physics newsletter template copy 2 · 2020. 1. 6. · occidental college physics department october...

OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE

Physics Newsletter

2015

Occidental College Physics Department

October 2015

Dear Physics Alumni,

I hope this letter finds you happy and healthy. I see from your responses that, at least, you are very busy! It’s great to hear from you. We’ve been busy too.

We’ve been bursting with students around here. The average number of physics majors in the past 5 years, 18+/-1, has almost doubled from the 5 years before that. We would love to take credit but it seems to be a nationwide trend. Still our number stacks up well to our 18 college comparison group average of only 12+/-1. If anything it looks like our numbers will rise. Professor Schramm’s Math Methods course has 25 students enrolled for this fall! 50 students, or roughly 10% of the incoming class, registered for the first course of our major sequence! We could not be more delighted.

George Schmiedeshoff continues his National Science Foundation (NSF) funded study of quantum phase transitions using thermal expansion and magnetostriction measurements on novel metals containing f-electrons such as YbAgGe. The measurements are made in his on-campus laboratory in the Hameetman Science Center and in the labs of his collaborators at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Ames National Laboratory, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Oxy students have participated in most of this work, usually through Oxy's Summer Research Program, but also during NSF supported "field trips" to Los Alamos, Ames, or the MagLab in Tallahassee. Over the past few years George's research students have included Rishi Bhandia, Tim Chung, Leah Feuerman, Emily Hawkins, and Galen Mack-Crane.

Dennis Eggleston continues to use experiments, theory, and computer simulation in his quest to understand the confinement of non-neutral plasmas.

Janet Scheel continues to perform and analyze data from numerical simulations of Turblent Rayleigh-Benard Convection. She has used over 40 million supercomputer hours in the past year has and has accumulated over 50TB of data. Oxy students have participated in this research every summer. She has also visited collaborators every summer at the Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany.

In addition to his forays into cosmology, Alec Schramm is finally getting serious about writing a text based on his Math Methods course. (Stay tuned!)

As for myself, dark matter remains my passion fueled by another three-year NSF grant. Still no signs yet but I am branching out to look for dark matter created at accelerators. This summer, with a lot of help from our administrative assistant Tracy Mikuriya, I hosted an international conference on directional dark matter detection. Oxy is a nice place to host a conference! I continue to monitor the solar array. Since “first light” on March 4th 2013, 2.5 years ago, we have made 4.69 GWh of energy, prevented 3,234 metric tons of CO2 emissions

�2

http://www.cygnus2015.com


and saved the college $673k in electrical charges. At this rate the array should pay for itself in 9 years.

Chuck Oravec, our new Lou Wilkinson or Cliff Chen if you go back that far, has been a delightful dynamo to have around. In the last year alone he led four student projects, ran the Metropolitan Water District’s Solar Cup program and held four star-gazing parties. One of the student projects included launching a weather balloon to collect data and obtain pictures from 100,000 ft, see our front cover. Another included building a solar robot to help us understand the output of the solar array. Chuck’s exploits tend to dominate our FaceBook page. Please have a look and like us if you want to stay more up to date about Physics Department goings-on. Our administrative assistant Tracy Mikuriya does a great job keeping our social media up to date. Mike Garcia announced his retirement recently. He will be with us through the end of the academic year and then off to new adventures. Finally Russell Gleason, our second lab coordinator, left for family reasons last Spring. We wish him all the best at his new job in Colorado. He left a big hole in the department that we will try to fill this year. If you know of anyone interested in a lab-coordinator position please send them our way.

As always we enjoy hearing from you.

Best Regards,

Dan Snowden-Ifft, Chair

�3

https://www.facebook.com/oxyphysicshttp://jobs.physicstoday.org/jobs/7511031/lab-coordinator


!4

An aerial view of our solar array.

Professor Daniel Snowden-I!t won the prestigious Sterling Award in 2014 joining fellow Sterling Award winner Dennis Eggleston.

Physics Department Tenured Faculty: "Alec Schramm, "

Dennis Eggleston, "Dan Snowden-I!t, Janet Scheel and

George Schmiedesho!


!5

Russell Gleason, our Lab Coordinator, has moved to Colorado with his family. "

Our Machinist, Mike Garcia, will be retiring at the end of the academic

year.

Above: The Physics Department - March 2015"

Left: Physics major Kevin Kuwata working hard on his summer research project.


!6

Chuck and students on Mt. Fiji to witness the September 27 - 28 “Supermoon” eclipse.

Rishi Bhandia discussing his research at the end of summer URC research conference.


1951 McAllister, Robert W. 2028 S. Sherman St., Denver, Co. 80210-‐4016 [email protected] PhD Physics, Stanford University, 1960

ReFred since 1987. Traveling with the wife, Rita Thaemert. Gardening. Woodworking.

1954 Johnson, Doug 71155 No. Thunderbird Terr., Rancho Mirage Ca. 92270 [email protected]

I am conFnuing to be a full Fme employee at UBS in Indian Wells, Ca.

Miller, Donald 123 Harbor Drive, #311; Stamford, CT 06902 [email protected] MS and PHD Columbia University

My wife of 58 years, Carolyn Margaret Losee, died December 11, 2011. June 28, 2014 Marie-‐Laure Degener and I became engaged and are living in Stamford, CT. We use my Delmar, NY home for summer respites. I am fortunate to be able to conFnue my tennis, biking and golfing. We will spend 2 months in Jekyll Island, GA in 2015.

1955 Marimon, Robert 100 Timber Ridge Way #4108 Issaquah, WA 98027 [email protected] MS Electrical Engineering

My wife, Suzanne, passed away in 2011 which prompted me to move into a reFrement

community in Issaquah WA. I am happy and acFve with a new hip and a new knee.

1958 Henderson, Jack righto`[email protected]

Travel, Tea Partying, and Fireworks. My Physics degree set me up for a fun job with the U.S. Navy to do missile development and tesFng. The tesFng was the fun part.

Lawrence, Hugh "Larry" [email protected] M.A. Columbia University 1959 / EdD UCLA 1975

I have become increasingly involved in the badle against the privaFzaFon of public educaFon, parFcipaFng in conferences and demonstraFons in Washington D.C., AusFn, and Denver. I am one of the CA reps for an organizaFon (United OPT Out) that is encouraging parents and teachers to refuse to take high-‐stakes standardized tests. On the home front, I've been parFcipaFng in the ALOED (Oxy Alumni in EducaFon). One of my acFviFes this fall is sponsorship of a documentary film, "GO Public: A Day in the Life of an American Public School System" in Oxy's spectacular, new Choi Auditorium (formerly know as Johnson 200 -‐ remember History of Civ?).

Pearson, Charles 1170 Camino Verde Cir., Walnut Creek, CA 94597 [email protected] M.A. Physics, Univ. So. Calif. / Ph.D., Theor. Physics, Univ. Calif Riverside, 1965

ReFred. Caring for my wife, who has cancer. Predy much a full-‐Fme job at our age.

�7

mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


1959 Chaplar, Ray 2265 trafalgar ct. henderson, nv 89074 [email protected]

July 1st started my 51st year at Unit Chemical. I am sFll working full Fme and keep very busy developing new products and overseeing the business. As many of my friends know, I have no plans for reFrement.

Hain, Frank L. PO Box 464, Westport, NY, 12993 [email protected]

Grandchildren, sailing on beauFful Lake Champlain, traveling to Ireland, Hampshire and Wales. Also at least weekly driving a 55 mile route and enjoying the lovely upstate New York Adirondack North Country as a relief rural mail carrier delivering packages, newspapers, and mail to 350 homes and farms. Also read the Economist and the daily WSJ delivered the same day 300 miles north of NYC. The NYTimes is usually read on-‐line as well. Other news: last year my family homestead became part of Pinnacles NaFonal Park and 80% of the land there is the HAIN wilderness. The Wikipedia link is informaFve: hdp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacles_NaFonal_Park. The OXY physics labs were especially useful as most of what I learned and got the most out of in post graduate work at Columbia and in my career as an electronic design engineer (and then operaFons and network engineer) was from hands-‐on experience and OJT.

