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Cross Sections Fall 2010.Indd THE NEWSLETTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY CROSS SECTIONS Fall 2010/Winter 2011 Training the best students to meet the toughest energy challenges he sign on Professor Lee Riedinger’s new office door reads the tutelage of CIRE faculty—offer them the chance to work on T“Assistant Hall Director,” a vestige of the days when Greve large-scale, problem-oriented research with the combined resources Hall housed undergraduate students requiring supervision. The of the university and the national laboratory. Their doctoral office itself still looks very much like the non-descript dormitory degrees will bear the new major: energy science and engineering. room it once was. But Riedinger sees beyond the closets and “That’s the core unit of CIRE,” said Riedinger, who became the built-in bureaus and envisions this space for what it will be, as center’s first director on September 1. he sees the entire fourth floor of Greve Hall—a bustling, vibrant The first step along this path actually came about a year community of top students and faculty dedicated to solving energy ago, before CIRE, with the introduction of the UTK-ORNL challenges. Distinguished Fellowship Program. Designed for highly- In January 2010 the Tennessee General Assembly passed motivated doctoral students in three fields—materials science and legislation to develop an interdisciplinary program in energy engineering, computational science and engineering, and nuclear science and engineering at UTK that would provide students with science and engineering—these fellowships allow students to earn an opportunity to “undertake transformative research activities.” a Ph.D. working jointly with ORNL scientists and UTK faculty. Tennessee Senate Bill 7006 also authorized the university to Riedinger explained that CIRE will handle the administrative establish an academic unit, in collaboration with Oak Ridge aspects of the distinguished fellowship program, which welcomed National Laboratory, for interdisciplinary research and education. its first three students this fall (including Robert Van Wesep in Out of that came CIRE—the Center for Interdisciplinary Research physics, see page 9). The new ESE doctoral degree falls exclusively and Graduate Education, which will soon breathe new life into under the CIRE umbrella as a brand new academic unit, and that Greve Hall’s renovated dorm rooms. starts with getting the best people. “An academic program needs a faculty,” Riedinger said, explaining that the first order of business is recruiting professors from UTK, the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, and ORNL. “Those faculty members will have a status in our program,” he said, although they will keep their day jobs, so to speak, in their current departments and divisions. They will simply add the title CIRE will prepare students for challenges in energy Professor of Energy Sciences and Engineering to their existing and engineering, like understanding the importance of credentials. propering simulating water vapor distribution. CIRE will also be responsible for ESE student admissions, curriculum requirements, qualifying and comprehensive exams, Not Your Father’s Ph.D. and bylaws, or, as Riedinger said, “all the usual things that a department does.” At the heart of CIRE is a new model for graduate education. The The goal is not to poach faculty, grants, or students from Ph.D. program in Energy Science and Engineering (ESE) will existing departments, but rather to build a multi-disciplinary recruit top students, offer them a competitive stipend, and—under Continued on page 9 IN THIS ISSUE: Alumnus Profi le on Jim Trolinger {page 4} VolsTeach Program {page 6} Argonauts and Astrophysics {page 7} Android Invasion {page 8} New Wigner Fellow {page 10} Physics Flashback {page 10} AIP Entrepreneurial Survey {page 11} Physics Top 10 List {page 11} Physics Family News {page 12} In Memoriam {page 14} Space A Letter from Department Head Soren P. Sorensen am sure that when you saw the headline you thought he is closely associated with the Department of Physics and I would discuss exciting topics like space and time most of his students and post-docs are from Physics. in the theory of relativity or maybe the possibility of In 1997 everything changed once again for the better, Iquantization of space at the Planck length scale. But no, when the Science and Research Facility (SERF) opened. I have something much more prosaic on my mind: the space Since Physics was suffocating in Nielsen and the two upper occupied by our department. floors of South College, we were allocated substantial space Over the last decade, unfortunately on my watch, we in SERF. All our experimental high energy and nuclear have had several setbacks in the number and quality of the physics groups moved over to SERF, both offices and facilities that are available to us. There have also been some research space, and the experimental condensed matter and important improvements, but unfortunately the setbacks atomic physics groups were also allocated research space. have been more substantial than the improvements. As a So far, so good, but now the troubles begin. After 4-5 result we now have a serious space situation. But let me years of usage SERF started to get overcrowded and Physics start by giving an overview of some of the history of the had to give up more than 7,000 net assignable square feet Department of Physics’ building facilities. of space, primarily research labs that were handed over to In 1963 the department moved into the brand new research groups from other departments, who at that time Nielsen Physics building and the future was bright. Nielsen had stronger research funding. Even if we were not happy has 66,000 square feet, which was gigantic for that time. with these losses we could still accommodate most of our Unfortunately much of the design of the building was done research in the area that was left, maybe with the exception to optimize the activities in the department 50 years ago of our experimental high energy groups, who potentially without much thought as to what might happen later on. lost out on some big construction projects due to the lack of The Nielsen building was designed with very few windows adequate space for such projects. and contains many small rooms originally used for a The real problem came when Physics was forced to give particular purpose, like photographic dark chambers, rooms up the office landscapes we had in SERF, because they for cotton fiber research, faculty offices with no windows, officially were supposed to be used for “wet labs.” Eventually etc. Personally I spent my first eight years at UTK in a small we swapped the office landscape space in SERF for space on office on the 6th floor (601) with a slanted roof and no the 2nd floor of Ayres Hall. So in 2003 most of our nuclear windows. I could stand up in maybe 50 square feet. This was and high energy groups moved their offices for faculty, post- kind of okay 25 years ago, but today there is no way we can docs, research staff, and graduate students to Ayres. We were recruit top-notch young faculty members if we can only offer informed that Ayres was soon going to be renovated and them space like that. the plans for the new Ayres could easily also accommodate When the Science Alliance and the Distinguished Physics. Scientist program were started in the mid-’80s, it was decided Well, when the architects finalized their plans for to renovate South College and house the administrative the renovated Ayres, so much space was lost due to the offices of SA as well as some of the Distinguished installation of air conditioning, elevators, and other Scientists there. Due to the severe space limitations for infrastructure that it was decided that Physics could not be the Department of Physics at that time, eventually three housed in the renovated Ayres. So as a token compensation Distinguished Scientists within our department were housed for losing 6,000 square feet in Ayres, Physics was allocated in South College (Jerry Mahan, Joe Macek, and Ward around 1,600 square feet on the first floor of South College Plummer) as well as Distinguished Professor John Quinn. and in addition Physics received “ownership” of the building In addition, Distinguished Scientist Takeshi Egami was also instead of the Science Alliance. So in 2007 we started housed in South College, even if his affiliation is with the another big contraction and reallocation exercise where Department of Materials Science and Engineering, since around half of our faculty changed offices. It was a very 2 CROSS SECTIONS | Fall 2010/Winter 2011 tight fit, but at least we knew that we had two old buildings Is there any hope for improvements in the not-so-distant (Nielsen and South College) we could start working on to future? Since I am always optimistic about the future, let make them better. me mention three events that could improve our facilities. The last chapter in the setback story happened earlier First of all, the College of Engineering might give up some this year, when the university administration reneged on the space in SERF when the new Min Kao building is finished allocation of South College to Physics and decided to use next year, and we hope to get access to some of that space nearly half of the first floor for graduate teaching assistants for graduate students and the rapidly growing set of major from the Department of Mathematics. research equipment owned by our experimental groups. So where do we stand with respect to our current Secondly, the new JIAM building on the Cherokee campus facilities? On a positive note we have been able to upgrade across the Tennessee River will hopefully be finished 3-4 our classrooms in Nielsen and even make a new modern years from now.
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