Department News
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| 2005 News
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| UTA Physics news from the Shorthorn, UTA
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2006 Stories |
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DECEMBER 2005
Dr. Roy Rubins, Professor of Physics,
had a research paper entitled “Dynamic and Static Contributions to
the Zero-Field Splitting Term of Divalent Nickel in Fluosilicate
Crystals,” published in the October issue of the Journal of Physics
and Chemistry of Solids. He has also prepared an article for the
Crash Course section of the upcoming issue of UTA Magazine, in which
the courses Physics 1445 and 1446 (Introductory Astronomy I and II)
are highlighted. |
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November 17, 2005
PHYSICS PROFESSOR AND UT ARLINGTON RECEIVE NATIONAL
SCIENCE FOUNDATION AWARD
Dr. Yi-Jiun Su, an assistant professor of physics who joined UT
Arlington in September, is a recipient of the National Science
Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and she, along with UT Arlington, will
be presented a grant in February 2006 for $440,000. Her research on
"Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling: Nonlinear Alfven waves and
Particle Acceleration," will run for five years. NSF CAREER grants
are for young tenure-track faculty and are highly prestigious.
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| October 3, 2005
PLANETARIUM OFFER NEW TECHNOLOGY, NAMING
OPPORTUNITIES
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| September 30, 2005
PHYSICS STUDENT INVITED TO PRESENT AT SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
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September 9, 2005
NOTED PHYSICIST TO HELP FRIENDS OF THE UTA LIBRARIES
CELEBRATE EINSTEIN CENTENNIAL
Visit the Physics department schedule of events at our World Year of
Physics page.
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August 2005
Dr. J. Ping Liu and colleagues at UTA are featured in PhysicsWeb Article. The team added ordinary table salt to particles
of iron-platinum particles and then heated them to produce
nanoparticles that could be used as building blocks for magnetic
recording media and in biomedical applications.
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August 24, 2005
SUPERNOVAE, COSMIC RAYS EXPLORED IN BOOK EDITED BY PHYSICS CHAIR
Professor and Chair of the Physics Department
James Horwitz is an editor on a new 300-page monograph volume of the
American Geophysical Union, titled “Particle Acceleration in
Astrophysical Plasmas: Geospace and Beyond.” This unique volume
contains a synergism of research and review articles on the nature
of particle acceleration in the universe. The regions covered
include the terrestrial ionosphere and magnetosphere, known as
Geospace. From this nearby Geospace, the regions examined range
through the solar flares and solar wind shock processes in our solar
system to the outer cosmos, containing truly exotic processes
occurring in association with supernovae remnants, gamma ray bursts,
and cosmic ray particles with energies of up to 1020 electron volts.
These ultra-high energy cosmic ray particles may be associated with
new physics involving Planckian structure of space-time. |
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May 23, 2005 PROFESSOR
TO OBSERVE ION ATMOSPHERIC EMISSIONS
Dr. James L. Horwitz, professor and chair of the Physics Department,
recently received the first-year installment of a three-year grant
from NASA. The grant is for his project titled “UTA Analysis of
TIDE/PSI Data for ISTP Solar Maximum Extended Mission―2005–2007.”
His research will analyze and model low-energy ion observations from
the Thermal Ion Dynamics Experiment (TIDE) on the POLAR spacecraft.
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May 4, 2005
UTA PROFESSOR RECIPIENT OF 2005 RESEARCH AWARD
Dr. Zdzislaw E. Musielak, UTA Professor of Physics and recipient of
Humboldt Prize in 1997, was recently nominated by The University of
Heidelberg, The University of Freiburg and Kiepenheuer-Institut fur
Sonnenphysik - all major institutions in Germany - for a Humboldt
Prize Follow-up. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation announced
that Musielak received the award for 2005. The award carries cash
prize of $20,000. Musielak will spend summer 2005 in Germany
conducting his research at these three institutions.
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April 18, 2005
PHYSICS PROFESSOR PRESENTS PAPER AT INTERNATIONAL
PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM
Dr. Suresh
Sharma, professor of Physics, was an invited speaker at the Annual
Solid State Physics Symposium, held in December in Amritsar, India.
Dr. Sharma presented a paper, “Results from our study on compressed
C60 and water adsorption into single-walled carbon nanotubes,” which
will be published. Professor of Physics Dr. Suresh Sharma was the
supervising professor on a Ph.D. dissertation, “Growth and
characterization of C60 thin films,” completed in December by Dr. J.
H. Rhee.
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April 12, 2005
Professor Musielak, Assistant Professor Cuntz and graduate student
Elizabeth Marshall co-authored a paper titled "Stability of
Planetary Orbits in Binary Systems" |
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March 16, 2005
PHYSICS CHAIR PRESENTS COLLOQUIUM, PUBLISHES JOURNAL
ARTICLES
Dr. James L. Horwitz, Professor and
Chair of Physics, presented a colloquium titled "Space Plasma Research
at the University of Texas at Arlington" to the Physics Department of
the University of North Texas on March 9. Horwitz was also an author
on two recent refereed space physics journal publications: Tu, J. -N.,
J. L. Horwitz, and T. E. Moore, "Simulating the cleft ion fountain at
Polar perigee altitudes," Journal of Atmospheric and Space Terrestrial
Physics, 67, 265, 2005, and Fraser, B. J., J. L. Horwitz, J. A. Slavin,
Z. C. Dent, and I. R. Mann, "Heavy ion mass loading of the geomagnetic
field near the plasmapause and ULF wave implications," Geophysicial.
Research Letters., 32, L04102, doi:10.1029/2004GL021315, 2005. |
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March 11, 2005
PHYSICISTS WIN GRANT TOTALING $5 MILLION
The University of Texas at Arlington is one of 27 universities,
including Duke, Ohio State, University of Michigan and the
California
Institute of Technology, selected to receive highly competitive
research
grants from the United States Department of Defense. The grant
received
by UT-Arlington is a "full scale" award with no matching funds
requirement under the Multidisciplinary University Research
Initiative
(MURI). UT-Arlington has been granted $1 million a year for each of
the
five years. Associate Professor of Physics Ping Liu is the principal
investigator and Associate professor Quiming Zhang is co-principal
investigator on the grant entitled, "Materials Manufacturing
Processes,
Interface Control and Reliability of Nanostructure-Enhanced Devices
for
Energy Conversion and Realization of High Performance Systems." Liu
and
Zhang's project is "Synthesis and Processing of Nanocomposite
Permanent
Magnets." The Department of Defense said the awards are the result
of a
rigorous competition over many months, which included 121 full
proposals. The awards will provide long-term support for research,
graduate students and laboratory instrumentation development that
supports specific science and engineering research themes vital to
national defense. (Sue Stevens) |
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FEBRUARY 16, 2005
UTA Physics Awarded $3 Million Grant to develop a computing grid
designed to analyze data from the Atlas experiment. UTA heads a
Southwest consortium, which includes Oklahoma University, the
University of New Mexico and Langston University at Oklahoma City. |
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| January 21, 2005
TEXAS GRID COMPUTING ORGANIZATION ON CAMPUS
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JANUARY 4, 2005
Faculty, Staff in the News
"The Physics Department put on a spectacular
show for thousands of area K-12 students attending the Aviation and
Transportation Career Expo".
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