Lawrence, John (Jack) 905 Arden Way, Signal Mountain, TN., 37377 MS Physics, Kansas State University

Assuming we are put on earth to leave it beder off than when we arrived, I chose to make my contribuFon for improvement through the pursuit of unknown mechanisms in solid state

physics that cause semiconductor products to fail. This field is referred to as Physics of Failures. The mechanism I discovered was that semiconductors will fail because impuriFes in silicon are adracted to larce strain. My work made the disFncFon that larce strain was a rather secondary factor, but impuriFes captured by larce strain was a "death blow".

1960 Foster, Lorraine Turnbull 8735 White Oak Avenue, Northridge, CA 91325 [email protected] PhD, Caltech, 1964

Since I can no longer walk, I work lots of puzzles and look at math problems on the web. I have a heated, indoor pool and swim at least 4 days per week. If anyone would like to swim here, please let me know! My grandson Bryce Patrick Hickam is now adending Oxy.

Liden, Sam P. 548 W State Ave., Phoenix, AZ, 85021 [email protected] PhD, Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ ReFred. Travel frequently to Seadle where my two sons and three grandsons live.

Luters, Arnis 13993 Loma Rica Dr, Grass Valley, CA 95945 [email protected]

Enjoying reFrement with some travel and playing golf.

McCorkindale, Kim P.O. Box 4828, Stateline, NV 89449 [email protected]

ReFred. Enjoying life at Lake Tahoe. In 2012 took a cruise that circumnavigated Australia.

�8

mailto:[email protected]


Peugh, Jim 2776 Nipoma Street, San Diego CA [email protected]

I sFll volunteer with a few conservaFon oriented non-‐profits and am on an advisory commidee for the San Diego Water and Wastewater Department and a panel working with the County of San Diego on their implementaFon of their stormwater discharge permit. I sFll sail, but not o`en enough.

1961 Blue, James 15241 Springfield Road, Darnestown, MD 20874 [email protected] PhD in TheoreFcal Physics, Caltech, 1966

I've been teaching Shakespeare in our lifelong learning classes, doing photography and fractal art, reading, cooking, and traveling..

Oden, Lynn 7919 E. Broken Wagon Way, Prescod Valley, AZ 86314 [email protected] MS in Physics, PhD in Physics

ReFred from NASA Houston in 2001. Gail (wife) and I moved to Prescod Valley in 2005. Teach a class in Physics at a local charter high school and tutor math/science at Yavapai College. RecreaFon includes bicycling and church choir.

Woodard, Keith 6817 Persimmon Tree Rd, Bethesda, MD 20817 MS Nuclear Engineering, UCLA 1963

Just ReFred-‐-‐now consulFng.

Young, Roger 3023 Hopeton Rd. La Crescenta, CA 91214 [email protected]

Carol and I are enjoying travel especially of the European river boat variety. We just completed a motor tour of Utah and can highly recommend it belonging on your bucket list. I recently enjoyed a visit and fishing trip to Mammoth with fellow SAE and Physics major, Keith Woodard. In a volunteer roll, I have been administering a Los Angeles County Department of Public Health grant for purpose of Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery for our La Crescenta community. Its purpose is to build relaFonships amongst all sectors of the community with the hope that in the event off a major event, those relaFonships will lead to quicker recovery and stronger resilience. Thanks for effort that this takes. ConnecFons are an important part of our Oxy experience.

AshcraS, David P.O. Box 725, Shasta Lake, CA 96019

Teaching CredenFal from OXY 1963. I have been working 1/2 Fme as staff support in Math. I work with curriculum, tesFng and classroom support for the Gateway Unified School District. Most of my assignment is with K through 8th grade teachers.

1962 BoeVcher, Ronald [email protected] MSEE 1963 Caltech

Enjoying reFrement with lots of travel.

Cordes, James 4060 N. Painted Quail Place, Tucson, AZ 85750 [email protected] MSEE Caltech / MBE Claremont Graduate School

ReFred

�9


Ellfeldt, James F. 1925 W Kenneth Rd, Glendale, CA 91201-‐1113 [email protected] MA (Choral Music) CSULA, 1987

In reFrement a`er 39 years teaching Music, Math, Stage Cra`, and Union-‐rep for 95 Colleagues at Wilson High School, LAUSD. Tandem biked Maui, Lanai, & Molokai with Santana Cycles in February, toured Israel with Family FoundaFons in June this year, Celebrated 75 years in September. WOW! I have the highest regards for my pre-‐PC educaFon at Oxy. Although Fmes and condiFons are different and digital electronics and computers have replaced my K&E Duplex Duplex Decitrig slide rule, human nature has not changed! InflaFon is insane, educaFon has become big business rather than wisdom seeking, and the government and society cannot take the place of God in providing for the needs of all. Sir Isaac Newton's laws sFll hold for most of us! God bless you all at Oxy. You missed a great catch by not admirng my grandson, Grant Ellfeldt, scholar & soccer defense ace, for the Class of 2018. But we will save a lot of money!!

Hameetman, Fred 1109 Westwood Blvd. LA, Ca 90024 [email protected] BS, Caltech '62 / MS, USC '64

Running an Income Property RE firm / Taking advantage of arFficially low interest rates / SupporFng Oxy, Caltech, UCLA's GalecFc Center (30 Meter Telescope) and Intl Medical Corp.

Isaksen, Leif 1807 SebasFan Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010 [email protected] Ph.D USC. Electrical Engineering, Control Theory (Complexity)

Community volunteer working mainly with underserved students 8-‐18 years old: (1) 826

Valencia WriFng Center, (2) ScholarMatch, Board Member, (3) Filoli Nature EducaFon, (4) San Mateo-‐Foster City School District, Science and Curiosity EducaFon.

Jones, Hilary 364 Princeton Ln, Danville CA 94526 [email protected] PhD, Cornell University 1968

My hobby is astronomy, with an emphasis on astrophotography. I am currently wrapping up a project to photograph 100 of Halton Arp's "Peculiar Galaxies". My next project will be to photograph an assortment of planetary nebulae. I am also a board member for a local astronomy club, the Tri-‐Valley Stargazers, and I maintain the club's web site.

Moore, Thomas [email protected] MS Physics

SFll trying to build an observatory.

Wells, Michael 3639 Sourdough Rd., Bozeman, MT 59715-‐8010 [email protected] MS, Stanford University 1965; PhD., Stanford University 1969

No change from last year.

1963 CraS, Jim 3751 W. 136th Ave Unit L3, Broomfield, CO 80023 jwcra`[email protected]

MS Physics 1965 UCLA / PhD Physics 1970 UCLA I reFred in 2012 a`er 42 years of working in systems engineering. The last few years of my experience was with satellite-‐based communicaFon systems (one commercial, one

�10



military)-‐-‐a lot of interesFng analysis work. I'm sFll working part-‐Fme for The Aerospace CorporaFon as a "casual reFred" person. We relocated to Colorado from Southern California, where we live in a townhome in Broomfield, near Denver. We love Colorado-‐-‐the mountains are nice subsFtutes for the Pacific Ocean, although we miss the ocean. I'm singing in our very fine church choir, and recently I started being the (piano) accompanist for the kids' choirs. That promises to be a lot of fun, especially gerng to know the kids (3rd grade through 12th grade).

Sander,Michael 324 Queensbury St., Thousand Oaks, Ca 91360 [email protected]

Assoc Fellow American InsFtute of AeronauFcs and AstronauFcs, elected member, InternaFonal Academy of AstronauFcs ReFred from JPL in November 2011, traveling to Colorado to visit grandchildren, travel to Russia, England, serving on the Ventura County Grand Jury, taking Great Courses with friends.

