The Wisconsin Physicist A Newsletter for University of Wisconsin Physics Alumni

Inside this Issue Plasma Dynamo Facility

The Large Hadron Collider

The Precision Frontier & the New Standard Model

Vol. 15 No.1 Fall 2009

Inside this Issue Vol. 15 No.1 Fall 2009

Greetings from the Chair...... 2

Plasma Dynamo Facility...... 4

Undergraduate Student Degrees & Awards...... 6

Graduate Student Degrees & Awards ...... 7

The Large Hadron Collider...... 8

Graduate Recruiting...... 9

The Precision Frontier & The New Standard Model...... 10

Outreach...... 11

Faculty Updates & Awards...... 12

Alumni Updates & Awards...... 16

Staff Updates...... 17

In memoriam...... 18

Foundation Accounts...... 23

Giving...... 24

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View from the Chair Greetings

here has been a great number • Prof. Pupa Gilbert received an of exciting developments in the NSF American Competitiveness TPhysics Department over the and Innovation Fellowship in past 18 months: 2008 “for her application of novel methodology to the determination • Our previous Chair, Prof. Susan of the structures and synthetic Coppersmith, has been elected pathways of mineralized biological to the prestigious National tissues and for exceptional skill in Academy of Sciences in 2009 in bringing the fascination of science A. Baha Balantekin “recognition of her distinguished to a wide audience involving non- and continuing achievements in science students and the general Eugene P. Wigner Professor and original research.” public.” Chair, Department of Physics • Prof. Karsten Heeger received a • Prof. Gary Shiu received one of 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship. the 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards, which recognize artists, scholars and scientists based on Academic Ranking of World Universities distinguished past achievement and exceptional future promise. Ranking for UW Departments in the College of Letters & Science • In 2008 Prof. Heeger also received not one, but two Outstanding Mathematics Junior Investigator awards form 1 No. 13 in the world Department of Energy, one in High-Energy Physics and one in Nuclear Physics. Physics 2 Our faculty also successfully No. 22 in the world competed for the campus-wide awards: Economics/Business 3 • Professor Ellen Zweibel was No. 30 in the world awarded a William Kraushaar Professorship in 2009. 4 Chemistry • Prof. Michael Ramsey-Musolf No. 40 in the world received a 2009 Vilas Associate Award.

Computer Science • Thomas Wise, Researcher in the 5 No. 44 in the world Department of Physics, received 2009 Chancellor’s Award for University of Wisconsin is ranked No. 17 overall in Natural Sciences and Excellence in Research for Critical Mathematics. Research Support. Methodology and more information is available at www.arwu.org. The Wisconsin Physicist 3

The Department congratulates these years at Wisconsin and his recollections Professor at SLAC, and Wai-Yim colleagues for their outstanding of the Dillinger laboratory. Ching, Curator’s Professor of Physics accomplishments. at University of Missouri-Kansas The eighth and ninth Annual Awards City, in 2009. Distinguished service Plasma physicist and the director Banquets were held in the springs award went to Wayne Niemuth in of Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) 2008 and 2009 respectively. In 2008 for his loyalty and exceptional experiment, Stewart Prager retired addition to awards to outstanding philanthropy to our department and from the University of Wisconsin in students, several Distinguished to Peter L. and Cheryle L. Jolivette in 2009 to lead U.S. Department of Alumni Fellow and Service Awards 2009 for their interest in, caring for, Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics were presented. Distinguished and philanthropy to students of the Laboratory. John Sarff was appointed Alumni Fellows were William Jury, Physics Department. as a professor of physics and the new Paul Kaesberg, and Wes Traub in director of MST. 2008 and the honorable Bill Foster, Whether you are an alumnus, friend, John Wiley and Phyllis Fleming in employee, or student, we appreciate During the academic year 2007-2008 2009. William Jury is a Distinguished your interest in and loyalty to the particle astrophysicist Asst. Prof. Professor of Soil Physics at the University of Wisconsin Physics Stefan Westerhoff was promoted University of California-Riverside. Paul Department. You can donate to the to associate professor with tenure. Kaesberg was a pioneer in physical Physics Department online by going During the academic year 2008-2009 studies of viruses. Wes Traub is the to www.physics.wisc.edu/giving/ an exceptionally large number of our Chief Scientist for NASA’s Navigator index.html. assistant professors were promoted Program, Bill Foster, a high-energy to associate professor with tenure: physicist, is currently the U.S. If you wish to consult with a UW cosmologist Daniel Chung, string Congressman Representing the 14th Foundation development officer on theorist Aki Hashimoto, neutrino District of Illinois. John Wiley has future gifts or other options, including experimentalist Karsten Heeger, high- just stepped down from his post as estates, trusts, gifts-in-kind, or planned energy experimentalist Matt Herndon, the Chancellor of the University of giving please contact Chris Glueck, and particle theorist Frank Petriello. Wisconsin-Madison to become the UW Foundation at 608/265-9952 or Interim Director of our brand-new [email protected]. We were delighted to hear that Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. University of Wisconsin-Madison Phyllis was unfortunately too ill to On behalf of the Department, I Physics alumna, Fay Ajzenberg- attend the ceremony herself, but her sincerely thank you, our alumni and Selove, who received a Ph.D. in partner, Linda B. Miller joined us to friends, who have provided generous experimental nuclear physics with present the inaugural Phyllis Jane support to the Department. In these Hugh Richards, received the National Fleming Graduate Student Support tough economic times you help us Medal of Science in 2008 for her Award she established in honor of enormously to carry out our research, scientific achievements. You may Phyllis. Dr. Fleming passed away not education, and outreach efforts. recall that some years ago Fay had much after the award ceremony. She generously established a scholarship will live in our thoughts and successful fund for undergraduate women careers of the women who receive majoring in Physics, Astrophysics, or Phyllis Jane Fleming Award. Sam Astronomy. I recently noticed that Aronson, Director of the Brookhaven alumnus Theodore Cohen wrote a National Laboratory, and Marjorie very interesting book named Full Cocoran, Professor at Rice University, Circle (Authorhouse, Indiana, 2009), in received the Distinguished Scientist which he detailed his graduate school Award in 2008 and JoAnne Hewett, 4 The Wisconsin Physicist

Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics Experiment Plasma Dynamo Facility

ll astronomical systems– carry out experiments in a previously experiments. It will also allow the planets, stars, galaxies, and uninvestigated plasma regime—a viscosity to be varied independently Aclusters of galaxies–contain regime asymptotically similar to of the conductivity, an important magnetic fields, but the origin of many astrophysical plasmas. The knob that governs the nature magnetic fields in the Universe is an device will be located in Sterling governs the onset and nature of the unsolved problem in cosmology. It is Hall, and will be operated as a turbulence; the new experiment will generally thought that the Universe multi-investigator, multi-institutional be in the parameter regime of many was magnetized in two stages: first a facility. In addition to the large astrophysical objects. Finally, advanced “spark” that created tiny fields, and impact on the UW physics program, plasma diagnostics will be applied, for then plasma physics processes that experimental investigations in this the first time, to dynamo studies. amplified and shaped them. The facility are likely to have strong latter stage is called the dynamo. national impact through connections Such laboratory plasmas have never Dynamos operate continuously in to new astrophysics initiatives such before been studied (most hot, the Universe, including in the Earth, as the Square Kilometer Array, where fast flowing plasma experiments where a dynamo is responsible for cosmic magnetism is one of four key have been magnetized), but geomagnetic reversals, and on the science issues, the IceCube project, recent advances in permanent Sun, where a dynamo is manifest which will detect neutrinos generated magnet technology, plasma source in the sunspot cycle. Magnetic by electromagnetically accelerated development and new scheme for fields generated by dynamos are particles, and the Auger project, driving flow now make it possible. responsible for launching powerful which detects the particles directly. The device at the core of the facility jets from black hole accretion will be a 3 meter diameter spherical disks, accelerating particles to The concept proposed here builds vacuum vessel that uses an array of ultrarelativistic energies, and upon excitement in recent years powerful permanent magnets on powering spectacular -ray flares. of using liquid metals to study the vessel wall to provide plasma dynamos; unmagnetized liquid confinement. The magnets will be The National Science Foundation has metals have been mechanically arranged in a configuration that has a recently awarded a $2.4M grant to stirred and magnetic fields magnetic field localized to the plasma Profs. Cary Forest and Ellen Zweibel spontaneously created and observed. edge and provides a spherical, 1.3 to construct a next generation A plasma experiment has the m radius, field-free plasma volume. plasma astrophysics experiment at potential to extend these studies Recently developed large area the UW. The Plasma Dynamo Facility to more astrophysically relevant Lanthanum Hexaboride plasma will be used for investigating self- parameters. Beyond the obvious sources (provided by UCLA) will be generation of magnetic fields and fact, that most naturally occuring used for ionizing and heating the related processes in a large, weakly dynamos are plasmas, the use of plasma; this will generate a steady- magnetized, fast flowing, and hot plasma, rather than liquid metals state, hot (10-30 eV) plasma. To stir (conducting) plasma. The project to study magnetic field generation the plasma, electrostatic electrodes, will take approximately three years will allow the magnetic Reynolds together with the permanent magnet to construct and will provide a major number (the dimensionless product array will be used to impart torque new, flexible plasma device and of size×conductivity×speed that on the plasma in the magnetized associated infrastructure for a new governs self-excitation of magnetic edge region and viscously couple generation of graduate students fields) to be more than a factor momentum from the edge plasma to and postdoctoral researchers to of 10 larger than in liquid metal the unmagnetized core. The Wisconsin Physicist 5

Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics Experiment Plasma Dynamo Facility

The experimental program that follows after the development will be organized into campaigns, each designed to study a different fundamental plasma process important to astrophysics. As a start, separate campaigns are planned to investigate: (1) large and small scale dynamos, (2) plasma instabilities and turbulence at high , (3) thermal, compositional, and magnetic buoyancy driven convection in a rapidly rotating spherical plasma, (4) magnetorotational instabilities in plasmas, and (5) flow-driven WATER COOLED MAGNET RINGS PROBE DRIVE SAW CUT FIRST FLOOR SLAB CREATING HIGHBAY MHD instabilities in partially STIRRING ELECTRODES ionized plasmas. The connection to BOXPORTS HEATED LaB6 CATHODE VESSEL HEMISPHERE OPENS ON astrophysics will be facilitated initially LINEAR BEARING RAILS by strong connections to the Center for Magnetic Self-Organization FIRST FLOOR in Laboratory and Astrophysical RM 1421,1421A,1413 Plasmas, which will assist in planning for physics campaigns to take place SUPPORT FRAME TO GROUND FLOOR after the experiment is constructed. VACUUM PUMPING DUCT WITH TURBOS The experiment itself will be BASEMENT FLOOR constructed from a 3 m diameter, RM B411,B411A, B413,B415,B419 5/8” thick stainless steel vessel, split CATHODE HEATING DC SUPPLY AND PLASMA PROGRAMABLE POWER SUPPLY FOR 700 KW into two halves as shown in Fig. BIAS 130 KW TOTAL STIRRING ELECTRODES 500 KW TOTAL DI WATER COOLING LOOP 1. Each half will be mounted on a track such that the two halves join Figure 1 in a vertical plane and the axis of A layout of the lab showing how the vacuum vessel separates into two hemisphere, the new two story lab to be remodelled with UW funds, vacuum systems, water cooling and symmetry for the magnet rings will be power supplies. horizontal. The vacuum vessel itself exists (from surplus acquisitions) and is shown in Fig. 1. The vessel will be substantially modified to include a modified easily. The University of pumps, power supplies, and water large midplane flange and support Wisconsin will be remodeling a cooling will be supplied from the frame that rides on the rails. The track laboratory to accommodate the lower level, and the upper level will will allow the two hemispheres to new experiment. The lab will be two be reserved for the plasma source be separated and allow the internal stories tall, with the experiment at hardware, probe ports and future structure of the experiment to be approximately floor level. Vacuum diagnostics. 6 The Wisconsin Physicist UW Physics Undergraduate Students Degrees & Awards

Haka,Andrew David (BA) 2009 Awards Banquet Bachelor Degrees Handara,Vincent Adhi (BS) Physics Awarded Harris,Brandon Joseph (BS) Undergraduate Hoffman,Samantha Marie (BS) Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Award Awards Rachel Worth (Astronomy) Applied Mathematics, Hurley,Samuel Anthony (BS) Jaehnig,Gregory Carter (BS) Li Zhan (Physics) Engineering, and Physics Krco,Christopher Michael (BS) 2008 Awards Banquet Laud,Sanjiv P. (BA) Dr. Maritza Irene Stapanian Spring 2008 Leaf,Nicholas John (BS) Crabtree Award Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Award Butzlaff,Erick Andrew (BS) Line,Michael Robert (BS) Alex Lang Kaitlyn Cariker (Astronomy) Sczygelski,Erik David (BS) Miller,Jason Robert (BS) Jacob Miller Ho Ling Li (Physics) Daniel Reese Fall 2008 Neal,Stephen Anthony (BS) Nelms,Bradlee David (BS) Dominick Rocco Ballering,Nicholas Paul (BS) L&S Hedstrom Award Pikorz,Jessica Anne (BS) Ho Ling Li Spring 2009 Schafer,Nicholas Peter (BS) Bernice Durand Undergraduate Anderson,Eric James (BS) Yeck,William Luther (BS) Research Scholarship Dr. Maritza Irene Stapanian Jahnke,Keith Michael (BS) Yogerst Jr,Daniel Richard (BA) Hanna Herbst Crabtree Award Jiang,Li (BS) Zhang,Raymond Ruomeng (BS) Ali Bramson Adam Beardsley Astronomy–Physics Summer 2008 Rogerio Fernando Cardoso Henry and Eleanor Firminhac Keith,Lauren Ashley (BS) Alex Lang Physics Undergraduate Spring 2008 Michalowitz,Andrew Joseph (BA) Scholarship Angeli,Steven John (BS) Steinpreis,Matthew Donald (BS) Bernice Durand Undergraduate William Larry Research Scholarship Bruess,Richard David (BS) Fall 2008 Emily Lewis Cariker,Kaitlyn Abigail (BS) Alexander,Damon Spiegel (BA) L. R. Ingersoll Prize Christie,Kevin Daniel (BS) Corby,Sebastian Chenoweth (BS) Spring 2007–08 Henry and Eleanor Firminhac Cornelius,Sean Paul (BS) Ford,Allen Nathan (BS) Brett Van Rossum (103) Physics Undergraduate Dirienzo,William Joseph (BS) Gallo,John Joseph (BS) Lu Lu (104) Scholarship Haka,Andrew David (BA) Richetta,Alex M (BS) John Leonard (201) Kristen M. Jones Hoffman,Samantha Marie (BS) Stott,Andrew Rowland (BS) Daniel Rynearson (202) Jaehnig,Gregory Carter (BS) Straight,David Benjamin (BA) Tan Xu (207) L. R. Ingersoll Prize Line,Michael Robert (BS) Vaklyes,Erik Jason (BS) David Ziehr (208) Luell,Patrick Ryan (BS) Spring 2006–07 Karl Goebel (248) Schafer,Nicholas Peter (BS) Spring 2009 Adam R. Prinsen (Phy 103) Yeck,William Luther (BS) Beardsley,Adam Peter (BS) Michael A Bohl II (Phy 104) Fall 2008–09 Brady,Elizabeth Jane (BS) Thomas J. Reigle, Jr. (Phy 201) Hao Yu & Xiong Xiong (103) Fall 2008 Brummitt,Charles David (BS) Angwei Law (Phy 202) Wenrui Chen (104) Cychosz,Jacob (BS) Bucklew,Victor Gauss (BS) Elizabeth Poli (Phy 207) Jingwan Wang (201) Spring 2009 Conrad,Erin Caitlin (BS) Andrew Bolanowski (Phy 208) Alex Gooding (202) Beardsley,Adam Peter (BS) Freiberg,Lisa Marie (BS) Alex Robinson (Phy 248) David G. Sterken (207) Brown,Jonathan Maas (BS) Gisselquist,Graham Gilbert (BS) Zhi Xu Tan (208) Hartzman,Alex (BS) Hartzman,Alex (BS) Fall 2007–08 Ruxiu Zhao (247) Hunt,Lucas Robert (BS) Houston,Jacqueline Marie (BS) Xin Yang Zhang (Phy 103) Jacquart,Melissa Leah (BS) Hovey,George Edward (BA) Joseph Burdowski (Phy 104) Liebenberg Family Research Larsen,Timothy Ralph (BS) Jacquart,Melissa Leah (BS) Jie Wei (Phy 201) Scholarship Parker,Angela Grace (BS) Kiefer,Brian Daniel (BS) Kaiqi Hu (Phy 202) Bradley Dober Rotter,Benjamin Joseph (BS) Kirley,Matthew Patrick (BS) Nicholas Coorough (Phy 207) Sperka,David Michael (BS) Kufalk,Bradley Edward (BS) Wee Teck Ho (Phy 208) Albert Augustus Radtke Streiff,Carolyn Marta (BS) Li,Ho Ling (BS) Dylan Colon (Phy 247) Scholarship Award Tai,Yue Cheng (BS) Lombardo,Gregory Jerome (BS) Adam Beardsley Teply,Grant Paul (BA) Mende,Patrick Craig (BS) Liebenberg Family Research Daniel Lecoanet Toebe,Tyler Gene (BS) Mucklow, Dominik H Wolfmueller (BS) Scholarship Grant Teply Wood,Michael Patrick (BS) Noel,Thomas William (BS) Patrick Mende Worth,Rachel Jane (BS) Parker,Angela Grace (BS) Rotter,Benjamin Joseph (BS) Albert Augustus Radtke Physics Sedlacek,Jonathon Alton (BS) Scholarship Award Sender,Max (BS) Damon Alexander Spring 2008 Sperka,David Michael (BS) Charles Brummitt Angeli,Steven John (BS) Streiff,Carolyn Marta (BS) Erin Conrad Bruess,Richard David (BS) Tai,Yue Cheng (BS) Li Jiang Christie,Kevin Daniel (BS) Teply,Grant Paul (BA) Thomas Noel Cohen,Alexander David (BS) Toebe,Tyler Gene (BS) Erik Sczygelski Cornelius,Sean Paul (BS) Wood,Michael Patrick (BS) Dirienzo,William Joseph (BS) Worth,Rachel Jane (BS) Gorst,Nathanielle James (BS) Zou,Dan (BS) The Wisconsin Physicist 7 UW Physics Graduate Students Degrees & Awards

