Volume XV College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association Fall 2003

Letter from the chair Department proud of recent research, new faculty hanks for taking the time to learn James Glazier, a senior biophysicist who Institute of Health; and Robert de Ruyter more about some of the exciting joins us from Notre Dame; Mark Messier, van Steven, who joins us from Princeton. Tevents that have taken place in the an experimental high energy physicist from We will be highlighting the research IU Department of Physics over the last Harvard; and Rex Tayloe, who joined our activities of these four most recent additions year. What a fantastic time to be chair of nuclear group two years ago from Los to the faculty in our next newsletter. the IU physics department! I am blessed Alamos National Laboratory. We will also It is a privilege and honor to serve the IU with an energetic, enthusiastic faculty that be joined this fall by Sima Setayeshgar, a Department of Physics, and I am grateful is constantly developing new ways of biophysicist from Princeton; Jon Urheim, for your support. I look forward to the improving the learning environment for our an experimental high-energy physicist from opportunities ahead and wish each of you students and providing the thriving research the University of Minnesota; John Beggs, a every success in the year ahead. environment that is at the heart of our biophysicist joining us from the National — James Musser academic program. In this newsletter you’ll find articles about a number of important new elements of our research program, such Biocomplexity research experiences growth as our new low energy neutron scattering facility (LENS), which was approved for Since the beginning of a nascient variety of spatial and temporal struc- construction by the NSF this summer. We biophysics program at Indiana Univer- tures, the complexity of even the expect this $10 million facility to be a sity Bloomington when Jay Tang joined simplest biological phenomena is center for interdisciplinary research on the the physics department in 1999, there infinitely richer. Until recently, scientific IUB campus, drawing users from biology have been plans to increase research and approaches to biological organisms have and chemistry as well as physics. A second add additional faculty in this field. A centered on genes, their protein center for interdisciplinary research activity step in this direction was taken in the products, discrete signaling pathways, is provided by a major new program in fall of 2002 with James Glazier moving and gene regulatory circuits. The biocomplexity, directed by new faculty to Bloomington from Notre Dame to success of these endeavours has brought member James Glazier. become the first four-year director of a new era in biological research that is One of our traditional areas of strength is the newly formed Institute for poised to take advantage of recent our nationally ranked nuclear physics Biocomplexity in the Department of advances in molecular and computer- program. This group continues to do great Physics and the director of the Indiana science-based technologies. Experimen- work, as you’ll see in articles describing an Biocomplexity Consortium, which, in tal and theoretical work in condensed- exciting new result on charge symmetry addition to the institute, will link matter physics, mathematical, and breaking and on progress in the construc- together the Indiana University Medical computational approaches to the tion of the STAR endcap calorimeter, which School, departments of science at analysis and modeling of abstract promises to provide groundbreaking Indiana University–Purdue University networks representing metabolic and measurements of a fundamental nature for Indianapolis and the Interdisciplinary gene regulatory networks permit a the proton spin. The work of our theorists Center for the Study of Biocomplexity reframing of problems in sub-cellular, is also attracting national attention, as you’ll at the University of Notre Dame. The cellular and developmental biology, e.g. learn in the article describing Alan physics department is considering structural networks, applied to the Kostelecky’s work on CPT and Lorentz several further new hires in biophysics. cytoskeleton, which determines cell violation. Biocomplexity is the study of the shape and functional capacity, attempt The heart of any physics department is unique complex structures and behavior to model the thousands of cytoskeletal the faculty, and we are most fortunate to that arise from interactions between fibers in any cell that simultaneously have added a number of young, energetic, biological entities such as molecules, assemble and disassemble and interact and talented new faculty to the department cells, or organisms. While physical and with other proteins to generate forces over the last year. In this newsletter you will chemical processes produce a great (continued on page 3) learn a little about the research activities of 1 $10 million research facility in developmental stages everal researchers at IU are in the United States. Major obstacles in expanding moderators, neutron optical devices, and process of developing a pulsed cold the neutron community are the current neutron detector technology. Almost all of S (low energy) neutron facility at the unfamiliarity of U.S. researchers with the required instrumentation and expertise Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. neutron scattering techniques, a diminish- to efficiently launch this first serious Those involved include David Baxter, John ing number of facilities where novice users attempt to develop an intense pulsed cold Cameron, Herman Nann, and Mike Snow can be introduced to techniques, and a lack neutron source at a research university of the physics department; Vladimir of flexible facilities for the pursual of new currently exists at IUCF. We intend to Derenchuk, Dennis Friesel, Mark Leuscher, ideas. exploit this resource to take a significant and Thomas Rinckel of IUCF; and Josef The facility at IU of a Low Energy role in the future development of neutron Zwanziger of the chemistry department. Neutron Source will help provide solutions science in this country. IU researchers The project has received a $6.4 million to such problems. A combination of propose to design, construct, and operate award from the National Science Founda- developments in proton accelerator this source and an associated SANS tion, with the first phase of building technology, neutron optics, cold neutron spectrometer as a regional user facility for expected to be completed late next year and moderators, computer technology, and research and training of faculty and the second in 2006. small-angle neutron scattering instrumenta- students. The facility will also be used to Neutrons are a unique probe of the tion have made it possible and cost-effective develop new neutron instrumentation for structure and dynamics for a great variety of to construct a pulsed cold neutron source both scattering and radiography, and to systems studied today in many scientific suitable for use in a university setting. develop new neutron moderators and disciplines, including physics, chemistry, LENS will be the first attempt to demon- detectors. This source is intended as a biology, and engineering. Although the strate this. In addition to the source itself, model to be duplicated at other research technique was initially developed in North the facility will have a number of instru- universities and used to develop a network America (1994 Nobel Prize in Physics), the ments designed for the study of of local pulsed cold neutron sources across premier facilities have resided in Europe nanostructures in the fields of materials the United States at reasonable cost. Such a during the last two decades. This is science, polymers, micro emulsions, and network would provide invaluable support expected to change in four years with the biology. The source will use (p,n) reactions to major national facilities (such as the completion of the Spallation Neutron in light nuclei induced by a pulsed proton SNS) in much the same way a network of Source at the Oak Ridge National Labora- beam of roughly 10MeV in energy. This small reactors supports the community of tory, which will be the world’s most intense primary source will be tightly coupled to a users for Europe’s major sources. pulsed neutron source. However, the cold neutron moderator. This configuration existence of the SNS may not, in itself, be will be ideal for the study of a number of sufficient to ensure the expansion of technical issues that are essential for the neutron use into new areas of science nor to development of neutron science, such as Forum establish a large community of users in the cold and perhaps ultracold neutron This newsletter is published by the Indiana University Alumni Association, in coopera- tion with the Department of Physics and Rare symmetry violating reaction seen at IU the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni IU physicists have detected a rare reaction that demonstrates subtle differences Association, to encourage alumni interest between subatomic particles called quarks. In the IU cooler storage ring accelerator, in and support for Indiana University. For an intense beam of