Schmieder, Robert 4295 Walnut Blvd., Walnut Creek, CA 94596 [email protected] A.B (Oxy); B. S. Caltech; M. A. (Columbia); PhD (Columbia)

WriFng biography of Albert Ghiorso, co-‐discoverer of 12 elements on the periodic chart. Carried out scienFfic expediFon to Clipperton Island. Preparing for major expediFon to Heard Island, Southern Ocean, Nov. 2015. Experimental and theoreFcal study of a quasi-‐chaoFc system, the verFcal liquid jet. Honor to Prof. Al Hudson, who led the physics department and started this newsleder in the 1960s, and to Prof. Rex Nelson, who is sFll a role model many years a`er his passing.

S[ckney, George 3152 East Packard Drive, Gilbert, AZ 85298-‐8729 [email protected] MS Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Sold Mesa, AZ home a`er wife Judy's death, moved to Gilbert, AZ and built a new home with Sharron Gebhardt. We've subsequently traveled extensively, most recently to Australia and New Zealand. Have become a member of Sons of American RevoluFon (SAR) (Patriot -‐ Jonathan Poore) and Mayflower Descendents (Ancestor -‐ Francis Cooke). Ham radio (W7BXW) and piano conFnue to be acFve hobbies. New interest is publishing family history.

1964 Griffith Jack 7515 Kennebec Rd Chapel Hill NC 27517 [email protected] Ph.D (Caltech in Biophysics)

Running a research laboratory in the Lineberger Cancer Center at UNC in Chapel Hill, Our work focuses on understanding basic structural quesFons related to replicaFng DNA, and the structure of the ends of chromosomes, topics related to both cancer and aging. Outside, I collect old English cars and fly a Piper Super Cub. We visited Oxy this summer for the 50th reunion and I was sorry that being summer I was not able to tour the Physics Department.

SchmiV, Michael 24301 Palomino Way, Tehachapi, CA 93561 [email protected] M. S.Physics

ReFred -‐ golf and model trains

�11


Spilman, Harry 1018 Magnolia St, Unit C South Pasadena, CA 91030 [email protected] Masters from University of Oregon 1966

ReFred from the City of Los Angeles, Department of TransportaFon as a Traffic Engineer

1965 Arnold, Pete (Hamilton) 415 Edinburgh Pl., Marlboro, NJ 07746 [email protected] MS (1967, ScD (1971) from Columbia University, both in Electrical Engineering

On the glide path to final reFrement from my second career as an analyst for a Financial Advisor. SFll doing the same thing I did as a wireless researcher -‐ trying to dig useful informaFon out of a sea of noise. Louise and I live in a small 55+ community, and are finally beginning to travel a bit. I'm sFll enjoying my lifelong avocaFon of singing (Thank you, Oxy Glee Club), and am currently singing in three groups.

Chelson, Paul 908 Peacock StaFon Road, McLean, Virginia 22102 [email protected] M.A. / Ph.D.

We moved back to the states from London where I was the CEO of an internaFonal ChrisFan charity, and am now reFred from paid work. I remain on the board of two ChrisFan chariFes and am acFve in teaching classes at our church in Virginia.

Colmery, Jerald 4307 Crest Drive Manhadan Beach CA 90266 [email protected]

I am sFll happily reFred in Manhadan Beach, while spending Fme exercising, on home projects, managing my apartments and enjoying my family. I especially enjoy some of my son's ScouFng acFviFes and boaFng with him. This fall both children will be in high school. Time flies when your having fun.

Roth, Brad 1507 Rubenstein Avenue, Cardiff by-‐the-‐Sea, CA 92007 [email protected]

Predy much reFred. SFll doing considerable volunteer work in naFve habitat restoraFon, storm water quality efforts, invasive plant eradicaFon, with a few local non-‐profit organizaFons. See www.facebook.com/CodonwoodCreekConservancy and www.carlsbadwatershednetwork.net

1966 Alcorn, Charles N. 5685 Sherborne Knolls, Centreville VA 20120-‐5213 [email protected] MS 1968 Howard University, Washington DC, Solid State Physics

I reFred in 2007 a`er 37 years as a semiconductor engineer/physicist. My physics and math educaFon at Oxy was truly outstanding. Keep up the good work. I am sure the new Oxy graduates will be as prepared as I was to handle graduate school and the technical community.

Ballan[ne, Keith 17470 Cli`on Blvd., Lakewood, OH 44107 [email protected] MAT Univ of Chicago 1968 / MA San Diego State University 1978

�12


I am reFred from 45 years of school-‐teaching in Lakewood, a Cleveland suburb. My wife and I have done some traveling here in the United States and Canada, and I have become more interested in classical music which I widely available in the Cleveland area. I have become a volunteer usher in the Cleveland Orchestra's concert hall.

Bick, Frederic [email protected] MBA

I have reFred from a 40-‐plus year career in the aerospace industry. Had a lot of fun, went to a lot of interesFng places, worked on a lot of interesFng programs as either chief engineer, systems engineer or as test and integraFon lead. Got into senior management for a few years, but gravitated back to technical work for the last few years. Upon leaving aerospace, my wife and I moved to Boulder where I plan to spend most of my Fme flying my glider or hiking and fishing in the Rockies. Maybe some travel will fit in somewhere. Right now, we're predy busy finishing relocaFng and establishing a new life pader. Our three kids are doing well (supporFng themselves -‐ hooray). One works at Google, one at Akami and one is astarving arFst -‐ but they are all happy with what they are doing.

Malone, Stephen Dept. Earth & Space Science, Box 351310, University of Washington, Seadle, WA 98195 [email protected] PhD in Geophysics, University of Nevada, 1972

I reFred in 2007 from the University of Washington but sFll remain acFve part-‐Fme helping to manage the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. However, my wife Linda (Coontz, 1966) and I do quite a bit of traveling also, including trips to eastern Europe, Vietnam and many trips to Canada to visit our daughter and granddaughters. We are currently on a

three month trip driving all over the US visiFng friends and interesFng places..

St. John, Daniel 12296 Valley View Rd, Nevada City, CA 95959 [email protected] Masters in Science, Applied Physics, Stanford University, 1969

Traveling the western US in our 22 `, 4x4 RV; we enjoy riding old RR trains. We have three grandchildren 2, 5 and 6 which we enjoy in the Bay Area. I am trying to learn how to use my 8" Celestron telescope but, it's too cold in winter nights and night Fme comes too late in the summer -‐ progress is slow. My wife Betsy enjoys making quilts. We enjoy hiking in the Sierra foothills and volunteering for Interfaith Food Ministry and Habitat for Humanity.

1967 Miller, Stephen [email protected] MD Stanford University Medical School, 1972 Honorary Member Nepal Opthalmic Society

ReFred from Opthalmology & AdministraFon with Kaiser -‐ Permanente Hawaii. AcFve as volunteer teaching surgery & administraFon at eye hospitals in Asia and Africa. Now Chair of Board of SEVA FoundaFon (SEVA.ORG). Giving tours of Hololulu Museum of Art as a docent. Playing classical piano and harpsichord with duets and rennaisance group. Helping babysit 3 grandchildren (4, 7 & 9). SFll enjoying issues & progress of modern physics.

1968 Rough, Jim 1040 Taylor St, Port Townsend WA [email protected] MSEE, MBA

�13


I developed a new meeFng facilitaFon approach called "dynamic facilitaFon" and teach seminars on it around the world. www.tobe.net. Also this process opens new doors of possibility for revamping democracy. I cofounded the nonprofit organizaFon, the Center for Wise Democracy. www.WiseDemocracy.org. This process is especially taking off in Central Europe.