Master Degrees PhDs Awarded Physics Graduate Departmental Awarded Awards Awards Physics

Physics Spring 2008 2008 Awards Banquet 2008 Awards Banquet

Spring 2008 Bergerson,William Frederick (PhD) Ennis,David Andrew (PhD) Jeff & Lily Chen Wisconsin Best TA, Spring 2007 Ganugapati,Raghunath Mydhili (MS) Hyland,Peter Owen (PhD) Distinguished Graduate Matt Gonderinger Day,Jason Owen (MS) Rocks,Lindsay Erin (PhD) Fellowship Adam Tregre Buettner,Kevin Paul (MA) Stradling,Alden Reid (PhD) Larissa Ejzak (2nd year) Cotter,Sean Lawrence (MS) Zheng,Fan (PhD) Best TA, Fall 2008 Cox,William Andrew (MS) Joseph R. Dillinger Award for Will Williams Kato,Masaki (MS) Summer 2008 Teaching Excellence King,Jacob Robert (MA) Brownson,Eric Charles (PhD) Peter Hyland Rookie of the Year Peng,Weina (MS) Daniels,Matthew Joseph (PhD) Yuanfeng Gao Pfendner,Carl Gilbert (MA) Day,Jason Owen (PhD) Henry and Eleanor Firminhac Phillips,Michael Allen (MA) Dellenbusch,Kate Erika (PhD) Physics Graduate Scholarship Laura Gladstone Stone,Jennifer Mary (MS) Fang,Yaquan (PhD) 2009 Awards Banquet Taylor,Nicholas Zane (MA) Huang,Guiyu (PhD) Lisa Hardy Yip,Stephen Shingfan (MA) Quayle,William B. (PhD) Elizabeth Hirschfelder Award Best TA, Spring 2008 Summer 2008 Underwood,Bret James (PhD) Wang,Kai (PhD) Amanda Gault Eva Tsoncheva Eisch,Jonathan Daniel (MS) Meghan McGarry Passmore,Daniel Ryan (MS) Fall 2008 Varsha Ramakrishnan Best TA, Fall 2009 Yuanfeng Gao Fall 2008 Ganugapati,Raghunath Mydhili (PhD) Ha,Sangkeun (PhD) Karl Guthe Jansky and Alice Long,Andrew Jonathan (MS) Johnson,Todd Andrew (PhD) Knapp Jansky Family Graduate Best TA, Fall 2009 Rao,Yongyan (MA) Kelley,John Lawrence (PhD) Award Yuanfeng Gao Strahler,Erik Albert (MA) McGuire,Lisa Marie (PhD) Matt Povich (Astronomy) Wolfe,Homer Frederick (PhD) Spring 2009 Emanuel R. Piore Award Bachtis,Michail (MS) Spring 2009 Kiritkumar Makwana (Fall) Campus-Wide Falkowski,Adam Franklin (MS) Chen,Xin (PhD) Haichen Wang (Spring) Gonderinger,Matthew Charles (MS) Hole,Karen Tabetha (PhD) Teaching Kane,Joseph Nolan (MS) Liu,Xiaosong (PhD) Assistant Awards Stuart,Alexander James (MS) Quackenbush,Seth David (PhD) 2009 Awards Banquet Takasaki,Koki (MS) Westfall,Kyle Brian (PhD) 2008 Awards Banquet Williams,William Douglas (PhD) Joseph R. Dillinger Award for Teaching Excellence Capstone PhD Andrew Long Eva Tsoncheva

Phyllis Jane Fleming Award Innovation in Teaching Annelise Malkus Shusaku Horibe Thank You Elizabeth Hirschfelder Award Lisa Hardy The Physics Department greatly appreciates the support it Laura Gladstone has received from alumni and friends over the years. Private Karl Guthe Jansky and Alice gifts provide us with the resources necessary for meaningful Knapp Jansky Family Graduate enhancements to our programs. If you are interested in Award Sarah Gwynne Crowder making a contribution, please make your check payable to: (Astronomy) The UW Foundation Emanuel R. Piore Award U.S. Bank Lockbox Hojin Yoo (Fall) P.O. Box 78807 Dushko Kuzmanovski (Spring) Milwaukee, WI 53278-0807

If you have questions about making a contribution, please contact: Professor Baha Balantekin, Chair, at 608-263-3279. 8 The Wisconsin Physicist

UW High Energy Physics The Large Hadron Collider

niversity of Wisconsin roles in the silicon and pixel readout ATLAS High Energy Physics driver, high level trigger, detector Ugroup members got their performance studies, software, and first experience with protons in computing. September at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva Profs. Vernon Barger, Dan Chung, Switzerland. Eventually, the LHC will Lisa Everett, Francis Halzen, Tao Han, operate at seven times the energy Frank Petriello, Michael Ramsey- and 100 times the luminosity of Musolf and Gary Shiu continue to the present world’s highest energy hone their calculations of new physics collider, the Fermilab Tevatron, and models and backgrounds to interpret will permit physicists to search for the new data from the LHC and to the mechanism of particle mass connect the results of the LHC to generation, for supersymmetry (SUSY) other exciting physics phenomena which introduces a partner for each such as astronomical observations of known particle, stabilizes the higgs cold dark matter and studies of the mass and provides a candidate for cosmological origins of the Universe. the dark matter making up most of the universe, for extra dimensions On September 10 the first beam in and for other exciting new physics the LHC was successfully steered possibilities. around the full 27 kilometers of the ring. Subsequently the beam was CMS Profs. Duncan Carlsmith, Sridhara captured by the RF and showed very Dasu, Matt Herndon, Wesley Smith, promising performance in terms of and Distinguished Scientist Dr. alignment and optics. On September Richard Loveless operated major 19, during powering tests of a main parts of CMS they had worked on dipole circuit, an electrical fault during these initial beam tests: resulting in mechanical damage to the trigger system including the some of the magnets. The repair calorimeter level-1 trigger and higher of these magnets will be done over level triggers, the endcap muon the CERN winter shutdown and it is system including its infrastructure now planned to have the LHC start and alignment, tracking system collisions at an initial center of mass infrastructure, software for simulation energy of 10 TeV in 2009. and event processing and a leading Tier-2 US CMS computing facility. The Wisconsin teams on ATLAS and CMS have been working on these Profs. Bruce Mellado, Yibin Pan, projects since 1993 and with first Sau Lan Wu, and Senior Scientist collisions are now scheduled for 2009, Dr. Haimo Zobernig were involved are eagerly awaiting the opening of in readying the ATLAS experiment this new energy frontier. for first beam. They have leading The Wisconsin Physicist 9 UW Physics Graduate Students Graduate Recruiting

he quality of the graduate Yu, Jialu Simmons, Zachary Wuhan University (AMO/Cond Matter) University of St Thomas (AMO/Quantum) applicant pool has continued Zhen, Heming van Santen, Jakob to improve in recent years. USTC (Quantum/Cond Matter/HEP) Univ of Chicago (Astrophysics/HEP) T Weber, Joshua The applicant pool for Fall 2009 RAs Grinnell College (Cond Matter Ex/AMO) admission was extremely competitive Ji, Haoshuang Weisberg, David and we made offers to over 100 well Peking University (HEP) Duke University (Cond Matter/AMO) Poudel, Amrit Wood, Michael qualified applicants. In 2008 we had Hanover College (Cond Matter) UW Madison (AMO/Astrophysics) an incoming class of 26 new graduate Seltzman, Andrew Georgia Inst. of Technology (Plasma) students, in 2009 we had 46 new TAs—International Weaver, Christopher Cho, Junghun graduate students enroll in the Ph.D. Washington University (IceCube/Plasma) U of Michigan-Ann Arbor (HEP Ex) program! We expect a number Choi, Eunsong Outside Aid Yonsei University (Cond Matter Th) closer to our usual incoming class of Gamble, John (NSF) Kiewe, Michael about 25 students for next year. College of Wooster (Cond Matter Th) Tel Aviv University (Pheno/String) Lim, Hyungjun Korea Adv. Inst Sci &Tech (HEP/Pheno) Fall 2008 Admissions Fall 2009 Admissions Liu, Zhen Total of 25 students Total of 46 students Zhejiang University (HEP/String) Santander, Marcos Fellows Univ Tech Nacional (Astrophysics/HEP) Fellows Schick, Christoph Eilerman, Scott (GAANN) Brookhart, Matthew (GAANN) Ruprecht Karls Univ (Astrophysics/HEP) Wright State University (Pheno) University of Idaho (Plasma/CM) Wang, Yuxuan Gill, Alexander (GAANN) Cosgriff, Margaret (GAANN) Peking University (Cond Matter Th) Colby College (Atomic) Swarthmore College (Cond Matter Ex) Wu, Xian Henry, Joshua (GAANN) Peterson, Andrea (GAANN) Nanjing University (Cond Matter Ex) Austin Peay State University (ECE/Plasma) Harvard University (HEP/Pheno) Xu, Canran Koliner, Jon (GAANN) Reilly, Bethany (GAANN) Harbin Institute of Tech (Cond Matter Th) Arizona State (Plasma) Taylor University (HEP Ex)

