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News from the Department of Physics |
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| September 23, 2004 |
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| Theoretical
Physicist, Doerte
Blume in collaboration with Spanish and German
groups recently learned their work has been accepted in Physics
Review Letters 92, 223401 (2004). The paper entitled, "Raman
Spectroscopy of Small Para-H[sub 2] Clusters Formed in
Cryogenic Free Jets," has been selected for the June
14, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
The Virtual Journal, which is published by the American
Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society
in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers,
is an edited compilation of links to articles from participating
publishers, covering a focused area of frontier research.
Dr. Blume indicates that recently there has been a lot
of press on their research which is basically experimental.
Tom
Dickinson was awarded a new three-year
grant worth $375K ($125K per year) with Department
of Energy. The title of the grant is "Laser
Material Interactions Relevant to Analytic Spectroscopy
of Wide Band Gap Materials."
Great news to the Physics Department and Dickinson's
research group! Congratulations to Sergey and
Marina Avanesyan, proud parents of their first
child!! Marina gave birth at 7:03 am this morning (July
6) to baby boy: Haig (pronounced "hike")
George, 8 pounds, 20 inches.
Physicist Kelvin
Lynn was named the Westinghouse Distinguished
Professorship in Material Science and Engineering for
the three-year period of August 16, 2004 through August
15, 2007. This prestigious appointment was made in recognition
of his continued contributions to the field of materials
science and his reputation amongst his international
peers. During the three-year period of this appointment,
he will receive a supplemental support of $5,000 per
year to be used for the development of research and instructional
programs in his field of expertise.
A hearty congratulations to Assistant Professor of Physics, Guy
Worthey, who has received a National Science Foundation five-year
CAREER grant totaling $406,089. Dr. Worthey and his group are studying extragalactic
stellar populations.
Former Carnegie Institution president and Washington State University physics
alumnus Philip Abelson died August 1, 2004 in Bethesda,
Maryland at the age of 91. For more information and photo go to http://www.wsutoday.wsu.edu.
Associate Professor Matthew
McCluskey has been awarded a $24,000
grant, "Development of a New Infrared Detector
Material," from the Washington Technology Center,
for research performed in collaboration with Galaxy
Compound Semiconductor, Inc., Spokane. The goal of
the research is to develop a new material, InSbBi,
for use as a substrate for infrared detectors that
have a wider spectral range than conventional InSb
detectors. In addition, Matt is a co-PI on a grant
that has been awarded by the American Chemical Society
Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF), "Optical
and Structural Properties of Wide Band-Gap Semiconductors,
Bulk and Nanocrystals, Under Extreme Conditions," $80,000.
The PI is Leah Bergman, University of Idaho. As if
this were not enough to keep him busy, Mattwas elected
Vice Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Defects
in Semiconductors. He will be Vice Chair of the Conference
in 2006 and serve as the Chair of the Gordon Conference
in 2008.
Please take a look at the new display on Paul
Anderson's research located in the first floor
lobby of the Webster Building. The display was put
together by Professors Ed Donaldson and Tom Dickinson.
Its a thing of beauty.
Finally, we already understand that Professor Mark
Kuzyk recently did some nice work on sum rules that is getting
quite a bit of attention, and which was written up recently in the press.
What we don't understand is how seemingly overnight, the Canadian National
Post converted the "Kuzyk Quantum Gap" to the "legendary
Kuzyk Quantum Gap." Well, leave it to Mark to become legendary. See
the attached National Post article.
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