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PHYSICSDEPARTMENT OF AT THENewsletter UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST SPRING 2014 Issue No. 14

Women in Physics: Our 34 member faculty is now 18% women, which is Positive Strides at UMass 1 higher than the national average of 14%, and shows “Let’s face it: Women are Hot. I don’t mean that they that the department has made a concerted effort to are physically attractive; I mean that the topic of women, attract women to faculty hires. UMass is, indeed, an feminism, and their rights and status in the world is attractive and family friendly place to . We have currently a politically ‘hot’ topic,” says Associate Professor some of the best maternity and paternity leave policies in Jennifer Ross. From the floor of the United Nations, the country. There are also policies encouraging spousal where the General Secretary of the United Nations, Ban accommodations in hiring that have helped Ki-moon, has declared that, “Women must be full partners to attract and retain more female faculty of development,” to the New York Best Seller, members in the department. Our “Lean In,” where author and COO of Facebook, Sheryl graduate students reflect a similar Sandberg, describes how women have been systematically held back in our society, the discussion of women’s issues spans from surprisingly lengthy debates of reproductive “Women in rights on the floor of the U.S. Congress to Tom Brokaw’s is a Hot Topic.” statement that the this century is the “Century of Women.” Women and women’s issues are all over the news media these days. - Prof. Jennifer Ross UMass Physics The Physics Department is making positive strides to increase the numbers of women in physics. Let’s look profile with 17 women out of at the numbers: The number of female faculty has risen a total of 80 in the graduate dramatically over the past 7 years from 1 female physics program or 21%, up from professor in spring of 2006 to 6 female faculty members as 15% in 2003. UMass reflects of October 2013. Between 1966 and 1982 there was only national trends in women one female faculty member in the combined Department studying physics. According to the American Institute of of Physics and Astronomy, Janice Button-Shafer. An Physics, the fraction of women receiving PhDs in Physics update from Janice, who retired in 1997, can be found in in 2012 was 20%, whereas it was only 13% in 2003. this Newsletter. Continued Page 4

A Bright Future

The future looks bright for our Department. Increased research opportunities for all students and promising job prospects are just part of the reason we are seeing increasing numbers of students. Physics has a mathematical foundation that involves reasoning that can be tested by experiments that may have strong overlaps with engineering subfields, and physics is at the heart of all the hard . The current generation of students recognizes these features, and realizes that studying physics is excellent preparation for encountering many of the world’s problems. Furthermore, governments and funding agencies also are aware of the power of physics training and broadly support it. Compared to a decade ago, there has been a very significant increase in academically strong undergraduate physics majors who are provided research opportunities that are supported by your donations. Continued Page 5 2 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

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InMemoriam:Engelsberg,Ford, Gray, Stephen RossHicks JaniceButton-Shafer AnnCairlRetires 11 TEACHING 8 6 4 3 Commonwealth HonorsCollege New PhysicalSciencesBuilding RESEARCH CAMPUS COVER STORIES Science Cafes STEM “LittleWOW”Program Society ofPhysicsStudents OUTREACH ANDSERVICE Amherst CenterforFundamentalActions New Muong-2Experiment DEPARTMENT HEAD’SLETTER NEW ALUMNI ALUMNI NEWS BOOK REVIEW A BrightFuture Women inPhysics:Positive StridesatUMass

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Dear Alumni and Friends of the Physics Department and Friends of Dear Alumni First off, Physics Department. the Head of the first newsletter as This is my service and for the selfless Don Candela thank and acknowledge I want to It will Head for the past six years. as Department leadership he provided will role of head, but thankfully Don his shoes in the be a challenge to fill of leadership advice for the new cadre to provide continue to be available Department. emerging in the Physics about myself. I me, I’ll say a few words know don’t For the many who in experimental . 1986, and do research came to UMass in working at the started recently Lab, and and Jefferson at MIT-Bates accelerators I’ve worked at the to going on lab before students have worked in my Quite a few undergraduate Germany. accelerator in Mainz, I’ve done the teaching assignment, and the class My favorite and jobs in industry. in physics graduate programs course. most teaching in, is the electronics that I’m very pleased to report its heart is in its faculty and staff. For an academic department like physics, research the University of WisconsinMichael Ramsey-Musolf from Michael’s joined our department last fall. of physics. Michael has model the standard probing and , is theoretical area ACFI for short, center on campus, the Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions, established a new research of to seeing a steady stream We look forward on the 4th floor of LGRT. offices in remodeled headquartered and workshop attendees participating in ACFI activities. graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, The New Academic is plenty of exciting news to report. there On the subject of new “brick and mortar,” see occupancy the fall of 2014. The will to Hasbrouck Building under construction next door Classroom introductory that we will utilize for our building will house state-of-the art team-based-learning classrooms Planning is very far advanced for the new Physical Science Building, PSB, physics sequence for physics majors. groups. nuclear physics, gravitational physics, and hard-condensed which will house laboratories for the 2015 and occupancy in the fall of 2017. At that for the PSB is scheduled for summer breaking Ground Experimental West faculty will be housed in a completely renovated one-half of the department’s approximately to PSB. Station building to be moved adjacent your donation to the Physics I encourage you to consider making a donation to UMass and directing Finally, the through years, and it is only Department. State support for teaching laboratories has dwindled in recent donations of our alumni that we have been able to maintain laboratories for our physics majors, and generous state-of-the-art instrumentation into our Intermediate Lab and Optics courses. The Physics Department introduce to meeting June 7. I look forward 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, from will be participating in the Alumni Weekend the Alumni Association. details from you, and discussing these exciting times for UMass Physics. Stay tuned for and healthy 2014. I wish you a productive yours, Sincerely Rory Miskimen [email protected] 413-545-1940 4 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Cover Continued/Cover everyone inthelab.” great experiencegetting to knowandlearningfrom Everyone has something to offer, and it’s been a really with otherundergrads,grad students,andpostdocs. part about doing research, though, is getting to work results afterstrugglingwithitforsometime.Thebest finally gettinganexperimenttowork,andgood what Idointhelab.There’s also nobetterfeelingthan research isbeingabletoconnectwhatIlearninclass to along microtubules. She says, “My favorite part of doing biological physicsofnanoscalemotorproteinsmoving fundamental questionsinphysics.Amandaworkson the to thisresearch becauseitconnects astronomy with Ross. SarahisworkingonLIGOandwasattracted Amanda Tan works with AssociateProfessorJennifer works withAssociateProfessorLauraCadonatiand two seniorundergraduatephysicsmajors:SarahZuraw tobiophysics.Here,wehighlighttheresearchof undergraduate physicsmajorstackleproblemsfromhigh effects on theirretention in STEM fields. At UMass, students inresearchhasprofoundandlong-term Research hasshownthatengagingwomenandminority from fallingintothesemostlyunconsciousbiases. required forscientificresearchdoesnotpreventscientists the samequalifications. judged tobelesscompetentthanmenwiththeexactly them whencontrolledstudiesshowthatwomenare women justhavelowerself-esteem,butwhocanblame without encouragementorhighgrades.Itmayseemthat work. Menarefarmorelikelytotrygraduateschool silence isajudgmentthattheyarenotcapableofthe to gograduateschool,theyfigurethattheirmentor’s mostly malementors.Whenwomenarenotencouraged than male students, such as a lackof enthusiasm from subtle cuesthathavehigherimpactonfemalestudents lack ofwomeninphysics.Thearticlealsopointsout family. Theseareallcommonlycitedreasonsforthe with theirpersonaldesiretobemarriedandraisea the demandsofgraduateschool,andacareerinphysics Many womenareconcernedhowtheycouldreconcile doing physicswouldbeaturn-offtopotentialspouses. quoted intheTimes articlesaidtheywereworriedthat that womendonothardsciences.Some and stressedthatsocialpressurestelleveryoneinsociety and institutionalpressuresthatwomeninscienceface, physics inparticular. There StillSoFewWomen inScience?”highlighted article in theNew York Times Magazine,“Why Are Mathematics (STEM)continuesto be rocky. Arecent for womeninScience,Technology, Engineering,and Despite the progress at UMass and nationally, the picture POSITIVE STRIDESAT UMASS WOMEN INPHYSICS:

2 Itpointedoutcontinuingsocial 3 Interestingly, theobjectivity work#.UoGHPKV5iLg, Academe, Jan-Feb2011. 4. http://www.aaup.org/article/ivory-ceiling-service- Academy ofScience,USA 2012. biases favor male students” Proceedings of the National 3. Moss-Racusin et al,“Science faculty’s subtle gender York Times Magazineonline,October3,2013. are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html?_r=0, New 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why- http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/gendertrends.html 1. AIP Statistics on the Status of Women in Physics: References both femaleandmaledepartmentmembersatalllevels. for womeninourdepartmentthankstoeffortsfrom Physics Department.Overall,thefuturelooksbrighter struggle ofwomenandminoritiescurrentlypopulatethe many positiveandhelpfulmenwhorecognizetheextra They needmalealliesasadvocatesandmentors.Luckily, department, womencannotadvancetheircausealone. Although we have highlighted a few of the women in the featuring panels of successful women within the college. women’s leadershipinitiativehashadseveralsessions Professor andAssociateDeanSallyPowers.The Dean SteveGoodwin’s initiativeisledbyPsychology to fosterwomen’s leadershipwithinthecollege.CNS students to organize,CNShasalsostartedaninitiative Jessica McIver. Inadditiontoenablingthegraduate group. ThisgroupisledbyPhysicsgraduatestudent them toorganizetheGraduateWomen inSTEM (GWIS) (CNS) hasengagedfemalegraduatestudentsandhelped At the college level, our College of Natural Sciences seminar onFridayafternoonsthatisnowstudentrun. in academia.Rossestablishedastudent-onlyresearch general knowledgeabouttheprocessofseekingacareer for postdoctoralresearchpositions,andinhavinga hour sessions.Alsotheywereunsureofhowtoapply more opportunitiestopresenttheirresearchinone- discovered thatwomengraduatestudentswanted Lori Goldner. Throughinformalgatherings,Ross assignment forfacultyandiscurrentlyledbyProfessor and Minorities Group became a regular committee industry, andgovernmentlaboratories.TheWomen who used their physicsdegreestowork in academia, from UMass Physics, and panels of professional women lunch withwomenspeakers,discussionsalumnae the Women andMinoritiesinPhysicsGroupincluded in theDepartmentforlunchandteatime.Activitiesof Professor, JenniferRossbegan to organizethewomen Upon arrivingatUMassinfall2007,nowAssociate Continued/Cover Cover DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST 5

Winter 2014 • The Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions has Interactions Fundamental for Center Amherst The • is to Its mission in our Department. been established intensity, of the energy, research at the interface advance frontiers. and cosmic • Our outreach programs have been extended to the the founding of two Science Cafesgeneral public through vicinity. in the Amherst-Hadley academia, in positions major hold alumni physics Our • and government. industry, • There is a greater participation of women in students, at all levels: undergraduate Department our and faculty. graduate students, with provided being are majors physics Undergraduate • by the American research opportunities as called for Our advanced laboratory course Physical Society. provides an excellent start in this direction. innovations • are Teaching being fostered by regularly improve to is objective whose workshops scheduled faculty teaching. of the These developments, and the commitment to our Department, Commonwealth of Massachusetts outstanding physics are making us competitive with The future indeed departments throughout the world. looks bright!