1969 Hutcheon, Ian 339 Harper Lane, Danville, CA 94526 [email protected] Ph.D., physics, UC Berkeley, 1975

I'm entering my 22nd year at Lawrence Livermore NaFonal Lab and busier than ever. SFll serving as Deputy Director of the Glenn Seaborg InsFtute and Group Leader for Chemical Isotopic Signatures. Our group of 35 pursues an exciFng research porzolio covering topics ranging from nuclear forensics to geomicrobiology. Nancy reFred as director of student programs at LLNL and is busy gardening and traveling. We had a delighzul trip to Vienna and Prague in July. Doug (Oxy, 2002) is an assistant professor of medicine at USC and his wife Allie is a pediatrician at Cedars Sinai. Dana works in fund raising for the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco and just got engaged.

Kreuzenstein, Ron 414 Ives Terrace, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 [email protected] MSEE Stanford 1976

SFll working for IBM as a mainframe firmware engineer.

McCullough, Robert 1001 Bridgeway #729, Sausalito, CA 94965 [email protected] BS Mech Eng. Columbia Univ. MS Mech Eng Stanford, PhD Mech Eng Stanford

ConsulFng in the areas of combusFon and LED lighFng

Nakanishi, Keith 1644 Frankfurt Way, Livermore, CA 94550 [email protected] M.S. UCLA, Planetary and Space Physics / Ph.D. UCLA, Geophysics and Space Physics

I am gainfully reFred a`er 30+ years at Lawrence Livermore NaFonal Laboratory. I am sFll involved with seismology projects in the Middle East and travel there once in a while. Otherwise, I have been keeping up with my ham radio hobby, doing experiments with different radio modes and helping with various public serivce acFviFes. My wife and I have also traveled twice a year to various exoFc and exciFng places.

Saylor, Randall 1908 Windsor Drive, Sierra Vista, AZ [email protected] M.A Computer Science, Univ. of Texas at AusFn, MBA, Webster Univ.

I have been reFred from defense contracFng for several years now. Last year I spent Fme traveling in our motor home through New Mexico and Colorado and visiFng friends and family. Unfortunately I had to put this year's travel plans on hold a`er having to foreclose on a couple of loans and being dragged kicking and screaming back into the house flipping business. Hopefully travel will again be on the docket for next year. The RV is feeling rejected. I have also had Fme to watch some of the programs on the science channel and am amazed at how old and worn some of the physics I learned at Oxy seem to be now. It is

�14



like comparing the IBM 1620 computer and card punches we used at Oxy to today's computers.

1970 Crawford, Richard 10839 Stever St, Culver City, CA 90230 [email protected] PhD in Astronomy, UCLA, 1981

Recently reFred from Northrop Grumman a`er a short 37-‐year career. Last ten years were in the So`ware Safety group. In case you've not heard of that specialty, Much more interesFng than programming. QA determines that the so`ware does what it's required to, and So`ware Safety adempts to determine that the so`ware doesn't do anything else -‐-‐ parFcularly anything bad. Since my group does this on the so`ware that runs nuclear weapons, this is a big deal.

Fraser, Peter J. 3092 Wilby Rd, Baden, On, Canada N3A 3N1 Master of MathemaFcs, University of Waterloo

President of Thinkage.

Helfrich, Richard Alameda Advisors Inc. 10620 Southern Highlands Pkwy, #110-‐487, Las Vegas, NV [email protected] MSEE CSULA,1972 InternaFonal: Joint Ventures, OEM Deals, Intellectual Property Sales, Corporate TransacFons / * Technology Company Boards and / * University commidees and boards / Chair of the Proof of Concept Fund (spinout fund ) University of California Office of the President / Advisory Board for the Colleges of Sciences at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) / Technology CommercializaFon Commidee at the UNLV / Advising UNLV on growth strategies such as a medical school /

Guiding universiFes in several US central and eastern states on how to best commercialize technologies towards economic development. In recent years most of my acFviFes have involved business, finance and corporate governance for emerging technology companies. However, hardly a week goes by without having to think back to Oxy Physics (along with chemistry, biology and the MSEE) to evaluate the strategic plans of companies and universiFes. The greatest benefit of Oxy physics has been learning how to learn in order to evaluate new technologies and separate the wheat from the chaff.

Jang, May 19729 Crystal Ridge Lane, Northridge, CA 91326 [email protected] UCLA's School of Engineering: M.S, Engineer's Degree, PhD

Enjoying my first year of reFrement a`er a 30+ year career in aerospace engineering (Log/An, Hughes Missile Systems, Hughes Space & CommunicaFons, Boeing Satellite Systems). Travels include visiFng Hawaii and Alaska. Work part-‐Fme as editor for www.birdbrainscience.com, an educaFonal website to help middle school students excel in science.

Larson, Andrew 1209 Adair Drive, Richland, WA 99352 [email protected] MS Nuclear Engineering I reFred 3 years ago. Kate and I have been doing a fair amount of traveling -‐ BriFsh Columbia, the East side of the Sierras, Death Valley, the Utah NaFonal Parks, Peru and Chile, Minnesota, Yellowstone and Teton, the Black Hills, Teddy Roosevelt NaFonal Park, Chicago, New Zealand, the Ozarks, Waterton NaFonal Park in Canada, and shorter local trips in WA and OR. We also have Fme for our culinary interests -‐ bread baking, canning, pickling, sausage making, and wine. I have also been

�15


reading more now that I have the Fme -‐ classics (Life on the Mississippi, Moby Dick, Ulysses, Tolstoy) and more contemporary fare and I conFnue to culFvate my interest in music of all sorts.

Rammer, Richard P.O. Box 5276, Santa Cruz, CA 95063 [email protected]

Gradually moving towards reFrement, Studying mushrooms on an amateur basis.

1971 Almassy, William 1110 W. Francine St., Pahrump, NV., 89060 [email protected]

Same as always.

Hawkins, Randall PO Box 1305, Tiburon CA 94920 [email protected] MD, PhD

Professor of Radiology UCSF

Knight, Doyle PhD 1974 California InsFtute of Technology

Mar[, Jordi D. Eng Sci.

Teaching Math and Tutoring High School Kids.

Shuler, Steve 2358 University Ave #170, San Diego CA 92104 [email protected] Caltech, Engineering, BS'71, MS’72

I have been reFred since 2007. However, I am currently looking and planning to rejoin the

workforce. ReFrement isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be!

1972 Jones, Terry Jay 602 Laurel, Saint Paul, MN 55102 [email protected] Ph. D. Astronomy, 1977, University of Hawaii

I am trying to wind down my career, but, circumstances are conspiring to prevent that! I plan to reFre in 2017, but I am supervising two graduate students and sFll parFcipaFng in funding proposals. One idea I had was to just not show up one day, and see what happens. SFll working on instrumentaFon and observing on the large telescopes in Arizona. Wife Debby (Oxy 70') just reFred, so she is definitely having fun.

Margare[c, Steven J. P.O. Box 816 ; Merced, CA. 95341 [email protected] BS -‐ Caltech; MS -‐ Caltech

Keeping busy working as an Engineer/Businessman

Reid G Samuelson 5000 Edenhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90039 [email protected] MBA -‐ UCLA -‐ 1974

I have been very busy -‐ Chairman of our local YMCA, new Trustee of Occidental College, working through a difficult economy, visiFng our two granddaughters in Denver and our son in Hong Kong.

Schnitger, David 1549 Winchester Ave. Glendale, CA 91201 [email protected] CA professional civil engineer

�16


Formerly a Director of Systems for the City of Los Angeles, now reFred. Wife Sally (Oxy class 1974) and I are now grandparents, and it is indeed grand. Rode a bicycle across the country in 2013, trying for more adventures in 2014.

