Physics & Astronomy

Back Row: Sohei Yasuda '09, Jeff Bowen, Katharina Vollmayr-Lee, Garrett O'Malley '09, James Higbie, David Schoepf, Tom Solomon
Front Row: Marty Ligare, Laura Gestal '09, Rob Trangucci '09, Katie Yeager '09, Jay Strother '09, Joseph Blair '09, Laura Schilling '09, Jeff Boehmer '09, Kevin Marshall, Michele Thornley, Ben Vollmayr-Lee, Sandy Wendt, Jack Gallimore
Absent: Alan Dotts '09, John O'Neill '09, Sally Koutsoliotas, Ned Ladd, Dave Vayda, Moises Veloz.

News & Events

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

• Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics in Charolottesville, VA, May 2009
  Two-photon interference with two (and only two) photons, F. King, M. Trias, and M. Ligare
• American Physical Society March Meeting in Pittsburgh, March 2009
  Reaction fronts and synchronization in ordered and disordered vortex networks, T. Solomon, G. O'Malley, and J. Winokur
  Burst switching between incoherence and synchrony, N. Crosby and J. Tranquillo
  Phase separation in the advective Cahn-Hilliard equation with a chaotic flow, S. Yasuda and B. Vollmayr-Lee
  
• Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting in San Antonio, November 2008
  Front propagation in vortex-dominated flows, G. O'Malley, J. Winokur, and T. Solomon
  Pinning of reaction fronts by moving vortices, J. Winokur, G. O'Malley, and T. Solomon
  Chaotic mixing and superdiffusion in a two-dimensional array of vortices, T. Solomon, J. Winokur, G. O'Malley, and M. Paoletti
  
• Complete list of talks with undergraduate co-authors.

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

• Molecular line mapping of the giant molecular cloud associated with RCW 106-II. Column density and dynamical state of the clumps, T. Wong, E. Ladd, D. Brisbin, ..., K. Thomas, et al., Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 386, 1069 (2008).
• Statistical comparison of ensemble implementations of Grover's search algorithm to classical sequential searches, T. Kott and D. Collins, Phys. Rev. A 77, 052314 (2008).
• Fronts and trigger wave patterns in an array of oscillating vortices, J.R. Boehmer and T.H. Solomon, Europhys. Lett. 83, 58002 (2008).
• Dynamics of free surface perturbations along an annular viscous film, L.B. Smolka, J. North, and B.K. Guerra, Phys. Rev. E, 77, 036301 (2008); (arXiv:0707.2087).
• Chemical reaction fronts in ordered and disordered cellular flows with opposing wind, M.E. Schwartz and T. Solomon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 028302 (2008).
• Complete list of publications with undergraduates

Physics & Astronomy faculty list of publications

Bucknell physics course recognized as Best Practices Course.

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!