heavy hydrogen collided with a heavy hydrogen target, occasion- activities and membership information, call (800) 824-3044 or send e-mail to ally producing pi zero meson particles. The symmetry of these different kinds of [email protected]. particles shows small differences between up- and down-type quarks. Neutrons and protons, the building blocks of atomic nuclei, are made of quarks, Department of Physics with a neutron having an extra down quark and a proton having an extra up quark. Chair ...... James Musser The neutron is just 0.1 percent heavier than the proton. This tiny difference was Editor ...... Jordan Tillett enormously significant for reactions just after the Big Bang that determined the composition of the universe. The IU experiment may indicate how much of this College of Arts & Sciences crucial difference comes from mass differences between up and down quarks, and Dean ...... Kumble R. Subbaswamy how much is from the electric forces between quarks. Executive Director of Development The IU team is led by research scientist Ed Stephenson and Professor Andrew & Alumni Programs ...... Tom Herbert Bacher. Other IU physicists involved include Chris Allgower, Anders Gardestig, Chris Lavell, Herman Nann, John Olmsted, and Tom Rinckel. Implications of the IU Alumni Association experiment have been discussed at three workshops. The most recent was organized President/CEO ...... Ken Beckley by Professor Charles Horowitz and was held in Bloomington Aug. 23–24, 2002. Director of Alumni The team was under pressure to finish before the closing of the accelerator. Hard Programs ...... Nicki Bland work, good fortune, and the excellent performance of the machine allowed them to Editor for Constituent make the deadline. This result is a final achievement for the cooler storage ring, Periodicals ...... Julie Dales which was designed by Distinguished Professor Robert Pollock (now a professor Editorial Assistant ...... Jackie Corgan emeritus). During more than a decade of operation, experimentalists using the cooler have produced significant results on storing particle beams, understanding THE meson production, manipulating the spin of particles, and on the forces between OLLEGE three nucleons. C

2 Scientists collaborate to probe origins of nuclear forces uclear processes are the most based on numerical simulations on numbers as normal mesons. Thus an powerful sources of energy known discretized space-time lattices. Such observed meson can be a mixture of a Nin nature. Together with the calculations indicate, for example, that the glueball and an ordinary, quark-antiquark electromagnetic and weak interactions, they gluon field in hadrons is collimated in so- meson. are described by the standard model of called flux-tubes. As the separation between The Crystal Barrel collaboration at fundamental interactions. The nuclear quarks increases, the flux-tube acts as a CERN has shown that certain meson forces are responsible for binding protons relativistic string that leads to a constant spectra are richer than expected from pure and neutrons together to form atomic force between the quarks of the order of quark counting, which may indeed indicate nuclei whose binding energies are orders of several tons and to a linearly rising poten- presence of glueball states. magnitude bigger then contained in atomic tial. There is a class of hybrid mesons, called or molecular bonds. At the most fundamen- When the flux-tube is excited, a new exotic hybrids, that have unique signatures. tal level, the strong force acts between family of adiabatic quark potentials is This is because they have quantum numbers quarks that are believed to be the basic generated that can be used to estimate the that cannot be accounted for by a valence building blocks of protons, neutrons, and hybrid spectrum. At IU, the lattice effort is quark-antiquark pair. Thus, observation of other strongly interacting particles, also led by Steve Gottlieb; he and his collabora- an exotic meson would be a “smoking gun’’ known as hadrons, including mesons and tors from the MILC lattice group are signal of gluonic excitations. Three exotic baryons. responsible for the first direct lattice mesons candidates have recently been Just like the electric charge is at the simulation of light hybrid meson spectra. reported from an experiment (E852) at origin of electromagnetic interactions, the At the Nuclear Theory Center, Adam Brookhaven National Lab. However, a new color charge carried by quarks is at the Szczepaniak employs conventional many- analysis of the E852 data, carried out at IU origin of the strong force. In electromagne- body techniques to study the quark-gluon by Alex Dzierba, Scott Teige, Maciej Swat tism the force carriers are the quanta of dynamics. Recently, in collaboration with (graduate student), and Adam Szczepaniak, electromagnetic radiation known as Eric Swanson (University of Pittsburgh), has demonstrated that out of the three exotic photons. The corresponding carriers of the they have shown that the linear confining candidates, two cannot be explained as strong force are known as gluons. It is potential arises due to gluon self-interac- genuine guonic resonances. Instead, they are expected that gluons are also significant tions in the mean-field approximation. This most likely an effect of meson rescattering. contributors to hadronic structure, includ- potential also leads to effective mass The third candidate originally identified via ing hadron mass and spin. In fact, more generation for quarks, which then can be its decay to a r and p meson has properties, than 90 percent of a proton’s mass should identified as the valence constituents of mass, and lifetime close to what is expected be attributed to gluons, implying that the hadrons. from theoretical considerations. The original bulk of the visible mass in the universe A number of experiments have reported analysis was based on a small fraction of the originates from gluons! glueball and hybrid candidates, but so far, data. The full data sample is now being Gluons, however, are very mysterious no unambiguous signature has been analyzed at IU. The analysis presents new particles. Except for the color charge, they established. The complication with theoretical and computational challenges do not interact with any other charge, like glueballs is that the low-lying states are having to do with the size of the data set, the electric or weak. Thus, it is impossible to expected to have the same quantum (continued om page 6) directly “poke’’ a gluon inside a hardon and determine its properties. Furthermore the Biocomplexity research. The consortium will also install in nuclear interactions are so strong they Bloomington a Zeiss 510 multispectral prevent gluons from existing as free (continued from page 1) two-photon confocal microscope for use in particles. Both quarks and gluons are determining the average and local dynamics cell tracking. Geoffrey Fox (computer permanently confined to distances of the determining cell mobility, behavior, and science and physics) is the associate director order of 10-15m, a typical size of a hadron. intercellular traffic. Multi-cellular aggre- of the Consortium and Biocomplexity It is also the case that gluons carry the gates, such as embryonic and mature Institute and a liaison to the Pervasive strong, color charges themselves (which is tissues, often share the properties of Technology Laboratories at IUB for not the case in electromagnetism, where “excitable media” and “soft matter” familiar support and training for large-scale photons are neutral), and it is expected that to modern condensed-matter physics and computation, parallel computing, image the strong force between gluons may lead dynamical systems. Mathematical and processing, visualization, and Internet and to gluon-rich matter. For example, matter physical concepts with new discoveries database development for consortium can be made by gluons alone (glueballs) or about adhesive forces in cells and the members. Research at IUB, particularly in a mixture of quark and gluon excitations molecular composition and rheology of the physics department, will provide (hybrid mesons). Thus, spectroscopy of cytoplasm and extracellular matrix are well extensive training for undergraduate and glueballs and hybrids could provide the suited to the analysis of changes in tissue graduate students as well as postdoctoral ultimate insight into the origins and shape and form during growth and repair. and visiting researchers in the area of dynamical nature of color confinement. Remodeling of Swain Hall West to biophysics. The consortium also organizes From a theoretical point of view, the provide facilities needed for biophysics twice annually intensive workshops for challenges in strong nuclear interactions research on this enlarged scale will shortly consortium members and the larger arise because they correspond to a strongly be under way for a cost of close to $1 scientific community, focusing on biological coupled, relativistic, field theory, thus million. Recent approval by the Indiana problems that demand multi-scale and containing an infinite number of degrees of University board of trustees for construc- interdisciplinary solutions. The fourth freedom, with some of them being tion of a new $55 million Multidisciplinary official workshop, “Biocomplexity IV: redundant due to the gauge symmetry. The Science Building at IUB offers the opportu- Regeneration and Development,” was held first principle calculations in QCD are nity for further space for biophysics at IUB May 7–10, 2003. 