Fall 2013

The New Academic Classroom Building constructed beside Hasbrouck will open for the 2014 fall semester. It has offices for faculty It has offices will open for the 2014 fall semester. Building constructed beside Hasbrouck The New Academic Classroom Based Learning tables and (TBL), with large round work called Team designed for group in other departments, and classrooms desks. A fuller description of TBL was given on page 10 of our Spring 2012 Newsletter. chairs instead of the usual classroom • The Commonwealth Honors College is now housed Physics Way. in new first-rate quarters off Governor’s is well represented. • We are fortunate to be in a Five College Community, are fortunate to be in a Five College Community, • We collaborations withgiving the opportunity for significant who hold adjunct our Five College colleagues, several appointments in our Department. • There are strong, well-funded faculty research theory. programs in both experiment and The Departments of Physics and of Chemistry will • The Departments of Physics and scheduled for benefit from a Physical Sciences Building completion in 2017. • The Department of Physics has nearly 200 undergraduate 200 nearly has Physics of Department The • a a factor of two greater than just majors, more than factors contribute to this very decade ago. Many but the good reputation of the facultysignificant growth, is surely among them. in teaching and research A BRIGHT FUTURE A BRIGHT is this issue, the University to press with As we go institution of 150 years as an the celebration completing early years in the were fortunate We learning. of higher with Clark, Smith William President, a had have to us in the right to launch the ability and the foresight of Chancellor the guidance under Now we are direction. who, by all accounts, a , Kumble Subbaswamy, are start after a year in office. Here is off to a splendid positive features of our Department some examples of that are in the offing. and positive changes Continued/Cover 6 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Campus THE NEWPHYSICAL SCIENCESBUILDING synthetic chemistry researchtomove out ofoutdated The toptwo floors willhouseChemistry labs,enabling special featuresgearedtoward theplannedresearch. The laboratory in the PSB will have many bottom twofloorsofthe PSB. giving convenientaccess tothephysicslabson to themainPSB,makingituniversallyaccessibleand and basementlevelconnectedbyatwo-levelbridge will be moved a short distance onto a new foundation in 1885asanagriculturaltestinglaboratory. TheWES complete with tower and turret and many chimneys, built a beautifulbrickbuildingintheQueenAnnestyle, (WES) forfacultyandstudentoffices.TheWES is incorporation ofarenovatedWest ExperimentStation An interestingfeatureofthePSBcomplexwillbe the forthreefuturehires. of ourcurrentfacultyintheseareasaswellabundant and supportspace.Theelevengroupswillincludeall offices forfaculty, students,andpostdocs,meeting Condensed Matterexperiment,includinglabsaswell faculty membersinNuclear, Gravitational,andHard The PSB will house the research groups of eleven Physics million andisscheduledforcompletioninfall2017. Towers. ThePSBisprojectedtocostapproximately$112 Building and the Lederle Graduate Research Center between currentPhysicsofficesandlabsintheHasbrouck Laboratory andNorthPleasantStreet,whichplacesit PSB willbelocatedbetweenGoessmannChemistry a newstate-of-the-artnanofabricationfacility. The for thePhysicsandChemistryDepartmentsaswell Building (PSB)thatwillhouseexperimentallaboratories Planning iswell underway for the new Physical Sciences HONORS COLLEGE THE UNDERGRADUATE COMMONWEALTH Track. Thehonorscurriculumhas advancedcoursesin Professional Track, BS Applied Track, and BA General in physicstherearethree baccalaureatetracks:BS research. Eachmajorhas different tracks,forexample, different departments,and embarkonundergraduate from awiderangeoftopics taughtbyfacultyfrommany presentations, andgroup projects. Studentscanselect to fostercriticalthinkingthroughin-depthreadings,oral to havestudentengagementwithfacultyandpeersso as and are restricted to 25 students per course. The intent is analysis, thatfulfilltheGeneralEducationrequirements, offers aprogressiveseriesofcoursesdesignedforcritical committed totheprogram.TheCHCCurriculum Once admitted,thestudentisassignedanadvisor half liveelsewhere. (CHC) residencehallsneartheBoydenGymnasium,and About halfliveinthesixCommonwealthHonorsCollege standards were set for the 3000 students in the program. enriches theundergraduateexperience.Highentrance This part of the UMass Amherst baccalaureate program new researchfacility. undergrads notyetinvolvedinresearchintoanexciting faculty officesonthefirstfloorwewillsurelydrawmany from thefacultyoffices.Finally, byconsolidatingeleven research studentsandpostdocswillbeafewstepsaway offices literallynextdoortoeachother. Officespacefor in Lederle and Hasbrouck, will have laboratories and matter experimentalists,atpresentinseparateenclaves Department closer together. Nuclear and condensed- toward bringingoursomewhatspreadoutPhysics for studentsandfaculty, thePSBshouldbeabigstep In additiontocreatingmanynewresearchopportunities technology. physical devicesforbasicscienceandnext-generation for instrumentstocreatenano-scaleelectronicand will provideanremarkablycleananddust-freehome magnets. Thenanofabricationfacilityor“cleanroom” for low-temperature apparatus and superconducting assembly, andbycondensed-matterexperimentalists both bynuclearandparticleexperimentalistsfordetector up to 25 feettall.These“high bay” spacesare needed will haveveryhighceilings,accommodatingapparatus electromagnetic interferencelevels.Manyofthelabs underground, resultinginextremelylowvibrationand facility. SomeofthePhysicslabswillbelocatedentirely be dedicatedtoPhysicslabsandthenanofabrication space inLederle,whilethelowerfloorsofPSBwill Campus DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST 7 Negative criticism has been voiced that an organization an that voiced been has criticism Negative its uses public funds is elitist, and such as CHC that relegated to our “private colleges.” activities should be private, as they mustBut the private colleges are not truly regulations to comply with federal and Commonwealth hand, the publicbe eligible to receive funds. On the other independent funds institutions are not truly public, as by taxpayers. For are required beyond those provided Building was fundedexample, the new Integrated Science and the science community has partnerships privately, provide student with industry to exchange ideas, laboratory internships, and furnish the cutting-edge versus private equipment. What constitutes public UMass Amhersthigher education is now a blended mix. education by remains competitive in undergraduate CHC. offering intensive education through Photo credit: Jim Ricci Photo credit: At the initiation of the Sesquicentennial Celebration on April 26 & 27, 2013, Dean Steve Goodwin, College of Natural Sciences, hosted a science alumni Science Integrated the of atrium the in reception Building on April 27th and welcomed one of its benefactors, Robert Mahoney ’70, who spoke on the meaning of being a part of the massive project to plan, construct, and shepherd this building complex to completion. Brothers Robert ’70, Richard ’55, all chemistry majors. Margaret ’55 were and William McCarthy G’77 represented the Physics Newsletter Committee. Within the CHC, a scholarship scholarship a CHC, the Within students apply advising office helps international scholarships and for national and as the Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, fellowships, such and Gates-Cambridge. This office Truman, Goldwater, study and also helps students apply for postgraduate travel awards. appropriate tracks. Approximately Approximately tracks. appropriate the undergraduate of one-third of 191) majors (61 out physics the CHC admitted into have been about of average an to compared Most of other majors. one-seventh track pursue the honors students honors Upper-level in their major. with the coursework concludes summarizing a Capstone Experience particular project. 8 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Research Magnet onthebargepassingSt.Louis.(Credit ) NEW magnet, their internal compass needles rotate as well, and magnet, their internal compassneedlesrotate aswell,and traveling. As themuonsgoaround storagering compass-needle pointsin the directionmuonsare When themuonsfirstenter thering,theirinternal a track,butveryclosetothe speedoflight. storage ringinwhichthey racearoundlikecars To studymuons,wetrap them inacircularmagnetic identically equalto2forabarefundamentalparticle. Nobel LaureatePaulDiracpredictedthatgshould be magnet ischaracterizedbyanumberg.In1927,future little barmagnetorcompassneedle.Thestrengthofthis ,andbehaveinsomerespectslike a properties ofthemuon.Likeelectrons,muonshave a This sensitivity comes from examining the magnetic would revolutionizemodernparticlephysics. are sensitivetonewfundamentalparticleswhoseexistence magnetic storagering?Becausetheseshort-livedmuons into anelectronand2neutrinos.Whytrapmuonsina which onlyliveforafewmicrosecondsbeforedecaying similar toelectrons,but206timesmoremassive,and magnet isusedtotrapmuons,fundamentalparticles g−2”, whichranatBrookhavenfrom1997to2001.The The magnet is a key part of an experiment called “muon UFO-like ringcrawlbyonacustombuilttrailer. curious onlookerswereliningthestreetstoseegiant the magnetreachedFermilabinJuly2013,hundredsof home atFermilab,justwestofChicago.Bythetime in Upton,NewYork inthe1990s,onitswaytoanew the magnet,builtatBrookhavenNationalLaboratory electromagnet. Thiswaspartofa3200-mileodysseyfor 50-foot in diameter, 17-ton ring-shaped superconducting and uptheMississippicarryingaveryunusualload- Last summer, abargetraveleddownthe Atlanticcoast g −2 EXPERIMENT

clearance oneitherside.(Credit Fermilab) Magnet makesitswaythrough atollwayinIllinois.Only6”of Brookhaven. (Credit Brookhaven) Magnet coilswithsupportstructure afterremoval from to (even the famous Higgs bosonmakes a tiny contribution including theinfluenceofallparticlesweknowabout This iswhereitgetsinteresting.We canpredictg−2by we includetheeffectsofallpossibletypesparticles. g deviatesfrom2canbepredictedpreciselyaslong effectively makeg the interactionsofmuonwithmagneticfieldand disappear outofthevacuum.Thesevirtualparticlesaffect are always “dressed” by ghostly that appear and tells usthatparticlesareneverbare,eveninvacuum.They theory described a bare particle, but mechanics g bedifferentfromtwo?Was Diracwrong?No.Dirac’s exactly inthedirectionmuonwasgoing.Whyshould muon travelsaroundthering,anditwouldalwayspoint needle wouldrotateattheexactlyfrequencythat because ifgwereidenticallyequaltotwo,thecompass an extra12degrees.We callthisextraamount“g−2” around thering,internalcompassneedlehasturned almost, but notexactly. In fact,afterone turn ofthemuon continue to point in the direction the are traveling, entirely newclass offundamentalparticles. Brookhaven?” Thiscouldindicatethe existenceofan difference between the prediction and value measured at for thegreatinterestin muong−2value:“Is there is also the ones that exist but are undiscovered! The reason influence notonlyofallthe particlesweknowabout,but g −2). However, the measured value of different from 2. The amount by which differentfrom2.Theamountbywhich g −2 includes the −2 includes the Research DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST 9

−2 experiment, and is well known for his g−2 experiment, and is well known late Vernon Hughes of Yale University. Vernon was was Vernon University. Hughes of Yale late Vernon the behind force driving and spokesperson original the Brookhaven Kawall now worksmany lasting contributions to physics. for measuring the as a leader of the team responsible of 70 parts perstorage ring with a precision will take about billion. Magnet reassembly at Fermilab Look for First data are expected around 2016. a year. newsletter. updates and our results in a future −2 magnet outside Wilson Hall at Fermilab after arrival in late g