1973 Frank R. Ferris 10606 SE 32nd St., Bellevue, WA 98004 MBA 1981 Pepperdine University

Started another business: CET Medical

Kanber, Hilda 59 Hidden Valley Rd., Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 [email protected] M.S. EE USC 1975 / Ph.D. EE USC 1980

Enjoying reFrement with my husband, Alex Costa, Oxy '72. Our daughter ChrisFna is now 31 years old. / Have been doing a lot of traveling recently. Last year I went to Mongolia in July, beauFful natural scenery and hiking, also visited the Gobi Desert. This January I went to Patagonia in South America, including Easter Island, Torres del Paine naFonal park in Chile, Los Glaciers NaFonal Park in ArgenFna, Glacier Alley in the Magellan channel and Cape Horn. In April, also did a 31-‐day family cruise from Singapore to Cape Town, stopping at exoFc islands in the Indian Ocean.

Lambert, David 166 Loma Vista Drive, Sonoma, CA 95476 [email protected] MBA UCLA 1983

Working as CFO of Revinate, Inc. in San Francisco, a start-‐up providing technology services to the hospitality industry, with over 23,000 hotels on the system.

1974 Christopher Lenk 37 Wolf Pine Way , Concord MA [email protected] Psy. D

Graduated our 100th doctoral student Intern from our Intership. Trained in CPT Cognitve protocol for PTSD pts. UFlizing VA's research from combat Vets. to use with immigrants with PTSD. STILL married 33 years to Veronica who is sFll playing oboe. We love Concord, music and friends. SFll figuring out Higgs Boson, and quantum entanglements!

Long, Bob 4721 Deseret Dr, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 [email protected] BSN 2006, Regis University Denver

Now semi-‐reFred in Woodland Hills, CA a`er a "second career" in nursing. Working part-‐Fme with my wife, Mahnoosh Assadi, for Vital Health and NutriFon, our business of helping people improve their health and live well. I grow a large porFon of our vegetables in our home garden. We also regularly get out for hiking and biking in our local Santa Monica Mountains.

Marrone, James [Jim] 821 Rogers Way, Pinole, CA 94564 [email protected] Master of Arts in Geological Sciences at U.C. Berkeley, 1981

2014 was my 33rd year at Bechtel CorporaFon. I am a Principal Seismologist, working out of the San Francisco office. Primary work over the last two years has been working on evaluaFng earthquake design levels for new and exisFng nuclear power plants in central and eastern US.

�17


1975 Bender, Paul 1705 Bayou Way, Seal Beach, CA 90740 [email protected]

SFll enjoying reFrement and trying to keep up with my 9 year old son. We have been enjoying RV trips to San Diego, Buellton, Pismo Beach and Monterey. It does get a lidle cramped with myself, my wife, son, dog and cat in a 24 foot RV, but that is part of the adventure. I have been trying to educate myself a lidle on economics and finance a`er the Great Recession. They definitely seem rather subjecFve, at least compared to physics and engineering.

Hall Doug 3560 Studio Drive Cayucos, CA 93430 [email protected] PhD Physics, U.C. Davis Working as a technology manager in the Solar Energy Technologies Office of the US Department of Energy

Hughes, Robert 1838 W. Portobello Ave., Mesa, AZ 85202 [email protected]

Licensed Professional Civil Engineer, in Arizona, New Mexico, and California. Licensed Professional Land Surveyor in Arizona.

I'm sFll working for a heavy civil construcFon company based in Arizona. Within the last two years, the company has expanded into the California and Texas markets. Within the last one year, I was promoted to Director of Contracts. Within the last one year, I became a grandfather for the first Fme. I now have a grandson.

Marzullo, Keith 1 Scod Circle #PH, Washington DC 20036 [email protected] MS, Applied Physics, Stanford and PhD, Electrical Engineering, Stanford

Working as a Division Director at the NaFonal Science FoundaFon. This is a bit like being a department chair at a university. My division fund research in computer and network systems, cybersecurity, cyberphysical systems, infrastructure, and educaFon. I had been doing this on leave from the CSE Department at UC San Diego, but I converted to a fed employee this year.

GarreV, Douglas [email protected] MS Computer InformaFon Systems, Boston University

2013 Completed MS in Computer InformaFon Systems from Boston University / -‐ Won Bio-‐IT World Best PracFces Award for a managed cage change system / 2014 / -‐Speaker at first MongoDB World conference held last June in NYC / Won MongDB InnovaFon Award in AnalyFcs / Beginning work to obtain a Graduate CerFficate in Mining Massive Datasets from Stanford / Excited that a`er all these years I may be gerng back into math and staFsFcs if I begin working more in data mining and data science. It's reminding me why I was a Physics major! / On a more personal note, took a two week trip through various parts of Japan and Korea in 2013. In 2014 took a one week 55 mile hike through the Yosemite backcountry. You can see some of the pictures from these and other trips at hdp://www.garredblog.com

�18

mailto:[email protected]://www.garrettblog.com


1976 Jacobs, Sharon 1391 Montclaire Ct., Los Altos, CA., 94024 [email protected] M.S.S.I., Krannert School of Management at Purdue University 1978 Phi Beta Kappa, 1976, Occidental College, Beta Gamma Sigma, 1978, Purdue University,

Currently I am "Chief Mom and reFred HP Company ExecuFve". (1st child graduated from UCSC, 2014 as both a Music (voice) and Economics/Environmental Policy major. 2nd child, freshman at UCLA honors pre-‐med. program with a minor in history) SFll married to Dave Cohan, "Chief Dad and Chief General family LogisFcs Officer". No hospitalizaFons!! A family vacaFon driving from CA to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons NaFonal Parks this year. Our family loves to get away from civilizaFon and are strong environmentalists. (And our 'kids' sFll love it when parents are paying!) We sFll have our sailboat. Kim (daughter #1) was on the UCSC varsity sailing team. Both 'Kids" are great sailors. I, Sharon, am sFll working hard to keep up with family, friends, and the fast moving world around us in the face of 25+ years of secondary progressive mulFple sclerosis (M.S.).

McKinlay, Eric 10240 Byrne Ave. CuperFno, CA 95014 [email protected] BS Caltech EE / MS Univ of Illinois Comp Sci

Managing a so`ware development team at Equity AdministraFon SoluFons.

Meyers, Karie 7135 N Skyway Drive [email protected] Ph.D.physics University of Colorado

I sFll teach physics at Pima Community College in Tucson. Husband, two kids, one dog, no

grandkids yet. Looking forward to our 40th reunion!

1977 CorbeV, ScoV 11720 SW 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97219 [email protected] MS AcousFcs, Penn State U

Johnston, Philip F. Chevron Bangkok Pouch Mail P.O. Box 5095 Bellaire TX 77402-‐5095 p}[email protected] MS Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines

Working as Earth ScienFst for Chevron Thailand Ltd. in Bangkok.

Seagrave, Charles MS, ScienFfic InstrumentaFon 1981 UCSB

Enjoying reFrement, semi-‐conducFng, serving as Board President for SingersMarin.org, teaching introductory courses in Technology for Musicians at Napa Valley College. Proud father of the bride, Elizabeth, last March. Developing acousFc retroreflectors for a cappella groups and other singers who need to hear themselves in performance.

1978 Hussain, Saif [email protected] MSCE

Led a USAID reconstrucFon project for schools, colleges and hospitals in a poverty stricken developing country. Joined a leading global engineering design firm in Los Angeles working on landmark projects around the world. Helped develop building codes and standards for earthquake resilient construcFon in LA, the

�19


US and overseas. Experienced the miracle of our first two grandchildren.

Llewellyn, Brian 5906 Garden Hollow Ct. [email protected] MS, Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas at AusFn

I reFred from Chevron (a`er nearly 31 years) in March of 2011, and began working at Hess Corp shortly a`erward. I am currently the Chief ProducFon Engineer for Hess, and part of Hess' Technology and Excellence organizaFon. I conFnue to live in Kingwood, Texas (my family moved here in 1999). My wife, Ann, and I have three labs (two chocolate, one yellow) and enjoy Fme at home, and traveling. Ann reFred from teaching 4 years ago, and now tutors math. Our oldest daughter, Lauren, lives near us, and is a full Fme nanny, and pre-‐school teacher. Our youngest daughter, Sarah, is in her second year of veterinary school at Texas A&M.