3 Putting an IU Cyclotron Facility spin on STAR hen the National Science Foundation announced in 1997 W its plan to phase out operations of the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, the nuclear physicists at IU began to make alternative plans for the future. They sought to exploit the extensive infrastructure that had been built up at IUCF to make leading technical, as well as intellectual, contribu- tions to high-profile research projects at the major national laboratories for nuclear physics. The largest new project they undertook was to add an endcap electro- magnetic calorimeter to the STAR (solenoi- dal tracker at RHIC) detector at the new relativistic heavy-ion collider situated at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The main goal of the RHIC facility is to enable ultra- relativistic collisions of heavy nuclei, in which matter could be heated to tempera- tures previously attained only in the earliest instants following the Big Bang birth of the universe. At such high temperatures, it is anticipated that neutrons and protons will Steve Vigdor and Jim Sowinski stand beside the STAR endcap electromagnetic calorimeter “melt,” leaving a plasma of quarks and during its assembly on the STAR detector poletip at the relativistic heavy-ion collider in gluons, a state of matter never before September 2003. The 30-ton detector, comprising a multi-layered sandwich (visible in the observed convincingly in the laboratory. upper right) of lead and stainless steel radiators with plastic scintillator, has been con- The IU physicists (led by professors structed over the past four years by an international collaboration, under the leadership of Vigdor and Wissink and senior research a team from IUCF, with Will Jacobs as project manager. Light from the scintillators is scientists Jacobs and Sowinski) are bringing transported by nearly 30,000 optical fibers — some of which are being connected to the a complementary forefront research detector in the upper left of the photograph — to some 1,300 photomultiplier tubes program to the STAR collaboration: mounted on the rear side of the poletip. The EEMC is crucial to STAR’s plans to utilize utilizing high-energy collisions of spin- polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC to measure the contributions of gluons and sea polarized proton beams to measure how the quarks to the spin of the proton, a research program in which IU is playing a leading role. proton gets its intrinsic spin and magne- tism. A series of experiments carried out information about gluon spin contribu- portion of the detector during RHIC with high-energy electron and muon beams tions. The same calorimeter will also be running in 2003 will pave the way for have produced the surprising result that no used to detect electrons and positrons up to efficient exploitation of the detector to more than a third of the proton’s spin arises energies of 200 GeV, where they carry probe the proton’s spin as soon as the from the intrinsic spins of the quarks and unique information about the spin orienta- desired polarized beam properties are antiquarks inside the proton. It is now very tion of antiquarks of different “flavor” achieved in 2005–06. important to see whether the remainder inside the proton. In parallel with their extensive work on comes from gluons — the mysterious, self- The endcap calorimeter consists of the calorimeter, the IU physicists are also reproducing particles that transmit the alternating layers of lead radiators, used to playing other important roles at RHIC, strong force between quarks. Gluons are so convert photons to a “shower” of electrons with Vigdor serving as one of two deputy abundant inside a proton that they domi- and positrons, and active plastic scintillators spokespersons for the 450-member STAR nate the proton’s mass, so it is not too to measure the total energy contained in the collaboration, and senior research scientist much of a stretch to imagine that they shower. When completed, the detector will Stephenson heavily involved in plans for an dominate the proton’s spin as well. The be 5 meters in diameter, will weigh 30 tons, experiment to provide an absolute calibra- preferential spin alignment of gluons in a and will have about 30,000 channels of tion of the proton beam polarization in this proton is best probed by measuring electronic readout of output light transmit- previously unexplored energy regime. reactions between spin-polarized proton ted by optical fibers to photomultiplier beams that produce very high-energy tubes. It also has a number of innovative photons. Such polarized beams are available design features in comparison to earlier at a collider for the first time at RHIC, detectors of similar type. Its construction is For further stories on thanks to technology (so-called Siberian a $7 million project, with most of the Homer Neal, Jack Snakes) that was first demonstrated at the funding provided by the National Science Childress, Vic Viola, and IUCF cooler ring and was adapted to use at Foundation, beginning in fall 1999. Major Riccardo Giancconi, visit RHIC, with important contributions from milestones were achieved this fall when the IU Professor S.Y. Lee and his students. The lower half of the EEMC structure was us on the Web at EEMC is now needed to allow STAR to installed on schedule in the STAR detector, www.physics.indiana.edu. detect the high-energy photon products in including one-third of the planned active the region where they carry the most elements. Commissioning of the installed 4 Lorentz group gathers in Williamsburg t the back-to-back American has shown that realistic noncommutative the second meeting on CPT and Lorentz Physical Society conferences held quantum field theories, currently popular symmetry, organized by Kostelecky and A May–June 2002 by the Division of among high-energy particle theorists, are held in the IU Department of Physics in Particles and Fields and the Division of contained in the standard-model extension. August 2001. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics in Lane has also worked on exploiting the An abridged explanation of the symme- Williamsburg, Va., a number of former high precisions of atomic clocks to search try ideas is as follows. Relativity is the Indiana University students and postdocs for Lorentz violation. notion that the physical laws look the same actively investigating Lorentz and CPT Neil Russell, PhD’99, now on the for all non-accelerating observers. It has violation attended the meetings to present faculty at Northern Michigan University, never been violated in any experimental recent results. This search for possible gave a talk titled “Space-based Tests of context, so it seems quite possible that violations of Lorentz and CPT symmetry is Lorentz and CPT Symmetry.” This work nature does indeed have perfect Lorentz a research program started about 15 years proposes using atomic clocks on the symmetry. The other apparently perfect ago by Professor Alan Kostelecky of the International Space Station and other symmetry in nature is CPT symmetry, the Indiana University Department of Physics. satellites to test Lorentz and CPT symme- notion that observations in one experiment The conferences featured a special joint try. The work, published with former IU must be the same in a “mirror” experiment DPF/DAMOP session on fundamental postdoc Robert Bluhm (now on the consisting of oppositely-charged (charge symmetries that included invited talks on faculty at Colby College, Maine), Lane, and conjugated, C) antiparticles transposed on a the Lorentz-violating standard-model Kostelecky, received widespread media straight line through a single point (parity extension by Kostelecky, experimental attention and was one of the most accessed transformed, P), with reversed velocities consequences by maser specialist Ron stories on the CNN.com Web site in June (time reversed, T). In conventional particle Walsworth of the Harvard–Smithsonian 2002. physics and the standard model, CPT Center for Astrophysics, and a related talk A number of other physicists have symmetry follows as a result of Lorentz by spectroscopy specialist Mike Romalis of performed or are planning to perform symmetry. This mathematical result is called Princeton University. experiments to investigate the effects the CPT theorem. The IU graduates presenting work at the predicted by the standard-model extension. Kostelecky and collaborators have shown meeting included Don Colladay, PhD’98, These include Mike Romalis of Princeton that a theory at the Planck scale, such as now a physics faculty member at New University, who presented work on a self- string theory, may produce small terms that College in Sarasota, Fla., who presented compensated helium-potassium magnetom- violate Lorentz symmetry. Such terms are recent results in a talk titled “High-Energy eter for CPT and Lorentz tests in a session the key feature of the standard-model Processes with Lorentz Violation.” of the DAMOP conference, in addition to extension and create the possibility of CPT Colladay