The muon Fermilab) July 2013. (Credit experimental technique. (Figure adapted from Brookhaven National Laboratories ) experimental technique. (Figure adapted from Brookhaven National Laboratories g−2 of the electron is the most precisely precisely most the is electron the of g Illustration of the muon UMass has significant ties to both the old and the new UMass has significant ties to both Kawall worked experiments. Associate Professor Dave experiment for the as a postdoc on the Brookhaven Because the difference between the predictionBecause the difference is and the measurement at Brookhaven inconclusive, the muon g−2 experiment will at precision greater times 4 with redone be possible Fermilab. At Fermilab it will be more ring the into muons more inject to frequently compared to Brookhaven, In addition, the yielding greater statistical precision. the magnet has a new experimental hall built to house temperature stability, more stable floor and much better Many other both required to improve the precision. the uncertainty on improvements are planned to reduce g−2 to 140 parts-per-billion. measured quantity in all of physics. Still, we quantity in all of measured on muons do the g−2 experiment prefer to ghostly particles, there are new because if to g−2 of the muon they will make a change easierand larger times 40,000 about is which change the same new to detect than the to g−2 of the electron. particle would make because the muon is moreMostly this occurs electron and the effects massive than the the squared. This typically grow with sensitive to new physics makes muons more in this particular case. As an aside, in an experiment at Harvard, at Harvard, in an experiment aside, As an for electron a single trapped G. Gabrielse the electron. of measured g−2 and months fact In 10 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Research Symmetries” (Intensityfrontier);“LambdaandQuasi- the threefrontiers:“HadronicProbesofFundamental three dayseach.Inspring2014,theworkshopscover focus onspecificforefrontproblemsforapproximately campus and,togetherwithUMassphysicists,will The workshops will each bring 10-15 researchers to and researchers;innovative“in-house”research. an enhancedseminarseries;supportforvisitingstudents ACFI mission: a program of targeted topical workshops; will enableanumberofactivitiesdesignedtofurtherthe A five-yearseed-fundingcommitmentfromtheUniversity the future. for synergiesbetweenthem,andidentifypriorities frontiers, developnewdirectionsandopportunities draw connectionsbetweenstudiesateachofthethree where UMass, national, and international scientists will physics attheinterface,providinganenvironment to becomeaninternationallyrecognizedhubforthis frontier, andtheCosmicfrontier. TheCenterseeks Energy frontier, thehighsensitivityor“Intensity” of “three frontiers” of fundamentalphysics: the High theoretical andexperimentalresearchattheinterface Musolf asitsdirector. TheACFImissionistoadvance for FundamentalInteractions(ACFI)withRamsey- Physics DepartmenthaslaunchedtheAmherstCenter With thearrivalofProf.MichaelRamsey-Musolf, workshop intheACFI series,heldMarch 6-8, 2014,atUMassAmherst. Participants intheACFI-Jefferson LabworkshoponHadronic Probes ofFundamentalSymmetries,theinaugural FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS AMHERST CENTERFOR website: www. physics.umass.edu/acfi/ activities designedtoaddressthem,please refer tothe For detailsaboutthisscientificquestandtheACFI assembled frommorefundamentaldegreesoffreedom? blocks ofthepresentUniverse(protonsandneutrons) first momentsaftertheBigBang?Howarebuilding beyond theknowninteractionswereactiveduring antimatter intheUniverse?Whatadditionalforces open questionssuchas:Whyistheremorematterthan workshops, andvisitorprogramsaddressimportant, the enditisaboutscientificquest.ACFIresearch, external fundingthroughpeer-reviewed competitions,in While the ACFI ultimately hopes to secure significant 100 physicistparticipants. Violation, ameetingthatrecentlyhasdrawnroughly International Workshop onBaryonandLeptonNumber to thefuture,inspring2015ACFIwillhost and Chinaarrivingin2013-2014.Lookingfurther the world,withfirststudentscholarsfromAustralia mentoring ofPhDstudentsandpost-docsfromaround The visitingscholarprogramwillenabletrainingand Portal” (Energyfrontier). Lambda” (Cosmicfrontier);and“UnlockingtheHiggs teaching Teaching DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST 11 *The teaching methodology of “flipped” classroom or “reverse teaching,” is a form of learning by which students learn new content before class by guided critical learning. The lecture assignments online and video through viewed is component at home with no traditional lecturing in the classroom. Assignments are completed through problem solving in class This putative procedure under the watch of the instructor. is considered guided critical thinking by offering a more personalized guidance and interaction with students. has been the Department years the past few For prompted by Workshops holding Physics Teacher about mentoring of several junior faculty who asked Blaylock and Heath their teaching. In response Guy every few weeks to Hatch started holding meetings they successes and challenges the strategize and discuss After several years teaching. their having with were Ross acquired a of these informal meetings, Jennifer UMass Center for Mellon Mentoring grant from the meetings, lunch the of cost the for provide to Teaching universities to share and to bring in people from other twice a month with us their own experiences. These that many of teaching workshops were so rewarding, also join in the the senior faculty asked if they could we opened the discussions. As a result of this interest After the Mellon grant workshops to the entire faculty. expired, the Department has continued to financially lively been many have There workshops. these support discussions on topics such as “flipped” classrooms,* teaching large lectures, new grading and testing techniques, and even a discussions on using positive even our and faculty, in teaching. Our new psychology most successful senior faculty members, have benefited Workshops from the workshops. The Physics Teacher demonstrate that the Physics Department recognizes the central importance of excellence in teaching. dining services and good friends were often mentioned. mentioned. were often friends and good services dining were work course quality about statements Positive did not things that with Contrast these interspersed. and unpleasant roommates, organized, go well: getting normal These are typical assignments. the new on-line specific not student, first-year any for points adjustment majors. to physics to the Commonwealth College There is a relationship of the physics majors are qualified (see article) as many are who students the of Some there. reside to choose and College choose in Commonwealth qualified for residence other students with location northeastern a in live to draw a there is only majors. 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Surge Surgejfaseitawefnadfaig The students were asked what two things have gone well gone have things two what asked were The students since their arrival on campus. For that age cohort, the In rating the UMass experience from September to In rating the UMass experience from September to December for academic rigor in CNS classes, the first year students’ response drifted between neutral and somewhat rigorous. No one seemed overwhelmed by the course work so as to migrate to another major at this point. The personal attention component in CNS was somewhere around neutral with no complaints. At a December 2013 meeting for freshmen in the Collegein for freshmen meeting At a December 2013 to (CNS), enquiries were made as of Natural Sciences freshmen decided to come to UMasswhy 52 responding the students and major in physics. Overwhelmingly influence on theirwere from Massachusetts. The biggest their parents and/ decision to select UMass came from tuition fees were an or their guidance counselors. Low toward physicsthe students guiding In important factor. the CNS the Department website, as a course of study, student orientations website, and the spring and fall of the Physics were influential. The reputation resources were Department and excellent science the physics major. motivating factors in the choice of support the Department’s were factors influencing Other of Physics Students, of summer research, the Society the student on and student conferences, thus keeping activities are in physics. (These toward a career track our Department.) supported by your donations to at other highly also accepted students were the Typically rated undergraduate institutions. The number of Bachelor’s Degrees conferred each year by Degrees conferred of Bachelor’s The number majored have who students for Department Physics the 30 over the 10 to about has risen from about in physics total while the through 2014, from 1995 period 20- year the pool remained approximately UMass undergraduate in period. The percentage change same over the same here is greater than the national physics majors enrolled an improvement of student quality rise. There was also from an increase in the number that may have resulted that peaked in 2011. of high school graduates SURGE IN PHYSICS MAJORS IN PHYSICS SURGE teaching Surge Surgejfaseitawefnadfaig awifea 12 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Teaching Working in a researchgroupislikebeing inaresearchfamily, andILabhasthat flavor. concern ofthereviewsand wheretheycorrected the manuscript.Theresponse toreviewerswas graded,aswellthefinalmanuscript. The students not only had to alter the manuscript based on the reviews, they also had to write a response to reviewers to address each Then otherstudents,notfrom theirlabgroup,serveaspeerreviewers.Theinstructorand theteachingassistantalsowritereviews. had towriteacoverletter, asyouwouldto ajournal,describingtheexperimentsandrequesting it besentforreview. of a journal. The students had to send the instructor a complete manuscript that they all had edited. The students also poster presentationforthefinalpresentation.Thefirst “draft”wasafirstsubmissiontothe“editor”(theinstructor) This year, the final experiment of the semester required a 1000-word blog entry as the initial presentation, and a experiments, everystudenthasperformedaninitial presentation,afinalandwrittenmanuscript. The studentsswitchgroupsforeachexperiment andswitchroleswithinthegroup,sothatafterthree One weeklaterthethirdstudentofgroupwritesa manuscript. motivation, theory, anddata, aswelltheuncertaintyofmeasurements. Day 6:Asecondstudentpresentsa20-minutefinalpresentation ontheresultsofwork,andmuststillgothrough Days 3-5:Studentsperformtheexperiment.Theytakedata,analyzeandassembleafinalpresentation. obtain. the equipmentisset-upandused,theorybehindexperiment,whatdatagroupthinksitwillbe ableto Day 2:Onestudentfromthegroupdoesaninitial10-minutepresentationdescribinggoalofexperiment,how assemble theequipmentforsome“preliminarydata.” Day 1:Studentsgetacquaintedwiththeexperimentalliterature,equipment,andperhapstrytounderstandeven For eachexperiment,thetimelineissame: of twotofourinthree-hoursessionseachweekandareexpectedcompleteexperimentsduringthe semester. nuclear andparticlephysics.Studentsworkingroups More experimentsarebeingplanned,especiallyin readout+extensions •BuildingamicroscopewithCCDcamera •Quantumentanglementofphotons resonance •Singlebubblesonoluminescenceandacoustic •Deterministicchaosinanelectricalcircuit gravitationalconstantG •Torsion-balance measurementoftheuniversal resistanceandbymagneticsusceptibility •High-T Currently thecoursehas16experimentsincluding: students whotakethiscourseshouldbepreparedtostepintooriginalresearchproblemswithconfidence. Lori Goldner, DavidKawall,andJennyRoss.Inadditiontohavingaccessfirst-ratemodernequipment, over manyyears,whichabundantlymeetstheAPScriteria.RecentinstructorsincludeProfessorsDonCandela, Spring 2013PhysicsNewsletter),wehaveaspecialundergraduatelaboratorycourse,440,developed At UMassAmherst,inadditiontoprovidingsummerresearchexperienceforundergraduates(seepage25ofthe pursue STEMcareers,andenablesstudentstomoreeffectivelytransitionfromtheclassroomprofessionalpractice.” Participation inresearchhasbeenshowntoincreaseretentionSTEMdegreeprograms,supportstudents’decisions engage infuturescientificenterprisesandpositivelyimpacttheoveralleconomicsocialwell-beingofnation. communication ofevidence-basedtechnicalarguments.Theseskillsaregreatvaluetostudentsastheygoon use ofmoderninstrumentsandtechniques,datacollectionanalysis,analyticalcomputationalmodeling, “Research experiencesprovidestudentswithskillsinproblemdefinition,projectdesign,open-endedsolving, astronomy majorswithaccesstosignificantresearchexperiences.HereisadraftpolicystatementfromtheAPS: for undergraduates,andcallsuponthenation’s collegesanduniversitiesto provideundergraduate physics and were forgraduatestudents.NowtheAmericanPhysicalSocietyrecognizesimportanceofqualitylaboratories For many of us who can look back through the years, high quality advanced laboratories in physics and astronomy INTERMEDIATE PHYSICS LABORATORY PHYSICS (ILab): 440

