our community of scientists: 2013 edition
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Our Community of Scientists
Physical, Mathematical, and Computer Sciences of Dartmouth
College Fall 2013
Brought to you by the Kresge Physical Sciences Librarians. No images were harmed in the making of this presentation.
Participating departments and programs include Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies, Mathematics, and Physics & Astronomy
Two students, left to right, Alyssa N. Perez '13 and Miriam R. 'Mia' Winthrop '13, work in a Steele Hall chemistry lab.
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Chemistry Professor F. Jon Kull, at right, takes his class outside for a dramatic display of chemicals producing an exothermic light show.
The thermite reaction of the ingredients produced heat, smoke, bright light, and molten iron, accompanied by exclamations of "ooh"
and "ah" from the students.
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Britney Tappen, a graduate student in chemistry, describes her research during the annual graduate student poster
session on April 10 in Alumni Hall.
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This is a research graphic synopsis for my recent paper in Angew. Chem., and this was also adopted by the journal as a frontpiece highlight. It was made by my co-author Sahag Voskian.
The long-range organization of a liquid crystal can be controlled by using an additive, which consists of cholesterol units attached to a hydrazone switch. The acid/base-induced rotary
motion in the switch is transmitted to the self-assembled supramolecular host, wherein this information is propagated and amplified. This process alters the photophysical properties of
the host, which results in the change of the readout color from purple to green.
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Professor of Chemistry Joseph BelBruno’s Dartmouth lab conducted the research on the technology behind the unique secondhand smoke
sensing device. Smaller and lighter than a cellphone and about the size of a Matchbox car, the device uses polymer films to collect and
measure nicotine in the air.
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Professor David Kotz tests the prototype
bioimpedance biometric bracelet, observed by Rianna Starheim ’14,
research assistant in the Department of Computer Science, and Ryan Halter,
assistant professor of engineering at Thayer.
Photo by Eli Burak ’00http://now.dartmouth.edu/2012/09/dartmouth-research-imparts-momentum-to-mobile-health
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Christina Nippert-Eng from the Illinois Institute of Technology speaks to a Dartmouth audience about privacy violations and technology in September 2012 in a talk co-sponsored by the Institute for Security,
Technology and Society and the Sociology Department Reitman/DeGrange Memorial Lecture.
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Kelley Misata, a multi-year target of cyberstalking, speaks to the Dartmouth community about promoting responsible
cyber citizenship in October 2012. This talk was sponsored by the Institute for Security, Technology and Society.
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Sam Gustman from the Shoah Foundation speaks in October 2012 to a Dartmouth audience about the Visual History Archive, a collection of 51,696 audiovisual
testimonies from Holocaust survivors, and the technology that supports this work and other endeavors of the University of Southern California Digital Repository. Gustman’s presentation was co-sponsored by the Institute for Security, Technology and Society,
the Department of Film and Media Studies, and the Dartmouth College Library.
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Dartmouth CS was very well represented at the 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, with a contingent of 30 students! The Department of Computer
Science was a Gold Sponsor and had a booth at the conference.
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Jeff Dagle from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory speaks in January 2013 to a Dartmouth audience about “Maintaining Grid
Resilience with the Adoption of Smart Grid Technologies”. Dagle’s presentation was co-sponsored by the Institute for Security, Technology
and Society and the Computer Science Colloquium.
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In March 2013, Computer Science Professor Tom
Cormen published Algorithms Unlocked, which was also the 10,000th book
title published by MIT Press! Photo by Eli Burakian ‘00Read the Dartmouth Now story:http://now.dartmouth.edu/2013/08/algorithm-a-ninth-ce
ntury-term-for-21st-century-computing/
During the second annual Digital Arts Exhibition (DAX v.2) there was a screening of student animated and live action
films in Loew Auditorium on May 9.
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Computer Science Professor David Kotz converses with guest speaker Patty Mechael, Executive Director of the mHealth Alliance, at the third
annual Securing Information Technology in Healthcare (SITH3) conference in May, organized by the Institute for Security, Technology
and Society.
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High school students participate in a laboratory exercise during the annual Security, Technology and Society Summer Camp at Dartmouth College, organized by the Institute for Security,
Technology and Society and led by Adam Goldstein from Dartmouth’s Computing Services.