was instrumental in the two the invited talk at the joint DPF/DAMOP violation. papers published in 1997 and 1998 with session. Ron Walsworth and collaborators The theory encompasses all observer- Kostelecky that defined the coefficients of from the Harvard–Smithsonian have invariant field theories with Lorentz the standard-model extension in their performed various tests of Lorentz and violation, providing a general framework to current form, and he has worked on theory CPT symmetry in their maser laboratory. In study Lorentz- and CPT-violating effects. aspects since then. several talks, they presented results from Ralf Lehnert, PhD’02, now a postdoc at hydrogen masers and a two-species helium- the Algarve University in Faro, Portugal, neon maser. They have plans to improve on Stay connected presented work titled “Dispersion Relations this work using a helium-xenon maser. and Lorentz Violation.” Lehnert’s work In his invited talk, Kostelecky presented to IU with answered questions about microcausality an overview of the standard-model membership in your and stability in the theory. extension. He discussed technical issues Austin Pickering, postdoc in the relating to the theory and listed a number Alumni Association! Department of Physics during 2000–02, of the areas in which it has been applied has studied renormalization issues in this and tested. One active area is with the K, Lorentz-violating quantum field theory. He D, and B neutral mesons and includes presented his findings in a talk titled analyses performed with data from KTeV “Lorentz Violation Beyond Tree Level.” and FOCUS at Fermilab, from OPAL and Current graduate student Matthew DELPHI at CERN, and from BELLE in Mewes was also at the meetings and Japan. Kostelecky also discussed results presented work done with Kostelecky, from a muonium experiment conducted by “Searching for Lorentz Violation in Yale experimentalist Vernon Hughes at Los Electrodynamics.” This work, published Alamos and the Rutherford-Appleton recently, includes unprecedented bounds on Laboratory. Further muon results are a number of coefficients for Lorentz- expected from the BNL g-2 collaboration. violation, based on an analysis of polariza- Other experimental results have been tion data for light from cosmologically obtained by Blayne Heckel and Eric phone: (800) 824-3044 distant sources. Adelberger in Seattle with a spin-polarized Chuck Lane, PhD’01, now a faculty torsion pendulum. These and related papers fax: (812) 855-8266 member at Berry College in Georgia, can be found on the Kostelecky Web site, e-mail: [email protected] presented recent work, “Probing www.physics.indiana.edu/~kostelec/ URL: www.alumni.indiana.edu Noncommutative Geometry and Lorentz faq.html. A collection of papers on the Violation with Atomic Tests.” Recently, he topic can be found in the proceedings of 5 Physics and the community Midwest Proton Radiotheraphy Institute dedicated On Dec. 12, 2002, a dedication ceremony Center in California, and the other is the which it will continue to play an equally was held at the IU Cyclotron Facility for Northeast Proton Center located in Boston. important role. the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute The cyclotron accelerator that is being Medical companies purchase proton housed within IUCF. This dedication was used by IUCF to supply proton radiation to beams from IUCF. The IUCF cyclotron can the culmination of several years’ effort the MPRI clinical facility was constructed deliver over 500 nA of protons at 205 MeV. begun under the leadership of John from a radically new design developed by The current and energy prescribed for a Cameron, director of IUCF and professor the late Professor Martin Rickey of the IU particular protocol can be selected at the of physics. MPRI will use protons acceler- Department of Physics. The work was individual treatment room. ated by the IUCF cyclotron to treat cancer completed in 1975 under the direction of The first treatment room for human in human patients. Distinguished Professor Robert Pollock patients was constructed in late 1997 for a Proton beams offer distinct advantages (now a professor emeritus). Professors clinical trial evaluating proton therapy for over more conventional types of radiation, Rickey and Pollock were presented with the age-related macular degeneration. However, such as X-rays and electron beams, in the Indiana University Presidential Research the first patient was treated at IUCF in treatment of cancer. High-energy X-rays Award for their work in developing and 1993 (for cancer), prior to the formation of produce radiation damage, which quantita- constructing the IUCF cyclotron. MPRI under an experimental protocol. tively falls off exponentially along their path From 1975 to 1999, the cyclotron was In preparation for setting up the as they traverse the body. Electron beams used mainly for nuclear physics research, treatment facilities for MPRI, the nuclear also produce the most radiation damage and it accelerated a wide range of particles physics research stations were removed near the entering surface rather than in the at various energies. Many important from the cyclotron experimental area in interior. By adjusting the energy, most research projects were run on the cyclotron 1999, and in the following year, the interim protons can be made to stop within the during this period, and about 200 students AMD clinical trial facility was also re- target volume. As the maximum range of received degrees. In 1983, Professor moved, leaving the “high bay” and “low the protons is well defined, no radiation Charles Goodman won the Tom W. Bonner bay” areas completely empty and ready for damage is produced beyond the target Prize of the American Physical Society, and construction. region. Furthermore, as the protons slow in 1992 Professor Pollock won the same Today, MPRI houses, in 21,000 square down, they produce the maximum amount prize. In both cases, their prize-winning feet of converted space, three proton therapy of radiation damage just before they come work was done largely on the cyclotron at treatment rooms and an outpatient clinic to rest. This phenomenon is known as the IUCF. The IUCF cyclotron has had an devoted to staff support and patient care. Bragg peak. By modulating the beam illustrious career in nuclear physics. It is For more information, visit the MPRI energy (and thus the range) to spread this now being rededicated for a new use, in Web site at www.mpri.org. peak across the volume of interest, the physician can deliver a full, localized dose of energy to the target site. Because of their Nuclear forces mass, most of the protons do not scatter laterally. Proton beams can be used (continued from page 3) wherever conventional radiation therapy is order of 108 events, and the complexity of reaction mechanisms. For this purpose, a used, and with greater precision. partial wave analysis center is being developed at IU by a collaboration of the high In 1996, a consortium of physicians and energy (Alex Dzierba), nuclear (Adam Szczepaniak), and computer science experts scientists collaborated to form MPRI. (Geoffrey Fox). MPRI is an independent radiation therapy Theoretical considerations indicate that the gluonic excitations should have masses center that is operated as a regional facility in the range from about 1.5 to 2.5 proton masses, lifetimes of typical hadronic in conjunction with Clarian Healthcare of resonances and large production cross-sections in photon-induced reactions. Photons Indianapolis for the benefit of people in the act as a virtual quark-antiquark source with quark spins aligned, just as expected for Midwest. The medical director of MPRI is quarks in an exotic meson. A high energy peripheral photon scattering — which Allan Thornton, who came to Bloomington mainly conserves orientation of spins — of a meson cloud surrounding a proton by from the Proton Center in Boston. At exciting the gluon field would result in an exotic mesons produced in the direction of present, there are only two other proton the photon beam. The GlueX/HallD collaboration, lead by IU physicists from the radiation facilities in the United States. One High Energy Group and Nuclear Theory Center, has been developing a research is at the Loma Linda University Medical program for studies of exotic meson, to be carried out at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va. The experiment would use 12GeV electrons from the CEBAF electron accelerator to produce a linearly We want to hear polarized photon beam via the coherent bremsstrahlung technique. Photons will be scattered off a liquid hydrogen target, and the produced hadrons will be analyzed in from you! the Hall D detector, consisting of a solenoidal magnet instrumented with charged particle tracking and identification and neutral particle calorimetry. With a beam of Please fill out coupon on 107 photons/second, the GlueX experiment will collect data at 1petabyte/year, which the back page and mail or is comparable to LHC experiments, and in one year, it is expected to surpass the fax it to us. We’ll publish current exotic sample from the E852 experiment by four orders of magnitude. your news item in the next More information on the Gluex/Hall D project and current theoretical developments can issue of Forum. be found at www.gluex.org.