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Teaching DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST 13 www.cns.umass.edu/icons-program/event- galleries/2013-12-31/the-icons-experience-video follows a series of steps (scaffold): inception, engagement, engagement, inception, (scaffold): of steps a series follows and identifying After reflection. and creation, research, to find ways students try researching a problem, thoroughly a pathway could provide science and technology in which economic find that social and solution. Students toward a factors in problem are integral of a real-world dimensions also They solution. scientific potential a of effectiveness the back reflection—looking of power educational the learn be what worked and what could on a project to evaluate in thinking about what they learned. improved, and also themselves applying these techniques iCons students find other situations. The iCons program in other classes and communication, leadership, a student’s strives to cultivate provided “iCons Barnes comments, and teamwork skills. a within collaboration and teamwork in skills with me of different science backgrounds.diverse group of students and ideas communicating effectively, collaborate to order In 'jargon-free' was essential.” concepts clearly and the students have In the second and third year of iCons, renewable moved into specific topical tracks—currently a number of hands-on tackle energy or biomedicine—and strengths while real-world challenges using their existing Barnes continues, developing new skills and knowledge. at is implementing “Part of what the program tries to get In traditional simultaneously. thinking and logical creativity type of thinking is science lectures and even labs, the designing unique exclusively logical. In iCons we are solutionsto find logic) and experiments (requiring creativity still unknown. This to problems in which the answers are fulfilling because it type of learning I think is the most skills to be a better requires creativity and other important being.” scientist, but also an overall better human teaches the third-year iCons Renewable Mark Tuominen remarks, “I feel that Energy Discovery Lab course. He At year. third the in stride their hit really students iCons under their this point, they have two years of experience unsolved real-world belts--in synthesizing solutions to in interdisciplinary problems and in working effectively teams. In the third-year Energy Lab course, the students assemble into effective self-managed teams: they dream up, design, and build amazing research experiments.” This includes projects such as the development of “artificial leaf” solid-state materials for making from water using sunlight, a study to grow algae biofuel using nutrients energy useable to harvest investigation an wastewater, from from waste heat or vibration, and many other examples. The iCons program cultivates a mindset in students to be curious, to be resourceful, and to simply go ahead and continues, “The iCons students are try things. Tuominen innovative and in charge. If there is one key lesson I’ve essential to this: It’s learned from the iCons program, it’s get students involved in real-world creative work right by the time they That way, year. in their freshman away, are seniors, they are undaunted and unstoppable.” Hear the iCons students themselves describe the program: In the first-year iCons course, “Global Problems, Scientific Solutions,” students use a case study approach to develop problem-solving skills, and then focus on unsolved problems of global significance. Students learn a strategy that The iCons program, complemented by the degree in a major field, strives to meet the call for a more comprehensive, the program is hands-on form of education. Notably, scaffolded (see next paragraph) so that students are in the seat of their own education. The iCons learning driver’s activities are driven largely by the students’ own interests, with faculty guiding this learning from an overarching the importance of underscore To framework. four-year interdisciplinary teamwork, the iCons program is managed and taught by faculty from a broad range of departments date, Physics from the College of Natural Sciences. To Department Professors Anthony Dinsmore, Courtney have all contributed to the Lannert, and Mark Tuominen program through teaching, advising, admissions, program steering, and fund raising. Although assessment of the effectiveness of iCons will be Although assessment of the effectiveness reveal data preliminary come, to years several for collected astounding. Austin that the impact on students is quite now in his fourth Barnes, an undergraduate physics major the iCons program, year of the renewable energy track of the iCons program remarks: “The problems we face in skill set, and are multi-faceted and require the knowledge, When we are thinking of scientists from many disciplines. from a broad point of first faced with a problem, we start of the problem. view and narrow in on different aspects problems typically, courses, physics in hand, other the On and building up are solved by starting from first principles, problem,the of complexity the on Depending theories. new both approaches are necessary.” iCONS PROGRAM iCONS and skills knowledge their to use learn students can How faced problems currently complex, real-world to solve the of scientists next generation Who, if not the by society? the world’s grit to tackle will have the and engineers, in Integrated Concentration problems? The unsolved University of Massachusetts program at the Science (iCons) now in its fourth (www.cns.umass.edu/icons-program/), a problems-based provides undergraduate students year, on compelling issues such as energy, education, focusing iCons is not a climate change, and biomedicine. water, program built but rather a concentration subject major, additional set of interdisciplinary, on top of a major—an fields acrossfrom integrating students context-rich courses and public health. Students the sciences, engineering, an iCons course during the spring in the program take second, and third years and complete semester of the first, their during project research a yearlong independent their hands students get Almost immediately, fourth year. to solve messy dirty (sometimes quite literally) working interdisciplinary in Working world. real the of challenges knowledge learned teams, the students combine skills and with research from their respective major degree courses in iCons. and problem-solving strategies learned 14 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Teaching Left toRight:Shao-Yu Chen,HuaikeGuo, ChienYeah Seng,HenryByrd, PeijianWang, JamesSainz,ZhouXu, Margaret Lutz,ZacharyMeadows,AlissaMonte,Haolin Li,MeganTalley, BuqinWang, Wanting Xie Sandor Molnar Erik Nelson DonaldSprague JorgeUribe ErikNelson SandorMolnar 1993 MSandPhDgraduatesnotpictured: GlennDriscoll,RobertFarrell, PeterKleinschmidt, Gustavo Burdman Qi-Zhong Cao Gary KleimanKyongSeiLee Gustavo Burdman Qi-ZhongCao graduate students,oldandnew Kyriacos Markionas,ElizabethPraton,XiaoqunZou Not shown:ChristopherOlson GRADUATED IN1993 ENTERED IN2013

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blogs. umass.edu/umasssps. Kurlej, Boris Stanchev, Gary Forster, Amy Vinciguerra, Dana Brown, Julie Flowers Amy Vinciguerra, Dana Brown, Gary Forster, Kurlej, Boris Stanchev, Left to Right: Jasmine Abdollahi, Josh Flieder, Fred Coburn, Fred Chris Bert, Adam Zec, Kirsten Randle, Arthur Left to Right: Jasmine Abdollahi, Josh Flieder,

SOCIETY OF PHYSICS STUDENTS OF PHYSICS SOCIETY Undergraduate physics students from UMass and elsewhere have opportunities to attend scientific conferences, a phenomenal a conferences, scientific attend to opportunities have elsewhere and UMass from students physics Undergraduate conferences these advertises SPS The universities. other among represented be to UMass for way a and experience, networking for Conference APS the for University Brook Stony to traveled students four 2014, of January In them. to trips organizes and in Physics. Additionally Women Undergraduate the Adam SPS Zec, events has coordinator, arranged for club members to the UMass This year, Symposium (NURDS). Research and Development present research at the Northeast Undergraduate Kirsten President chapters. SPS England New of meeting 1 Zone SPS the host will Students Physics of Society the of chapter Randle and Treasurer Arthur Kurlej are playing huge roles in balancing the schedule and budget for this exciting event. The Society of Physics Students (SPS) strives to add a sense of community for undergraduates who are interested who are interested for undergraduates of community to add a sense (SPS) strives of Physics Students The Society to physics, but not limited including, from departments 60 voting members are approximately There in physics. development. professional and for academic on opportunities SPS builds The and engineering. astronomy, how doing, and actively students current are what research: in undergraduate topics with deal meetings most popular The The SPS UMass its members to consider research with encourages professors, and to involved? can new students become The REU program Undergraduates. for REUs, or Research Experiences through at other universities explore opportunities abroad. and country across the universities at internships sponsor summer to Foundation Science is funded by the National For some meetings, the SPS hosts professionals from technical fields for “ChocTalks,” where wequestions. eat Speakers chocolateoften andshare their ask research and other experiences in achieving their goals. This year, we had talks by industry. and Chancellor academia Subbaswamy, who both in is interest a inspire physicist, to as and so by fields, Professor other and Maria engineering Kilfoil, in a work their biophysicist. about speak We also to invite UMass outside people from past. the John and in Fox Zak courses officers same SPS by the Organized in underclassmen. excelled for primarily have sessions who help homework peers weekly from provides also help SPS The physics seek to chance the sophomores and freshmen gives this Karlen, Jasmine Secretary permits. weather when together outdoors the enjoys even and at directions, all resources in hands other helping and extends SPS The calendar, club the roster, a photos, announcements, with blog the upkeeps Abdollahi Abdollahi, Secretary Jasmine outreach 16 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Outreach successful.” “This reallyinspired metoaimgo agreatschoollikeUMass andgetanamazingeducation –andbe “It motivatedmealotbecause Igottohearfromcollegestudentsabouttheir experiencehereincollege.” “This eventgavemeanew perspectiveofhealthcare;itdoesn’t onlyinvolveonesubject.” Student feedbackwasenthusiastic: • Buscostsforthreeschoolsattendingthefall2013 sessionofScienceQuestatUMass. offeredthroughBaystateMedicalCenterandUMass, includingacampustourandcareerguidancesession. • 160StudentsfromSpringfieldhighschoolsparticipated inanalldayEngineeringandChemistryimmersion • Participationinaforestandstreamecologystudy atNobleView OutdoorCenterfor70students. • BiologystudentfieldtriptoBostonAquariumand Whale Watch. DayandtheAMSDMaterialsExperienceatWPI. • 28HighSchoolStudentsfromPioneerValley, FranklinTech andTurners FallsattendaConstructionCareer participants. • AbutterflyexplorationprogramatMagic Wings inDeerfieldbyelementaryafterschool • 82HighSchoolJuniorscametoUMasslearnaboutNuclearEnergy. forinvestigationsaspartof“theScienceArt”Program. • FourvisitsbySpringfieldstudentstotheArtMuseum EngineeringandComputingDay. • ScholarshipsforHolyokeHighSchoolStudentstoattendUMass Here aresomeexamplesofeventsthathavebeenfunded: significant fractionoftheawards. of minigrantsawardedthispastfall.Matchingfundsprovidea 2013. Anadditional800studentswillparticipateinthethirdcycle by tworoundstotaling18awardsoverthefallandspringof2012- the LittleWow program.Approximately750studentswereserved reflected inthewiderangeofproposalsthathavebeenfundedby Imaginative ideasforstimulatinginterestinSTEMfieldsare events. activities andcareerinformation,atfairssimilar • Attendanceofschoolgroupsateventsthatfeaturehands-onSTEM STEM activitiesandtoserveasyoungrolemodels. • Visits ofcollegestudentgroupstoclassroomsofferhands-on museums, andotherplaceswithengagingSTEMactivities. • Visits ofK12studentstocolleges,businesses,militarybases, Examples ofsuitableprogramsinclude: student todollarratio. is offeredforSTEMeventsorfieldtrips,preferablythosewithahigh experiences thatmightotherwisenotbeavailablewithoutfundingassistance.Supportupto$1,000perrequest that servestudentsinthethreewesterncountiesofMassachusetts.ItprovideswithmeaningfulSTEM Morton Sternheim.Theirnewestprogram,LittleWow, isaminigrantprogramforschoolsandorganizations through university, istheambitiousgoalofUMassSTEMEducationInstitutedirectedbyEmeritusProfessor Improving Science,Technology, Engineering,andMathematics(STEM)educationatalllevels,fromelementary STEM’S “LITTLEWOW” PROGRAM

