Announcements from the Chair
Future Events
Date: April 9-10, 2010
Celebration: Students and co-workers of Kimball A. Milton are celebrating his significant scientific contributions and mentoring next year. As you know Kim is one of our George Lynn Cross Professors and is admired by his peers and former students. More information will be posted in the near future.
Location: University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Publications
Date: July 14, 2009
Publications: So far this year our department has published a total of 28 Journal Articles.
Publication List: Journal Articles Published in 2009
Latest News
Date: September 21-25, 2009 -- Huge Success!
QFEXT Conference: Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions
Location: University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Information: Kimball A. Milton is the organizer of this meeting. For further details follow QFEXT09
Date: September 18, 2009
Congratulations: Xinyu Dai
Research Project: X-ray Properties of 2MASS Selected BALQSOs
Agency: NASA
Grant: $22,900
Date: September 15, 2009
Successful Students: One of our former Engineering Physics students (BS-1985) Paul McEuen who is currently the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics at Cornell has a new solar cell design. See the APS Weekly NewsBrief announcement.
Date: September 15, 2009
Congratulations: Matthew B. Johnson
Research Project: Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructures (CSPIN): Regents Match
Agency: State of Oklahoma, Regents for Higher Education
Grant: $100,000
Date: September 14, 2009
Congratulations: Kimball A. Milton
Research Project: Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $2,500
Date: September 14, 2009
Congratulations: Edward A. Baron
Research Project: Spectra and Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae for Probing Dark Energy
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Grant: $30,000
Date: September 4, 2009
Congratulations: Edward A. Baron
Research Project: Saturn's Inner Magnetosphere: Modeling and Data Comparison
Agency: NASA
Grant: $30,000
Date: September 2, 2009
Congratulations: Howard Baer
Research Project: Supplement to OUHEP Base Grant: Task B - Howard Baer
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Grant: $130,000
Date: September 2, 2009
Congratulations: Kimball A. Milton, Chung Kao
Research Project: Supplement to OUHEP Base Grant: Task B - Milton
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Grant: $20,000
Date: September 2, 2009
Congratulations: Patrick L. Skubic, Michael G. Strauss, Braden K. Abbott, Phillip Gutierrez
Research Project: Supplement to OUHEP Base Grant: Task B - Skubic
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Grant: $61,000
Date: August 13, 2009
Congratulations: Matthew B. Johnson, Sheena Murphy, Michael B. Santos, Lloyd Bumm, Wai Yip, Kieran J. Mullen, Ryan E. Doezema, Zhisheng Shi, Patrick J. McCann
Research Project: Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructures
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $1,300,000
Date: August 10, 2009
Congratulations: Edward A. Baron
Research Project: REU Supplement to Collaborative Research: Three-Dimensional Simulations of Type Ia Supernovae: Constraining Models with Observations
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $20,250
Date: July 28, 2009
Congratulations: Neil E. Shafer-Ray
Research Project: Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment Using G=0 PbF Molecules
Agency: ARRA-National Science Foundation
Grant: $160,000
Date: July 13, 2009
Congratulations: Patrick L. Skubic, Michael G. Strauss, Braden K. Abbott, Phil Gutierrez
Research Project: OU Contribution to the ATLAS Southwest Tier 2 Computing Center
Agency: University of Texas
Grant: $30,000
Date: July 3, 2009
Congratulations: Kimball A. Milton, and Chung Kao
Research Project: Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Grant: $160,000
Date: July 2, 2009
Congratulations: Bobby Fleshman (Graduate Student)
Research Project: Saturn's Inner Magnetospher: Modeling and Data Comparison
Fellowship: NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF)
Info: Bobby is one of 22 Planetary Science Research Fellows
Date: July 2, 2009
Congratulations: Patrick L. Skubic, Michael G. Strauss, Braden K. Abbott, Phil Gutierrez
Research Project: Experimental Physics Investigations Using Colliding Beam Detectors at Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Grant: $458,200
Date: June 25, 2009
Press Release: Giant Rydberg Molecules the size of a red blood cell discovered by Shaffer's Group. See the Science Daily article at Science Daily and the Nanotechnology article at Azonano. The Giant Rydberg Molecule research is also reported in the June issue of Nature Physics and in the July issue of the Scientific Journal.
Jim Shaffer and four graduate students (K.R. Overstreet, A. Schwettman, J. Tallant and D. Booth) performed the research. Jim Shaffer joined the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, August 2001 as an Assistant Professor. In August of 2007 Jim was promoted to Associate Professor. He is currently on Sabbatical leave and is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Society at the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. We are looking forward to Jim's return to the University of Oklahoma in August of this year.
Older News
Date: June 24, 2009
Congratulations: Michael B. Santos
Research Project: Molecular Beam Epitaxy of InSb Heterostructures for Studies of Nuclear-Spin-Related Phenomena
Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency
Grant: $37,371
Date: 16 June 2009
Congratulations: Michael B. Santos and Sheena Murphy
Research Project: InSb-Based Electron and Hole Systems for Charge and Spin Transport Experiments.
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $164,963
