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Brockport Physics students selected for Summer Research Awards
The inaugural Richard Mancuso Undergraduate Research Award has been awarded to sophomore Ryan Held. Ryan, currently a sophomore Physics major, will be working with Dr. Eric Monier on “Intergalactic MgII Absorbers in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.” The Mancuso award is supported by a gift from Brockport Physics alumnus Christopher Leichtweis.
James Enos, a junior Physics major, has been selected as an award recipient under the new Brockport Foundation Summer Research Grant program. James will receive a research stipend and housing support for 10 weeks. James will be working on campus with Drs. Trevor Johnson-Steigelman and Mohammed Tahar on “Testing the Superconducting Properties of Thin Films of Elemental Metals and their Interfaces.”
The Department of Physics Undergraduate Summer Research Award recipient is Andrew Gaul, a sophomore. The award provides a stipend for 8 -10 weeks of research. Andrew will also receive housing support from the Brockport Foundation program. Andrew will also be working with Drs. Trevor Johnson-Steigelman and Mohammed Tahar on “Testing the Superconducting Properties of Thin Films of Elemental Metals.”
Brockport students and faculty attend APS New York Section meeting
Several Brockport Physics students and faculty members attended the Spring meeting of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society (NYSS-APS) held April 17-18 at the University of Rochester. Students attending were: Paul Bauch, James Enos, Andrew Gaul, Ryan Held, Kara Richter, and Todd Rutkowski. Faculty members in attendance were: Trevor Johnson-Steigelman, Eric Monier, Stanley Radford, and Mohammed Tahar. The meeting consisted of several plenary talks on Physics and Physics-related topics, as well as a student poster session and a banquet.
Two Brockport Physics students presented posters during the Student Poster Session. James Enos presented his poster “X-ray Diffraction of Co/MgO(111),” summarizing his research with Dr. Trevor Johnson-Steigelman during Summer 2008. Ryan Held presented his poster “Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems at Low Redshifts” summarizing research performed with Dr. Eric Monier last summer and over the past year. Both James and Ryan intend to continue their research this summer.
Ryan Held’s poster was awarded 2nd Place in the Undergraduate Division.
Brockport students and faculty attend Undergraduate Research Day at Syracuse University
On Saturday, November 22, 2008, a group of Physics students and faculty attended Syracuse Undergraduate Research Day at Syracuse University. Students James Enos, Andrew Gaul, and Ashley Versaggi and faculty members Trevor Johnson-Steigelman and Mohammed Tahar braved wintry conditions to attend the day-long conference. They were joined by Brockport Physics alumna Samantha Rinaldo (‘08). James Enos presented a poster “X-ray diffraction of Co/MgO(111).” The Research Day included talks and posters by undergraduates from throughout upstate New York, talks by Syracuse faculty, and a tour of the research labs at Syracuse University.
Two Brockport Physics Students awarded Summer Research Grants
Junior James Enos and Sophomore Ryan Held are this year's recipients of Brockport Undergraduate Physics Summer Research awards. James Enos is working with Dr. Trevor Johnson-Steigelman in the area of surface science and x-ray diffraction, while Ryan Held is working with Dr. Eric Monier in the area of quasar spectral characterization.
The awards are in the amount of $3,200.00 and require eight weeks of on-campus research with a Physics faculty mentor. The awards are competitive, and are announced and awarded in the spring of every year.
Stanley F. Radford, Professor and Chairman of the Brockport Physics Department has been awarded a KITP Scholars Fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara for the years 2008-2010. The Kavli Institute (KITP), headed by Physics Nobel Laureate David Gross, is one of the premier theoretical physics institutes in the country. The KITP Scholar program was established with the purpose of "supporting the research efforts of faculty at US colleges and universities that are not major research institutions" who have demonstarted "on-going research activity." The award funds a total of three round trips and up to six weeks of local expenses, to be used over a period of up to three years. Dr. Radford plans to begin his Scholar activities with a two-week visit in July 2008.
Eric Monier, Assistant Professor of the Brockport Physics Department, in collaboration with David Turnshek (PI) and Sandhya Rao at the University of Pittsburgh, has been awarded a grant of $18,630 from NASA for observations with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satelite. The proposal, "Measurements of Cosmic Metallicity at Low Redshift Using Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems," was awarded 22 orbits of observing time on GALEX during the current cycle of operations.
Mohammed Tahar, Associate Professor of the Brockport Physics Department, attended and presented a poster at the 25th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT25) which took place in Amsterdam from August 6 to August 13, 2008. The poster was titled "Transport Properties of Sn and SbI3 Doped Single Crystal p-Bi2Te3", and is a result of measurements done at Brockport on materials from Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science. This conference was commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the liquification of Helium at Leiden University by Kammerlingh Onnes.
