Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff General announcements Physics colloquium series -- PHY 301/601 Careers in physics program; SPS & T-shirt design contest Undergraduate honors and award programs Lab teaching assistant, tutoring, and grading opportunities Research opportunities Presentations by undergraduate research students
Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff Undergraduate Physics Majors: Jillian Bjerke, Thomas Burwell, Thomas Cahyuti, Wilson Cauley, Rick Chainani, Alyssa Chang, William Cox, Ashley Dannahower, Peter Dunlap, Erik Forseth, Bradley Goetz, Matt Gottbrecht, Austin Hester, Minji Jung, Sarah Klyap, Adam Kuhn, Nicholas Lepley, Joshua Liljedahl, Alex Macropoulos, Patrick Nelli, Jay Patel, Peter Rice, David Rosile, Sara Sizemore, Sanjay Talluri, Alex Taylor, Matthew Walb, Andrew Wall, Pamela Wang, Lee Watkins, Andrew Wilson
Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff Physics Graduate Students: Ivan Azarov, Jason Bates, Landon Bellavia, Ryan Best, Douglas Bonessi, Christine Carlisle, Faith Coldren, Kevin Conley, Leo Ding, Samrat Dutta, Todd Fallesen, Jason Grigsby, William Hirsch, William Hodge, Jerrold Kielbasa, Brian Kolb, Nicole Levi, Graham Lopez, Baxter McGuirt, Eric Peterson, Xiao Xu, Ye Yuan Graduated during the past year: Wenhua Liu(Ph. D. with Martin Guthold) Lu Peng (Ph. D. with Martin Guthold) Matthew Rave (Ph. D. with W. C. Kerr) Anne Jeffers (M. S. in Medical Engineering with Dany Kim-Shapiro)
Physics Department VIP Staff: Judy Swicegood Administrative Coordinator Gale Burns Secretary Chin-Wan Yip Instructional Technology Analyst Eric Chapman Physics Laboratory Manager Bob Morris Machine Shop Instructor Burak Uçer Laser specialist Tim Miller & Yonas Abraham Computer cluster administrators Research Lab VIP Staff & Research Faculty: Fetrow Lab: Stacy Knutson Holzwarth Lab: Yaojun Du Kim-Shapiro Lab: Swati Basu, Anne Jeffers, Howard Shields Macosko Lab: Clayton Bauer, Jason Gagliano, George Holzwarth, Yuri Shtridelman NanoTech: Jiwen Liu, Manoj Namboothiry
Physics Department Faculty: Rick Matthews (Assoc. Provost) Olin 217 George Holzwarth (emeritus) Olin 300 Paul Anderson Olin 308 Natalie Holzwarth Olin 300 Keith Bonin (Chair) Olin 310 William Kerr Olin 310 Bob Brehme (emeritus) Janna Levin Winston 020 Eric Carlson Olin 306 Jed Macosko Olin 215 David Carroll Olin 214 Dany Kim-Shapiro Olin 208 Forrest Charnock Olin 303B Fred Salsbury Olin 301A Greg Cook (SPS) Olin 304 Howard Shields (emeritus) Olin 216 Jacquelyn Fetrow Olin 301B Jack Williams (emeritus) Martin Guthold (Grad Director) Olin 302 Richard Williams Olin 212
Important announcements: Physics Department Announcements from Keith Bonin, Dept. Chair Please check the physics web page, Bulletin Boards as well as your mailboxes in the Physics Dept. Office (Olin 100 or 108) for important announcements All declared physics majors have mailboxes in Rm. 108 and graduate students have mailboxes in Rm. 100. Judy needs information forms by Sept. 7 th from all undergraduate graders and teaching assistants. To obtain keys to rooms in Olin Physical Lab, please see Eric Chapman in Olin 110. Please see Judy Swicegood or Gale Burns in Olin 100 to prepare your photo for our display case
http://www.wfu.edu/physics
Careers in physics program SPS (Society of Physics Students) T-shirt design contest Coordinated by Professor Greg Cook first meetings and programs in a few weeks Other programs: Women in Science (see sign up sheet) Scholarships for science students (Churchill, NSF, Goldwater) Undergraduate Research Symposium -- Oct. 26 th
Undergraduate honors and award programs Presentation by Professor W. C. Kerr.
Lab TA, Tutorial, and Grading Opportunities Undergraduate TA s and graders have forms in their mail boxes and should return them to Judy Swicegood soon. Announcements by Professor Martin Guthold
Research opportunities Undergraduate students are especially encouraged to participate; course credit, Wake Forest University Fellowships, or individual faculty grants
Web site : http://www.wfu.edu/undergraduate_college/research-fellowship/
Physics Research Participation Experimental Physics Research Group Keith Bonin David Carroll Martin Guthold Jed Macosko/ G. Holzwarth Area of research Laser and optical physics, biophysics Nanotechnology Atomic force microscopy; Biophysics Biophysics Current students Doug Bonessi, Sanjay Talluri * Faith Coldren, Leo Ding, Jerry Kielbasa, Nicole Levi, Baxter McGuirt, Jay Patel, Sara Sizemore * Christine Carlisle, Samrat Dutta, Patrick Nelli, David Rosile * Todd Falleson, Brian Blaker, Thomas Cahyuti, Matt Steen, Matt Walb * Dany Kim-Shapiro Biophysics Ivan Azarov, Brian Goetz, Pam Wang * Richard Williams Solid state and laser physics Jerry Kielbasa, Andrew Wall * * Undergraduate students
Physics Research Participation Theoretical/Computational Physics Research Group Area of research Current students Paul Anderson Gravitational physics Jason Bates, Wilson Cauley, Jill Bjerke * Eric Carlson Greg Cook Particle physics and astrophysics Gravitational physics and computational astrophysics Bill Hirsch, Eric Forseth, Sara Klyap * Jason Grigsby Jacquelyn Fetrow Computational biophysics Candace Curry, Cam Mateus, Mary Beth Ward * Natalie Holzwarth Computational materials physics Xiao Xu, Kevin Conley William Kerr Solid state physics William Hodge Rick Matthews Computational solid state physics Lee Watkins, Andrew Wilson Fred Salsbury Computational biophysics Brian Kolb, Ye Yuan * Undergraduate students
Undergraduate physics students who participated in research this summer: At WFU: Bradley Goetz, Pamela Wang -- Dany Kim-Shapiro Sanjay Talluri -- Keith Bonin Candace Curry -- Jacquelyn Fetrow Wilson Cauley Paul Anderson Brian Blaker, Thomas Cahyuti, Matt Steen, Matt Walb -- Jed Macosko/G. Holzwarth Lee Watkins, Andrew Wilson -- Rick Matthews Sara Sizemore -- Dave Carroll Sarah Klyap -- Eric Carlson Andrew Wall -- Richard Williams/Burak Ucer