Yu, Chiu-Tien (GAANN) Sauppe, Joshua (GAANN) Univ of Chicago (Astrophysics) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Plasma Ex) RAs Triana, Joseph (AOF) Churchill, Tyler TAs—Domestic Florida Atlantic University (Plasma Ex) US Naval Academy (Biophysics) Hart, Steven Gong, Yutao Utah State (Cond Matter ex) TAs—Domestic Wuhan University (Biophysics) Hartman, Timothy Capecchi, William Lee, J. David Uof Illinois-Champaign (Cond Matter ex) St Johns University (Plasma) UW Madison (Plasma) Johnson, Phillip Carmody, Daniel Mohr, Robert Butler University (High Energy/Astro) Carnegie-Mellon Univ (Plasma) Swarthmore College (Cond Matter Ex) Maurer, Leon Carr, Alexander Morgan, Kelsey Dartmouth (Quantum/Cond Matter) University Of Nevada, Reno (Cond Matter) University of Chicago (Astrophysics/HEP) Ross, Ian DeLand, Zachary Riedel, Benedikt Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech (Pheno) Michigan State (Cond Matter/Plasma) USC (Astrophysics/HEP) Swanson, Joshua Fiorino, Daniel Sabbatini, Luca St Cloud State University (HEP/Nuclear) DePaul University (HEP Ex) Rice University (HEP Ex) Hinrichs, Paul Yang, Suli TAs—International Univ of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Neutrinos) Peking University (HEP Ex) Dong, Zhe Kruse, Amanda Yoast-Hull, Tova NYU transfer; Beijing Univ. (Pheno) Univ Nebraska-Lincoln (Astrophysics/HEP) Kenyon College (Astrophysics/HEP) Garcia , Camilo Maller, Kara Univ del Valle del Cauca, Col (HEP/Pheno) U of Texas at Austin (AMO/ Cond Matter) Outside/Other Aid Hernandez, Tomas Ojalvo, Isobel Lichtman, Martin UWashington transfer; U Texas (Cond Rensselaer Polytech Inst. (HEP Ex) Brown University (AMO/Astrophysics) matter/Quantum) Parker, William Saenrang, Wittawat Koh, Teck Seng Univ of Arizona (HEP Ex) Khon Kaen University (Cond Matter Ex) Nat’l Univ of Singapore (Quantum) Pettus, Walter Miao, Jinlu Hillsdale College (Cond Matter/AMO) Nankai University (Nuclear/HEP) Ribeill, Guilhem Shi, Zhan N Carolina State Univ.(Cond. Matter/AMO) Fudan University (Cosmology/HEP) Rudinger, Kenneth Yoo, Hojin University of Chicago (Quantum/Pheno) Korea Inst. of Science & Tech Schroeder, Daniel (Cosmology/Quantum) Macalester College (HEP/String) 10 The Wisconsin Physicist

