Physics Department

1. Physics Department • Computer resources • Physics colloquium series • Careers in physics program • Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff • SPS & T-shirt design contest • Undergraduate honors and award programs • Lab teaching assistant, tutoring, and grading opportunities • Research opportunities • Presentations by undergraduate research students

2. Physics Department • Computer resources • Presentation by Ching-Wan Yip and Tim Miller.

3. Physics Department Physics colloquium series

6. Physics Department Careers in physics program Coordinated by Professor Dany Kim-Shapiro – Events: Thursday Sept. 16th: Mark Wilson – Editor for Physics Today Tuesday Oct 12 – Hank Yochum – Sweet Briar College (?) November – Mark Roberson – MCNC

7. Physics Department • Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff New Faculty Members: Jed Macosko - Assistant Professor of Physics -- undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT and UC-Berkeley and post doctoral training at UNM – expert in biophysics experimental research Lukasz Turski – Visiting Professor of Physics -- Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences -- College of Science of Cardinal Wyszynski University – collaborating with Professor Bill Kerr and his students. New Staff Members: Jiwen Liu, Swati Basu, Mick Knaggs New Graduate Students: Matthew Cass, Todd Fallesen, and Ye Yuan New Undergraduate Students (juniors): Zachary Abernathy, Kevin Berardinelli, Richard Gaut, Jared Hill, Katherine Lee, John McQuirt, Thomas Rutledge, Tyler Zimmerman New Prospective Undergraduate physics majors:

8. Physics Department • Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff Undergraduate Physics Majors: Zachary Abernathy, Ivan Azarov, Kevin Berardinelli, Matthew Caudill, Ierisha Davis, Richard Gaut, Kristen Hall, Jared Hill, Charles Inman, Katherine Lee, Ben Martin, John McQuirt, Thomas Rutledge, Bryan Stephens, Jacqueline VanDeventer,Tyler Zimmerman

9. Physics Department • Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff Physics Graduate Students: Yonas Abraham, Doug Bonessi, Matthew Cass, Faith Coldren, Kevin Conley, David Evanich, , Todd Fallesen, Jason Grigsby, William Hirsch, William Hodge, Kris Huang, Anne Jeffers, Jerrold Kielbasa, Nicole Levi, Wenhua Liu, Lu Peng, Yong Qiu, Matt Rave, Jean Rockford, Ping Tang, Gang Xiong, and Ye Yuan

10. Physics Department Since last spring: Students who completed their graduate work: Chanté Singleton – Completed her MS degree with Daniel Bourland  medical physicist at Anderson Cancer Institute in Savannah, GA. Virginia Lockamy – Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim-Shapiro  resident in medical physics at U. Minn. Xuili Xu -- Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim-Shapiro  postdoctoral position at NIH Keijing Chen -- Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim-Shapiro postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins University

11. Physics Department Physics Department VIP Staff: Judy Swicegood – Administrative Coordinator Gale Burns – Secretary Chin-Wan Yip – Instructional Technology Analyst Machele Cable – Physics Laboratory Manager Bob Morris – Machine Shop Instructor Burak Uçer – Laser specialist Tim Miller – Computer cluster administrator and guru Research Group VIP Staff: NanoTech: Richard Czerw, Ben Harrison, Jiwen Liu, Scott Webster Fetrow Group: Mick Knaggs and Stacy Knutson Kim-Shapiro Group: Jinming Huang, Swati Basu, Man Cho

12. Physics Department Physics Department Faculty:

13. Physics Department • Welcome newand returning students, faculty, and staff Please see Judy Swicegood in Olin 100 To prepare your photo for our display case. Please check your mailboxes in the Physics Dept. Office (Olin 100 or 108) for important announcements • All declared physics majors have mailboxes in Rm. 108 and graduate students have mailboxes in Rm. 100. • Judy needs some forms by Sept. 1st from all undergraduate graders and teaching assistants. • To obtain keys to rooms in Olin Physical Lab, please see Machele Cable in Olin 110.

14. Physics majors’ mail boxes Faculty, staff, & graduate student mail boxes You are here Machele Cable Bob Morris Judy Swicegood & Gale Burns 104 Lab 108 112 Machine shop SPS 100 102 110 Bill, Will, Matt, Jason,David 105 Lab 107 101 103 First floor of Olin Physical Laboratory

15. Conference Room Advanced Lab Electronics Lab Dany Kim-Shapiro David Carroll Richard Williams 206 202 200 216 212 208 214 217 Rick Matthews Jed Macosko 215 209 213 211 203 205 207 201 Kris, Ivan, Anne, Matt, Lu, Wenhua, Jerry, Gang, Kevin Second floor of Olin Physical Laboratory

16. Greg Cook Natalie/George Holzwarth Paul Anderson William Kerr Eric Carlson Keith Bonin Martin Guthold 300 302 304 306 308 310 311 Yonas, Ping, Qui Stacy, Mick, Michael, Ye Current journals Jacque Fetrow Fred Salsbury Luckasz Turski 305A 305 Yip 303D 303A 303C 301B 301A 305D 305C Burak Third floor of Olin Physical Laboratory

17. Physics Department • SPS (Society of Physics Students) • Coordinated by Professor Martin Guthold – first meeting in a few weeks • T-shirt design contest • T-shirt comments by Natalie Holzwarth

18. Physics Department • Undergraduate honors and award programs • Presentation by Professor W. C. Kerr.

19. Physics Department • Lab TA, Tutorial, and Grading Opportunities • Undergraduate TA’s and graders have forms in their mail boxes and should return them to Judy Swicegood soon. • Announcements by Professor Keith Bonin

20. Physics Department • Research opportunities • Undergraduate students are especially encouraged to participate; course credit, Wake Forest University Fellowships, or individual faculty grants

21. Web site: http://www.wfu.edu/undergraduate_college/research-fellowship/

22. Web site: http://www.wfu.edu/undergraduate_college/research-fellowship/

23. Physics Research Participation – Experimental Physics *Undergraduate students

24. Physics Research Participation – Theoretical/Computational Physics *Undergraduate students

25. Undergraduate physics students who participated in research this summer: At WFU: Ivan Azarov (Dany Kim-Shapiro) Matthew Caudill (Greg Cook) Michael Hicks (Jacquelyn Fetrow) Jared Hill (Fred Salsbury) Bryan Stephens (Martin Guthold) Elsewhere: Ierisha Davis Ben Martin