Lawrence Today magazine, Summer 2006
An alumni physics symposium was held in May to honor Professors John
Brandenberger and David
Cook in their last year of full-time teaching at Lawrence.
Speakers
and their topics were Thomas Baer, ’74, “There and Back Again.
And What Happened After Lawrence. (Reflections of a Restless Transgressor)”;
Erik Brubaker, ’99, “Weighing Truth at Fermilab”; Kristi
Hendrickson, ’91, “Physics of PET Imaging and Its Use in Radiation
Treatment of Cancer”; Jennifer Herek, ’90, “Transgressing
the Boundaries: Controlling Quantum Phenomena in Chemistry and Biology”;
Cindy Regal, ’01, “From Tiny Cooper Pairs to Giant Bose-condensed
Molecules: Realization of BCS-BEC Crossover Physics With an Atomic Fermi Gas”;
Scot Shaw, ’98 (pictured), “2D Propagation in Smooth Random Potentials”;
and Todd Thompson, ’97, “Birth of Neutron Stars.”
Top
row: Brubaker, Herek, Hendrickson; middle row: Cook, Baer, Brandenberger; seated: Shaw, Regal,
Thompson
