Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 24, 2014
at 4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
RCI Calculations to Hyperfine Structure Constants in V II
Marwa Abd Almoneam
Advisor: Dr. Donald Beck
View the Photo Gallery for the Department of Physics Senior Research Oral Presentations
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Assistant Professor of Physics Ramy El-Ganainy is a co-author of a new article “Supersymmetric mode converters” in the journal Nature Communications volume 5 published April 16, 2014.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4698
The article concerns the concept of supersymmetry as it is used to systematically design a new class of optical structures.
Ran Duan, a PhD candidate in engineering physics, has been named a finalist in the Student Paper Competition of the 2014 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, cosponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society and the Union of Radio Science.
As a finalist, Duan has been been invited to present a poster on his paper titled “Multiband Unidirectional Cloaking Based on Geometric Optics” at the symposium in Memphis, July 6-11. He will also receive a $1,250 award to help him attend the symposium.
Duan won Michigan Tech’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for the fall 2013 semester.
Duan’s research is on an invisibility cloak being developed by Associate Professor Elena Semouchkina (ECE/Physics). An invisibility cloak is a device that allows electromagnetic waves such as microwaves or light to bypass objects, essentially making them invisible.
Department of Physics Senior Research Oral Presentations
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 17, 2014
3:15 – 5:00pm
Room 139 in Fisher Hall
Undergraduate Presentation Abstracts
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Formation of the Midcontinent Rift System: Fossil Magnetization of Intrusive Rocks
Darcy Jacobson
Advisor: Dr. Aleksey Smirnov
High-Speed Imaging of Freezing Drops: An Investigation of Contact Nucleation
Joseph Charnawskas
Advisor: Dr. Raymond Shaw
Synthesis of molybdenum disulfide for applications in van der Waal’s heterostructures
By Emily Makoutz
Advisor: Dr. Yoke Khin Yap
Preliminary Search for Exotic Events in the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory Data
Greg Furlich
Advisor: Dr. Brian FIck
Numerical Investigation of Water Vapor Effects in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Michael Adler
Advisor: Dr. Raymond Shaw
Synthesis and Characterization of Boron Nitride Nanosheets for Applications in Heat Dissipation
Sawyer Hopkins
Advisor: Yoke Khin Yap
Boson Sampling Using Optical Microcavities
Stephen Dipple
Advisor: Ramy El-Ganainy
Department of Physics Poster Session
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 17, 2014
1:00 to 3:00pm
Aftermath Atrium in Fisher Hall
Graduate Poster Abstracts
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Investigation of the Resistance to Demagnetization in Bulk Rare-Earth Magnets Comprised of Magnetically-Isolated, Crystallographically-Aligned, Single-Domain Crystallites
Jie Li
Advisor: Dr. Peter Moran
Effective Extraction of Nanomaterials from Water Contaminated with Nanotubes, Nanowires, Nanosheets, and Nanoparticles
Bishnu Tiwari
Advisors: Dr. Yoke Khin Yap and Dr. Dongyan Zhang
Laboratory Measurements of Contact Freezing by Dust and Bacteria at Temperatures of Mixed Phase Clouds
Joseph Niehaus
Advisor: Dr. Will Cantrell
A Multi-band, Unidirectional, Phase-preserved Lensing Invisibility Cloak
Ran Duan
Advisors: Elena Semouchkina and Ravi Pandey
Minimum Principle in Electromagnetic Scattering by Small Particles
Ajarii Mongkolsittisilp
Advisor: Dr. Alex Kostinski
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 10, 2014
at 4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
Observing the Galactic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission
Hugo Ayala Solares
Advisor: Dr. Petra Huentemeyer
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 10, 2014
at 4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
Electric Field Manipulation of Spin Current
in a Molecular Spin-valve Device
Kamal B. Dhungana
Advisor: Dr. Ranjit Pati
Michigan Tech posted a video in Facebook with a statement by Dr. Raymond Shaw on the recent storm and cloud chamber forecasting.
Watch the video at the Michigan Technological University Facebook page.
Getting their heads in the clouds
Tech purchases large cloud chamber
Scientists and researchers at Michigan Technological University and beyond will be going to the cloud to find answers – the cloud chamber that is.
“Basically this is a chamber that allows us to simulate the atmosphere all the way up to altitudes that airplanes fly at, so 10 to 15 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, where it’s very, very cold and very low pressure,” said Raymond Shaw, physics professor and director of the atmospheric sciences Ph.D. program at Michigan Tech.
The scientists at Michigan Tech are currently testing the machine before starting their research projects. Shaw expects that within a few months the machine will be fully functional and available to professors, students and visiting scholars.
The Department of Chemistry will be presenting “Mobile DOAS Retrieval of Highway Emissions in the Western Great Lakes Region,” by David Faber and “Collision Between Liquid Droplets and Aerosol Particles” by Swarup China. Both presentations will be held Monday, April 7, at 4 p.m. in Fisher 126.