1979 Willey, Roger Camarillo MBA The Booth University of Chicago

ConFnue in spacecra` products in program management at Moog. Currently developing deployment and poinFng system for a NASA X-‐ray mission to study neutron stars and experiment with inter-‐galacFc GPS-‐like technology. My Oxy experience gives me an advantage in this industry

Yamaguchi, Gary T. 2517 E. Rocky Slope Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85048 [email protected] SMME, 1981, MIT (Mechanical Engineering); PhD, 1989, Stanford

During the past two years, I joined InSciTech, Inc. as a biomechanical and accident reconstrucFon consultant, invesFgaFng injuries, mechanical design issues and failures, etc. This kind of work enables me to uFlize my physics background from Oxy very effecFvely. The family and I are also heavily involved with target archery. My 2nd son Nathan and youngest, Karissa, and I are all naFonal class archers in our age groups. This year I realized a long-‐term goal and finished 1st at both the NaFonal Target Championships and the U. S. Open in the male 50+ recurve bow category. I am coaching at a local club, as well as for Team USA at World Cup events and for an elite junior squad, the Junior Dream Team. This past year my wife Janet and I were able to lead a team to Moscow, Russia, to compete in the European Junior Championships! Fortunately, I remembered how to read and speak a lidle from my Oxy Russian courses. I also coached for Team USA at the World Cups in Antalya, Turkey and Wrocslaw, Poland. My eldest son Jonathan just graduated from the University of Arizona and is applying to medical school.

1980 McCarthy, Robert 106 E. 6th Street, AusFn TX 78701 [email protected] MS

Working for Lightspeed Systems. We develop so`ware for K-‐12 schools to use mobile devices.

Myers, Kyle (Voss) 10112 Donegal Court, Potomac, MD 20854 [email protected] M.S. OpFcal Sciences (1983) / Ph.D. OpFcal Sciences (1985)

I direct the Division of Imaging, DiagnosFcs, and So`ware Reliability in FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. We do research on

�20


methods for the evaluaFon of the safety and effecFveness of emerging imaging systems, new technologies for medical image display, and image reconstrucFon and computer-‐aided diagnosis devices. Always new things to learn and great people to work with.

1981 Beardwood, Bruce 6834 Harrington Court, Chino CA 91710 [email protected] MS-‐Computer Engineering

Living in Chino, working as a test engineer with Boeing HunFngton Beach, designing/using test staFons including LabVIEW programming. Happily married to Nancy (32 years), with four kids (Linda, David, Mark, Eric). The closest any of my kids got to physics is Mark who is a Mechanical Engineer, serng up roboFc assembly lines. Mark got married last year, and David got married this year. We plan to travel to the east coast this coming spring to visit David and his wife. AcFve in our local church (Gateway Community). Enjoy annual trips to the Tijuana area to build homes for the poor. All is well.

Haase, Nathan 5180 Via Carretas, Yorba Linda, CA 92886 [email protected] MSEE (CSUF), CerFficate in Project Management (UCI)

I am enjoying being an Electrical Engineer / Project Manager at The Boeing Company (Defense), HunFngton Beach. I am part of the small but growing Payloads and Sensors team, developing and fielding low size, weight, and power. radio frequency payloads for Fer 1 and Fer 2 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

1982 Louie, Alan [email protected]

Mentoring startup founders of K-‐12 educaFonal technology startups, working on technology to improve preK-‐8 reading comprehension.

Louie, John Seismology 0174, Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557 [email protected] MS Geophysics, Caltech, 1983 / PhD Geophysics, Caltech, 1987

John and Neva Donovan '82 are back from New Zealand in Reno with an empty nest, though Anna is in town studying Medicine at Nevada. Neva enjoys helping her study and passes along clinical wisdom. Ben is a second-‐year Computer Science major at New Mexico Tech. Against all indicaFons we bought ski passes for Mt. Rose so are pracFcing our snow dances. Nothing beder than to get a science degree from a liberal arts college!

1983 Neuhaus, Joseph 558 Royal Av [email protected] M.S. Physics, UCLA

I've been working for Chicago-‐based Prime Advantage CorporaFon while living in Montreal. I'm eagerly awaiFng my daughter's first Physics class so I can help -‐ she'll be a high-‐school senior next year. Our family vacaFon this summer was two weeks in Japan, which provided endless new food discoveries and fun riding the bullet trains. Last summer we went to the Galapagos Islands and the Ecuador Rain Forest -‐ fantasFc!

�21


Simon, Arthur 1211 Dartmouth St. [email protected] MFA Electronic Music Mills College 1985

Teaching Computer Science, and for the first Fme, RoboFcs. I'm learning about Arduinos, the Makerbot and Solidworks and enjoying it.

1984 Levine, David 1418 175th Pl NE, Bellevue, WA 98008 [email protected] Masters in EducaFon

For the past two years I've been a so`ware developer at IntenFonal So`ware in Bellevue, WA. Last summer I had the opportunity to work with JPL on a project involving small satellites, which brought me back to my own days at the lab. I'm currently working on collaboraFon so`ware for large displays.

Millman, Steve MS EE Stanford, 1985 / PhD EE Stanford 1989

I've been at Freescale/Motorola now for over 25 years working on cryptographic hardware. I'm now a DisFnguished Member of the Technical Staff and my 16th U.S. patent just issued. Our eldest son is now a junior in high school and our younger son and our daughter are both in junior high.

1985 Graat, Eric 1161 Sonora #204, Glendale CA 91201 [email protected] 1997 Physics MS from California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA)

I have been performing orbit determinaFon for various NASA/JPL Mars orbiter missions such as Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Mars Atmosphere and VolaFle EvoluFon (MAVEN) orbiter. I have provided orbit determinaFon support for the Indian Space Research OrganizaFon's (ISRO) Mars Orbiter Mission over the past year. I have traveled to Bangalore, India twice this year to parFcipate in technical reviews and exchanges with the ISRO team.

Kidder, John 581 Mason Rd., Randolph, VT. 05060 [email protected] PhD. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, 1996 M. S. Physics, University of Vermont 1991

I'm sFll teaching at Vermont Technical College, professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department. For the past 10 years, I've specialized in renewable energy systems. Enjoying life in Vermont with my two boys who are now 16 and 13.

Limbach, Alan 365 North Clark Avenue, Los Altos, CA 94022 [email protected] JD (Law)

Now in my 20th year of prosecuFng and liFgaFng patents, the last 12 years of which have been with DLA Piper. I sFll enjoy working with all the new and varying technologies being patented and marketed. My physics degree has been the perfect educaFonal background.

�22


1986 Vali, Adam 1729 Port Abbey Pl. Newport Beach, CA 92660 [email protected] Master of Science, Civil Engineering (ConstrucFon Engineering and Management), Stanford University

I now have a son, Finn, 3.5 years old and a new daughter, Taylor, 5 months old.

1987 Crewe, David 104 Tuxford Terrace, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 [email protected] MS, Electrical Engineering '95 / Ph.D, Electrical Engineering ’98

I'm responsible for Engineering and Product Development for Veeco Instruments, a small cap semiconductor process equipment company based in NY. Stay at home wife with a volunteering disorder and 3 boys (17, 15, 11) that keep us very busy. The oldest is exploring So Cal colleges so look out Oxy!

Khan, Salim S 39, Phase 2, DHA, Lahore, Pakistan [email protected] BS (hons) California InsFtute of Technology, 1987

Helping organizaFons and business owners improve effecFveness through execuFve coaching, organizaFon development consulFng, and family business conversion to professionally run companies.

