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Experiment of the Week B. Jacak Awarded Tom W November 30, 2018 | VOLUME 39 NUMBER 45 B. JACAK AWARDED TOM W. precision mass measurements, commitment to mentoring of young researchers, and leadership in the low energy BONNER PRIZE nuclear physics community.” Contributed by Gary Westfall Former NSCL graduate student Barbara Jacak has been Ania received her PhD from MSU in 2011 for her research awarded the 2019 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics at the NSCL at the Penning trap mass spectrometry LEBIT by the American Physical Society. The Bonner Prize is facility under supervision by Prof. Georg Bollen. Her thesis awarded annually to recognize and encourage outstanding work included the high-precision mass measurement of experimental research in nuclear physics. Barbara phosphorus-32, which provided the most stringent test of the Jacak received the Bonner Prize “For her leadership in Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation at the time. She added the the discovery and characterization of the quark-gluon new ion manipulation technique called Stored Waveform plasma, in particular for her contributions to the PHENIX Inverse Fourier Transform ion excitation to the LEBIT experiment and its explorations of jets as probes.” portfolio. Already during her time as graduate student at MSU Ania demonstrated her interest and talent in bringing Barbara Jacak received her Ph.D. from MSU for her students together and engage them in extracurricular research at NSCL in 1984 working under the supervision of activities, for example in the Women and Minorities in the Prof. David Scott and closely with Prof. Gary Westfall Her Physical Sciences program. thesis was entitled “Fragment Production in Intermediate Energy Heavy Ion Reactions”. The experiments carried out Ania continued her successful career as postdoctoral included the measurement of light particle spectra with 1 < A researcher at TRIUMF, Canada's national particle < 14 from Ar+Ca, Ar+Au, Ne+Au, and Ne+Al reactions at accelerator center, at the TITAN ion trap facility under the 43, 92, 137, and 156 AMeV. These results were compared supervision of Jens Dilling before accepting an Assistant with hydrodynamic and cascade model calculations as well Professorship position at Texas A&M. She returned to as quantum statistical and coalescence models. TRIUMF as a staff physicist and adjunct faculty at the University of British Columbia to take on the leadership of Barbara Jacak continued her career after MSU as a J.R. the TITAN program. Congratulations to Ania on winning Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory the 2018 Stuart Jay Freedman Award! and later as a staff scientist there. In 1997, she joined Stony Brook University as a professor and led the Relativistic Heavy Ion Group working with the PHENIX EXPERIMENT OF THE WEEK Collaboration at RHIC. In 2006, Barbara Jacak was elected Contributed by Remco Zegers as the spokesperson of the PHENX Collaboration at RHIC. Experiment E17018 ran over the Thanksgiving holiday Barbara Jacak was elected to be a member of the National weekend Wednesday morning, the 28th. The experiment Academy of Science in 2009. Barbara Jacak became the used the Low-Energy Neutron Detector Array (LENDA) in Director of the Nuclear Science Division at Lawrence combination with the S800 Spectrograph. The Ursinus Liquid Berkeley National Laboratory and joined the faculty of the Hydrogen Target was used as a proton target. Nitrogen-12 Department of Physics at the University of California at and carbon-11 beams were impinged on the target. Charge- Berkeley in 2015. Congratulations to Barbara for winning exchange reactions, in which low-energy neutrons from the 2019 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics! (proton, neutron) reactions were detected in LENDA and heavy beam-like fragments were detected in the S800, were A. KWIATKOWSKI AWARDED THE studied. The aim of the experiment was to provide information FREEDMAN AWARD about the properties of light proton-rich systems that guide the development of modern theoretical models of nuclei. Contributed by George Bollen In spite of a delayed start of the experiment due to some Former NSCL graduate student Ania Kwiatkowski has been technical problems, the experiment ran well. The data will be awarded by the American Physical Society the 2018 Stuart analyzed by Jaclyn Schmitt as part of her Ph.D. thesis. The Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics. The Charge-Exchange group would like to thank all who helped award recognizes outstanding early career experimentalist to make the experiment successful. Very special thanks go to in nuclear physics. Ania Kwiatkowski received this award Jon Bonofiglio (picture below), who prepared a magnificent for “For outstanding and innovative contributions to Thanksgiving Dinner for those on shift. Many thanks, Jon!! planning to travel to one of these places, you can set up your laptop, tablet, or mobile device here on campus. Connecting to Eduroam for Windows Connecting to Eduroam for Mac Connecting to Eduroam for Android Connection to Eduroam for iOS SEMINARS • MONDAY, DEC 03 AT 11:00 AM 1200 FRIB Laboratory Kevin Fossez, MSU 'Atomic Nuclei as Open Quantum Systems' • MONDAY, DEC 03 AT 1:00 PM 1400 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building MacKenzie Warren and Rachel Titus, MSU 'JINA-CEE Science Cafe' • TUESDAY, DEC 04 AT 11:00 AM 1200 FRIB Laboratory Linda Hlophe, MSU 'Deuteron-induced Nuclear Reactions on Unstable Isotopes' • WEDNESDAY, DEC 05 AT 12:00 PM Staff Information Talk CCF UPDATE 1300 FRIB Laboratory At the start of the week, the cyclotrons ran an oxygen-16 Sue Hopper, FRIB primary beam, which provided nitrogen-12 and 'FRIB Laboratory Fiscal Officer: Why does Sue carbon-11 fragments to the charge-exchange experiment Ask For Expenditure Justification?' in the S3 vault. On Wednesday morning, oxygen beam THURSDAY, DEC 06 AT 11:00 AM was sent to the S2 vault for irradiation of biological • specimens. A germanium-76 beam was tuned up in the 1200 FRIB Laboratory evening. Maintenance was performed Thursday morning, Caroline Robin, Institute for Nuclear Theory, followed by development in the A1900 to test a new tool University of Washington, Seattle, WA for faster particle identification. On Friday morning, a 'Connecting Many-body Methods for a Precise and short experiment began that aims to study the production Predictive Description of Atomic Nuclei' of isomeric states in copper-70 fragments. • FRIDAY, DEC 07 AT 11:00 AM 1200 FRIB Laboratory EDUROAM Wendell Misch, Shanghai Jiao Tong University MSU is now a member of Eduroam (https://eduroam. 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