- Fall 2011 Physics Colloquium Series:
The Physics Dept. Colloquium Series will be starting for the fall semester with an exciting array of speakers. First up, is the famous Introductory Colloquium on Friday, September 2. Introductions will be made of Physics Staff, Faculty, and new Graduate students. All Physics majors are invited!
And on Friday, September 9, the always exciting Faculty Research colloquium will be held, where you never know what you might find!
All of our Physics Colloquia are held on Fridays at 3:15 pm in Rm. 140 Bennett Hall, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served before the talk begins in Rm. 140 as well.
For a complete listing of Physics Dept. colloquia, please click here.
- PHYSICS ANNUAL PICNIC - Saturday, September 17, 2011
Rain date, Sunday, September 18. All Physics faculty, students, alumni, and families are invited!
- APPROVED!! Trustees approve new planetarium, observatory at UMaine
Bangor Daily News, July 18, 2011 Excerpt
BANGOR, Maine — The billions and billions of stars in the cosmos will be clearer and brighter in the new $5.2 million combined planetarium and observatory that the University of Maine System board of trustees approved Monday for the University of Maine campus.
The new structure will be built near Rangeley Road between the Hilltop parking lots and the Littlefield Garden. It is expected to be completed in about three years. Click on the link (above) for the "rest of the story".
Thomas E. Stone, Matthew M. Jones and Susan R. McKay, "Comparative effects of avoidance and vaccination in disease spread on a dynamic small-world network", Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 389(23), 5515-5520, 2010.
Yongfeng Wu, David J. Batuski, Khalil, Andre, “Multi-Scale Morphological Analysis of Application of SDSS DR5 Survey Using
the Metric Space Technique,” Astrophysical Journal,
707, p. 1160-1167, 2009.
Daniel J. Breton, Gordon S. Hamilton, C.T. Hess, "Design, optimization and calibration of an automated density gauge for firn and ice cores", Journal of Glaciology, 55(194):1092-1100, 2009.
R.W. Meulenberg, J.R.I. Lee, S.K. McCall, K.M. Hanif, D. Haskel, J.C. Lang,
L.J. Terminello, T. van Buuren, "Evidence for Ligand-Induced Paramagnetism
in CdSe Quantum Dots." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 6888-6889 (2009).
R.W. Meulenberg, J.R.I. Lee, A. Wolcott, J.Z. Zhang, L.J. Terminello, T. van
Buuren, "Determination of the Exciton Binding Energy in CdSe Quantum Dots." ACS Nano, 3, 325-330 (2009).
M.J. O’Brien and J.R. Thompson, “Effectiveness of ninth-grade physics in
Maine: Conceptual understanding,” The Physics Teacher, 47(4), 234-239 (2009).
J.P. McClymer and H.M. Shehadeh, Photon Localization in a Nematic Liquid Crystal, Phys.Rev. A, 79, 031802(R) (2009)
Yongfeng Wu, D.J. Batuski, A. Khalil. 2008, "The Fractal Structure of the Universe",
(VDM Verlag Dr. Muellere.K ISBN-978-3-369-03629-9)
Neil Comins, "What would happen to Earth if the moon were only half as massive?" Scientific American, 299(4):104, October 2008.
A. Lita, X. Ma, R. W. Meulenberg, T. van Buuren, A. E. Stiegman, "Synthesis and Characterization of Phase-Pure Manganese(II) and Manganese(III) Silicalite-2". Inorg. Chem., 47, 7302 (2008).
M.C. Wittmann and J.R. Thompson, “Integrated approaches in physics
education: A graduate level course in physics, pedagogy, and education
research,” American Journal of Physics, 76(7), 677-683 (2008).
Travis Gould, Joerg Bewersdorf and Samuel Hess, "A quantitative comparison of the photophysical properties of selected quantum dots and organic fluorophores," Journal of Research in Physical Chemistry & Chemical Physics, 222(5-6):833-49, 2008.
Dean Astumian, "Microscopic reversibility and reciprocal relations for Brownian molecular machines," Tetrahedron, 64(36):8287-91, Sept. 1, 2008.
Jayendran C. Rasaiah and Jianjun Zhu, "Reaction Coordinates for Electron Transfer Reactions ", J. Chem. Phy., l29, 214503 (2008)
Jayendran C. Rasaiah, Shekhar Garde, and Gerhard Hummer, "Water in Nonpolar Confinement: From Nanotubes to Proteins and Beyond", Ann. Rev. Physical Chemistry, 59, 713-740, (2008).
T. Gould, M.V. Gudheti, J. Zimmerberg and S. Hess, "Methods for quantification of lateral organization in biological membranes," Microscopy and Microanalysis, 13:12-13, Suppl. 2, 2007.