Pogorelc, ScoV 4706 Devereaux Ct, Centreville, VA 20120 [email protected] M.S. Aerospace Engineering, CU Boulder

SFll working satellite navigaFon and orbital mechanics for a USG contractor

Sanger, Dan 11502 Baskerville Rd, Los Alamitos CA 90720 [email protected] MS, Applied Physics, Columbia University 1989

Running a health insurance purchasing pool for the last 5 years. SFll an avid tennis player and proud to say I have only gained 10 pounds since Oxy. Daughter a sophomore in college, son a sophomore in high school.

1988 Campbell, Mel [email protected] M.S. Physics

Adjunct Physics professor at California BapFst University in Riverside, California / Assistant Pastor, Living Truth ChrisFan Fellowship Corona / Riverside County African American Achievement IniFaFve commidee member / Achievement Coordinator, Corona-‐Norco Unified School District; establishing successful parent involvement model throughout the district / Physics instructor at SanFago High School, Corona-‐Norco Unified School District / Corona-‐Norco Unified Teacher of the Year 2012 / Son who is a sophomore mechanical engineer major at Cal BapFst University / Daughter who is a freshman at USC School of Film & Cinematography / Daughter who will be a freshman at my high school next year / SFll overjoyed and happily married to the love of my life Patricia (Shepard) Campbell '89 /

Chadsey, Deborah (Tong) [email protected]

MBA: UCLA Anderson School of Management Working at Hyundai Motor America. Currently responsible for various customer-‐facing call

�23



center operaFons -‐ never a dull moment. Also working on building my photography business (www.deborahchadsey.com).

Evans, Dan Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University

Leader of the Water Resource Engineering pracFce for Tetra Tech in Fort Collins, CO

Seto, Jane MBA, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley

Working at Deustche Bank, London, U.K.

1989 Bonicalzi, Ricco [email protected] PhD Physics, University of Washington 2010; MA Phusics, SUNY at Stony Brook 1992

I'm excited to say that I was hired into a tenure-‐track posiFon at Seadle Central College for the fall of 2013. I'm currently teaching the first-‐year physics engineering sequence, astronomy, and precalculus. Though my first year as a full-‐Fme instructor was a lot of work, it was also extremely rewarding and fun. Seadle Central is a vibrant campus with a wonderful student body. I am also very happy to be back in Seadle where I have such a rich community. Life is good!

Copely, Doug [email protected] M.A. Univ of Colorado, Boulder / Ph.D. Univ of Colorado, Boulder

I conFnue to enjoy teaching physics at Sacramento City College, trying to pass along (pay forward?) those wonderful and eye-‐opening experiences that I first had at Oxy. The more years I teach, the more I appreciate what I

was given! Pet projects have been put on the back burner, as more governance duFes have taken precedence (i.e. the dreaded campus poliFcs). The effects of the Great Recession, demands of technology, and the thoughtless drive towards educaFonal uniformity has really hit our campus hard. Never a dull moment and plenty to work on! My wife Erica and I sFll conFnue to parFcipate in animal rescue, fostering predy much anything with four legs (or no legs). Our latest addiFon is a Belgian-‐Collie mix with a love of running agility and trenching the back yard. Once again, never a dull moment!

HaVen, Greg 2905 Old Broadmoor Rd Colorado Springs, CO 80906 [email protected] MS Aerospace Engineering / MS Applied Math

Work: 2014 saw four launches of the Block IIF -‐ the newest model in the GPS satellite program. It's busy but fun. I enjoy my work and it's deeply saFsfying to see how GPS has matured since I started in 1992. Personal: There's a disFnct possibility that I am growing older. I broke my leg and damaged my knee early last summer and it took FOREVER to heal. Then, just as I got over the broken leg, I had a scare with skin cancer. Luckily I seem to have put both health issues behind me. Both of my kids are teenagers now, so Kate and I are reminded on a daily basis of just how uncool we have become. Luckily, we don't care.

Pavri, Be[na BS Engineering & Applied Science, Caltech / MS Geology, Brown

I am enjoying my work as part of the Mars Curiosity Rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Currently I am the instrument systems lead for the mission. My role involves monitoring and assessing the health rover's 10 science instruments, enabling our science team

�24


to focus on exploring the geological history of the area. I look forward to conFnuing to support Curiosity and its discoveries (hopefully for many more years)!

1990 Crean, Kathleen [email protected] MS Aerospace Engineering

SFll working at JPL in the ground systems area. Kevin and I conFnue to enjoy watching our 2 kids grow up -‐ both are in elementary school now.

Garcia, Gregory 270 Quincy Avenue NE, Renton WA 98059 [email protected]

I conFnue to work and live in suburban Seadle, as I have since 2002. I am sFll working as a sales manager for Ryan Herco Flow SoluFons, in my 23rd year. My wife Par (CSUN 1991, Mt Saint Mary's 1999) have three children, Samantha 12, Quinlan 9, and Madhew 5. We are mostly busy being full Fme parents, but I did manage to play in the annual Catalina Old Boys Rugby tournament with the Oxy Olde Boys RFC in May. Also in May, I had the opportunity to Climb Mount Rainier via the Gibbs Ledges route. Needless to say, I have spent most of June in recovery, and catching up at work....

1993 Edlin, David 6625 Arbor Road; Lakewood, CA 90713 [email protected] MSEE

I'm working as a So`ware Engineer for the Navy. Last November I got married. I would love to see my old friends.

Gustafson, William 480 Palm Dr., Richland, WA 99352 [email protected] Ph.D. Atmospheric Science

I conFnue to work at DOE's Pacific Northwest NaFonal Laboratory as an atmospheric scienFst. My main research interests are improving the handling of clouds in climate models and enabling beder ways to simulate climate. My new pursuit this year has been learning golf. My iniFal goal was to keep up with my 11 year old son who wanted to learn the game. I've come to also see it as a great way to prepare for reFrement-‐-‐I have 20 years to get good at the game.

Howes, Gregory gregory-‐[email protected] Dip. App. Sci., Geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ / M.S., Physics, UCLA / Ph.D., Physics, UCLA

In spring 2013, I achieved tenure at the University of Iowa, where I have an acFve research program at the intersecFon of plasma physics, space physics, and astrophysics. My primary interest is the physics of turbulence in weakly collisional plasmas, with an emphasis on the study of turbulence in the near-‐Earth solar wind. Personally, my wife Elizabeth and I have two five-‐year old idenFcal twin boys and a one year old daughter that keep us very busy, and our family enjoys the warm summers in Iowa City (the winters, on the other hand, are a different story . . .).

Mock, Rick [email protected] MS Civil Engineering, University of California, Irvine

I'm sFll a Partner at E2 ManageTech -‐ www.e2mt.com. We are hiring in our Houston and Chicago offices for those with a bent for using informaFon technology to help solve

�25


environmental problems. On the personal side, I have a beauFful wife, two amazing daughters, and spend a whole lot of weekend Fme watching gymnasFcs.

Telles,Robert 14181 Green Valley Court, San Diego CA 92131 [email protected]

Over the last couple of years, I've been having fun raising my son who is now 4 years old. I le` my old job due too much internaFonal travel and started a new company with PJ Go, class of 1994, and some friends from Cal Tech.

1994 Go, PJ [email protected]

Lauren and I moved back to San Diego last year to join fellow Physics alumni Bobby Telles and a couple of Caltech alumni at a startup called QuickFire Networks. We have been working on video processing hardware and so`ware, and recently launched the fastest video transcoding service available, QuickFire.TV.Â

1995 Holmes Eilers, Ka[e 4015 74th Ave Ct NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98335 [email protected] MPH, MSN, RN

Working at Kitsap Public Health District as a public health nurse administrator. Thanks for organizing this!