UW Theorists The Precision Frontier & the New Standard Model

hy is there more matter Chief among these precision frontier out these computations. Along with than anti-matter in the experiments are searches for a Prof. Daniel Chung, they are also Wpresent universe? What is permanent electric dipole moment inventing tools needed to carry out dark matter? Were all of the forces (EDM) of the electron, neutron and reliable electroweak baryogenesis of nature unified into a common neutral atoms. EDMs are highly calculations and applying these tools to “superforce” at the birth of the suppressed in the SM and are various scenarios for new CP-violation. cosmos? If so, are there additional expressly forbidden if nature respects forces that were part of that both CP and CPT invariance. Their The prospective cosmological superforce but that disappeared from discovery in highly-sensitive, “table implications of EDM searches are view as the universe evolved? top” experiments would provide intimately connected with searches “smoking gun” evidence for CP- for the Higgs boson (or its cousins) The Standard Model (SM) of particle violation beyond that of the SM–a key at the Tevatron and LHC, since physics has been enormously ingredient in explaining the origin of successful electroweak baryogenesis successful in explaining much of the the visible matter in the cosmos. So requires not only new CP-violation microphysics of the cosmos, yet the far, no one has observed a non-zero but also a cosmic phase transition model provides no answers to these EDM, and the experimental limits are whose character is determined by the any other basic questions about the impressively stringent. The EDM of scalar sector of the NSM. Ramsey- origin and evolution of our universe. the neutron, for example, must be Musolf is investigating various smaller in magnitude than 2.9 x 10-26 Higgs mechanisms that could lead The search for a “New Standard e-cm, corresponding to a length scale to this phase transition, identifying Model” (NSM) that will address these roughly thirteen orders of magnitude their possible LHC signatures, and puzzles is being pursued at a number smaller than the radius of a nucleon. investigating their prospects for making of experimental frontiers: the high up the cosmic dark matter as well. energy frontier, where experiments The next generation of EDM searches at the Tevatron and Large Hadron expects to improve the sensitivity by Ramsey-Musolf, Prof. A. Baha Collider (LHC) hope to discover new two or more orders of magnitude. If Balantekin, and their collaborators particles; the cosmological frontier a non-vanishing EDM is observed, it and students are also studying involving probes on large distance could signal the CP-violation needed another process at the precision scales that hope to discern the to explain the creation of the visible frontier that is forbidden by the SM, imprints of new physics in the cosmic matter, or “baryogenesis”, during the the neutrinoless double -decay microwave background and various electroweak symmetry-breaking era of atomic nuclei. Observation of astrophysical phenomena; and the when the universe was 10-11s old. In this decay would mean that the precision frontier, where exquisitely order to investigate these prospective neutrino is its own antiparticle. precise low-energy experiments implications, Prof. Michael Ramsey- If so, then the matter-antimatter hope to see behavior of elementary Musolf and colleagues are busy asymmetry may have been produced particles, nuclei, and atoms that is computing EDMs in a variety of by heavy neutrinos in the early forbidden in the SM or that deviates scenarios for the NSM and refining universe through the process of strongly from SM expectations. the theoretical methods for carrying “leptogenesis”. Prof. Karsten The Wisconsin Physicist 11 Heeger and his group are playing a key role in the CUORE experiment that is designed to search for the UW Physics Outreach neutrinoless double -decay of tellurium nuclei at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy. The theoretical interpretation of these Reaching Out... experiments in terms of the NSM require complicated computations of nuclear matrix elements as well as careful analyses of the underlying This Week at Physics Welcome! particle physics mechanisms that Each year the Physics Department hosts On August 24, 2009, Ella Braden could give rise to these decays. a large number of colloquia and seminars joined the Department as an outreach exploring a wide range of research specialist. She is the new Physics The UW-Madison theorists are topics. 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Fall 2008 University of California– DD. in Physics from Harvard Berkeley Particle Astrophysicist Stefan in 1964, where he was a student of Westerhoff was promoted to Nobelist J. H. Van Vleck. He came to 7 Cornell University Associate Professor. Wisconsin as an Instructor in 1964 and Fall 2009 was promoted rapidly through the University of Chicago ranks, becoming Professor of Physics 8 Cosmologist Daniel Chung was in 1969. He has served as major University of Illinois– promoted to Associate Professor. professor for 16 graduate students, Urbana-Champaign String theorist Aki Hashimoto was many of whom have gone on to promoted to Associate Professor. distinguished careers. In his teaching, University of California– Neutrino Experimentalist Karsten Santa Barbara he developed the 2-semester 10 Heeger was promoted to Associate graduate sequence Physics 751-752 in Columbia University Professor. condensed matter physics and taught 11 High-Energy Experimentalist Matt several of the graduate specialty Yale University Herndon was promoted to Associate courses. He is the author of more Professor. than 400 scientific papers, especially University of Maryland– Particle Theorist Frank Petriello was 13 College Park on radiation phenomena and the promoted to Associate Professor. optical properties of solids. University of Michigan– Sabbaticals Ann Arbor In his research he has made highly significant contributions to the 2007 University of Pennsylvania understanding of the magnetic and Prof. Shirdhara Dasu optical properties of condensed University of California– Prof. Pupa Gilbert matter and has made occasional Los Angeles 16 Assoc. Prof. Yibin Pan forays into statistical mechanics and University of California– 2008 atomic physics. He has continuing San Diego scientific collaborations with students, Prof. Vernon Barger postdocs, physics faculty and visiting Prof. Duncan Carlsmith University of Texas–Austin international scientists. Recent work Frof. Sue Coppersmith includes analysis of geometrically University of Prof. Mark Eriksson frustrated magnets, investigations of Wisconsin–Madison Prof. Gary Shiu manganite compounds, studies of Prof. Wesley Smith Johns Hopkins University the optical properties of polymers, 20 2009 University of Colorado– and collaboration in photoemission Boulder Prof. Andrey Chubukov measurements of pentacene on Prof. Marshall Onellion bismuth. University of Washington He has served the university with * In the specialty rankings for Physics, distinction in many administrative UW Plasma is ranked 3rd. posts. He served twice as Department Chair for a total of three years. From The Wisconsin Physicist 13 1985 to 1997 he was Director of the Clint Sprott In 1984 Prof. Sprott began a popular Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC) lecture-demonstration program and was instrumental in the recovery lint began his association with for the general public called The of the Aladdin ring from a threat of the University of Wisconsin as Wonders of Physics. He has made closure. From 1989 to 2008 he also Ca graduate student in physics 212 presentations over the past 25 served as the Director of the Physical in September, 1964 after receiving years to an estimated 60,000 people. Sciences Laboratory (PSL). Since 2006 a bachelor’s degree in physics from For the past 20 years, he has also he has helped with the administration MIT. His Ph.D. thesis was on Behavior supervised a traveling version of the of the IceCube project. of RF Heated Plasmas in a Toroidal show that has been given by others over 1,300 times in schools and other His honors include: Fellow of the Octupole Magnetic Field under the settings in all 72 Wisconsin counties, American Physical Society; A. supervision of Donald W. Kerst. After 32 states, and three countries. He P. Sloan Fellow, 1965-1967; J. S. graduating in 1969, he spent a year has produced a Lecture Kit, 26 hours Guggenheim Fellow, 1972-1973; as a postdoc jointly in Physics and of videos, two educational software Fellow of the National Association Electrical Engineering before taking programs, one of which won the of State Universities and Land Grant a position at Oak Ridge National first annual Computers in Physics Colleges, U S Office of Science and Laboratory. In 1973 he returned to contest for innovative educational Technology Policy, 1990-1991. His the University. He was promoted to software, and a book on Physics external services include: organizer Associate Professor in 1977 and to full Demonstrations. He maintains a of the International Conference professor in 1979. very popular web site with much on Magnetism, organizer of the His early research was on heating educational material. International Conference on and confinement of plasmas in Luminescence, and Associate Editor, the Toroidal Octupole and in the He has published over 300 technical Journal of Luminescence. Levitated Octupole. He proposed, papers and abstracts and has written designed, and supervised the six books, including two textbooks, construction and operation of the Introduction to Modern Electronics Tokapole II poloidal divertor tokamak. (still used in Physics 321) and Chaos John After the retirement of Prof. Kerst and Time-Series Analysis; two H. Van in 1980, he served as principal popularizations, Strange Attractors and Images of a Complex World; Vleck investigator of the plasma physics program for the following six years, and a translation of Numerical Exhibit during which time the Madison Recipes into BASIC. He has produced commercial software for the analysis Friday, Symmetric Torus was proposed, of chaotic data. He supervised 18 September 18 designed, and constructed. He will marked oversaw its initial operation and Ph.D. students, some of whom went the opening achieved the first reversed field on to win awards. of a new, pinch plasmas in the device. He has He has taught twelve different permanent consulted with a dozen different courses in the Department including exhibit in the Physics Library, Room organizations including ORNL, electronics, plasma, modern physics, 4220 Chamberlin Hall. This new three- McDonnell-Douglas, Argonne chaos, and all the general physics part exhibit features the life story of National Lab, TRW, Honeywell, and John H. Van Vleck, who is known as courses. He has served on most the Chicago Museum of Science and the “founder of the modern theory of departmental committees, was a magnetism.” From the development Industry. In 1989, his interests turned faculty senator for eleven years, and of the laser beam to the tape recorder, to computational nonlinear dynamics, was chair of an L&S committee on from the creation of exotic gadgetry in and he has lectured, collaborated, Science and Math Education. modern electronics to new industrial and published widely in that area Prof. Sprott was elected a fellow uses of glass, much credit rests in Van over the past two decades. He has of the American Physical Society Vleck’s theory of solid-state physics. developed a number of new chaotic in 1980, received the John Glover This exhibit covers his childhood years systems and electronic circuits, one award from Dickinson College in in Madison, his research achievements, of which is marketed by PASCO 1994, the Van Hise Outreach Teaching and his Nobel Prize and other awards. Scientific. In 1994 he initiated and award from UW in 1997, and a continues to organize a weekly For more information: http://physics. Lifetime Achievement Award from campus-wide seminar on Chaos and library.wisc.edu/archives/index.html the Wisconsin Association of Physics Complex Systems. Teachers in 1999. 14 The Wisconsin Physicist 2009 In 2003, the Center for Magnetic resonances, a major issue at the time. Stewart Prager Self-Organization in Laboratory and After the completion of the Argonne Astrophysical Plasmas (CMSO) was program in 1972, Prepost started a tewart received his Ph.D. in founded, with Prager as its director. Wisconsin research group to work plasma physics from Columbia CMSO is an NSF physics frontier at the Stanford Linear Accelerator University in 1975. Following center, which unites lab plasma center (SLAC). He collaborated S physicists with plasma astrophysicists with the Stanford Ritson group and two years of research at General Atomics, he joined the UW faculty as to advance progress on plasma together with Ritson designed and an assistant professor, and remained physics problems in common. implemented a 1.6 GeV magnetic at UW for 31 years. Prager’s work has focused on spectrometer which was installed in understanding dynamo, ion heating, end station A. A collaboration, with Upon arriving at UW, he began work reconnection, and momentum Prepost as spokesman, was formed on two experiments: the levitated transport, and uncovering links with a number of University groups octupole and the Tokapole. On between these processes in the lab and a very successful program the levitated octupole (built by and astrophysics. followed. Don Kerst), Prager and students investigated physics at high plasma Prager has also contributed to many Prepost has served as advisor pressure (high beta) and identified plasma physics policy planning to fifteen graduate students at the neoclassical bootstrap current activities. For example, he has served Wisconsin and three at Stanford. (a pressure-driven current predicted as chair of the APS Division of Plasma Several have had very distinguished to flow in toroidal plasmas). Physics, chair of the DOE Fusion careers, perhaps the most visible Construction of the tokapole Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, has been Michael Witherell, who experiment around 1978 was led by and president of the University served as Director of Fermilab Clint Sprott. Prager participated in Fusion Association. He became an before becoming Graduate Dean experiments from the outset. Notable APS fellow in 1985 and was a co- of Research at the University of results include identification of partial recipient of the APS Dawson Prize for California at Santa Barbara. Excellence in Plasma Physics for work reconnection (in opposition of the Prepost was elected as a Fellow of on the bootstrap current. standard reconnection model of the American Physical Society in 1985. the time), identification of the shear He has served on numerous national Alfven resonance, and careful study Richard Prepost committees for the DOE and NSF of the axisymmetric instability. as well as the SLAC and Fermilab ichard joined the faculty at the In 1985 construction of the MST Program Advisory committees and University of Wisconsin as an reversed field pinch began, following the SLAC Scientific Policy committee. Associate Professor in 1967 a design by a five person team R Prepost has served on and chaired after an appointment as an Assistant (Dexter, Lovell, Prager, Sprott, numerous department committees Professor at Stanford University from Kerst). First plasmas were produced and has taught a broad range of 1963 to 1966. He was promoted in 1988, with physics studies undergraduate and graduate courses. to Full Professor in 1973. Prepost essentially beginning around 1990. He has contributed significantly to received his PhD from Columbia MST occupied the bulk of Prager’s the development and documentation University in 1963 under Leon research thereafter, as he became of the intermediate and advanced Lederman and Vernon Hughes. principal investigator for the project. laboratories in the courses Physics His research focused on basic plasma Prepost’s research has been in the 623, 321 and 407. physics relevant to fusion energy, field of experimental high energy development of the reversed field particle physics and accelerator pinch fusion concept and, recently, related research. Upon coming to connections to astrophysics. Prager’s Wisconsin, Prepost started a small work on MST addressed a broad Wisconsin group and formed a array of plasma physics problems colloration with two other universities under the umbrella of magnetic to work at the Argonne Laboratory self-organization (reconnection, Zero Gradient Synchrotron (ZGS) turbulence, dynamo, transport) and using the technique of optical spark the control of turbulent transport. chambers. The major experiment carried out at this laboratory was to disprove the existence of split The Wisconsin Physicist 15 Faculty Awards Banquet