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Undergraduates from colleges around the country participate in “Packet Wars”, an information warfare simulation competition during
the annual Securing Information Systems Mentoring and Training (SISMAT) program in June. SISMAT is run by the Institute for Security,
Technology and Society.
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eCampus – Adam Goldstein from Dartmouth’s Computing Services speaks during a break-out session on Multi-factor Authentication during the Securing the eCampus conference, July 17, 2013. The overarching topic of the annual
eCampus conference, put on by the Institute for Security, Technology and Society and Computing Services, is information security in higher education.
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Dartmouth has been awarded a $10-million, five-year grant from the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to
support research into ways of safeguarding the confidentiality of personal health and medical information as these records make the transition from paper files to electronic systems. Computer scientist David Kotz leads a team that will conduct research in the secure use of mobile and cloud technology for health
and wellness applications.
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Erich Osterberg, assistant professor of Earth Sciences, teaches his "Earth Science 003, Elementary Oceanography"
class in the Oopik Auditorium in the Life Sciences Center
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Two students in the earth science course "Materials of the Earth" look at rock samples under the microscope to
determine their mineral compositions.
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A slice of rock in Earth Sciences 040 Materials of the Earth shimmers with color as polarized light from a microscope
shines through it. The colors represent the different types of minerals in the rock.
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Earth sciences graduate student Eirik Buraas surveyed the stream channel of the Saxtons River near Grafton, Vt., to calculate the amount of erosion of the channel bed and
stream banks.
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This is a funky/interesting ash
layer seen in the WAIS (West Antarctic Ice
Sheet) Divide deep ice core.
Submitted by Gifford Wong
Picture of a wheel from the first automobile brought to Antarctica (intended to help haul supplies for Shackleton on
his British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09).
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Geology in Death Valley (Stretch 2010)
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Mud cracks in AZ(Stretch 2010)
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Stretchies jumping off sand dunes in Death Valley(Stretch 2010)
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Costumed scientists greet US Air National Guard personnel during a stop at WAIS Divide (Austral summer of 2011-12)
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Drilling a short firn core for density measurements on the Greenland Ice Sheet
(Traverse, 2011)
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Visiting the old station where they drilled NGRIP ice core (all you see are the antenna and whatnot sticking out).
(Traverse, 2011)
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Drilling on the side of "the road" (Traverse, 2011)
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Late evening on the traverse with small "sun dogs" visible (Traverse, 2011)
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Professor of Environmental Studies Richard Howarth is co-
author of Humans in the Landscape: An Introdution to
Environmental Studies, published in September
2012.
More information at
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Humans-in-t
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Taylor Hornig ’13, right, takes a soil sample in the woods with forest ecosystem scientist Andrew Friedland, left, and
graduate student Chelsea Vario.
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Dartmouth is one of 5 research institutions who are collaborating with BioOne to publish Elementa, which is a new online open access journal
that began publishing in July 2013. Professors Anne Kapuscinski (Environmental Studies) and David R. Peart (Biological Sciences) are on
the Elementa editorial team.
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Dartmouth IGERT students Chelsea Vario (left) and Steph Gregory do field work in the Kangerlussuaq area of
Greenland.
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Students—some having recently returned from Greenland—faculty, and staff from the IGERT program pose for a photo
in the Dickey Center in Haldeman Hall.
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The Big Green Bus 2013 crew takes a leap in front of Baker Hall.
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ENVS Senior Maya Johnson poses with other college students who spent the summer working at an oil refinery in Alaska.
From left to right: Bree Mucha, Maya Johnson, Gretta Kennedy, and Kailey Mucha.
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On Athabasca Glacier (Banff) with Bob's
glaciology section of the Stretch (2013). Kemi
Mugo is on the rope (Bob Hawley is anchored to the
ice). A photographer is below taking a picture.
Alex Velaise (yellow) and Allen Pope (blue, incoming Post-Doc of Bob's) are in the back ground. We are peering into a moulin.
Submitted by Gifford Wong
Stretchies spelling out "Stretch" with their bodies in front of Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park, MT. (Melina Bartels, Benjamin Bauer, Mark Baum,
Fredrik Eriksson, Benjamin Ferguson, Kemi Mugo, Zachary Murphy, Alexander Procton, Margaret Ramsden, Robert Truesdale, and Alexander
Velaise)(Stretch 2013)
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Robert Truesdale measuring the strike and dip of an anticlinal feature in Sheep Mountain (Bighorn Basin, WY).