6 Honors & Awards

Faculty & staff Bowman and Martine Kalke. A College of Kappa were Matthew Cecil and Kathleen Arts and Sciences Travel Grant was awarded Plinske. An Undergraduate Research Grant The Society of Graduate Physics Students to Jorge Viamontes. A McCormick was made to Wes Gohn. The Outstanding gave their teaching award to John Science Grant was made to Michael Undergraduate Award was made to Erica Challifour in 1999 and 2000, to Adam Gericke. The James H. Coon Sciences Raffauf, and the Hugh Brown Memorial Szczepaniak in 2001, and to Brian Serot in Prize was awarded to Martin Ciofalo. The Scholarship was awarded to Michael Bates. 2002. Physics department Trustees’ Outstanding Graduate Student in Research Teaching Awards were given to Ben awards were made to Martin Ciofalo for Graduate students, 2001 Brabson, Rick van Kooten, and Alex experimental research and to Matthew Konopinski teaching awards were made to Dzierba (at-large nominee) for 2001 and to Mewes for theoretical research. The Lawrence Lieu and Joo Chul Yoon. Mike Snow, Adam Szczepaniak, and Steve William Koss Memorial Award was College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grants Vigdor (at-large nominee) in 2002. presented to Martin Ciofalo. It is with pleasure that we announce that were made to Karim Addas and Sonali Tamhankar. A Department of Energy June Dizer received this year’s Leo Solt Undergraduates, 2001 Award from the University Graduate School. Lindau Award was made to Dan Hussey. For many years, Dizer has worked in the New members of Sigma Pi Sigma were The Outstanding Graduate Student in Student Services Office SW 132, handling Michael Bates, Michael Moore, Daniel Research awards were made to Rupert the many details connected with admission, O’Neill, Michael Mishkin, Benjamin Lewis for experimental research and to financial support, and progress toward Neff, Jason Rieger, and Debra Spain. Aditi Mitra for theoretical research. The degrees for a large number of physics Graduating members of Sigma Pi Sigma William Koss Memorial Award was graduate students. Dizer was honored for were Matthew Cecil, Erica Raffauf, presented to Ralf Lehnert. her distinguished service to graduate Kathleen Plinske, and Leah Welty. education in physics over many years. Students graduating with honors were PhDs awarded Matthew Cecil, Michael Moor, Kathleen In 2000–01: Gong Li (with Horowitz), Plinske, Michael Mishkin, Benjamin Zema Chowdhuri (Snow), Todd E. Konopinski Teaching Neff, Erica Raffauf, and Debra Spain. Peterson (Vigdor), Haichuan Yong Awards, 2000–03 Tracy Parker was awarded a Kent (continued on back page) ¥ 2000: Graduate student awards went Exchange. New members of Phi Beta to Charles Lane and Sonali Tamhankar. There was no faculty award. ¥ 2001: The faculty award went to Adam Olmer named Woman of the Year Szczepaniak, with graduate student awards to Joo Chul Yoon and Lawrence Lieu. rofessor Catherine Olmer was honored as the “2002 Bloomington Woman of ¥ 2002: The faculty award went to Jay P the Year” at a Women’s History Month luncheon at the Bloomington Conven- Tang, with graduate student awards to tion Center on March 6, 2002. Jean Robinson, IU dean of the Office for Women’s Daniel Bowman and Martine Kalke. Affairs, wrote in her nomination letter, “Cathy Olmer has helped make profound ¥ 2003: The faculty award went to Rex changes in the lives of young girls in Monroe County.” She added, “In her work for Tayloe, with graduate student awards to the Girl Scouts, her leadership at WonderLab, her efforts to expand IU’s outreach in Mathew Mewes, Julia Scherschlight, and science, her contributions to the development of girls through the Eureka Project Brian Steinkamp. and Women in Science Program, she has opened the door for girls and young women to new opportunities and new careers.” WonderLab, located in Bloomington, is a children’s museum of science, health, Students and technology. A founding member of WonderLab, Olmer has served as its Undergraduates, 2002 executive director since 1998. In an interview, Olmer talked about the impact that the Boston Museum of Science had on her in her frequent visits there when she was New members of Sigma Pi Sigma were a child. She said, “It was that museum (that) helped me want to establish a science Keith Crawley and Michael Steinhilber, museum like WonderLab.” and graduating members of Sigma Pi Sigma WonderLab originated in 1995 as an outreach program that was housed in Swain were Michael Bates and Michael Mishkin. West (home of the IU Department of Physics), and many physics personnel have Students graduating with honors were volunteered their time and talents to help create new exhibits and activities, as well as Michael Bates and Lee Tremblay. The to present these to the public. In 1998, the organization opened to the public at a Outstanding Undergraduate Award was small, interim site while developing plans for a new museum. At present, a new presented to Michael Bates. The Hugh building to house the museum is nearing completion on West Fourth Street in Brown Memorial Scholarship was awarded downtown Bloomington. A grand opening took place on Saturday, March 29, 2003. to Brock Sayre. The Outstanding Under- The new 15,000-square-foot museum will offer two floors of exciting hands-on graduate Associate Instructor Award was exhibits, daily demonstrations, and various activities. The museum will also feature a made to Dan Duggan. 7,000-square-foot outdoor nature area. The development of WonderLab has been a community-wide initiative, with hundreds of people, from corporations to individu- Graduate students, 2002 als, offering financial help, scientific expertise, and volunteer time. Graduate physics majors also received More information about WonderLab can be found at the WonderLab Web site at numerous awards in 2002. Konopinski www.wonderlab.org. teaching awards were made to Dan 7 Faculty news

New faculty members welcomed to department Recent faculty Messier works on MiniBooNE experiment (more information both the Super- at www.boone.fnal.gov), which is searching James Glazier joined the department in fall Kamiokande for neutrino oscillations at Fermilab. 2002 as a professor of physics and director experiment located Neutrino oscillations are where a neutrino of the newly formed in Japan (which of one type changes into a neutrino of Interdisciplinary detects neutrinos another type. This is a phenomenon that Center for the Study produced in the sun was seen in a previous experiment at Los of Biocomplexity. He and in the earth’s Alamos, and if verified, would have large completed a BA atmosphere) and on implications in particle physics and degree in mathemat- the MINOS Mark Messier cosmology. Tayloe is also working on ics and physics at experiment (which measurements using neutrinos as a probe to Harvard in 1984 and will use the Fermilab proton accelerator investigate the structure of the proton. a PhD in physics at located outside of Chicago to produce a the University of James Glazier neutrino beam directed toward a detector New faculty Chicago in 1989. located at a distance of 735 kilometers in Glazier held a postdoctoral position at northern Minnesota). John Beggs, AT&T Bell Research Laboratories from Rex Tayloe joined assistant professor, 1989 to 1991 and was in the physics the department in fall received his PhD in department at the University of Notre 2000 as an assistant 1998 from Yale Dame from 1992 to 2002. Glazier’s professor of physics. University. Prior to research is involved with biocomplexity, He received a BS in joining our which is described in an article on page 1. physics from Purdue department, he was Mark Messier joined IU as an assistant University in 1986 a postdoctoral professor of physics in fall 2002 after and a