OutdoorCenter at NobleView participate inaforest andstream ecologystudy Holyoke CatholicHighSchoolstudents Continued/Outreach Awards DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST 17 Graduate student Jessica McIver has been awarded a Graduate School Dissertation Research Grant (from the UMass Graduate School) for her thesis work on the LIGO project. The award sponsored an extended visit to the LIGO Laboratory in Louisiana in January 2014. JESS MCIVER AWARDED A DISSERTATION JESS MCIVER AWARDED A DISSERTATION GRANT RESEARCH KELLY MALONE WINS PRESTIGIOUS PRESTIGIOUS WINS MALONE KELLY AWARD UNDERGRADUATE "Rising one of four 2013 Malone is Senior Kelly to honor program a new campus-wide Researchers," of exemplify the quality students whose achievements and creative activity conducted research, scholarship, a physics undergraduates. Kelly, by UMass Amherst has worked on the enriched and astronomy major, (EXO) experiment with Prof. observatory Capstone Her year. sophomore her since Pocar Andrea programming the computer control project focussed on EXO-200 the for system abatement radon a of system Mexico. experiment in New BEN GAMARI AWARDED ICB3 OPEN BEN GAMARI AWARDED ICB3 OPEN SOFTWARE PRIZE SOURCE Graduate Student, Ben Gamari, was awarded the Open Source Software Prize from the Institute for and Bioinformatics Biostatistics, Computational Biology, (ICB3) for his work on open-source hardware and software for timing and analysis. Senior Morgan Opie, a physics minor and math minor and math Senior Morgan Opie, a physics offered scholarships 14 of one awarded was major, Churchill Foundation for outstanding by the Winston studies at American students to pursue graduate Cambridge University in the UK. of the recipients fall 2013 four of Opie was also one and she was runner- UMass Rising Researcher awards, prize for Schafer Prize, a national up for the Alice T. woman. undergraduate an by mathematics in excellence MORGAN OPIE RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS MORGAN SCHOLARSHIP student awards student

Continued/Outreach SCIENCE CAFES SCIENCE your hold Don’t hold your breath Don’t breath forfor the the punch line. Therepunch line. There isn’t one. Thisisn’t in Amherst. at a science café actually happened oft told tale at a science happened oft told tale actually one. This café in Amherst. a kind of grassroots science Science cafes are to explain scientific and outreach that attempts to the general public, including technical topics informal atmosphere of a coffee children, in the sometimes-stodgy academic scene. shop, avoiding the theis One Amherst: UMass near cafes science two are There Brewing Company Café that meets at the Amherst SciTech Drive, and the just south of campus at 10 University Biology)other is the OEB (Organismic and Evolutionary at 99 Russell Street, Esselon Café that meets at the Café The National Science Foundation Route 9, in Hadley. café through various grants, and supports the SciTech and the UMass the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences the OEB Café. Natural History Collections support Café, SciTech the of meeting monthly December the At served free of charge,chicken wings and pizza slices were if you had a seat at but other foods could be purchased included people of a table. The audience of roughly 170 a common curiosity all ages and occupations, but with There were high about the science to be discussed. local girl scouts, school teachers, retired college faculty, families. and whole physicians, young college faculty, of Department College Smith the of Brady John Dr. “Reading the Earth Geosciences gave the presentation: more than Beneath our Feet,” that lasted somewhat including Questions were asked throughout, an hour. children. The the of some very relevant ones from informal atmosphere really brought science to the Other public in a fun-filled and very approachable way. Café have included Black presentations at the SciTech Seeing the Holes, The Higgs Boson, Surface Tension, Nano Scale, and Bits and Bytes: the Future of Data Storage. At the OEB café, topics have included Climate Change, the Sense of Smell, and The Mechanics of you might Jumping Frogs. If you are in the vicinity, café presentation. enjoy stopping in for a free science Kathy Aidala, Associate Professor of Physics at Mt. Holyoke College and an Adjunct Associate Professor in and Sarah Café, SciTech organized the Department our Goodwin, a graduate student in biology organized well very a gave recently also Kathy Café. OEB the STEM seminar attended presentation for the Tuesday in Science?” More Women series entitled, “Why Aren’t A 10-year-old girl walks into a bar. She sits next to next to She sits a bar. into girl walks A 10-year-old is asks, “So if the physicist and a particle to fill it up?” field also expand does the Higgs expanding, 18 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Awards faculty awards of materials.CongratulationstoChris! may haveimportantapplicationsintheself-assembly research includes the theory of origami folding that the interplayofgeometryandmaterialproperties.His of theoreticalsoftmatterphysicswithanemphasison to associate professor. He does research in several areas Christian Santangelowasawardedtenureandpromoted TENURE FORSANTANGELO program director. Ourbestwishes,Tony! cell membranes. Tony also servesastheundergraduate The lattertopiciscrucialtounderstandingproteins in on colloidalsystemsandsolidparticlesinmembranes. a softmatterexperimentalist.Heisknownforhiswork Anthony Dinsmorewaspromotedtofullprofessor. Heis PROMOTION FORDINSMORE TENURE FORDAVIDOVITCH congratulations toBenny! nonlinear effects become important. Our hardiest how thinsheetsdevelopcomplexmorphologieswhen methods of“extrememechanics,”heisworkingon physics withanemphasisonpatternformation.Using to associateprofessor. Hedoesresearchinsoftmatter Benny Davidovitchwasawardedtenureandpromoted work, Jenny! the transportationsystemincells.Keepupgood proteins thattravelalongmicrotubulesandconstitute are theskeletonofcells,anddynamicsmotor microscopy techniquestostudymicrotubules,which experimental biologicalphysicsusingadvanced to associateprofessor. Shecarriesoutresearchin Jennifer Rosswasawardedtenureandpromoted TENURE FORROSS

for discoveryinbothlifeandphysicalsciences. Chicago intheresearch,whichoffersendlesspossibilities cellular biophysicistMargaretGardeloftheUniversity plants, animalsandhumans.Shewillpartnerwith workings ofcells,whichformthebasistissuesin to uncoverandestablishthelawsforfundamental INSPIRE awardfromtheNationalScienceFoundation Jennifer Rosswonaprestigiousfour-year, $800,000 ROSS WINSNSFINSPIREGRANT Congratulations, Carlo! theories. Carloalsoservesasgraduateprogramdirector. collisions,whicharepredictedinsomestring search fortheproductionofmini-blackholesinproton- discovered theHiggsboson.Hisworkincludes Large HadronColliderandispart of theteamthat He worksontheATLAS experimentattheCERN Carlo Dallapiccolawaspromotedtofullprofessor. PROMOTION FORDALLAPICCOLA MACHTA WINSNSFINSPIREGRANT large distancesdespitehavingshortrangeinteractions. mechanism bywhichcyclesinecosystemsextendover spatial extendedecosystems, the project will uncover the the theoryofphasetransitiontodynamicalmodels Alan Hasting and physicistAndrew Noble. Byapplying systems. HewillcollaboratewithUCDavisecologist to studytheonsetofspatialsynchronyinecological INSPIRE awardfromtheNationalScienceFoundation Jon Machta won a prestigious three year $600,000 way tobrane architecturesrelevantfor stringtheory. Relativity throughnewexact blackholesolutionsallthe the formaldefinitionofconserved quantitiesinGeneral span oftopicsingravitational physics,rangingfrom His citationreads:Forhisinfluentialwork on abroad APS membership. conferred onlessthanonehalfofpercent the Physical SocietyinNovember2013.Thisisanhonor David Kastorhasbeen named Fellowof the American KASTOR NAMED APSFELLOW

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2013 , may Henry Byrd Mark Lodato Kelly Malone in biological physics or closely related (research In memory of Kandula Sastry) area. Mustafa Selcuk Yasar Dandamudi Rao Scholarship Kandula Sastry Book Award Kandula (academic excellence and versatility) (academic Ryan Horton Scholarship Award Hasbrouck academic excellence) (junior, Kyle Vanderwerf Class of ‘76-’77 Kofler’s Richard Scholarship in Physics) intention of career (strong Morton & Helen Sternheim Award and/or teacher preparation) (educational outreach Anne Dominique Cambou 2013 may wards

2013 may awards graduate A undergraduate physics student awards student physics physics department RECIPIENTS, award Nathan Bernard, Drew Von Maluski, Wenlong Wang, Ryan Horton, Ann Dominique Cambou Wang, Maluski, Wenlong Von Nathan Bernard, Drew (freshman, academic excellence) academic (freshman, Negus Mitchell or teaching) (involvement in outreach Thomas Ledoux Michael Cowell Student Award Chang Transfer excellence) (transfer student, academic Morgan Opie Memorial Scholarship Cook Jr. LeRoy F. Award Chang Freshman Kandula Sastry Thesis Award of outstanding thesis) (presentation Michael Ray Quinton Teaching Assistant Award Assistant Quinton Teaching (outstanding teaching assistant) Nathan Bernard Maluski Von Drew Wang Wenlong Left to Right: Mustafa Selcuk Yasar, Michael Ray, Henry Byrd, Kelly Malone, Mark Lodato, Kyle Vanderwerf, Thomas Ledoux, Thomas Ledoux, Mark Lodato, Kyle Vanderwerf, Kelly Malone, Henry Byrd, Michael Ray, Left to Right: Mustafa Selcuk Yasar, 20 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Book Review

of theoretical physicsatBerkeleyinthe 1930s,where Oppenheimer wasaleader. Heestablished agreatschool by Monk,havenotbeenpreviously emphasized. and hisgreatloveoftheUSA. Thesetraits,nicelytreated particularly frompersonal ambition,butbypatriotism move ittotheUSA.Thiswasnotadrivecoming of theoreticalphysicsawayfromWestern Europeand ambition. Hedecidedthathewouldwresttheleadership great ideas and there developed in him a consuming Especially fromhismentorMaxBorn,heabsorbed the the leadersofemergingfieldquantumphysics. strengths. AtCambridgeandGoettingenhemixedwith But dwellinguponthisweaknessshouldnotobscure his calculations. which seemtoindicatealackofcarefulchecksthe However inhispublishedpaperssomeerrorsoccur fortunately thiswasnottrueofhisgraduatestudents. his ideaswiththerequiredmathematicaltechniques.But physicist sometimesnotabletoprovidethesupportfor omissions. Soeventuallywehaveanoutstanding but welearnthathismathematicaltraininghadsome certainly tookfulladvantageofHarvard’s richofferings, At Harvardhewasinitiallyachemistrymajor. He with oneofhisteachers. where heformedalifelongfriendship Ethical CultureSchoolinManhattan for JRO. His education was at the as a continued problem of self-identity his life.HisfriendIsidorRabisawthis his upbringingorindeedthroughout Jewish rootswerenotabigfactorin family. Somewhatremarkablyhis a wealthy, culturedGerman-Jewish Westside ofNewYork City, raisedin childhood wasspentontheUpper Julius Robert Oppenheimer’s century. important physicistofthetwentieth one of America’s most influentialand us withasuperbexpositionofthelife the UniversityofSouthamptoninEnglandhaspresented attention aratherspecialwork.AuthorRayMonkof until this issue. But we would like to bring to your PeopleA bookreviewhasnotbeenafeatureintheNewsletter by RayMonk.Doubleday2013 Robert Oppenheimer:ALifeInsidetheCenter REVIEW BOOK mistakes thatcosthimdearlyinthepostWWIIera.In time when,inretrospect,weseehimmakingthepolitical associates. Thebookmakesitclearthatthiswasthe he wasabletoattractfirst-ratestudentsandresearch tragedy ofthelifeagreat man. any scientificoutputofhis own.Perhapsthisisthereal Princeton. Againhewasan effectiveleaderbutwithout spent asdirectoroftheInstituteAdvancedStudy at built. The last twenty years of Oppenheimer’s life were security clearance.Ofcoursethehydrogenbombwas of theworkinvestigatingcommittees,helost his but theagentswerelookinginwrongplace!Because at BerkeleyandLosAlamos.Securityleakstherewere, the FBIhadinvestigatedhimthoroughlywhilehewas to thedevelopmentofhydrogenbomb.Agents of Washington. Theissuesweresecurityandhisopposition became increasinglyinvolvedwithpoliticalaffairs in in theyearsimmediatelyfollowingwarhe Robert OppenheimerlovedtheSouthwest.But was astrongmotivatorforbothmen. competent professionals.Againwelearnthatpatriotism administrator. Theyhadgreatrespectforoneanotheras for thejob.Oppenheimerturnedouttobeabrilliant some politicalnegatives,Oppenheimerwastheman 1945. Groveswasageniustorecognizethat,despite his own words he supported every leftwing his ownwordshesupportedeveryleftwing to asuccessfulconclusionbyAugust to bringthenuclearweaponsprogram collaborators workingcloselytogether Groves). Herewehavetwounlikely Oppenheimer) andtheGeneral(Leslie cooperation betweentheProfessor(Robert aspect ofthisperiodwastheremarkable coverage. Aparticularlyinteresting including, forexample,Time Magazine his career that made him so widely known But itwastheWWIILosAlamosphaseof country. without eversacrificinghisloyaltyto remained loyaltohiscommunistfriends them. Itisnosurprisetolearnthathe it seems,becomingamemberofany organization ontheWest Coast,without, people People DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST 21