2008 Distinguished Faculty Fellows UW Physics Faculty Emeritus Professor Loyal Durand Emeritus Professor Charlie Goebel 2009 Distinguished Faculty Fellows In 2009, the Distinguished Faculty Fellows NEWS... Award was discontinued. Campus-Wide Awards Stewart Prager Named Chinese Premier 2009 Prof. Ellen Zweibel was awarded a William Director of PPPL commends US-China Kraushaar Professorship. Each year the Physics Department collaboration Prof. Michael Ramsey-Musolf received a Vilas hosts a large number of colloquium Associate Award. The University of Wisconsin is and seminars exploring a wide making the single largest university Other Awards range of research topics. We have contribution to the Daya Bay project implemented an on-line calendar 2008 in a collaboration of some dozen US for people to read about upcoming Prof. Pupa Gilbert received an NSF American institutions and two national labs. It events. Competitiveness and Innovation Fellowship involves Professor Heeger and Chair “for her application of novel methodology Balantekin and a group of scientists to the determination of the structures and Prof. Emeritus Stewart Prager has synthetic pathways of mineralized biological from the Physics Department. been named director of the U.S. tissues and for exceptional skill in bringing As US manager for the Daya Bay the fascination of science to a wide audience Department of Energy’s (DOE) involving non-science students and the antineutrino detectors, Associate Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory general public.” Professor Heeger is responsible (PPPL). Prager is also currently the for the design, construction, and Prof. Gary Shiu received a Guggenheim chair of the DOE’s Fusion Energy Fellowship Awards, which recognize artists, commissioning of the eight 100-ton scholars and scientists based on distinguished Sciences Advisory Committee antineutrino detectors, Much of the past achievement and exceptional future (FESAC). promise. design of the antineutrino detectors Prof. Karsten Heeger received not one, but Prager will become the sixth director is done at the UW Physical Sciences two Outstanding Junior Investigator awards of the laboratory, which is funded Laboratory. Heeger is coordinating form Department of Energy, one in High- Energy Physics and one in Nuclear Physics. by the DOE and managed by a team of scientists and engineers Princeton University. He has also in Madison and collaborating 2009 been appointment as a professor of with colleagues in China, Taiwan, Prof. Susan Coppersmith, has been elected to astrophysical sciences at Princeton. and Europe for this international the prestigious National Academy of Sciences neutrino project. The Daya Bay in “recognition of her distinguished and experiment is a joint effort between continuing achievements in original research.” “We believe that there is no better person than Stewart Prager to lead the US and China funded in the US Prof. Karsten Heeger received a Sloan the Plasma Physics Laboratory as by the Department of Energy. It has Research Fellowship. it moves into the next phase in its received support from the University Emeritus Profs. Ugo Camerini and Jack distinguished history,” said Princeton of Wisconsin Graduate School Fry were members of the Gargamelle collaboration that won the prestigious EPS President Shirley M. Tilghman. and the University of Wisconsin High Energy and Particle Physics Prize. The “The need for safe, abundant and Foundation. Gargamelle Collaboration was awarded the prize for the “observation of the weak neutral environmentally benign sources current interaction” in 1973. of energy has never been greater,

Emeritus Prof. Stewart Prager and graduate and we are confident that under his student Michael Zarnstorff received the leadership PPPL will continue to make American Physical Society’s Dawson Prize for exceptional contributions to the field Excellence in Plasma Physics on the Wisconsin “Levitated Octupole” experiment, detecting of fusion energy.” for the first time the so-called bootstrap current, named because the electrical current, named because the plasma itself generates the electrical current. Zarnstorff is now a principal research physicist at PPPL. 16 The Wisconsin Physicist UW Physics Alumni Updates & Awards Physics Department Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Jay Davis Named President Alumni Awards Receives National Medal of the Hertz Foundation

2008 Awards Banquet of Science The Board of the Hertz Foundation picked Jay Davis as their new We were delighted to hear that Distinguished Scientist Awards president, replacing John Holzrichter Dr. Samuel Aronson University of Wisconsin-Madison who successfully lead the Foundation Director, Brookhaven National Lab Physics alumna, Fay Ajzenberg- for ten years. One of the long term Selove, who received a Ph.D. in Dr. Marjorie Cocoran goals for Jay is to support 30 new experimental nuclear physics with Professor, Rice University Fellows every year in the applied Hugh Richards, received the National physical sciences, reaching the top Distinguished Alumni Awards Medal of Science for her scientific one percent of those in graduate Dr. William Jury achievements. You may recall that school. Distinguished Professor of Soil Physics some years ago Fay had generously UC-Riverside established a scholarship fund for Announcing the New Dr. Paul Kaesberg undergraduate women majoring in Emeritus Physics, Astrophysics, or Astronomy. Badger Career Network UW Biochemistry Department UW-Madison graduates looking for Dr. Wes Traub The Honorable Gregory Chief Scientist, career edge can now be the first NASA’s Navigator Program, JPL B. Jaczko was designated to know about job opportunities, Pasadena, CA Chairman of the U.S. networking events and online tools through the expanded Badger Career Distinguished Service Awards Nuclear Regulatory Wayne Niemuth Network, provided by the Wisconsin Commission by President Alumni Association. 2009 Awards Banquet Barack Obama For many years, UW-Madison alumni As Chairman, Dr. Jaczko is the have volunteered their time to Distinguished Scientist Awards principal executive officer of the JoAnne Hewett offer career advice and mentorship SLAC NRC and its official spokesperson. He is responsible for conducting to fellow Badgers through the Wai-Yim Ching administrative, organizational, network. Today, alumni who sign up University of Missouri-Kansas City long-range planning, budgetary, to participate in the Badger Career and certain personnel functions of Network will also enjoy access to Distinguished Alumni Awards The Honorable Bill Foster the agency. He also has authority a virtual career center; BuckyNet, U.S. Congressman Representing the for all NRC functions pertaining to the university’s job online board; a th 14 District of Illinois a potential emergency involving an monthly 3-newsletter; and invitations NRC licensee. Dr. Jaczko earned to career-related events and John Wiley a doctorate in physics from the Interim Director, teleclasses. More information can be University of Wisconsin-Madison UW Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery found at www.uwalumni.com.careers. under Prof. Emeritus Randy Durand. Phyllis J. Fleming Professor Emerita Wellesley College Keep Current

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“There is something here for Full Circle everyone from 10 to 100 years UW Physics Staff of age,” said Cohen. “The more research I did in preparing to write A Debut Novel the book, the more I learned.” cientist Theodore J. (Teddy) Updates Cohen never expected to Theodore Jerome Cohen’s Full return to the violin when he Circle is available for purchase at S Web sites such as AuthorHouse. abandoned the instrument after Scientists Daniel Den his high school graduation in 1956 com, BarnesandNoble.com, Hartog and Gennady Fiksel and began pursuing a career in Amazon.com, Borders.com, Target. engineering and science. For the com, Books-a-million.com as well named Research Professors next 40 years, Cohen worked in as over 25,000 retailers who use the defense industry, serving as an book wholesalers such as Ingram Drs. Den Hartog and Fiksel, Senior engineer, scientist, and officer in Book Company, Baker & Taylor, and Scientists in the plasma physics several Washington, D.C.-based Bowkers Books in Print. group, have been named Research corporations before moving to Professors, the first such appointments Pennsylvania, where he continues The author may be contacted at: in the Physics Department. While the to work as a consultant. There, Research Professor title is honorary, to prepare for the day when he Theodore J. Cohen, Ph.D. this is an important achievement that recognizes their outstanding would leave the work-a-day world Amateur Radio N4XX for good, he once again took up scientific accomplishment and the violin, ironically fulfilling his leadership. Den Hartog and Fiksel father’s vision that he become a 122 Shady Brook Drive are co-principal investigators on the violinist. The story is told in Full Langhorne, PA 19047 Madison Symmetric Torus project Circle: A Dream Denied, A Vision and are known internationally for Fulfilled, Cohen’s new novel from 215-968-0617 their work on magnetic confinement, AuthorHouse. laboratory plasma physics connections to astrophysics, and the creative The story is a work of fiction development of diagnostics for high based on real events. “It takes temperature plasmas. the reader from my early days as a violin student in grade and high Thomas Wise, Researcher, school, through my discovery of communications in general and Department of Physics ham radio in particular, to my return Wins Chancellor’s Award to the violin.” In the process, the reader is introduced to a variety for Excellence in Research, of interesting and colorful people Critical Research Support who played major roles in Cohen’s life, including his mother, Myrtle, The 2009 Academic Staff Excellence and father, Solly; his immigrant Awards recognize nine dedicated maternal grandfather, “Grandpa university professionals for their Joe” (who used to take him for exemplary achievements in his piano lessons after dinner on leadership, public service, research, Monday evenings by bus and teaching and career service. During streetcar); Herman Miroff (his violin the past 30 years, Wise has compiled teacher); Dr. Leonardo Cavalieri a record of excellence in research (his high school orchestra teacher, and service, having been recognized who reappears later in Teddy’s nationally and internationally. life); J. Harvey McCoy (a ham radio operator (W2IYX) and friend of Teddy’s who played a major role in curbing the German submarine menace in the Atlantic during WW II); and of course, his wife, Susan. 18 The Wisconsin Physicist UW Physics In Memoriam William L. Kraushaar a former student of Kraushaar. his cabin in Denmark, Maine. He The OSO 3 experiment, launched is survived by his wife, the former March 21, 2008 in March of 1967, registered 621 Elizabeth Rodgers, and by three cosmic gamma ray events. It yielded children. rofessor William L. Kraushaar, the first all-sky map of high-energy a former MIT physics professor cosmic gamma rays showing a Roger Bruce Perkin Pand a pioneer in the field of concentration of gamma rays from high-energy astronomy, died March directions in the Milky Way where July 11, 2008 21 of complications from Parkinson’s gamma-ray producing interactions of disease. He was 87. charged cosmic rays with interstellar r. Roger Bruce Perkins died matter are most abundant. It also at home in Los Alamos, New Kraushaar received his bachelor demonstrated the existence of extra- DMexico on July 11, 2008 after degree from Lafayette College galactic gamma ray sources that a courageous battle with cancer. in 1942. During World War II he have since been identified as giant Roger was born in Hammond, Indiana worked at the National Bureau of black holes at the centers of distant on November 8, 1935 to Philip and Standards on projects that included galaxies. The OSO 3 experiment Lydia Perkins. Roger was awarded a development of the proximity fuse for opened the field of high-energy Ford Foundation scholarship while a artillery shells. After the war he earned gamma-ray astronomy, which has sophomore in high school, which sent his doctorate at Cornell University. become one of the most active areas him to college early at the University In 1949 he was appointed research of space research. of Wisconsin. He graduated with a associate at MIT where he made the B. S. from Wisconsin in 1955, and first measurements of the mean life Upon his move to Wisconsin, received his Ph.D. in physics from of the pi meson at the MIT electron Kraushaar established a research Princeton University in 1959. He was synchrotron. Over the next 15 years group in the new area of X-ray a Fellow of the American Physical he rose through the faculty ranks, astronomy. Using instruments flown Society. becoming a full professor before on “sounding” rockets, he and his leaving MIT for the University of colleagues produced the first all- During his college years, Roger Wisconsin at Madison in 1965. sky map of low-energy X rays that worked as a summer student at the revealed the spatial distribution of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, In 1957 Kraushaar began a decade- million-degree interstellar gas. They where he met his future wife Betty, long effort to map the sky in the extended these results in several and upon graduation in 1959 became “light” of cosmic gamma rays. Their satellite experiments. Kraushaar was a staff member in the Physics detection promised to open new ways appointed the Max Mason Professor Division. During 1964-1965, he to investigate high-energy processes of Physics in 1980. took leave to work at the Division of in the universe. Initial balloon-borne Research at the US Atomic Energy experiments failed due to background Kraushaar was a fellow of the Division in Washington, D.C. From gamma rays generated in the residual American Physical Society, and 1970-1971, he again took a year’s atmosphere above the highest a member of the American leave to serve as a visiting professor attainable altitudes. Astronomical Society, the of Physics and Astrophysics at the International Astronomical Union, University of Colorado in Boulder. In 1958, Kraushaar seized the the National Academy of Sciences, Roger held a number of different new opportunity for experiments and the American Academy of Arts positions in upper management at above the atmosphere. Working and Sciences. He received Fulbright the Los Alamos National Laboratory, with Professor George Clark, he and Guggenheim fellowships and including Leader of the Laser directed the development in the MIT the Senior Scientist Award of the Research and Technology Division Laboratory for Nuclear Science of a Humboldt Foundation. He served on (1976-1979), Assistant Laboratory gamma-ray detector for a satellite numerous advisory committees of Director of Facilities and Fabrication experiment that was launched in April the National Academy of Sciences (1986-1988), and Deputy Associate 1961 as Explorer 11. It registered 31 and NASA. He co-authored with Director of Physics and Life Sciences events with the electronic signatures Professor Uno Ingard a college text, (1989-1993). After retirement in 1997 of cosmic gamma rays with energies “Introduction to Mechanics, Matter, as Deputy Director for Facilities, greater than 50 MeV. Kraushaar then and Waves.” Safeguards and Security, Roger initiated a second and more refined traveled extensively and also worked After his retirement, Kraushaar experiment to be carried on OSO 3. part-time as a consultant for various moved to Maine where he resided In this project Kraushaar and Clark laboratory contractors. were joined by Gordon Garmire, in Scarborough with summers at The Wisconsin Physicist 19

