• Cindy Regal ('01) is receiving the Nathan M. Pusey Young Alumni Achievement Award at reunion weekend!  Congratulations Cindy!
• The 2011 edition of the Lawrence Physics Workshop was held on 25-26 February.  Watch the "This is Lawrence" video from this year's workshop.
• Lawrence physics alumnus, Daniel Casner ('06), was interviewed on the Today Show.
• Eric Frater ('11) delivered a physics colloquium talk titled Research on Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy at the University of Twente on Thursday 27 January 2011 at 11:10 AM In Youngchild Hall 115.
• Alyssa Stephenson ('11) delivered a colloquium talk titled The Vibrations of Garlic on Thursday 3 February 2011 at 11:10 AM in Y-115.
• 1991 Lawrence alumna, Andrea Cox, Ph.D., gave a physics colloquium titled TomoTherapy: A Case-Study on the Application of Physics to Medicine, on Friday 14 January 2011 at 4:00 PM in Youngchild 115.
• Megan Pickett, Assoc. Prof. of Physics, gave a poster presentation titled Comparison Simulations of Gas Giant Planet Formation via Disk Instability, at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, WA (13 January 2011).
• Shannon O'Leary, Lawrence Fellow, gave a talk at the Midwest Cold Atoms Workshop titled Recent experiments in polarization noise correlation in a Zeeman EIT system, 13 November 2010.
• Henry Strehlow (LU '12) gave a poster presentation at the Midwest Cold Atoms Workshop titled Exploring the robustness of a cross-correlated noise resonance due to Zeeman EIT, 13 November 2010.
• John R. Brandenberger, Professor of Physics Emeritus and Alice G. Chapman Professor of Physics Emeritus published an article in the American Physical Society - Forum on Education newsletter (Fall 2010) titled Teaching Innovation Through Undergraduate Research.
• Faraz Choudhury (LU '11) and Andrew Knoedler (LU '11) delivered contributed papers (posters) at the American Physical Society - Division of Plasma Physics meeting in Chicago, IL, 8-9 November 2010.
• Lu Yu (LU '12) delivered a talk titled How Strong Are Your Cells: Measuring the Stiffness of Microtubules as a Function of Diameter at the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science 2010 Undergraduate Symposium in the Biological Sciences and Psychology at the University of Chicago.  Her talk was based on summer research conducted with Professor Douglas Martin.
• Brian Van Hoozen (LU '12) and Carol Bodnar (LU '12) gave a talk titled, How Strong Are Your Cells Skeletons? Measuring the Stiffness of Microtubules as a Function of Diameter at the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science 2010 Undergraduate Symposium in the Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.  Their talk was based on summer research conducted with Professor Douglas Martin.
• Brad Bodee (LU '11) delivered a physics colloquium talk titled Cold Ions and Dark Rooms: Molecular Ion Trapping based on his summer research at Northwestern University. 11 November 2011
• Professor Pupa Gilbert, from UW-Madison, delivered a physics colloquium talk on "Biominerals," 28 October 2010 in Youngchild 115 at 11:10 AM
• Kelsey Gray ('11) delivered a physics colloquium talk on "Optical Properties of Liquid Core Waveguides," 26 October 2010 in Youngchild Hall 115 at 11:10 AM.
• Professor Charles DeMets (LU '82) from the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin - Madison delivered a joint Physics - Geology Colloquium on Friday 8 October 2010 at 3:00 PM in Youngchild 121.  The title of his talk is Chasing Earthquakes Along the Coast of Mexico and Central America: Planes, Terranes, Automobiles, and GPS
• Anne Marie Milne ('10) is coauthor with Professor Megan Pickett (and collaborators at Indiana University and the University of Kentucky) of a paper that recently appeared in Astrophysical Journal Letters: Kai Cai, Megan K. Pickett, Richard H. Durisen, and Anne Marie Milne, "Giant Planet Formation By Disk Instability: A Comparison Simulation With an Improved Radiative Scheme."  ApJ 716, L176 (2010).
• Gennady Malyshev ('10) is coauthor with Professor John Brandenberger of a paper that recently appeared in Physical Review A: J.R. Brandenberger and G.S. Malyshev, "Fine-structure splittings in high-lying ²F states of rubidium via three-step laser spectroscopy," Phys. Rev. A 81, 032515 (2010).
• The 24th annual Lawrence Physics Workshop was held 26-27 February 2010.  Twenty-six high school seniors from 14 states and one from the U.K participated in this year's workshop.  The local paper covered the event.
• Mackenzie Van Camp ('09) is coauthor of a paper that was recently published in Physical Review A, titled "Electromagnetically induced transparency with noisy lasers:"
  • Yanhong Xiao, et al., Phys. Rev. A, 80, 041805(R) 2009.
• Bao Ha ('07) is the first author on a paper that recently appeared in Physics of Plasmas, titled "Using numerical simulations to extract parameters of toroidal electron plasmas from experimental data:"
  • B.N. Ha, M.R. Stoneking, and J.P. Marler, Phys. Plasmas 16, 032110 (2009).

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[28 November 2007] Professor David Cook received word that he has been elected Vice-President of the 11000-member American Association of Physics Teachers. He will take office at the upcoming national meeting in January and will, year by year, advance from Vice-President to President Elect to President to Past President.

[30 Oct/3 Nov 2006] Senior Lawrence physics major Bao Ha's presentation titled "Numerical modeling of the m=1 diocotron mode in toroidal electron plasmas" was recognized as one of the outstanding undergraduate research presentations at the 2006 American Physical Society - Division of Plasma Physics meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

[May, 2006] Bao Ha, LU '07, has been selected as the 2006 recipient of the J. Bruce Brackenridge Prize in Physics.

[1 November 2005] Grants Received for Student Development of Rockets: The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC) has awarded two teams of Lawrence University physics students with $1000 each to participate in WSGC's Student Rocket Design Competition. The two teams are comprised of students Anmol Bajracharya, Nathaniel Douglas, Erik Garbacik, Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek, Henry McNeil, Duncan Ryan, Rupesh Silwal, and Mackenzie Van Camp.Each team will design a single-stage rocket with the goal of returning it, steered under the deployment of its own parachute, to a pre-determined target. Professor John Brandenberger will preside as the faculty advisor for both teams. Further information about the competition can be found at the WSGC web site. If you select this link, you will leave the Lawrence website.

[May, 2005] Rupesh Silwal, LU '06, has been selected as the 2005 recipient of the J. Bruce Brackenridge Prize in Physics.

The annual strawberries and punch reception for graduating physics majors and minors and their guests (and for any physics majors and minors who happen to be in town) will be held at the home of Professor and Mrs. John Brandenberger, 63 South Meadows Drive, from 3:00 PM -- 5:00 PM on Saturday, 11 June.

Grant Received for Student Development of Rocket: On 29 October 2004, Nathaniel Douglas, Aditya Goil, Duncan Ryan, and Rupesh Silwal, all physics majors in the class of 2006, received word from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC) that they had been awarded a grant of $1000 to support their building of a rocket to compete in WSGC's Student Rocket Competition to be held in May of 2005. The team has adopted the name "Fellowship of Lawrentian Yjigyasus", with the acronym F.L.Y. ("Yjigyasus" is the Hindi word for "seekers of knowledge", i.e., scholars".) Their work as they prepare for this competition will be supervised by Professor John Brandenberger. Further information about the competition can be found at the WSGC web site. If you select this link, you will leave the Lawrence website.