PhD from the fellow at the having been a research associate at Harvard University of National Institute John Beggs from 1999 to 2002. He earned a BS in of Mental Health. Rex Tayloe Illinois–Urbana in physics at MIT in 1993 and received a PhD 1995. His His research interest is in the area of in physics in 1999 from Boston University. postdoctoral appointments prior to IU physical neuroscience. Messier works in the field of experimental were at Illinois and Los Alamos National Robert de Ruyter, professor and Gill particle physics. He is searching for Laboratory. Tayloe’s field of research is the Professor (this last a five-year appoint- evidence that neutrinos, the lightest of the study of the properties and interactions of ment), received his PhD in 1986 from the fundamental particles, have non-zero mass. neutrinos. He is working on the (continued on page 10) Physics department salutes three retiring professors Archibald Hendry calculate in a simple fashion the number of neutrinos emitted from the sun for each In January 2002, Professor Archibald “Archie” Hendry retired after model. serving for 33 years on the physics faculty. Archie was born in Archie has also been an outstanding Scotland and received a PhD in 1962 from the University of teacher. In 1992 he received a faculty award Glasgow. He did postdoctoral work and research at the University for excellence in teaching, followed in 1993 of California at San Diego, at Oxford University and the Ruther- by an IU President’s Award for distin- ford Laboratory, at the University of Heidelberg, and at the guished teaching. In 1995, the physics University of Illinois for seven years before coming to IU. graduate students presented him with their Archie is an elementary particle theorist who has succeeded in annual award for outstanding contributions Archibald Hendry increasing our understanding of the way quarks behave inside to teaching. protons, neutrons, and other subnuclear particles. From his analysis Archie also contributed valuable service to the physics department of experimental data, he found evidence for the existence of a and to the university. A partial list of his activities include the follow- number of baryon resonances. His results have stood the test of ing: He was an associate dean for the budget in the College of Arts time and continue to be included in the international tables of and Sciences for three years. Prior to that, he was a member of the particle data. College’s elected Policy Committee, chairing it for one year. He was In recent years, Archie became interested in properties of the sun elected to the Bloomington Faculty Council several times, serving on and the neutrinos that are emitted by the sun as byproducts of the and chairing its Budgetary Affairs and Nominations committees. energy-producing nuclear reactions in the core. Experiments have Information for this article was taken from the IU retirement indicated that the number of neutrinos arriving at Earth is less than biography of Archie Hendry written by Don Lichtenberg. half the number expected. To investigate this puzzle, Archie (continued on page 9) developed an interesting class of solar models that enabled him to 8 Retirements quality and staying power of particle beams that they, too, learned to pay very close stored in a ring accelerator, and he began to attention whenever Bob considered an issue (continued from page 8) ponder the advantages of a storage ring for sufficiently important to share his wisdom Robert E. Pollock research in intermediate-energy physics. He about it. He has long and often been inspired the IU nuclear physics group to sought as a member of national and Bob Pollock is a born tinkerer. He is a work out these advantages and write a international advisory committees and distinguished professor of physics; a prize- proposal to the National Science Founda- review panels. His insights have greatly winning and innovative designer of particle tion for the first nuclear physics accelerator enriched the field. accelerators that have helped fuel a genera- that exploited this new technique. The Bob had received a number of honors in tion of experimental research in nuclear IUCF cooler was proposed in 1980 and the course of his years at IU. In addition to physics; a proven and inspirational manager approved shortly thereafter. Bob managed the Bonner Prize, he was awarded a of complex technical projects with substan- the construction project that brought this Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Prize in tial support staff; a sage and much-sought- innovative technology to a successful 1986–89 and was named an IU Distin- after adviser to the worldwide community commissioning and first use for experi- guished Professor in 1984. There are also of nuclear physicists; and a superb experi- ments in 1988. In the years since, the IUCF unclaimed honors. For example, I am mental physicist. cooler has not only supported a program of certain that for many years Bob was the But he derives his novel nuclear physics experiments, but also Fastest Slide Rule in the West; no one I greatest pleasure has spawned a generation of similar know could ever do an involved, multistep from sitting in his machines in laboratories around the world. numerical calculation on calculators or office or small For his development of the cooler and his computers faster than Bob could produce laboratory, tinkering central role in the refinement of cyclotron the answer on his slide rule, with the — building and technology, Bob was awarded the 1992 furrows on his brow multiplying at every testing with his own Tom W. Bonner Prize, the highest honor step. (I came to think of the furrows as hands, perhaps with bestowed by the Division of Nuclear data-storage devices.) But I hope that an undergraduate or Robert Pollock Physics of the American Physical Society. among the honors Bob cherishes most graduate student at While continuing to utilize the cooler for during his retirement will be the eternal his side, tabletop scale devices that have the experiments in both nuclear physics and the gratitude of his research and faculty potential to change the way we think about physics of beams, Bob came up with colleagues and students. For us, he was the the range of instrumentation possibilities — another novel idea in the mid-1990s. A initiator of a legacy that lives on in the and reveling in the unexpected particle fundamental limitation on the quality and reputation of the IU nuclear physics group: behavior he gets to observe. intensity of the beams that could be stored a legacy of intellectual integrity, innovation, Indiana University has been benefiting in the cooler came from the interactions of attention to detail, and ability to deliver on from Bob Pollock’s tinkering for 30 years. the electrically charged particles in the beam ambitious promises. Bob received a PhD in experimental nuclear with atomic electrons bound to the nuclei — Steve Vidgor physics from Princeton in 1963. After a of interest in the targets used for experi- couple of years spent doing experiments at ments. So why not create electron-free David Rust the Rutherford Laboratory in England, he nuclear targets? This challenge led Bob into returned to Princeton in 1970, for the a new field, non-neutral plasma physics, to In January 2003, senior scientist David express purpose of overseeing the transla- perfect techniques utilizing electromagnetic Rust retired after 31 years of service with tion of Martin Rickey’s brainchild — the fields to trap a high density of charged ions the experimental high energy groups at IU. Indiana University Cyclotron Facility — in a small region of space, where they Dave received a PhD in physics from into an operating national user facility in would