Research and Scholarly Activities – 2010-11
Undergraduate Student Presentations (Undergraduate student names underlined)
Andrews, James (Dr.)
Quest Presentations: James Aldridge, Bret Bole, William Hill
Crescimanno, Michael (Dr.)
“Causes of Power Broadening in EIT Noise Spectroscopy,” M. Crescimanno, C. Snider, and S. O’Leary at DAMOP Conference 2011, Atlanta, GA, June 17, 2011.
Durrell, Patrick (Dr.)
Poster Presentation: “Next Generation Virgo Survey and Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster and Andromeda Galaxy,” K. Acetta, American Astronomical Society, January 2011.
Oder, Tom (Dr.)
“Fabrication of Microlens Arrays on Layered Polymers,”
D. Horvath, Ohio Region Section of the American Physical Society, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, April 15-16, 2011.
“Epitaxial Zinc Oxide Semiconductor Film Deposited on Gallium Nitride Substrate,”
M. McMaster, Ohio Region Section of the American Physical Society, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, April 15-16, 2011.
“Optimizing Deposition Gas and Annealing Conditions for ZnO Films,” A. Smith, Ohio Region Section of the American Physical Society, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, April 15-16, 2011.
Supervised Quest Presentations: Dustin Horvath, Michael McMaster, Devin Sternagle, James Aldridge
Undergraduate Publications (Undergraduate student names underlined)
Carroll, James (Dr.)
“Coulomb excitation of a 242Am isomeric target: E2 and E3 strengths, rotational alignment, and collectiveenhancement,”A.B.Hayes,D.Cline,K.J.Moody,I.Ragnarsson,C.Y.Wu, J.A. Becker,M.P.Carpenter, J.J. Carroll, D. Gohlke, J. P. Greene, A. A. Hecht, R. V. F. Janssens, S. A. Karamian, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, R. A. Macri, R. Propri, D. Seweryniak, X. Wang, R. Wheeler, and S. Zhu, Phys. Rev. C 82, 044319, 2010.
“New structures in 178Hf and Coulomb excitation of isomers,” A. B. Hayes, D. Cline, C. Y. Wu, A. M. Hurst, M. P. Carpenter, J. P. Greene, R. V. F. Janssens, T. Lauritsen, D. Serweryniak, S. Zhu, S. A. Karamian, P. M. Walker, T. P. D. Swan, S. V. Rigby, D. M. Cullen, N. M. Lumley, P. Mason, J. J. Carroll, B. Detwiler, T. Harle, I. Mills and G. Trees, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 20, 474, 2011.
“Discovery of highly excited long-lived isomers in neutron-rich hafnium and tantalum isotopes through direct mass measurements,” M.W. Reed, I. J. Cullen, P.M. Walker, Yu.A. Litvinov, K. Blaum, F. Bosch, C. Brandau, J.J. Carroll, D.M. Cullen, A.Y. Deo, B. Detwiler, C. Dimopoulou, G.D. Dracoulis, F. Farinon, H. Geissel, E. Haettner, M. Heil, R.S. Kempley, R. Knoebel, C. Kozhuharov, J. Kurcewicz, N. Kuzminchuk, S. Litvinov, Zliu, R. Mao, C. Nociforo, F. Nolden, W.R. Plass, A. Prochazka, C. Scheidenberger, M. Steck, T.H. Stoehiker, B. Sun, T.P.D. Swan, G. Trees, H. Weick, N. Winckler, M. Winkler, P.J. Woods and T. Yamaguchi, Physics Rev, Lett., 105 172501, 2010
Durrell, Patrick (Dr.)
“RR Lyrae as Structural Tracers for the LMC,” K.Accetta & A.Kunder, published abstract #150.01, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 43, 2011.
“Color Selection of Intracluster Globular Clusters in the Next Generation Virgo Survey,” P.R.Durrell, A.McConnachie, K.Accetta, E.W.Peng, and members of the NGVS Team, published abstract #152.03, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 43, 2011
Feldmeier, John (Dr.)
``The Burrell-Optical-Kepler-Survey (BOKS) I: Survey Description and Initial Results,'' J.J. Feldmeier, S.B. Howell, W. Sherry, K. von Braun, M.E. Everett, D.R.Ciardi, P.Harding, J.C.Mihos, C.S. Rudick, T.H. Lee, R.M.Kutsko, G.T. vanBelle, Astronomical Journal, 42 2, 2011. Refereed
``Searching for Intragroup Light in Multiple Galaxy Groups,'' J.J. Feldmeier, S. Downing, J.C.Mihos,P.Harding,H.Morrison,AmericanAstronomicalSocietyMeeting,Abstracts,217, #149.25, 2011.
Graduate Student Publications (Graduate Student Names Underlined)
Andrews, James (Dr.)
“Co-extruded mechanically tunable multilayer elastomer laser,”G. Mao, J. Andrews, M. Crescimanno, K. Singer, E. Baer, A. Hiltner, H. Song, B. Shakya, Optical Materials Express, 1(1), 108–114, 2011. Refereed
Faculty Presentations
Crescimanno, Michael (Dr.)
``Black Hole Odyssey with Jack and Jill,'' invited talk at Washington and Jefferson College, Physics, Wash. PA., May 5, 2011.
``Co-extruded mechanically tunable multilayer elastomer laser,'' with G. Mao and J. Andrews, OSAPS 2011, April 16, 2011.
``Black Hole Odyssey with Jack and Jill,'' YSU WB Planetarium Public Lecture, Apr. 14, 2011.