Roger will be deeply missed by his In the early 1960s Vacquier took over received numerous honors for his wife of more than 50 years Betty the shipboard measurement program pioneering work in geophysics. In Lindsey Perkins, daughters Martha for oceanic heat flow at Scripps. 1960, he was awarded the Wetherill Perkins, Ann Perkins, and Elaine He and colleagues found evidence Medal of the Franklin Institute for Perkins Jacobs, son-in-law Brian for elevated heat flow through the his development of the magnetic- Jacobs, grandchildren Lindsey (Lindy) seafloor at the crest of the Mid- airborne detector and its application and John (Johnny) Jacobs and James Atlantic Ridge and the Central Indian to geophysical prospecting for Coburn, his sister Priscilla Bath, Ridge. In the extensive deep basins oil and minerals. He received and nephew David Bath and wife of the western Pacific and the eastern the 1963 Albatross Award of the Dreana and son Steven, and nephew Indian Ocean he confirmed that the American Miscellaneous Society Dale Bath and wife Lynn, as well as heat flow was nearly uniform and for “having displaced the seafloor numerous friends. much lower than that at the mid- by 700 kilometers,” the John Adam ocean ridges. Such measurements Fleming Medal from the American Victor Vacquier Sr. reinforced the principles of seafloor Geophysical Union in 1973 for “ spreading and led to the now widely- original research and technical January 11, 2009 accepted thermal models of the leadership in geomagnetism.” In oceanic lithosphere. 1976, he received the Society of ictor Vacquier Sr., professor Exploration Geophysicists’ Fessenden emeritus of geophysics Vacquier was born in St. Petersburg, Award in recognition of his invention Vat Scripps Institution of Russia, on Oct.13, 1907. In 1920, of the airborne magnetometer and Oceanography, UC San Diego, died following the Russian Revolution, he in 1995 received the Alexander Jan. 11, 2009, in La Jolla, Calif., from and his family escaped across the Agassiz Medal from the U.S. pneumonia. He was 101 years old. frozen Gulf of Finland to Helsinki on a National Academy of Science for his Vacquier’s distinguished science one-horse sleigh. He and his mother contributions to geomagnetism and career included the invention of the immigrated to the United States in tectonics. fluxgate magnetometer and airborne 1923. and marine magnetic surveying, He is survived by his wife Mihoko which led to the discovery of Vacquier received a bachelor’s Vacquier of La Jolla, Calif., his magnetic field patterns preserved in degree in electrical engineering from son Victor D. Vacquier, a Scripps the seafloor. the University of Wisconsin in 1927 professor, and daughter-in-law and a master’s degree in physics in Judith Vacquier of La Jolla, Calif., In 1957, Vacquier joined Scripps as 1929. He worked for Gulf Research four grandchildren and four great a research physicist to direct the in Pittsburgh, where in 1940 he grandchildren. geomagnetics program in the Marine invented the fluxgate magnetometer. Physical Laboratory (MPL). In 1962 The instrument was used on a blimp Frank Shoemaker became a professor of geophysics at and then on an airplane to detect Scripps. During his oceanographic submarines during World War II. The February 11, 2009 career, Vacquier led numerous ocean- method was later applied to airborne going expeditions to obtain records exploration for oil and minerals. rank Shoemaker, a leader in the of Earth’s magnetic field in the three development of high-energy From 1944 to 1953 he worked for major oceans and to measure and particle accelerators during Sperry Gyroscope, Inc., where he F map the flow of heat outward from a highly revelatory era for physics developed the Mark 19 and Mark 23 the seafloor. and a founding member of the gyrocompasses, standard equipment experimental particle physics group His pioneering research to map on all Navy ships for at least 30 years at Princeton, has died at age 86. magnetic field patterns along the to measure the direction of true seafloor established that vast tracks north. From 1953 to 1957 he worked Shoemaker, a professor emeritus of the oceanic crust in the eastern at the New Mexico Institute of Mining of physics, a mentor to generations Pacific were offset at long linear and Technology where he developed of junior faculty and graduate fracture zones. His work in the an electrical conductivity method to students, and a dedicated teacher western Pacific revealed that marine prospect for groundwater. who designed many of the magnetic anomalies were offset by University’s freshman physics class Vacquier’s active research career 1,250 kilometers (776 miles) across a demonstrations, died at Meadow spanned more than seven decades fracture zone and was a key factor for Lakes in Hightstown, N.J., on Feb. 11. and included more than 50 scientific the rapid acceptance of the theory of publications and 18 patents. He plate tectonics in the mid 1960s. 20 The Wisconsin Physicist

