Prof. Patrick Charbonneau, who has appointments in both Chemistry and Physics at Duke, spent three weeks in May at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara. While at the Kavli Institute, Charbonneau attended the program on “The Physics of Glasses: Relating Metallic Glasses to Molecular, Polymeric and Oxide Glasses.” Prof. Charbonneau gave a seminar on “How Hard Is It To Form A Glass? Insights From Beyond 3D.” The slides and video for his seminar can be seen at the Kavli institute’s webpage here. Former Duke undergrad Corey O’Hern (now faculty at Yale) was also attending.
Archive for June, 2010
Patrick Charbonneau at the Kavli Institute
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Zongjin Qian’s Summer Travel to CERN
Friday, June 25th, 2010
Zongjin Qian, a freshman physics major at Duke, was awarded a 2010 Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship for travel to CERN this summer, where he is doing research with Prof. Al Goshaw and the Duke High Energy Physics group. Zongjin left for CERN in June, and is now involved with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He’ll be at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 2 to July 28. After that, Zongjin will continue to work at Duke in August.
Summer 2010 Research Travel Update: France
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
l-r: Prof. Daniel Gauthier, Prof. Stephanos Venakides, Prof. Glenn Edwards
Prof. Dan Gauthier delivered a contributed oral presentation at the 11th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference in Lille France on June 1, 2010. The conference included over 180 participants from 31 countries and focused on a wide range of nonlinear dynamics problems, where experimental results were discussed as well as new theoretical insights and how they apply to experiments.
2010 Daphne Chang Memorial Award awarded to Alexander Tuna
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Alexander Tuna (Trinity 2010) was awarded the 2010 Daphne Chang Memorial Award for undergraduate research in the Duke Physics Department. The award is in honor of Daphne Y. Chang (Trinity 2005), a Duke Physics Major, who passed away in 2009 at the age of 26 and who is remembered for her remarkable success in undergraduate research.
Welcome Baby Dorff!
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Congratulations to the Dorff family! Peter James (Pete) was born on Monday, May 17 at 8:46pm to Jimmy Dorff, Physics IT Senior Manager at Duke Physics, and his wife Jenn.
Alum Colleen Fitzpatrick, The DNA Detective
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Physics Department alumna Colleen Fitzpatrick was featured in the magazine More: For Women of Style and Substance in an article called “The DNA Detective,” written by Lynne Rosselini. Read the story online here. Fitzpatrick graduated with a PhD in Physics in 1983.
Please see our April Alumni Profile on Fitzpatrick here and our Flickr album that focuses on her work and travels.
Prof. John Thomas featured in Physics Today
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Prof. John Thomas had an article, “The nearly perfect Fermi gas,” published in the May 2010 issue of Physics Today. There are also two inter-related articles by other authors, forming a “special focus” issue on perfect fluids.
To read the full articles, you must log in with a Physics Today account. Read Thomas’ article online here. See the first paper here and the third here.