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2006 News & Events
First Year Interest Group (FIG)
December 20 2006
The Physics Department recently taught a First Year Interest Group (FIG) course for freshmen entitled "Symmetry and Phase Transitions." The students chose their individual phase transitions, taught themselves, and wrote reports as part of the course. For more information, contact Professor Marshall Onellion.
Passing of Myron "Mike" Francis Murray Jr.
December 4, 2006
Myron "Mike" Francis Murray Jr. died December 4, at his home in Madison.
For more information, see obituary
Reactor Experiments Seek Missing Neutrino Mixing Angle
November 10 2006
Exposing the details of how electron neutrinos change flavor could be a step toward determining the neutrino mass hierarchy and explaining the imbalance of matter and antimatter in the universe.
Read more: http://dayabay.bnl.gov/ReactorsPT.pdf
Passing of Martha (Freeman) Dillinger
October 20, 2006
Martha (Freeman) Dillinger, age 89, of Chelmsford, Mass., formerly of Madison, and Carbondale, Ill., died Friday, October 20, 2006.
For more information, see obituary
New Scientific Opportunities with
UV & Soft X-ray Free Electron Lasers
October 18-19, 2006: This workshop, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its Synchrotron Radiation Center, brought together researchers to discuss how the availability of such FEL light sources could revolutionize the study of elementary processes in Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, and the Life Sciences. October 18th & 19th, 2006. Room 2006 Pyle Center
UW-Madison.
Read more: www.src.wisc.edu/meetings/fel2006/ | Poster (PDF)
Catching Neutrinos in China
November 2006
Buried deep in the mountains of southern China, a new neutrino experiment would rely on a series of Chinese nuclear reactors and the brains of scientists from several countries
Read more: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000393
Passing of Dr. Hugh Taylor Richards
September 29, 2006
Dr. Hugh Taylor Richards, PhD, died on Friday, Sept. 29, 2006, at the Dunn County Health Care Center, Menomonie, Wis., where he received loving and respectful care during the last three years of his life.
For more information, see obituary
NRC's Assessment of Research-Doctoral Programs
September 20, 2006: All Graduate student dissertators were invited to meet with Eileen Callahan regarding the NRC's assessment of research-doctoral programs.
September 20, 2006, 3:00 P.M., Room 5280 Chamberlin.
TeV Particle Astrophysics II
August 28-31, 2006: The Second Edition of the TeV Particle Astrophysics Workshop was held at the University of Wisconsin's Physics Department, in Madison, Wisconsin on August 28-31, 2006. The aim of the Workshop was to cover a variety of topics in Astroparticle Physics, focusing on the energy region of the TeV and above.
Read more: www.icecube.wisc.edu/tev
Passing of Beatrix "Trixi" Roesler
August 23, 2006
Beatrix "Trixi" Roesler passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006, in the company of husband, Professor Emeritus Frederick L. Roesler and daughters, Kirsten (Elder) Thompson and Monica (Elder) Bridgewater at the Don and Marilyn Anderson HospiceCare Center in Fitchburg.
For more information, see obituary
Research Dishes Out Flexible Computer Chips
July 18 2006
New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers promise to add sensing, computing and imaging capability to an amazing array of materials.
Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/12718.html
China, U.S. to Launch Joint Neutrino Experiment
June 9 2006
Chinese and U.S. physicists are to jointly conduct the world's largest neutrino experiment at the Daya Bay Nuclear Plant in south China. The experiment, costing roughly 400 million yuan (50 million U.S. dollars), is designed to test the mixing angle of neutrino 13, which is a vital measurement in the most advanced particle physics.
Read more: http://english.people.com.cn/200606/09/eng20060609_272586.html
Physicists Persevere in Quest for Inexhaustible Energy Source
May 30 2006
An international collective of physicists and engineers is working to both complement and lend expertise directly to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are firmly placed among them.
Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/12628.html
2006 Annual Awards and Banquet
May 5, 2006: The Physics Department annual student Awards announcements was held Friday, May 5, 2006 at 4:00 P.M. in 2241 Chamberlin Hall preceding the Special Colloquium given by Tom Weiler (a Distinguished Alumni Fellow Award recipient). The Physics Department annual Awards Banquet was held Friday, May 5, 2006 at The Lowell Center.
Read More: Awards Page.
Five Faculty Elected to Prestigious Academy
April 25 2006
Five faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an independent policy research center that annually honors leading thinkers in the sciences, arts, humanities, public affairs and business.
Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/12504.htm
Scientists fashion semiconductors into flexible membranes
April 10 2006
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have demonstrated a way to release thin membranes of semiconductors from a substrate and transfer them to new surfaces--an advance that could unite the properties of silicon and many other materials, including diamond, metal and even plastic.
Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/12411.html
Elastically Relaxed Free-Standing Strained-Silicon Nanomembranes
April 9 2006
Demonstration of a versatile method for control strain in silicon and silicon-germanium by fabricating membranes in which the final strain state is controlled by elastic strain sharing, that is, without the formation of defects.
Read more: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v5/n5/abs/nmat1606.html
Polar Neutrino Observatory Takes a Big Step Forward
March 21 2006
The IceCube array now is composed of nine strings and 16 surface detector stations, in addition to the still operational AMANDA array.
Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/12310.html
UW-Madison Tops Nation in Number of 2006 Sloan Research Fellowships
March 20 2006
UW-Madison leads the nation in the number of Sloan Foundation Fellowships in Science and Technology awarded in 2006.
Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/12303.html
Turbulent Liquid-Sodium Flow Induces Magnetic Dipole in a Laboratory Analogue of the Geodynamo
February 24 2006
Read more: http://ww.physics.wisc.edu/news/06s-forest/Schwarzschild06.pdf
Semiconductor Physics: Transport News
February 9 2006
Conventionally, conduction in silicon is enhanced by doping--adding impurities that change the material's electronic structure. But exploiting surface effects in thin silicon films may offer yet other opportunities.
Read more: www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7077/full/439671a.html (subscription required)
Physical "Wonders" Revealed in New Book and DVD Set
February 9 2006
"Physics Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics" is available now and will be officially released March 1 by the University of Wisconsin Press. The book is a detailed, 300-page, heavily illustrated manual on how to present, with flair, 85 "Wonders of Science" demonstrations.
Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/12139.html
Study Explains Unexpected Conductivity of Nanoscale Silicon
February 8 2006
When the surface of nanoscale silicon is specially cleaned, the surface itself facilitates current flow in thin layers that ordinarily won't conduct. In fact, conductivity at the nanoscale is completely independent of the added impurities, or dopants, that usually control silicon's electrical properties.
Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/12135.html
World's Fastest Image Processor Aids Search For Elusive Form of Matter
February 6 2006
Now nearing completion in the physics department is a device known to scientists by the off-putting moniker "Regional Calorimeter Trigger". The device really is, however, is the world' fastest image processor, a camera of sorts that can analyze a billion proton collisions per second and, of those, gather digitized data sets for 50,000 events that have someā"interesting physics."
Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/12105.html
The Cover of Physics Today Shows the Liquid-sodium Experiment at UW-Madison
February 1 2006
View it here: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/news/06s-forest/pt-cover02_2006.pdf
Radiotherapy Advance Points Way to Noninvasive Brain Cancer Treatment
January 1 2006
In the Jan. 1, 2006 issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research, Gelsomina "Pupa" De Stasio, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and colleagues report on research into using a new radiotherapy technique for fighting GBM with the element gadolinium. The approach might lead to less invasive treatments that offer greater promise of alleviating the disease.
Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/release/11986.html
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