Mellein, Jason MS, Engineering Systems Division, MIT, 2007 MS, Management (MBA), Sloan School of Business, MIT, 2007

Air Force Reserves (on-‐going) / Consultant with McKinsey & Company (le` in 2013) / Currently Director of Pivotal Labs, Washington D.C. and an advisor to the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS)

1996 Sugerman, Ben 4 Springbriar Ln, Pikesville MD 21208 [email protected] Ph.D Astronomy from Columbia University, 2006.

I earned tenure and promoFon to Associate professor at Goucher College, and am currently the Chair of Physics and Astronony. My wife and I had our 3rd son, Theo, this June; our eldest (Daniel) started 2nd grade and Ethan (4) is in his last year of pre-‐school. I have been ferventy brewing Homebrew beer and cider these last years, and won a naFonal award last year for one of my brews.

1998 Reeves, Dan 4711 Lowell Ave, La Crescenta CA 91214 [email protected]

Ran 1st marathon, 1st Ironman, 1st UltraMarathon, got married, bought house, and having baby.

Welander, Paul 351 Leland Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025 [email protected] Ph.D. in Physics from Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-‐Champaign

About two years ago I le` MIT Lincoln Laboratory and joined the Vacuum Science & Engineering Dept. at SLAC NaFonal Accelerator Laboratory. My primary research interest involves superconducFng thin films and their

�26


potenFal applicaFon as coaFngs in RF accelerator caviFes. I collaborate with faculty at Stanford to do the thin film growth and materials characterizaFon, while the cryogenic RF tesFng is done in a test cavity at SLAC. Other research efforts include the development of highly doped Si layers for absorpFon windows in so` x-‐ray detectors, and consulFng for the LCLS II project which will include the installaFon of a new superconducFng linac at SLAC.

1999 Detwiler, Jason [email protected] PhD, Stanford University (2005)

I have been teaching and doing research as an Assistant Professor of Physics at University of Washington in Seadle. One big experiment I have been working on for the past decade aimed at determining whether the neutrino and the anFneutrino are in fact the same parFcle is under construcFon and has finally started taking some preliminary data, so it's a very exciFng Fme in my research.

Tam, Tammy [email protected] MSME, Stanford university

Working at a medical device startup and expecFng second child in November.

2000 Liang, Calvin [email protected]

Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences I sFll work at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. I now have three children: Trinity (6), Kiara (4), and Caselyn (1.5). My wife, Judy,

works as consultant to a college counseling agency.

2001 DeBoer, Charles 704 canyon crest drive, sierra madre, 91024 [email protected] PhD

I'm compleFng my MD/PhD from caltech/usc. Also cofounded a small biomed startup between compleFng my phd and finishing the last 2 yrs of medical school.

Do, Alex 1570 Jackson St, Apt 209, Oakland, CA 94612 [email protected] MS ME, 2005 UC Berkeley

Lots of skiing and snowboarding. Now a Product Manager at Acuity Brands LighFng. Less drinking than college, more work, and way more injuries and longer Fmes to recover. Gerng old sucks. Haven't used a Del operator in over a decade. I hope all of the homies and their families are doing well.

Ly, Peter M.S. Mechanical Engineering

Moved to Japan

Sakota, Zeljko Gigio 1233 6th St # 1001, Santa Monica, CA 90401 [email protected] M.S. Mechanical Engineering, UCLA

I became a Sr. Project Manager, which I guess means I'm now old?

Villaume, Nathaniel 725 N Catalina Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91104 [email protected]

�27



I'm sFll working at JPL. I have been involved with tesFng electronics and preparing vehicles for launch: Soil Moisture AcFve Passive, an Earth-‐observing radar mission; and Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (Hawaii!) LDSD vehicle 1. Campaigns for Vehicles 2 and 3 are starFng in Oct 2014.

2002 Cianci, Chris [email protected] B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Caltech / Ph.D., RoboFcs, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Kirkpatrick, Jessica [email protected] MPhil in ParFcle Physics / MS in Astrophysics / PhD in Astrophysics

Jessica is now the Direct of Data Science for EducaFon Technology company InstaEDU. We provide online tutoring to high school and college students. She is also the Blogger-‐in-‐Chief for Women in Astronomy (womeninastronomy.blogspot.com) as part of her membership of the American Astronomical Society's Commidee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA) where she blogs about issues of diversity in STEM. She also manages the Facebook group Diversity in Physics and Astronomy (hdps://www.facebook.com/groups/astro.physics.women/) where people interested in these issues can share ideas -‐-‐-‐ join us! Jessica recently came down to Occidental to give a career talk, and enjoyed seeing all her old Oxy professors.

Schaffner, Erin (Englert) 7 Morgan Cir, Swarthmore, PA 19081 [email protected] M.S., Physics, UCLA

In early 2013, my husband, David, finished his PhD in Physics at UCLA and we moved across the country (in the winter, with 2 cats...) for his post-‐doc posiFon at Swarthmore College. I am sFll technically employed at Northrop Grumman in LA and occasionally do work with them. We are expecFng our first baby in October 2014.

Terri, Ryan School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK [email protected] Ph.D. Physics, Stony Brook University, Dec. 2008

I've been working on neutrino cross secFon modeling, event selecFon opFmizaFon, and nucleon decay studies for the T2K, LAGUNA-‐LBNO, and Hyper-‐Kamiokande experiments.

2003 Rebassoo, Finn [email protected] Phd, Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (2011) / MA, Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (2008)

I have been working as a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore NaFonal Laboratory for the past 2 years. I have mainly been conFnuing my work on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (I have been working on the CMS experiment for 9 years now). I lead an analysis looking for new parFcles via photon-‐photon interacFons. In addiFon, I am helping with the upgrade of the hardware in the CMS experiment.

�28


2004 Koepf, Erik Schonaustrasse 47, 5430 Werngen, Switzerland [email protected] PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware

Postdoctoral Fellow with the Solar Technology Laboratory at the Paul Scherrer InsFtute in Switzerland, and lecturer at the Swiss Federal InsFtute of Technology, Zurich. Chair of the Solar Chemistry Commidee for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

2005 Dexter, Jason [email protected] PhD, Physics, University of Washington 2011

This year I received the So}a Kovalevskaja award, a 5 year grant that will allow me to start a research group in Germany. My wife Kalista and I arrived in Munich in October, where I'll be working at the Max Planck InsFtute for Extraterrestrial Physics. My work focuses on using light emided by gas falling into black holes to study the strong gravitaFonal fields near their event horizons. Munich is a long way from California, but so far everything is going well. There is even a decent burrito place within walking distance of our apartment. I also enjoyed catching up with Professor Snowden-‐I on the Berkeley Lab shudle this summer.

Fischer, Shawna (Hollen) 233 Tibet Rd. Columbus OH 43202 [email protected] MS, PhD

In the last 2 years I finished my PhD at Brown University and have been working at Ohio State University as a postdoctoral researcher in the

Center for Emergent Materials. My husband Andrew and I have also had a baby girl: Marita Zay Fischer was born March 23rd, 2014. Her favorite thing to do is to stare at leaves. I'm afraid we may have a biologist on our hands, but I'll try to steer her in the right direcFon. I hope we'll get a chance to show her around Oxy soon!

Menke (Fowler), Brian [email protected] Master of ConstrucFon Management

Traveling and exploring the world with my wife whenever possible. Funding such trips working for Kaiser Permanente as Senior Project Manager. I manage construcFon remodel, maintenance, and new construcFon projects for Kaiser Permanente.

Zlotoff, Michael 1062 Normington Way, San Jose, Ca. 95136 [email protected]

MS 2009, Stanford University, Civil & Enviornmental Engineering with emphasis in Environmental Fluid mechanics & Hydrology I got my Civil PE and am working in environmental engineering consulFng in San Jose.

2006 Grigoriev, Mikhail 16003 S Menlo Ave, Gardena, CA 90247 [email protected] MS Mechanical Engineering

Loving life back in LA (Southbay

physics newsletter template copy 2 · 2020. 1. 6. · occidental college physics department october...

Documents