristics of the earth’s south polar continent, survival considerations, personal experiences, and Antarctica’s importance to science including an overview of several projects.
Feb. 8, 2006: Dr. Steven Cranmer, Ph.D. U of D 1996, Receives 2006 Karen Harvey Prize from AAS Solar Physics Division. The Karen Harvey Prize is awarded in recognition for a significant contribution to the study of the sun early in a person's professional career. Here at Delaware, Steve was a Delaware Space Grant College Fellow, and his Ph.D. thesis was judged as 1996's best U of D doctoral dissertation in all the Biological and Physical Sciences. Bartol/DPA Professor Stan Owocki was Steve's Ph.D. thesis advisor.
Dec. 14, 2005: Dr. Michael Shay, new DPA faculty member and collaborators from University of Maryland publish breakthrough theory on Triggering Solar Mayhem in Physics Review Letters.
Dec. 1, 2005: Dr. Tom Gaisser, live from the South Pole! Einstein celebration webcast will include a segment on neutrinos and a short piece on IceCube at the South Pole.
Nov. 16, 2005: George Hadjipanayis, Department Chair will deliver his Francis Alison Award lecture titled: The Magic of Magnets. Pictures
Oct. 21, 2005: DPA & BRI celebrate merger
Oct. 21, 2005: Norman Ness, professor at UD’s Bartol Research Institute affirms Mars was much like Earth
Sept. 28, 2005: Department Chair George Hadjipanayis wins Francis Alison Award
August 2005: Three new faculty position searches
May 28, 2005: 156th Commencement Exercises and Department Convocation Ceremony
March 9, 2005: "Tiny Stars: White Dwarfs and Brown Dwarfs Shine Feebly in the Dark Sky" will be the subject of a presentation by Harry L. Shipman, Annie Jump Cannon Professor of Astronomy, at noon, Wednesday, March 9, in the Morris Library Class of 1941 Lecture Room. UDaily
Jan. 10, 2005: The UD research team of John E. Gizis, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, Harry L. Shipman, Annie Jump Cannon Chair of Physics and Astronomy, and James A. Harvin, researcher in physics and astronomy, used the Hubble Space Telescope to show for the first time that a brown dwarf was associated with a cloud or disk containing molecular hydrogen gas. UDaily
Feb. 28, 2005: George Watson, associate dean of arts and sciences and Unidel Professor of Physics and Astronomy, discusses the significance of problem-based learning in a new installment of the University’s Windows on The Green video profiles series.
October '04: Neutron Scattering group publishes three Physical Review Letters in four months
April '04: Physicist Stuart Pittel honored for work with scientists worldwide.
January '04: Henry Glyde has been appointed Chair of the Committee on International Scientific Affairs (CISA) of the American Physical Society. In 2003 Henry was Chair, Forum for International Physics (FIP) of the APS.
September '03: George Hadjipanayis's research may have found a way to create ultrahigh-density magnetic media for computers
July '03: John Gizis confirms existence of brown dwarf binaries
June '03: Harry Shipman accepts award from White House...
March '03: James MacDonald - A UD professor is included in a team of astrophysicists to study dark energy

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