''Applications of plane geometry to astronomical distances,'' Canfield HS, Dec. 9, 2010.
``Magneto-optics, gain and coherence-assisted absorption in layered polymers,'' Condensed Matter Seminar, University of Michigan, Dec. 7, 2010.
``What is Bouyancy? '' presentation for National Laboratory Day, ``Mr. Witmers' 8th grade class, Nov. 21, 2010.
``Theory of the non-power broadened EIT noise resonance,'' Midwest Cold Atom Workshop, University Michigan, Nov. 13, 2010.
``Topology change in conformal field theory/Chern-Simons correspondence,'' YSU Topology Conference, Oct. 17, 2010.
“Theory of the coherent perfet absorber (CPA) and the layered polymer laser,'' OSAPS Conference., Marrieta College, Oct. 9, 2010.
Durrell, Patrick, Dr.
``Band Edge Enhancement of Magneto-optical rotation in a 1-d polymer lattice,'' at Kettering University, Michigan. OSAPS conference, May 1, 2010.
``Searching for Stars Between the Galaxies’’, invited presentation to the department of Physics & Astronomy at Marietta College, Marietta, OH, April 8, 2011.
``Searching for Stars Between the Galaxies’’, invited talk for the Department if Physics & Astronomy at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada May 25, 2011.
Presentation: “2012 Fact vs. Fiction” at AstroBlast 2010 (event hosted by the Oil Region Astronomical Society), hosted by Penn State University, July & August 2010.
Feldmeier, John (Dr.)
“Getting Started in Astronomy Education Research,” Center for Astronomy & Physics Education Research, University of Wyoming, January 9, 2011.
Ibid, Allegheny Observatory Public Lecture Series, September 17, 2010.
Oder, Tom (Dr.)
“ZnO/Sapphire by RF Sputter Deposition” made at the Ohio Region Section of the American Physical Society, John Carroll University, Cleveland, April 15-16, 2011.
Faculty Publications
Andrews, James (Dr.)
M. Ponting, T. M. Burt, L. T. J. Korley, J. Andrews, A. Hiltner, and E. Baer, “Gradient Multilayer Films by Forced Assembly Coextrusion,” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 49(23), 12111–12118, 2010.
Carroll, James (Dr.)
“Cross section for inelastic neutron “acceleration” by 178Hfm2,” S. A. Karamian and J. J. Carroll, Phys. Rev. C 83, 024604, 2011.
“Production of isomers in compound and transfer reactions with 4He ions,” S. A. Karamian, J. J. Carroll, N. V. Aksenov, Y. A. Albin, G. A. Bozhikov, S. N. Dmitriev, G. Y. Starodub and G. K. Vostokin, Nuclear. Instrument. Methods, A 646, 87, 2011.
Durrell, Patrick (Dr.)
“Color Selection of Intracluster Globular Clusters in the Next Generation Virgo Survey,” P.R.Durrell, A.McConnachie, K.Accetta, E.W.Peng, and members of the NGVS Team published abstract #152.03, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 43., 2011.
“Tidal Tails in Interacting Galaxies: Formation of Compact Stellar Structures,” B.Mullan et al. (P.R. Durrell co-investigator) 2010 conference proceedings of Galaxy Wars: Stellar Populations and Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies, ASP Conference Series, vol. 423, p. 129, 2010.
“The Star Cluster Populations in the Evolutionary Sequence of Hickson Compact Groups,” A.Maybhate, K.Fedotov, I.Konstantopoulos, J.Charlton, A.Zabludoff, R.Chandar, P.Durrell, S.Gallagher, P.Tzanavaris, published abstract #152.07, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 43, 2111
“Deep HST/ACS Photometry of the M81 Halo,” P.R.Durrell, A.Sarajedini and R. Chandar, Astrophysical Journal, vol. 718, p. 1118, 2010 Refereed
“Galaxy Evolution in a Complex Tidal Field: a Multi-wavelength Study of HCG 7,” I.S. Konstantopoulos et al. (P.R.Durrell co-author), Astrophysical Journal, vol. 723, p.197, 2010. Refereed
“The GALEX Ultraviolet Virgo Cluster Survey (GUViCS). I. The UV luminosity function of the central 12 sq. deg,” A.Boselli et al. (P.R. Durrell, co-author), Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 528, p. 107, 2011 Refereed
“Star Clusters in the Tidal Tails of Interacting Galaxies: Cluster Populations Across a Variety of Tail Environments,” B.Mullan et al. (P.R.Durrell co-author), Astrophysical Journal, vol. 731, p. 93., 2011. Refereed
Feldmeier, John (Dr.)
``Kepler Observations of Three Pre-Launch Exo-Planet Candidates: Discovery of Two Eclipsing Binaries and a New Exo-Planet,''Howell, S.B, Rowe, J.F., Sherry, W., von Braun, K., Ciardi, D.R., Bryson, S.T., Feldmeier, J.J., Horch, E., van Belle, G., Astrophysical Journal, 725 1633, 2010.
``B-V Colors of the Diffuse Light in the Virgo Cluster Core,''Rudick, C.S., Mihos, J.C.,
Harding, P., Feldmeier, J.J.,Janowiecki, S., & Morrison, H.L, Astrophysical Journal, 720 569, 2010.
Faculty Patents
Oder, Tom (Dr.)
Full Patent Application:
The patent application for our intellectual property titled “Silicon Carbide Barrier Diode” by T. N. Oder - was formally filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on March 29, 2011. |