Ann has always done her job above and beyond Ann has always done her job above If personnel cases were backed the call of duty. weekends. up, she stayed late or came in on in a special If the Department was engaged the ball initiative, it was often Ann who carries “Science A notable example was administratively. years soonDays,” an initiative that ran for several during which thousands was hired, after Ann visited of Massachusetts high school students sciences labs. campus to hear lectures and tour logistical It was a huge success, but also a huge it. of middle the in right was Ann and nightmare, in Sunderland. husband Rob Ann lives with her Her parents and her two grown children live in the area. In retirement, Ann is clear about not and is looking forward to staying home all day, being more physically active, spending more time with family and doing some volunteer work. She loved working in our department, and her advice to the next person who has her job is to be patient, have a tough skin, and smile. She created schedules, made contacts, arranged She created schedules, made contacts, arrangedthe lunches, reserved rooms for lectures, and printed faculty for tours and lectures, her Without and distributed the advertising. would not exceptional effort “Science Days” did all of this have happened. And, of course, she with all of her while at the same time carrying on “regular” duties. wish her well in her post retirement We endeavors. She will be missed! ! our congratulations to Ann, as the winner Finally, of the 2014 College of Natural Science Staff Award.

ANN CAIRL RETIRES ANN CAIRL people Ann Cairl, the Office and Personnel Manager Manager Personnel and Office the Cairl, Ann since October 1987, Department of the Physics came to UMass in 1974. retires in June. Ann Physics Department, she Before joining the in the Department of Civil worked three years Bill Heronemus, followed by Engineering under Library reference section, and three years in the Whitmore Data Processing seven years in the Center. Bob Hallock, the Department Ann was hired by candidates Bob recalls: “Two Head at the time. qualified. Ann was one of emerged as the most decision, those. It was not an easy or immediate APS sectionaland I made it as I was driving to an contact Ann I stopped To meeting in Vermont. a phone booth her from and called the drive spot, which along I-91. She accepted on the Bob better.” made the rest of the drive that much on the things continued, “When asked to reflect nearly nine I did and decisions I made during the the decision years that I was Department Head, the list. And, to hire Ann is right there on top of I have most when asked to think about things Department, enjoyed about my time with the of top on there right again is Ann with working the list.” for worked Ann Hallock, Bob to addition In Donoghue,John Dubach, John Heads Department current Head Jon Machta, Don Candela, and commented Rory Miskimen. All of these Heads with Ann.on how much they appreciated working Her consistently great attitude, good judgment, ability to get many things done simultaneously and her terrific sense of humor made the job of Head much easier and more enjoyable. Ann has been responsible for many of the activities that make the Department run smoothly As personnel manager she prepares and happily. documentation and is involved in many other aspects of hiring, promotions, and other personnel staff and student employees. actions for faculty, As office manager one of her roles is to be the face fielding receiving visitors and Department, the of phone calls. Her wisdom, calm presence and good humor made her ideal for this job whether a parent, or a the caller or visitor was a reporter, prospective student. 22 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST People from Janicefrom Button-Shafer, Emerita Continued/People only woman. lectures here, Chrishasbeentheonlyscientist ANDthe offspring of our residents who have presented special and wasenthusiasticallyreceived. Amongthehalf-dozen spoke toourresidentson“The Sun,andSpaceWeather” discussion ofherwork.Christina (MaeShafer)Cohen space physicsatCaltech,to presentourseniorswitha Last springIinvitedmy daughter, aresearcher in this year’s NobelPrizeinPhysicsforHiggs andEnglert. experiments at CERN’s that led to ideas presented fifty yearsago,and the ATLAS andCMS talk forseniors.ThisdealtwiththeHiggsBoson: the Last month,withsomemisgivings,Iagaingaveaphysics Wu, Rubin…). contributions ofwomen(M.Curie,I.Meitner, covered acenturyofphysics–withemphasison the and historicalaccountsofpeopleapparatusthat of anExperimentalist.”Ihadfunassemblingpictures entitled “NuclearPhysicstoAstrophysics:Observations by ayoungtheorist.Imanagedtoconstructtwolectures follow a series of Teaching Company DVD presentations leading todarkmatterandenergy;thesewere for the200+residentsofmyseniorcomplex,onphysics In October 2011, I was asked to present two lectures, presented/attended bypastorfutureNobelPrizewinners. Institute forNuclearandParticleAstrophysics,often about ,especiallyfromseminarsofthe at CERN.) During my decade at LBL, I enjoyed learning LBL-designed pixeldetectorfortheATLAS experiment came fromCERN,andourelectronicsderivedthe hoped-for InternationalLinearCollider. (TheGEM foils multiplier) devices for readout of particledetectors at the table-top experimentsonspecialGEM(gaselectron years 2005-2008withafewotherLBLphysicistsin research with the SLAC “B-factory,” I had spent the physicist daughterandherfamily. Ihaveretainedthe apartment inaPasadenasenior-living complexnearmy Lawrence BerkeleyLabasaguestretiree,Itookan After adecadespentinparticle-physicsresearchatthe LBL grouppursuing involvement withthe Following lengthy and computerscientist). grown sons(engineer musicians –andmytwo contacts withphysicists, three monthstocontinue four weeksthereevery been spendingtwoto husband died,andhave my mathematician Bay Areahomewhere

[email protected] [email protected] years atUMass. with faculty colleagues that I enjoyed for thirty-two with eagerstudentsandthestimulatingconversations formal ones.However, Idomissgreatlytheinteractions professional string-playersforcasualsessionsandmore find veryrewarding.Ihavebeenfortunatetoplaywith Chamber music(piano),aswellGermanstudy, I a JPLlecture. physics colloquia,andhavemanagedtotakefriends a privatehighschool.IoccasionallyattendCaltech she taughtchemistryformanyyearsatCalstateand who came from Brazil, the widow of a Caltech professor, Calstate L.A. Another closer to my age is a chemist experiments, andwasprofessoradministratorat over 90yearsofage,didresearchincondensed-matter two womenscientistsinthepastcoupleyears.One,now Happily, Ihavebeenjoinedinmyresidencecomplexby [email protected] now drivesabig red fire truck,only a dream ofmostboys! themselves. On theotherhand,there isan opportunity. Ross through a porthole. The alpacas will have to fend for of Rieslingcanbesipped while observingtheinferno for awinecellar. Soif thebigonecomes,acalmingglass below ground andmaintainsacooltemperature appropriate fire-survival bunkerofprefabricated concrete. The bunkeris in anecologicallysoundstraw-bale house,buthasinstalleda creates itsownsetofproblems andopportunities.Helives dry weatherdownunderandtheconsequentfire hazards, especially misstheharshweatherofNewEngland,but 10 alpacasandsometimesgoescamelriding.Hedoesn’t his native Australia and lives near the ocean where he keeps in Medium EnergyNuclearPhysics.HereturnedtoVictoria the rankstoFullProfessor andPrincipalInvestigator in Ross tookearlyretirement in2004afteradvancingthrough country downunder.with camelstraversinginasunburned railroad, theGhan,originated byAfghans,hencethename, hundred yearsago,transcontinentalpathsnowreplaced bythe intheoutbackofAustralia.One dromedarius Camelus Faculty Emeritus Ross Hicks discussing string theory with

