Physics & Astronomy

Front Row: Mollie Harms '07, Julie Jakoboski '07, Melisa Steighner '07, Erica Staehling '07
Second Row: Chris Guskey '07, Marc SeGall '07, Jeremy Keen '07, Dusty Schroeder '07, Chet Maleszewski '07
Third Row: Krishna Chowdary, Katharina Vollmayr-Lee, Ben Vollmayr-Lee, Jack Gallimore
Back Row: Sandy Wendt, Sally Koutsoliotas, Ned Ladd, Tom Solomon
Absent: Stephen Szwec '07, Ben Sirolly '07, Jeff Bowen, Marty Ligare, David Schoepf, Michele Thornley, Dave Vayda.

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

• American Physical Society March Meeting in New Orleans, March 2008
  Domain Structure Universality in Coarsening, by B. Vollmayr-Lee, A. Rutenberg, and S. Yasuda
  Exact Solutions for Anisotropic Coarsening in the Dilute Limit, by W. Rosenbaum, M. Gildner, and B. Vollmayr-Lee
  Domain Morphology and Structure Factor in the Asymmetric Cahn-Hilliard Equation, by S. Yasuda, B. Vollmayr-Lee, and A. Rutenberg
  Out-of-Equilibrium to In-Equilibrium Dynamics of SiO₂, by K. Vollmayr-Lee, J. Roman, and J. Horbach
  Particle Jumps in SiO₂: A Computer Simulation, by R. Bjorkquist, K. Vollmayr-Lee, and J. Horbach
  
• American Astronomical Society Meeting in Austin, January 2008
  Matched-Aperture Infrared SEDs of the 12 Micron Sample of Active Galactic Nuclei, by Jack F. Gallimore, A. Yzaguirre, D. Axon, S. Baum, C. Buchanan, M. Elitzur, M. Elvis, C. O'Dea, A. Robinson
  
• Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting in Salt Lake City, November 2007
  Frozen fronts in cellular flows, M. Schwartz and T. Solomon
  Stretching, break-up and coarsening in a flow with chaotic advection, T. Solomon and J. Boehmer
  Chemical patterns in a two-dimensional vortex array with chaotic mixing, J. Boehmer and T. Solomon
  
• Conference on Undergraduate Research and Education in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Lewisburg, PA, September 2007
  NMR at low magnetic fields: Progress toward experiments with hyperpolarized noble gases, A. Ziltz and M. Ligare
  
• National Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting in Los Angeles, September 2007 "Classification of cardiac arrhythmias using nonlinear analysis of electrograms," A. P. Hosseinbor and J. Tranquillo
  

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

• Self-organized criticality below the glass transition, K. Vollmayr-Lee and E.A. Baker, Europhys. Lett. 76, 1130, (2006).
• Synchronization of oscillating reactions in an extended fluid system, M.S. Paoletti, C.R. Nugent, and T.H. Solomon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 124101 (2006).
• Single-species three-particle reactions in one dimension, B.P. Vollmayr-Lee and M.M. Gildner, Phys. Rev. E 73, 041103 (2006).
• Molecular line mapping of the Giant Molecular Cloud associated with RCW 106-I. 13CO I. Bains, ... , D. Brisbin, ... , E.F. Ladd, ... , Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 467-4, 1609 (2006).

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!