be forced to expose themselves to Cornell University in 1967. He then worked the new field of intermediated-energy the onslaught of the incoming beam. He at Argonne National Laboratory until 1972, nuclear physics. The National Science has already advanced the state of the art in when he came to IU. Foundation, inexperienced itself in this new field and will undoubtedly While at IU, Dave worked on high- bankrolling such a large facility, was continue to do so well after he formally energy experiments at the following growing impatient to see the realization of retires from the IU faculty. accelerators: the novel design in which they had invested Bob is a man of few words, but those Argonne National substantial funding. Bob got it built and few words, and even changes of facial Lab, Fermilab, made it work, establishing along the way a expression, merit attention. Those of us SLAC, CERN, premier laboratory that attracted researchers who have worked extensively with Bob Brookhaven from around the world and a first-rate learned long ago to interpret the silent National Lab, and international reputation for the nuclear answers to our questions by counting the the Jefferson physics research group at IU. He directed number of furrows that would appear on National Accelera- that laboratory from 1972 until 1979. On his brow. tor. He also worked the side, he also carried out some of the on a project for the When the U.S. nuclear physics commu- David Rust most elegant early experiments with the nity decided in 1977 that it had to bring SSC. Dave was the new accelerator, setting forth an intellectual some order to funding-agency decisions builder of the first plastic straw drift theme, the study of particle production near about what new projects to support, it chamber, which was then part of a detector threshold that has been central to the lab’s chose Bob as a charter member of the new used on the HRS experiment at SLAC. development over since. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, In addition to his research, Dave served By 1979, Bob was getting antsy for a which establishes priorities for the field on a number of committees in the IU new challenge. He had learned of a new with the Department of Energy and the Department of Physics, most notably the technique, electron cooling, being devel- National Science Foundation. Other charter Faculty, Student, and Staff Relations oped in Siberia to improve dramatically the members of the committee have told me Committee, and the picnic group.

9 Department mourns loss of professors Bron, Singh Walter Bron Prior to completion of the cyclotron understanding of the effective nucleon- complex in 1975, Paul carried out a nucleus interaction and its energy depen- We recently learned that Professor Emeritus significant and wide-ranging nuclear dence over the low-to-medium energy Walter Bron, 72, of the Department of physics research program at other laborato- regime, Paul’s research remained focused on Physics at the University of California at ries (ANL and Naval Research Lab) and nuclear structure and nuclear reaction Irvine, died on Nov. 16, 2002. Bron had universities (at Groningen in the Nether- mechanism studies. His work ranged from been a faculty member of the IU Depart- lands and at Paris/Orsay). He did seminal inclusive (p,x) and quasi-free (p,2p) ment of Physics for 20 years, from 1966 work on the properties of giant resonances continuum reactions, through giant until he left for Irvine in 1986. His research in nuclei, alpha-particle interactions with resonance excitations by medium-energy work was in the area of experimental nuclei, and heavy-ion physics at medium polarized protons, 3He, and 4He ions, to condensed matter physics, specializing in energies. Specifically, he studied the Giant Li-induced cluster-transfer reactions, fusion the optical properties of solids. Dipole Resonance by radiative proton and processes and fast-particle production. While he was at IU, he was awarded a alpha capture in the mid-1960s, and the A thorough and inspiring teacher, Paul Guggenheim Fellowship, was elected excitation of isoscalar multipole strengths was very successful in training graduate Fellow of the American Physical Society, by inelastic alpha scattering in the mid- students. His own life experience confirmed and received a Senior Scientist Award from 1970s. In the same period, Paul was his belief that education empowers people the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation. involved in determination of the alpha- and transforms lives. He supervised a total Also during this time, a number of graduate nucleus optical-model potential using both of 14 doctoral students in 20 years, and his students and postdocs did their research phenomenological and nucleon-nucleus mentoring had a profound effect on his work under his direction. folding-model approaches. In the late students. 1960s and early 1970s, Paul also partici- Paul persistently sought ways to promote Prithe Paul Singh pated in systematic studies of heavy-ion understanding by the general public of the scattering at ANL, investigating the nature and importance of basic research in Prithe Paul Singh, professor emeritus of interplay between shape resonances, science. In 1987, he and his son Pradeep physics at IU and former co-director of the intermediate structure and quasi-molecular got the idea of starting a two-minute radio IU Cyclotron Facility, died of Alzheimer’s states. Great scientific curiosity, intuition, program on general science, similar to the disease on Aug. 17, 2003, at his home in and imaginative approaches characterized Star Date series on National Public Radio. Bloomington. his research. With participation from key staff of the IU Paul was born on Sept. 10, 1930, in Promoted to full professor at IU in radio station WFIU, Paul provided the Hawalian, India, in what is now Pakistan, 1971, Paul became associate director of scientific guidance and sought out funds to the son of a railway ticket collector. He IUCF in 1978, and then served as co- initiate the program, which went on the air grew up during the tumultuous period of director from 1979 to 1986. This was a in 1988. This program, A Moment of the struggle for independence and the time of great accomplishment and growth Science, is now heard on public radio partitioning of India, and he and his family at IUCF. Despite his significant administra- stations across the country. became homeless refugees in the newly tive effort, Paul continued his research In 1991, Paul was diagnosed with born India. Faced with these enormous program at IUCF involving a substantial Alzheimer’s disease, which eventually took challenges, he focused on what would number of PhD students, IU colleagues, his life but could not deprive him of his become his life’s mission: science and and foreign visitors. While seeking a better (continued on page 11) education. After receiving BS and MS degrees from Agra University in India in 1951 and 1953, New faculty joining the IU Department of Physics, she he worked as a research assistant for the was a postdoctoral fellow at the Council on Indian Atomic Energy Commission for a (continued from page 8) Science and Technology at Princeton year. He then won a scholarship to do a University of Groningen in the Nether- University. Her research interests are in the PhD in nuclear physics at the University of lands. Prior to coming to IU, he was a areas of pattern formation in non-equilib- British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. senior research scientist at the NEC rium systems and in the study of physically His time in Vancouver formed him to Research Institute in Princeton. His realistic systems. become a scientist. There he also met and research area is