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Physics Department • Computer resources• Physics colloquium series • Careers in physics program• Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff• SPS & T-shirt design contest• Undergraduate honors and award programs• Lab teaching assistant, tutoring, and grading opportunities• Research opportunities• Presentations by undergraduate research students
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• Computer resources– Presentation by Ching-Wan Yip and Tim Miller.
Physics Department
Physics colloquium series
Careers in physics program
Coordinated by Professor Dany Kim-Shapiro –
Events:Thursday Sept. 16th: Mark Wilson – Editor for Physics Today
Tuesday Oct 12 – Hank Yochum – Sweet Briar College
(?) November – Mark Roberson – MCNC
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• Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staffNew Faculty Members:
Jed Macosko Assistant Professor of Physics -- undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT and UC-Berkeley and post doctoral training at UNM – expert in biophysics experimental researchLukasz Turski – Visiting Professor of Physics -- Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences -- College of Science of Cardinal Wyszynski University –
collaborating with Professor Bill Kerr and his students. New Staff Members:
Jiwen Liu, Swati Basu, Mick Knaggs
New Graduate Students: Matthew Cass, Todd Fallesen, and Ye Yuan
New Undergraduate Students (juniors):Zachary Abernathy, Kevin Berardinelli, Richard Gaut, Jared Hill, Katherine Lee, John McQuirt, Thomas Rutledge, Tyler Zimmerman
New Prospective Undergraduate physics majors:
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• Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff
Undergraduate Physics Majors: Zachary Abernathy, Ivan Azarov, Kevin Berardinelli, Matthew
Caudill, Ierisha Davis, Richard Gaut, Kristen Hall, Jared Hill, Charles Inman, Katherine Lee, Ben Martin, John McQuirt, Thomas Rutledge, Bryan Stephens, Jacqueline VanDeventer,Tyler Zimmerman
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• Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff
Physics Graduate Students: Yonas Abraham, Doug Bonessi, Matthew Cass, Faith Coldren,
Kevin Conley, David Evanich, , Todd Fallesen, Jason Grigsby, William Hirsch, William Hodge, Kris Huang, Anne Jeffers, Jerrold Kielbasa, Nicole Levi, Wenhua Liu, Lu Peng, Yong Qiu, Matt Rave, Jean Rockford, Ping Tang, Gang Xiong, and Ye Yuan
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Since last spring:
Students who completed their graduate work: Chanté Singleton – Completed her MS degree with Daniel
Bourland medical physicist at Anderson Cancer Institute in Savannah, GA.
Virginia Lockamy – Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim-Shapiro resident in medical physics at U. Minn.
Xuili Xu -- Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim-Shapiro postdoctoral position at NIH
Keijing Chen -- Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim-Shapiro postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins University
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Physics Department VIP Staff:Judy Swicegood – Administrative Coordinator
Gale Burns – Secretary
Chin-Wan Yip – Instructional Technology Analyst
Machele Cable – Physics Laboratory Manager
Bob Morris – Machine Shop Instructor
Burak Uçer – Laser specialist
Tim Miller – Computer cluster administrator and guru
Research Group VIP Staff:
NanoTech: Richard Czerw, Ben Harrison, Jiwen Liu, Scott Webster Fetrow Group: Mick Knaggs and Stacy Knutson
Kim-Shapiro Group: Jinming Huang, Swati Basu, Man Cho
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Physics Department Faculty:
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Rick Matthews (Chair) – Olin 217
Paul Anderson – Olin 308 Natalie Holzwarth – Olin 300
Keith Bonin – Olin 310 William Kerr – Olin 310
Bob Brehme (emeritus) Dany Kim-Shapiro – Olin 208
Eric Carlson – Olin 306 Jed Macosko – Olin 215
David Carroll – Olin 214 Fred Salsbury – Olin 301A
Greg Cook – Olin 304 Howard Shields (emeritus) – Olin 216
Jacquelyn Fetrow – Olin 301B Lukasz Turski – Olin 303C
Martin Guthold – Olin 302 Jack Williams (emeritus)
George Holzwarth (emeritus) – Olin 300 Richard Williams – Olin 212
• Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff
Please see Judy Swicegood in Olin 100 To prepare your photo for our display case.