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Retired Professor Norman C. Ford passed away suddenly at his home in 25, August on Amherst 2013. He came to UMass in September 1965 as one of the founding members Gluckstern- Robert the of led era department with its emphasis on becoming a modern first-rate research oriented institution. During those years, over 30-research faculty were hired by the department while UMass grew from a primarily teaching university of about 12,000 students to about like to 25,000, of which 6,000 were graduate students. We one of equivalent by the grew university the that observe for about ten years. every year, Amherst College each year, Norman played a major role in establishing our graduate program practices of admissions, course structure, requirements. thesis and examinations, qualifying Norman C. Ford tennis, where he said he would be uncomfortable playing uncomfortable would be he said he where tennis, his displaying enjoyed He partner! doubles a with in his condominium. when he entertained cooking skills impressive with a keen eye for photography He had Hasbrouck. in and home at both work his of displays but more of social dancing, fit with his love He kept He on his bicycle. with his excursions significantly, much he kept it in perfect condition enjoyed his bike so really living alone was not room. However in his living yearned for a family life but this was by choice. He had him. His Airdale dog was of some somehow denied a few years. compensation for his career took a somewhat surprisingAround about 1990 and research he thought more turn. Both in his teaching a For example he wrote and more as an experimentalist. lab course that he was manual for the Research the from grant he obtained a And teaching. work on HighCorporation for his experimental research . Temperature superconducting to build a series of complex His idea was time Over oxides. copper the upon based compounds compounds, such hundred one over synthesized he barium and incorporating the elements lanthanum, The search calcium in complicated molecular structures. showed for new high temperature superconductors work on the copperpromise but was never successful. His “Physica.” oxides was published in the journal He is survived by his sister Joan Feldman. As time progressed, he tended to work and publish As time progressed, he tended to work and publish physics the on friend best my as him of thought “I alone. faculty” writes Arthur Quinton. “For years we played but always singles.” Stan tended to be a tennis together, play and it even showed up in hisloner both at work and Stanley joined us at UMass in 1966 as an associate Stanley joined us at UMass in 1966 as an associate the first condensed matter theorist in what professor, turned out to be a strong group. He published in his career 21 papers, for 8 of which he was the sole author. The most cited work is on fluctuations with S. Doniach (484 citations). His work was characterized by an outstanding appreciation for mathematical technique, functions. including especially Green’s In 1960 he began his studies in the field of condensed in the field his studies he began In 1960 for himself a matter physics. By 1966 he had established young theorists in reputation as one of the outstanding a Research Associate this field in that era. Firstly he was by four years at at the University of Illinois, followed this time During Princeton as an instructor and lecturer. in the he enjoyed good relations with leaders and later, Telephone Laboratories. In 1966 and again field at Bell of Imperial College Fellow at a Visiting he was in 1968 he that rapid was so progress His University. London overPublications Princeton. at theses PhD two supervised these years include papers coauthored with prominent Brinkman and Nobel lauriates such as W.F. Anderson. J.R. Schrieffer and P.W. Professor Engelsberg Professor Engelsberg grew up in the New City area. After York he was awarded the high school he entered MIT where at in 1961 a PhD up with followed He 1955. in BS “Energy losses of Harvard. The title of his thesis was His advisor was fast particles: collective excitations.” He Schwinger. the Nobel Prize winner Professor Julian in the Physical published this work as the sole author Review in 1961. It is with regret that regret that It is with the death we report Engelsberg, of Stanley of Emeritus Professor Physics at the University. inHe died unexpectedly in year last of October the Bay State Medical Center in Springfield, was Massachusetts. He 79 years of age. Stanley J. Engelsberg Stanley J. in memoriam in 24 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST People Continued/In Memoriam pharmaceuticals, anddeterminingthe molecular improving the efficiencyofdeliveringinhaled atomized of companiesthatdeveloped applicationsasdiverse Later onhelefttobecome cofounderofasuccession every middle to large size hospital in the country. a bloodanalysismachine thatisstillinusetoday scatteringinstrument thatbecame the heart of During thattimehedirectedthedevelopmentof a stayed onasthedirectorofresearchforafewyears. large instrumentationcompanyin1983,Norman After Langley-FordInstrumentswasabsorbedby a What acontrasttotheuniversity’s attitudeoftoday! equipment orfacilitieswereutilizedintheprocess. was tolerated,aslongnouniversityspace,time, attitude wasthatcommercialdevelopmentbyfaculty exploitation ofideasgeneratedattheuniversity. Their part infosteringorencouragingthecommercial time theUniversityofMassachusettsplayednoactive scattering lab.Itisinterestingtorecallthatat version of the instrumentation used in the light of designing, building and distributing a commercial founded LangleyFordInstrumentswiththeobjective his research.In 1976, alongwith Kenneth Langley, he and developedmuchoftheinstrumentationusedin always talented at inventing experimental apparatus in printseveraldifferentlanguages.Normanwas life sciencemajors;latereditionsofthebookarestill early editionsofanintroductoryphysicstextbookfor most ofthebiophysicsmaterialincorporatedin offered inthephysicsdepartment.Healsoauthored developed andtaughtthefirstBiophysicscoursetobe solution. To accompanytheselinesofresearch,Norman many studiesofthepropertiespolymermoleculesin Karasz, ofPolymerScienceandEngineeringtherewere solution conditionswasaccomplished.With Frank they bind to specific protein moleculesunderdifferent the shapeoftransferribonucleicacidmoleculesas in biochemistry, pioneeringworkonthechangesin of theuniversity. Forexample,with“Skip”Fournier collaborations withcolleaguesinotherdepartments biology andtopolymerscience.Thisledextensive clear thatmanyoftheapplicationsarerelevantto the flowofcomponentsinsidelivingcells.Itbecame particles andmacromoleculesinliquidsolution scattering expanded to encompass the diffusion of small directed thelaboratoryasapplicationsoflaserlight effort byProfessorKennethLangley. Together they infinity. Ayearafterhisarrivalhewasjoinedinthis properties, forexamplethecompressibility, divergeto the - critical point where many of the physical focused onexploringthebehaviorofsimplefluidsnear the LaserLightScatteringLaboratory. Theresearch Norman’s first research project at UMass was to establish Robert L.Gray honor hismemory life andinfullviewofthecampus,allpaidtributeto and personality. With thebackdropofimagesfromhis colleagues gathered to speak of his accomplishments Marriott Suite on the 11th floor. Family, friends, and Sept. 21,2013,attheUMassCampusCenterin A memorialservicefor Norm was held onSaturday, the highstandardshesetforhisstudentsandhimself. department, hisdedicationto,theencouragementof,and for hisearlydevotiontothemodernizationofphysics remembered at the University of Massachusetts Amherst early patent on the use of photon correlation. Hewillbe Fellowship. Heheldaboutadozenpatentsincludingkey England, Norman Ford was honored by a Guggenheim spending sabbaticalleavesinSweden,Germany, and In additiontoholdingmanyresearchgrantsand and anotherthatbuildswoodenframebicycles. consult foracompanythatmakesracingsnowshoes years Normanmadeuseofhisbusinessexperienceto of acolumnchromatographydevice.Inhislastfew weight ofthemoleculesastheycomefromoutput who truly made a difference in the lives of many and who who trulymade adifferenceinthelivesof manyandwho much deserved! Bobretiredin1993. This wasaman Outstanding EmployeeAward. Quiteanhonor, and as therecipientofboth campus-wideandstate-wide the peopleheworkedwith. In1988,hewashonored university citizenandcared deeplyaboutUMassand Business Manager. Hewasamodeldepartmentand until 1980 when hewas appointed asthedepartment’s He remainedinvolvedinday-to-dayteachingactivities in the1970’s, Bobdidalloftheinitialspaceplanning. labs. WhenPhysics&AstronomymovedintoLederle needed modernelectronicequipmentforusein the were obtainedprovidedforthepurchaseofmuch The proposalwassuccessful,andthefundswhich the modernizationoffreshmanphysicslaboratories. departmental proposaltoseekfederalfundsassist in Physics 151&152.Hewastheauthoroffirst time, hetaughtwhatisnow Instructor/Lecturer. Atthe & Astronomy) in 1962 as an the Department(thenPhysics of 82.Bobstartedworkingin on March18,2014,attheage of our legends, Robert Gray, learned of the passing of one that thePhysicsDepartment It was with great sadness .

Professor andaFellowofthe AmericanPhysicalSociety. Professorship atUCBerkeleywhereheisnowaFull in NuclearPhysics.In2001heacceptedanAssistant thesis wontheAmericanPhysicalSocietyThesisAward Postdoctoral ScholarinPhysics.In1998hisUMass 1997, Yury wentto CaltechastheRobertA.Milliken requirements forthePhDbeforehis24thbirthday in graduate studiesinphysics.Aftercompleting the Alexey returnedtoUMassinAugustof1993begin about Alexeyinour2011Newsletter.) Yury and Wayne StateUniversity inDetroit.Thereisanarticle in theDepartmentofPhysicsandAstronomyat accompanying KGB agent. (Alexey is a Full Professor University in St. Petersburg, Russia, aswell asan with otherexchangestudentsfromtheTechnical to UMassinJanuaryof1992forsixmonthsalong Yury andAlexeyPetrov(MS’94,PhD’97)came title was“TheColdestHeartintheUniverse.”) . (“Coure”isItalianforheart.Yury’s colloquium early universe,aswellsettingthescaleforneutrino in generatingthematter-antimatter asymmetryinthe place and provide strong evidence for the role of fermion, thenneutrinolessdoublebetadecaycouldtake If theneutrinoisitsownantiparticle,i.e.,aMajorana United States at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory. Events) experimentjointlysupportedbyItalyandthe CUORE (CryogenicUndergroundObservatoryforRare about thesearchforneutrinolessdoublebetadecayin department onOctober16togiveacolloquiumlecture at theUniversityofCaliforniaBerkeley, returnedtoour Yury Kolomensky

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[email protected] [email protected] alumni news alumni Yury Kolomensky Kolomensky Yury returned to our Berkeley, of California at the University lecture to give a colloquium on October 16 department decay in the double beta search for neutrinoless about the for Rare Observatory (Cryogenic Underground CUORE the jointly supported by Italy and Events) experiment Laboratory. National Sasso Gran Italy’s at States United its own , i.e., a Majorana If the is double could take fermion, then neutrinoless neutrinosof role the for evidence strong provide and place in the in generating the matter-antimatter well as setting the scale for neutrino early universe, as colloquium is Italian for heart. Yury’s masses. (“Coure” Coldest Heart in the Universe.”) title was “The and Alexey Petrov (MS ’94, PhD ’97) came Yury six months along to UMass in January of 1992 for the Technical with other exchange students from as an as well Russia, Petersburg, in St. University Professor Full a is (Alexey agent. accompanying KGB in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at State University in Detroit. There is an article Wayne and Yury about Alexey in our 2011 Newsletter.) Alexey returned to UMass in August of 1993 to begin graduate studies in physics. After completing the requirements for the PhD before his 24th birthday in as the Robert A. Milliken went to Caltech 1997, Yury Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics. In 1998 his UMass thesis won the American Physical Society Thesis Award in Nuclear Physics. In 2001 he accepted an Assistant Professorship at UC Berkeley where he is now a Full Professor and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Gerry Peterson and Yury. Gerry was Yury’s advisor during his Gerry was Yury’s Gerry Peterson and Yury. association with UMass.

David Stephen, UMass

In 2008 David was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Amyotrophic with diagnosed was David 2008 In Disease”). At that time, Sclerosis (ALS or “Lou Gehrig’s his disease had already progressed to the point where he walked with extreme difficulty and could no longer use his right-hand. Nevertheless, he was still in great would what about worried too seem didn’t He spirits. the end, although he inevitably happen next. Toward could no longer use his fingers to type, he would still send emails and jokes by using a trackball keyboard with his foot. This was reflective of his strength, determination, and courage. David is survived by his wife Luisa Stephen-Ong. David Ong-Stephen and son Vincent requested that those who knew him spend a few minutes reflecting upon memorable times you shared with him. (Condensed from an article by Shu-bon Chan, PhD ’70)

David Stephen, MS ’67, PhD ’70, passed away on May 3,away on May ’67, PhD ’70, passed David Stephen, MS was born in Hong Kong, graduated 2013, at age 69. He and then left for Montreal College in 1961, from St Paul’s where he University, Williams to study at Sir George UMass to coming before 1965, in BSc a completed with Shu-bon Chan, Hal Haselton, Amherst. Along David was a Mann, and Bob Ponte, Justus Koch, Tony in the UMass Amherst High Energy graduate student Gluckstern the Department’s Physics Group during Bubble chamber experiments were Era (1964–1969). and the Laboratory, National at Brookhaven out carried was made in the scanning of images and data analysis machine andHasbrouck Lab using a homemade scanning his PhD, he returnedcomputer program. After receiving College. Vanier at taught physics where he Montreal, to will be remembered as lecturer, employee, and mentor and mentor employee, lecturer, as be remembered will Bob. peace, Rest in extraordinaire. David Stephen Continued/In MemoriamContinued/In 26 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Alumni News

Life AfterUMassPhysics:PursuingtheAmericanDream two years,Ireceivedascholarshipforgraduatestudies After teachinghigh-schoolPhysicsinHongKong for National Taiwan University. which Ilaterchoseasmyundergraduatemajor at particles. ThisnewssparkedmyinterestinPhysics, led toimportantdiscoveriesregardingtheelementary so-called parityviolationinweakinteractionwhich jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on the Ning (C.N.)Yang andTsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee,were Hong Kong, Chinese-born American physicists, Chen In 1957,whenIwasjustahigh-schoolstudentin share some of my life experiences after graduation. a momenttoreflectuponmytimeatUMassand back manyfondmemories.Itinspiredmetotake Revisiting Amherstafteralltheseyearsbrought all ofwhomlookedexactlyasIrememberedthem. Sternheim, Dr. Kofler, Dr. Langley, andDr. Jones, my formerprofessors,includingDr. Quinton,Dr. service, Iwasfortunateenoughtorunintomanyof the wayIremembered.AtDr. Ford’s memorial hours, and the small pond behind it are both just Hasbrouck Laboratory, whereIspentcountless many years. to theboardinghouseonSpringStreetwhereIlivedfor took indailyonmywalksbackandforthfromcampus Jeffery Inn,andAmherstCommon,aviewthatIonce comforted bythefamiliarsightsofGraceChurch,Lord at all. Upon arriving in Amherst, I was welcomed and had passed,thecollegetownhasnotchangedmuch I wassurprisedtofindthatalthoughover40years Professor NormanC.Ford’s memorialservice. to Amherstuntilyesterday, whenIreturnedtoattend all theseyearssincegraduation,Ihadnotbeenback Department. AlthoughIhaveremainedinMassachusetts alongside fiveotherclassmatesintheUMassPhysics I earnedmyPhDinHighEnergyPhysics1970, by Shu-bonChan oyMn DvdSehn a aetn utsKc Shu-bon Chan Justus Koch Hal Haselton Tony MannDavid Stephen