the study of estimation, Jon Urheim, assistant professor, received married in 1959 his loving and devoted coding, and decision strategies used by the a PhD in 1990 from the University of wife, Sudarshan, with whom he had two sensory nervous system. Pennsylvania. Before coming to IU, he was sons. Paul received a PhD in 1960 and Sima Setayeshgar, assistant professor, an assistant professor at the University of remained in Canada as a National Research received a PhD in 1998 from MIT. Prior to Minnesota. Currently, he is a member of Council postdoctoral fellow at the Chalk both the CLEO and River Laboratory. In 1962, he came to the MINOS collabora- United States, joining the Argonne tions. The research National Laboratory as a research associate. he intends to pursue He moved in 1964 to IU as an assistant at IU will focus on professor, one year before design work the emerging area began on the innovative cyclotron configu- of neutrino rations, and in time to actively participate in oscillation physics shaping the future of what was to become with accelerator- IUCF, a major international center for based experiments. medium-energy nuclear physics research. Robert de Ruyter Sima Setayeshgar Jon Urheim

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Before 1990 lithium, and for developing a facilty for high the following about his current work:“Un- quality beams of polarized lithium ions. fortunately, I don’t have too much time to Edwin H. Strain, BS’61, is retired but keep up with physics, but I enjoy my job. I continues to sing in his church choir in 1990s and 2000s am still doing project management at Tucson, Ariz. His first year as a Singing Siemens, developing software for public Hoosier was 1953. Jae-Sung Kim, MS’89, PhD’91, is a transport companies. Our product does Kirby W. Kemper, MS’64, PhD’68, member of the physics faculty of Sook CCTV, PA, telephony, customer informa- currently chair and distinguished research Myung Women’s University in Seoul, tion and SCADA (monitoring of remote professor of physics at Florida State Korea. equipment) functionality for use in subway/ University in Tallahassee, was the winner of Thomas Wolenski, MS’94, who later railway stations and the corresponding the Jesse W. Beams Medal of the Southeast- received a PhD from the University of operational control centers. We are still ern Section of the American Physics Society Hamburg, is employed in customer trying to win a major project in New York in 2000 for his experimental studies of information systems at Siemens PSE City, and although the process is very slow nuclear structure and dynamics through GmbH & Co. KG, Harburger Schloßstr. (our proposal was originally submitted just collisions between light nuclei, especially 18, 21079 Hamburg,Germany. He wrote over a year ago), we are still very optimistic. I therefore also got to travel to NYC three times this year. Since for our unit the Alumnus named doctor honoris causa headquarters are in Vienna and part of my project team is located in Slovakia, I get In May 2001, St. Petersburg around a lot. Also, technically it is a quite State University named Joseph complex system with many interfaces, so it H. Hamilton, PhD’58, doctor never gets boring.” Wolenski’s e-mail honoris causa in recognition of address is [email protected]. his achievements as a world Darius Torchinsky, BS’99, is currently leader in nuclear structure working on a PhD at MIT. He’s doing research. In the series of “shock” (high-pressure) physics and spends experimental works concluded much of his time in the high-pressure in the mid-1970s, Hamilton laboratory at Washington State University. discovered significant proper- Eric Goff, MS’93, PhD’99, is an ties of nuclei from the transi- assistant professor of physics at Lynchburg tion region between regions of College in Virginia. Sadly, we learned from spherical and deformed nuclei. him of Ray Gilbert’s untimely death in His results led to the experi- Indianapolis this past February. Gilbert mental discovery of the began graduate study in physics in fall 1992 coexistence of spherical and but had to leave graduate school due to Kirby W. Kemper, Ms’64, PhD’68, left, and Joseph deformed shapes of nuclei health problems. H. Hamilton, PhD’58, received Jesse W. Beams which had major significance Stephen Ichiriu, BS’99, is currently medals of the Southeastern Section of the for the theory of nuclear working on a PhD at Caltech. American Physics Society in 2000. structure. Later he undertook a John Clancy, MS’95, PhD’99, is series of investigations that lead to a change from the view of stable nuclei having currently with Lockheed-Martin Corp., fixed shapes (spherical or deformed) to understanding the shape as a significant Fort Worth, Texas. dynamical variable describing the structure of the nucleus. He was the first to (continued on back page) discover the existence of a new region of deformed shapes in A=80 nuclei and established the significance of reinforcing protons and neutron clouds, which for large deformations leads to the existence of super deformed states of nuclei. Department mourns Hamilton was the first to use germanium detectors for g–g correlation measure- (continued from page 10) ments and first performed measurements of life times of the excited states of nuclei love for his family or the pleasure he took using the method of Doppler broadening of gamma lines for products of heavy-ion in walking in the beautiful forests of reactions. He was a creator of both exceptional high-efficiency significant experimen- southern Indiana. He was a dedicated tal devices and scientific organizations, which had given large, inestimable contribu- scientist, an inspiring teacher of graduate tions to contemporary nuclear physics. Hamilton is also involved as an organizer in students, an innovative administrator noted science education as well as national and international conferences on nuclear for his ability to promote new directions, physics. He was a member of 37 organizational committees of such conferences. He and a promoter of the understanding of was the founder of two unique educational-scientific organizations: UNISOR, science in less-developed countries and of unifying 12 universities, and the Joint Institute for Heavy-Ion Research. This global peace. He was a very warm and institute has been visited by about 1,000 foreign scholars, who work there as invited likeable person whom his many friends employees, including Russian scholars from St. Petersburg State University. around the world sadly miss. Hamilton received a PhD from IU in 1958 and joined Vanderbilt University. In — Timothy Londergan, Dan Miller, and 1966, he became a full professor at Vanderbilt. He has been chair of the Vanderbilt Peter Schwandt, IUB, and physics department and has received many scientific awards and distinguished titles. Rolf Siemssen, KVI, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands 11 Alumni news Nonprofit Org. (continued from page 11) Postage PAID Todd Peterson, MS’94, PhD’00, was Indiana University one of eight winners of a prestigious Career Alumni Association Award at the Scientific Interface, given by the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund in 2002. This new award provides $500,000 over five years to each recipient in a national competition. It is intended to support research at the postdoctoral and then beginning faculty levels in biomedical sciences, carried out by scientists who received rigorous doctoral training in the physical or computational sciences. Candidates are expected to draw from their training in a scientific field other than biology to propose innovative approaches to answer important questions in the biological sciences. 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