(Stretch 2013)
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Stretchies plus TA's/profs at Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite (WY) "looking like dinosaurs". Meredith Kelly (prof), Hal
Macartney (alum), Ali Giese and Gifford Wong (TAs)(Stretch 2013)
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Scott Stokoe, second from left, manager of Dartmouth’s Organic Farm and adjunct instructor of environmental
studies, discusses the effects of different growing conditions on corn with students in his “Ecological Agriculture” class.
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Senior Research Associate Pallab Sarker, PhD, at left, and Professor Anne Kapucinski conduct an experiment on the
use of microalgae as a sustainable feed ingredient for aquaculture of tilapia.
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Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins '13 attended the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program at
Berkeley last summer and now has his sights set on graduate school and the field of mathematics.
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Kate Moore, a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics, helps students during the 2012 Sonia
Kovalevsky Math Day.
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Ewa Infeld, a graduate student in the Department of
Mathematics, shares a math lesson with the group of middle and high school students
during the 2012 Sonia Kovalevsky Math Day.
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Alex Barnett and Brad Nelson '13 with Brad's research poster at the SIAM Computational Science and Engineering
conference in Boston in February 2013.
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Scott LaLonde presented a poster at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego.
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A picture of the monument honoring the famous geometer Chern at the Chern institute at
Nankai University (includes Prof Wallace taking the picture!)
Submitted by Dorothy Wallace
Grad student Megan Martinez and prof. Alex Barnett developed new middle-school teaching activities connecting
musical pitch to mathematical graphs and ratios.
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Katie Kinnaird presented a poster at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego.
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The 2nd-year math graduate students ran another successful Exploring Mathematics Workshop for high-school
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Kassie Archer presented a poster at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego.
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Prof. Demidenko has published the second
edition of his bookMixed Models.
More than 300 problems and exercises have been added, so the book can be easily adopted as a
text for graduate studies in statistics. Most of
methods and examples are illustrated with R
codes.
More information at
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~eugened/
High Tea on Thursdays at the Math Department
Submitted by Scott LaLonde
As part of the "Pressure of Light" symposium hosted by the Dartmouth Physics Department, Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips delivers a public lecture entitled "The Legacy of Nichols and Hull: 100+ Years of
Radiative Forces." Ernest Fox Nichols was both a physicist and the president of Dartmouth College from 1909-1916.
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Ryan Hickox, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, descends the stairs of Wilder Hall as he and a student from his Astronomy 015 course, called "Stars and the Milky Way,"
carry telescopes to a lower floor.
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Brett Anderson (looking up), a physics graduate student, and fellow researchers lead a balancing of payloads in Fairchild Tower as part of
Professor Robyn Millan's BARREL project, which studies Earth's radiation belts. These payloads will be launched from Antarctica and
will be sending back information via satellite.
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Karl Yando ('08, MS '11) and Brett Anderson
(Physics and Astronomy grad student) preparing to weigh and balance a BARREL balloon payload
in Fairchild Tower.
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Brett Anderson (Physics and Astronomy grad student) and Jacob Ritter ('12) packing the BARREL cargo into a sea
container in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Robyn Millan (Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy) with a BARREL balloon payload suspended in Fairchild Tower.
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Brett Anderson (Physics and Astronomy grad student) and Kylie Lucas ('14) bench-testing some BARREL electronics.
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The BARREL field teams launched a total of 20 balloons from Halley Research Station (right) and the South African Research Station SANAE IV (other two) in
January 2013. The balloons measure x-rays produced by electrons scattered into Earth's atmosphere from the Van Allen Radiation belts. BARREL works in tandem
with NASA's twin Van Allen Probes to study this highly variable region of near-Earth space.
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy Jim LaBelle at work on the chalk board.
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Astrophysicists Ryan Hickox (left) and Kevin Hainline are able to see the extent to which quasars and black holes can
affect their galaxies.
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Erek Alper: “during one of my first days in my 8th grade GK-12 classroom.”
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Crescent Moon and Venus with the clock tower. Taken from the roof of Wilder.
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Top: A Panorama of all the observatories on Kitt Peak. MDM is on the left.
Bottom: The MDM Observatory on Kitt Peak. The 1.3 m (Front) and 2.4 m (Back) Telescopes.
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