Physics & Astronomy

Standing: Katharina Vollmayr-Lee, James Higbie, Moises Veloz, Michele Thornley, Kevin Marshall, Marty Ligare, Jack Gallimore, Ben Vollmayr-Lee, Tom Solomon, Jack Raup, Dave Schoepf
Seated: Drew Constable '11, Tyler Szwarc '11, Abby Peltier '11, Amanda Green '11, Mark Kingsbury '11, Erin Sculley '11, Jeff Bowen, Sandy Wendt
Absent: Katelyn Allers, Sally Koutsoliotas, Ned Ladd

News & Events

Bucknell physics & astronomy undergraduate research presented at national conferences (undergraduate authors in boldface)

• A Study of Young Brown Dwarfs in the Mid Infrared,, J. Lyons, K. Allers, M. Herzog, and M. Liu, paper presented at the 218th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Austin, TX, January 11, 2012.
• Modeling the Spectral Energy Distribution of 3C 279 in the Fermi Era, M. Halford, K. Marshall, M. Joyce H. Aller, and M. Aller, paper presented at the 218th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Austin, TX, January 9, 2012.
• Multi-wavelength Analysis of Three Blazars, M. Joyce, K. Marshall, M. Halford H. Aller, and M. Aller, paper presented at the 218th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Austin, TX, January 10, 2012.
• Burning invariant manifolds for propagating fronts in a chain of vortices, T. Solomon, M. Kingsbury, et al., paper presented at the Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, MD, November 21, 2011.
• Barriers to reaction front propagation in a spatially random, time-independent flow, D. Bargteil, T. Solomon, et al., paper presented at the Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, MD, November 21, 2011.
• Complete list of talks with undergraduate co-authors.

Recent journal articles published with undergraduate co-authors (undergraduate authors in boldface)

• “Interactions between forming stars and dense gas in the small low mass cluster Cederblad 110,” E.F. Ladd, T. Wong, T.L. Bourke, and K.L. Thompson, Astrophysical Journal 743, 108 (2011).
• “Fingering instability down the outside of a vertical cylinder,” L. Smolka and M. SeGall,, Phys. Fluids 23, 092103 (2011).
• “Pinning and mode-locking of reaction fronts by vortices,” G.M. O'Malley, M.S. Paoletti, M.E. Schwartz, and T. Solomon, Comm. Nonlin. Sci. and Num. Sim.16, 4558 (2011).
• “Aging to equilibrium dynamics of SiO₂,” K. Vollmayr-Lee, J. Roman, and J. Horbach, Phys. Rev. E, 81, 061203 (2010).
• “Infrared spectral energy distributions of Seyfert galaxies: Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the 12 micron sample of active galaxies,” J. Gallimore, A. Yzaguirre, J. Jakoboski, M. Stevenosky, et al., Astrophysical Journal Supplements, 187, 172 (2010).
• Complete list of publications with undergraduates

Physics & Astronomy faculty list of publications

Bucknell physics course recognized as Best Practices Course.

Bucknell physics major wins Apker Award for undergraduate research!

Bucknell University 2005 graduate Matt Paoletti has won the 2005 LeRoy Apker Award for undergraduate research. The Apker Award is given by the American Physical Society for the best undergraduate research in the nation. We are excited that the American Physical Society has recognized Matt's distinguished achievement in our department. Congratulations Matt!