The epitome of a hands-on scientist, demonstration for faculty and wife traveled extensively, visiting all Shoemaker, who served on the graduate students. To colleagues, 50 states and five continents. Princeton physics faculty from 1952 many of whom had only imagined until his retirement in 1989, was such phenomena on a theoretical Shoemaker was pre-deceased by always building something. He led level, the yearly efforts displayed his wife of 56 years, Ruth, who died the reconstruction of the University’s a virtuosic mastery of the physical in 2001. He is survived by his two Palmer Cyclotron after a fire in 1952 world. daughters, Barbara Shoemaker, a and, in the course of his research, 1976 Princeton graduate, and Mary performed pioneering experiments He was born in Ogden, Utah, to Mittnacht, both of Santa Fe, N.M., on the strong focusing of particle Roy and Sarah Shoemaker. He was and a brother, Sydney Shoemaker, of beams. He then went on to lead the second of their five sons, all of Ithaca, N.Y. the design and construction of the whom would go on to earn Ph.Ds. 3-billion-volt Princeton-Pennsylvania He spent his high school years in Anne W. Herb Accelerator, and served as associate Boise, Idaho, where he met his director of the accelerator program future wife, Ruth Elizabeth Nelson. June 13, 2009 from 1962 to 1966. Both attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., where they were nne W. Herb, age 87, passed He took a year-long leave of absence both elected to Phi Beta Kappa. away peacefully on Saturday, from Princeton in 1968 to become Following graduation and marriage, AJune 13, 2009, at Oakwood the first head of the main-ring group both worked at the Radiation Lab Village West. Anne was born in at what would become the Fermi at the Massachusetts Institute of Madison on Dec. 16, 1921, the National Accelerator Laboratory Technology in Cambridge, Mass., on daughter of Robert C. and Maude or Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., and led the development of radar for use in (Miller) Williamson. When Anne was the design and construction of that World War II. eight years old the family moved facility’s 1 kilometer radius main to Gainesville, Fla. Anne returned accelerator ring. After the war, Shoemaker received his to Madison as a University of Ph.D. in physics from the University Wisconsin freshman and majored Returning to Princeton in 1969, of Wisconsin-Madison, and moved in home economics. She obtained Shoemaker played critical roles in to Princeton to begin his long career bachelor of science and master Princeton experiments conducted here. He was instrumental in the of science degrees. In 1945 Anne at Brookhaven National Laboratory design of Jadwin Hall, the University’s married Raymond G. Herb, a UW in Upton, N.Y., and Fermilab that physics building, bringing his physics professor. By 1962 the family provided confirmation of the new practical bent to bear on questions included five children, two canoes quantum chromodynamics theory of of door widths in both corridors and and an Airedale. The Herbs lived in strong interactions and the unified elevators and the capacity of floors a house on two acres on Gammon theory of weak and electromagnetic to withstand the load of heavy lab Road, which was then a rural area. interactions. He served as principal equipment. Sunday hikes and picnics, Wisconsin investigator of the Princeton high- River canoe trips, and road trips energy physics group from 1972 He was active in research well after in the station wagon loaded with to 1985. Following his retirement his retirement and was a familiar camping gear, kids, and the dog from teaching in 1989, he played a figure in Jadwin up until a year ago, were the norm. In the early ‘70s major role in the Booster Neutrino when his health began to decline. after Ray’s move from the UW to Experiment, known as MiniBooNE, at National Electrostatics Corporation Fermilab. Shoemaker was a fellow of the American Physical Society and a in Middleton, Anne and Ray bought land near Mazomanie and built a Shoemaker was known as a member of Sigma Xi. He also was awarded an honorary doctor of home backed up to a wooded bluff dedicated teacher and served as overlooking a cornfield. Keeping director of undergraduate physics science by his alma mater, Whitman College, in 1978. He wrote or co- track of birds, wild turkeys, deer studies from 1981 to 1989. In that and other wildlife became part of role, he transformed the teaching wrote more than 100 papers and articles. the daily routine. Family gatherings of introductory physics at Princeton, were readily accommodated here, developing demonstrations to show one of these being Anne and Ray’s students the actual processes they In addition to physics, Shoemaker’s main passions were his family, 50th wedding anniversary in 1995. were studying in the classroom. He After Ray’s death in 1996 Anne also conducted a popular annual classical music, sailing and dogs. Following his retirement, he and his moved back to Madison, and then in The Wisconsin Physicist 21

2002 to an apartment at Oakwood Born in Shelbyville, Indiana, she inventing mechanical solutions to Village West. Around this time she was graduated from Hanover his own diverse projects. His friends traveled to New Zealand, as well as College in 1946 and earned her M.S. and family all relied on his talents, Alaska, Montana and Hawaii. Anne and Ph.D. from the University of creativity, and hard work whenever had a cheerful, sensible nature and Wisconsin-Madison in 1948 and 1955 they needed a helping hand. He has tremendous patience. She had many respectively. She was the recipient a reputation as an entertaining and friends and was quick to appreciate of many awards. Hanover honored lively storyteller. Roch was a loving humor as long as it wasn’t at the her with an Alumnae Award in 1963 and dedicated Daddy to his sons. expense of others. Anne was active in and an Honorary D.Sc. in 2003. In Roch is survived by his wife, Beth; the League of Women Voters, served 1982 at Wellesley, she was the first two sons, Roman and Leo; mother, on the Wisconsin Heights School scientist to win the Pinanski Prize for Betty L. Kendrick of LaCrosse; a Board, and was a generous supporter Distinguished Teaching. Later she sister, Dunnell (Chris, Finnley and of conservation and human rights also was the first winner of the Janet Riley) Kendrick-Parker of New Glarus; causes and the arts. Anne is survived Guernsey Award for Exceptional mother and father-in-law, Robyn and by her brother, Robert M. Williamson Lifetime Achievement for her service Bob Blahut; a sister-in-law, Toni (Chris, and his wife Sandra; three daughters, to faculty, students and alumnae. Nora and Max) Maddi; and brothers- Rebecca Herb and her husband More recently, she was named a 2009 in-law, Robert (son, Teddy) Blahut Henry King, Sara Donahoe and her Alumni Fellow of the UW Physics and Jim (Elizabeth) Blahut. He was husband Robert Donahoe, and Emily Department. In addition to her 50 preceded in death by his father, Dale Herb and her husband Dalyn Grap; year Wellesley career, she also taught Kendrick. two sons, Stephen Herb and his wife at Mt. Holyoke College from 1948- Brigitte Heimes, and William Herb; 1950. She completed her career by Converse Herrick “Connie” and granddaughter, Emily King. tutoring at Cape Cod Community College for five semesters. Blanchard Phyllis J. Fleming She is survived by her sister, Helen August 13, 2009 June 23, 2009 Lorenz, her brother-in-law, two nephews and two great nephews and onverse Herrick “Connie” her life partner, Linda B. Miller. Blanchard, emeritus professor hyllis J. Fleming, Sarah Whiting of physics, University Francis Professor of Physics, C Roch Deryck Kendrick of Wisconsin - Madison, died PEmerita, at Wellesley College, unexpectedly on Aug. 13, 2009 in died after a long illness on June 23, July 10, 2009 Chilmark, Mass. He was a much- 2009. A physicist, she dedicated loved teacher, colleague, husband, her life to the enhancement of father, grandfather, friend, community opportunities for women in science och Deryck Kendrick, age 46, of New Glarus, died Friday, July volunteer, and an appreciative and as a pioneer in teaching, research enthusiastic University Heights and service. She believed to know a R10, 2009. He was born May 11, 1963, in LaCrosse, to Dale Kendrick resident for 47 years. He was born subject one must teach it. Thirty of to Miriam Eliza Herrick and Lindall her Wellesley students completed and Betty L. Kendrick. Roch received his bachelor’s of science degree in Converse Blanchard of Abington, doctorates in physics including Persis Mass. in September 1923. He earned Drell, the Director of the Stanford mechanical engineering from UW- Madison in 1990. He worked for an A.B. from Harvard College and Linear Accelerator Center. Among the served in the United States Navy countless others she inspired with her more than 22 years in the physics department at UW-Madison. Roch Reserve from 1943-1946. In 1946 wit and wisdom was Pamela Melroy, he married Margaret Alice (Mardie) the astronaut. As Dean of Wellesley married Beth Blahut in the backyard of their Basco, Wis., home on Sept. Wheatley who took devoted and from 1968-1972, she organized the loving care of her husband and four MIT-Wellesley Exchange and the 13, 1997. They spent many of their early married years together making children in a happy marriage of 35 Continuing Education Program which years. Blanchard enrolled in the enabled women whose education art that was shown both locally and nationally. He was a lead engineer doctorate program in nuclear theory had been interrupted to complete at UW Madison, and joined the their degrees. After her return to full in designing a machine that mimics the flow of molten iron at the Earth’s faculty at Penn State University where time teaching, she wrote a successful he taught and did neutron physics textbook and served as Department core in order to better understand the Earth’s magnetic field. Roch and nuclear theory from 1953-1961. Chair and Director of the Science He returned to UW-Madison as a Center. was a creative person known for 22 The Wisconsin Physicist

faculty member with responsibility box of “experiments” and delighted “A very special thank for teaching and advising the in this work. He was an inquisitive, graduate teaching assistants. Mardie gentle man of good humor who was you to all of you for your Blanchard died in 1981, and in 1984 eager to add to his knowledge of he married June Miller Weisberger, science and other disciplines and continuing financial now emerita professor of law at was dedicated to the education of UW-Madison, with whom he had a students of all ages. He is survived assistance during these happy later life for over 25 years. He by his beloved wife, June; his taught at UW-Madison from 1961 sister, Mary Blanchard Hanabury very difficult economic to 1991. Seven students completed of Kingston, Mass.; his children, their doctorate research with him. Elizabeth (Beth) Blanchard Schaffer times. Your support In 1987, he received a campus (Steve) of Washington D.C., Margaret wide distinguished teaching award (Margy) Blanchard (Bob Lewis) means so very much in recognition of his exceptional of Middleton, Jean Patt (Tom) of ability to reach and inspire students Oshkosh, and Brian Blanchard (Mary) to our department.” both before full lecture halls and in of Madison; and his grandchildren, one-on-one conversations. He was Michael and Carolyn Patt, and Will, a Fellow of the American Physical Ben, and Allison Blanchard, as well Baha Balantekin Society and a past president of the as June’s children, Jon Weisberger Wisconsin Association of Physics (Deborah) of Cottontown, Tenn., Lise Department Chair Teachers. Blanchard was also a Weisberger (Malcolm Rich) of Skokie, strong advocate for peace and other Ill., and Beth Weisberger (Timothy political and social justice causes, Fishbaugh) of Wheat Ridge, Colo.; including being a founding member and June’s grandchildren, Abigail, and initial chair of the Madison Miriam, and Rebecca Rich, Leo group of Amnesty International. Weisberger and Sidney Lucas, and In retirement he visited more than Leah Fishbaugh. 1,600 third-grade classrooms with a

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