Gerry Meisner(apost-doctoralfellow),and six Steve Yamamoto, DickKofler, StanHertzbach, the groupconsistedofDrs.JaniceButton-Shafer, High EnergyPhysics(HEP)group.Atthetime, officially becameaPhDcandidate,Ijoined the That fall,afterIpassedthequalificationexam and me. DareIsaywasonCloudNine? Flying highinthesky, Isawabrightfutureinfrontof with himinaprivatejetfromLongIslandtoAmherst. When summerended,Dr. Glucksternofferedmearide in FORTRAN. This waswhenIfirstlearnedcomputerprogramming fine facilities, including thenstate-of-the-art computers. group, andhadtheopportunitytousemanyofBNL’s While at BNL, I worked in Dr. Rosenbaum’s research violation. conducted research to support theirtheoryon parity 1956 tointerpretparticledecayintheCosmotronand C.N. Yang and T.D. Lee first worked together in thrilled aboutthisopportunityasBNLwaswhere at BrookhavenNationalLaboratory(BNL).Iwas In thesummerof1966,Iworkedasastudent attend hismemorialservice.) and in2009,ItraveledfromBostontoMaryland always beengratefulforDr. Gluckstern’s mentorship to becomehisteachingassistant.(Asanaside,Ihave several introductorygraduatecoursesandheaskedme Gluckstern’s attentionthroughmyachievementsin physicists ofthetime.Inmyfirstyear, IattractedDr. the department through the recruitment of manytop Robert Glucksternwasexpandingandtransforming during theso-called“GlucksternEra”whenDr. I enteredtheUMassPhysicsDepartmentin1965, comfortable lifeinAmerica. like C.N.Yang andT.D. Lee,andIwantedtolivea and simple.Iwantedtobecomeasuccessfulphysicist the Americandream.Mygoalswerebothambitious at UMassandcametotheUnitedStatespursue Alumni News DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST 27 Dr. Shafer and Shu-bon Chan during a visit Dr. to her Kensington, California in 2010, home exactly 40 years after his graduation. I decided to enroll in Northeastern University’s MBA I decided to enroll in Northeastern University’s program and spent the next seven years earning my MBA through evening classes while working full-time and while my wife and I were raising two young daughters. It proved to be worthwhile as the management training that I received from the program combined with my scientific knowledge helped me successfully navigate the business challenges that I encountered across many different industries. opportunities. At the time, computer technology was technology time, computer At the opportunities. for more using computers been had I infancy. in its research on my thesis years while working than five for me. viable career path that was a and I decided at one semester for science computer After studying American at programmer a as job a landed I UMass, Mass. That was the springboard Optical in Southbridge, (IT). in Information Technology for a 40-year career I still have mixed feelings about Looking back, Although I was disappointed this career change. a field to which I had devoted to leave Physics, fortunate to also was life, I academic of my most of and rapidly growing field be entering a new it offered at a time in which Information Technology opportunities and challenges. seemingly endless way up from a Over the years, I worked my Leader, to Systems Analyst, to Project programmer, to IT Director, to IT Manager, to Project Manager, finally to Chief of Information Systems, and to V.P. industry experience Information Officer (CIO). My software, spanned the areas of manufacturing, My government, and healthcare. biotechnology, changing field and technical knowledge of a rapidly moved up as I skills advanced administration business as my administration the corporate ladder; however, that I could no responsibilities expanded, I realized background. longer depend purely on my scientific

Dr. Yamamoto, Dr. Shafer, and Dr. Gluckstern, in front of Gluckstern, in front and Dr. Shafer, Dr. Yamamoto, Dr. the scanner. I still recall my daily task of carrying trays of punched of trays carrying task of my daily still recall I picking up the cards to the computer center and analysis. This for further day the following results four years continued for a period of approximately until I finished my thesis and received my PhD in 1970. Janice Button- Under the excellent advisement of Dr. thesis involved the study of Y(1520) decay my Shafer, into Y(1385) π for the verification and calculation of Shafer taught the SU(3) singlet/octet mixing angle. Dr. me how to approach basic scientific research, allowed me considerable freedom in exploring my thesis topic, offer guidance. and how to knew when and always After earning my PhD in 1970, I searched diligently for a post-doctoral fellowship or teaching position. After finally was I job searching, unsuccessful of year a nearly forced to give up on that life path. This was a very the immigrant discouraging period of my life; however, spirit within me refused to giveDream. American the on up Recognizing that there are alternative pathways to success, I began looking into other fields for graduate students: Tony Mann, David Stephen, Stephen, David Mann, Tony students: graduate myself. and Koch, Justus Haselton, Ponte, Hal Bob We collaborated University with Willis at Yale Dr.William in the particle experiment our elementary and conducted National Laboratory. Brookhaven at chamber bubble bubble the from images particle the captured group The the images using a scanned, and analyzed chamber, machine and computer programs. homemade scanning 28 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST New Alumni he will be the Nobel Prize winner for our family. knows howtousemoreiPadappsthanIdo.Perhaps dream ontomygrandson,Connor, who,atagetwo, have beenfulfilled.Ohwell.Iwilltopassthat to becomeaNobelPrize-winningscientist,maynot America, hascometrue.Theotherpartofmydream, Part ofmydream,toliveacomfortablelifein afraid becauseI had adream, an Americandream. I camealonetotheUnitedStates.Butwasnot dollars inmypocket,and“nospeakingtheEnglish,” In 1965,withascholarshipfromUMass,justfew and HarvardUniversityfortheiradvanceddegrees. my “Cornelltwins”),andthentoBentleyUniversity my twodaughterstoCornellUniversity(Icallthem career path,Iwasfortunateenoughtobeablesend opportunities forglobaltravel,andthankstothis companies providedmewithmanyexciting Working astheITDirectorforlargeinternational which improvesthequalityoftheirservicestopatients. real-time diagnosisandrecordkeepingcapability, The MRMsystemprovideshealthcareproviderswith system thatIimplementedforseveralhealthcenters. to societyistheMedicalRecordManagement(MRM) The othersystemthathasresultedinapositiveimpact significantly sincetheimplementationofthissystem. public safetypersonnel.Thecity’s crimeratehasfallen of emergency calls and providesadditionalprotection to devices andGPSunits,whichspeedsuptheresolution to policecarsorfireenginesequippedwithwireless It accepts911callsandsilentlydispatchesdirectly implemented foralargecity’s publicsafetydepartment. most proudofisthereal-timedispatchsystemthatI a positiveimpactonsociety. ThesystemthatIam they addressedreal-worldproblemsandresultedin but twoinparticularstandoutmymindbecause Over the years, I have implemented many IT systems, at hissummerhouseonCapeCod. his favoritesummertimeactivities, clamdigging Shu-bon teachinghisgrandsonConnor oneof

[email protected] and youwillfarejustfine. had envisioned,butremaindetermined,workhard, assured thatlifemightnotendupexactlythewayyou land ajobinthesetryingeconomictimesisthis:Rest My messageforrecentgraduatesouttheretryingto career endsupbeingoutsideofthefieldPhysics. meaningful achievement in one’s career, evenif that can beappliedtoreal-worldproblemsandresultin and critical-thinkingskills.Theseinvaluableskills scientific knowledgeaswellproblem-solving enter therealworldequippedwithsubstantial Students educatedintheUMassPhysicsDepartment grandson all dayand teaching him everything I know. is nothingmorefulfillingthanplayingwithmy of myjobs,Ienjoycurrentjobthemost.There taking careofmygrandson,Connor. Outofall full-time titleofCIO(ChiefInfant-careOld-timer) Although technicallyretired,Istillmaintainmy [email protected] you whooverlapped withmeatUMass. Canada. Iwouldverymuch liketohearfromthoseof located 2kmunderground nearSudbury, Ontario, a largetankofliquidargon atSNOLAB,alaboratory experiment lookingfordark matterinteractionsusing sliver oftime,I’vebeenworkingontheDEAP3600 a teachingprofessor, andaresearcher. Inthatlatter a UnitedStatesdepartmenthead,businessmanager, that involvesacombinationofsometheduties of of SussexinBrighton,UK,whereIhaveaposition Since thenIwenttotherapidlyexpandingUniversity two weeks.)Theuniversitysufferedseveredamage. Daiichi nuclearmeltdownfollowedinalittleover earthquake, thehugetsunami,andFukushima- at 12:56PMon22Feb.2011.(TheJapaneseTohoku remember itwellenoughtotellyouthathappened of whichkilled185peopleinFebruary2011.I of 2010,followedbyseverallargeaftershocks,one Christchurch washitbya7.1earthquakeinSeptember economy in2010,IwentbacktotheUniversity, but this work.With thedownturninNewZealand powder spill incidents.” Several patents resulted from which wouldbeusedbyfirstrespondersto“white up company in designing a hand-held anthrax detector 2004 PhysicsNewsletter),butthenjoinedasmallstart- RICE experimentsattheSouthPole(Seepage12of for severalyears,andhadworkedontheIceCube Canterbury UniversityinChristchurch,NewZealand, Steve T. Churchwell(PhD’98)writes:Ihadbeenat new alumni New Alumni DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST 29

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Burcu Yucesoy Replica Exchange Monte Carlo Simulations of the Ising Spin Glass: Static Machta Yucesoy Burcu Replica Exchange Monte Carlo Simulations of the Ising Spin Glass: Static Properties and Dynamic Craig Versek Charge Transport Studies of Proton and Ion Conducting Materials Tuominen and Ion Conducting Materials Studies of Proton Charge Transport Craig Versek Muthukumar (PSE)* Wang Yanbo and Translocation Stretching of Polyelectrolyte Computer Simulations Andrew Meade W/Z + Jets Cross Section Ratio, and its Implications for New Physics at the Meade W/Z + Jets Cross Andrew Brau Complexes Muthukumar (PSE)* Bo Peng Theory and Simulations of Polyelectrolyte Huajie Ke Fabrication, Characterization and Analysis of Patterned Nano-sized Material Tuominen Huajie Ke Fabrication, Characterization and Analysis of Patterned Nano-sized Material with Large Magnetic Permeability at High Experiment ATLAS Jaime Hutchison The Effect of Vesicle Shape, Line Tension, and Lateral Tension on Dinsmore on and Lateral Tension Jaime Hutchison Line Tension, Shape, of Vesicle The Effect Membrane-Binding Proteins Jessica Cook Gravitational Production through Decay of the Inflaton into Intermediary Sorbo Decay through Production Jessica Cook Gravitational Wave Fields during Slow Roll German Colon Search for TeV-Scale Signatures in Final States with and Jets Dallapiccola Gravity Signatures for TeV-Scale German Colon Search at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV Detector with the ATLAS

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