Please check your mailboxes in the Physics Dept. Office (Olin 100 or 108) for important announcements
– All declared physics majors have mailboxes in Rm. 108 and graduate students have mailboxes in Rm. 100.
– Judy needs some forms by Sept. 1st from all undergraduate graders and teaching assistants.
– To obtain keys to rooms in Olin Physical Lab, please see Machele Cable in Olin 110.
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112Machineshop
105
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107 101 103
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Bob Morris
Machele Cable
Judy Swicegood & Gale Burns
Physics majors’
mail boxesFaculty, staff, &
graduate student mail boxes
Bill, Will, Matt, Jason,David
You are here
First floor of Olin Physical Laboratory
Second floor of Olin Physical Laboratory
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217
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Kris, Ivan, Anne, Matt, Lu, Wenhua, Jerry, Gang, Kevin
Rick Matthews
Jed Macosko
Dany Kim-Shapiro
Richard Williams
David Carroll
Advanced Lab
Electronics Lab
Conference Room
Third floor of Olin Physical Laboratory
300 308306304302 310 311
305
305D
305C
305A
303D303C303A
301B
301A
Natalie/George Holzwarth
Martin Guthold
Greg Cook
Eric Carlson
Paul Anderson
Keith Bonin
William Kerr
Yonas, Ping, Qui
Yip
Burak
Jacque Fetrow
Fred Salsbury Luckasz
Turski
Stacy, Mick, Michael, Ye
Current journals
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• SPS (Society of Physics Students)– Coordinated by Professor Martin Guthold – first meeting in
a few weeks
• T-shirt design contest– T-shirt comments by Natalie Holzwarth
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• Undergraduate honors and award programs– Presentation by Professor W. C. Kerr.
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• Lab TA, Tutorial, and Grading Opportunities– Undergraduate TA’s and graders have forms in their mail
boxes and should return them to Judy Swicegood soon.– Announcements by Professor Keith Bonin
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• Research opportunities– Undergraduate students are especially encouraged to
participate; course credit, Wake Forest University Fellowships, or individual faculty grants
Web site: http://www.wfu.edu/undergraduate_college/research-fellowship/
Web site: http://www.wfu.edu/undergraduate_college/research-fellowship/
Research Group Area of research Slots Current students
Keith Bonin Laser and optical physics, biophysics
~1 Doug Bonessi, Jean Rockford
David Carroll Nano-technology ~5 Faith Coldren, Jerry Kielbasa, Nicole Levi
Martin Guthold Atomic force microscopy of biological molecules
~1 Wenhua Liu, Lu Peng, Saami Yazdani, Minnu Mudigonda,Bryan Stephens*
Jed Macosko Biophysics ~2 Jean Rockford
Dany Kim-Shapiro
Biophysics ~1 Matthew Cass, Kris Huang, Anne Jeffers, Ivan Azarov, Kevin Berardinelli, Toyin Okanlawon, Rachel Maree*
Richard Williams
Solid state and laser physics
~2 Yonas Abraham, Jerry Kielbasa, Yong Qiu, Gang Xiong
Physics Research Participation – Experimental Physics
*Undergraduate students
Research Group Area of research Slots Current students
Paul Anderson Gravitational physics ~2
Eric Carlson Particle physics and astrophysics
~1 Bill Hirsch
Greg Cook Gravitational physics and computational astrophysics
~1 David Evanich, Jason Grigsby, Matthew Caudill*
Jacquelyn Fetrow
Computational biophysics ~3 Ryan Huff, Michael Hicks*
Natalie Holzwarth
Computational materials physics
~3 Yonas Abraham, Kevin Conley, Ping Tang
William Kerr Computational solid state physics
~1 William Hodge, Matthew Rave
Rick Matthews Computational solid state physics
~1 Ben Martin*
Fred Salsbury Computational biophysics ~2 Ye Yuan, Jared Hill*
Physics Research Participation – Theoretical/Computational Physics
*Undergraduate students
Undergraduate physics students who participated in research this summer:
At WFU:
Ivan Azarov (Dany Kim-Shapiro)Matthew Caudill (Greg Cook)
Michael Hicks (Jacquelyn Fetrow)Jared Hill (Fred Salsbury)
Bryan Stephens (Martin Guthold)
Elsewhere:
Ierisha DavisBen Martin
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