Department of Physics and Astronomy, UMC

PHYSICS LEADERS' MEETING
October 7th, 2005
Room 216 Physics Bldg.

Physics Leaders

Friday, October 7
9:30 AM	Coffee
10:00 AM	Department and University Overview H.R. Chandrasekhar, Sarah Hill, Dorina Kosztin, and Dean Schwartz Rm 216 Physics Bldg.
12:00 PM	Lunch in the Physics Library followed by a presentation by Carl Anderson, IBM Fellow, Austin Texas Title: Atoms to Mainframes, A journey with a physics education A physics education is the foundation of my design work at IBM from superconducting electronics to optoelectronics to the world's largest computer systems. Most of the things I need to know for design I learned working in the physics labs at the University of Missouri and University of Wisconsin.
1:30 PM	Student presentations (each presentation 10 minutes + 5 minutes for Q&A) Rm. 216: Physics Leaders and students Dorina Kosztin will coordinate Undergraduate students: 1. Mikael Wood (Adviser: Peter Pfeifer): Modeling the Growth of Fractal Networks of Nanopores in Activated Carbon 2. Addie Dove (Adviser: Angela Speck): The Helix Project: Investigating the Effect of Astromineralogy of Stardust on the Ionization Structure of the Helix Nebula 3. Chris Volz (Adviser: Suchi Guha) :Theoretical prediction of chain morphologies in polyfluorenes from Raman spectra calculations Graduate students: 1. Jiexuan He (Adviser: Shufeng Zhang): Current-driven domain wall motion in magnetic media 2. Michael Gramlich (Adviser: Ping Yu) : Increasing Two-Wave Mixing Efficiency in AlGaAs/GaAs Photorefractive Quantum Wells by Selective Angle Tuning 3. H.O. Wijewardane (Adviser: Carsten Ullrich) : Time-dependent Kohn-Sham theory with memory
4:00 PM	Business Meeting (Leaders, Business Manager Sarah Hill, Chair and faculty)
6:00 PM	Reception at Chandrasekhars’ Home, 2404 Limerick Lane, Columbia (Directions: Stadium Blvd _ Forum Blvd _ Chapel Hill road _ Left on Limerick Lane _ second House on Limerick after Katy Lane). Physics Leaders, graduate and undergraduate students, staff, faculty and guests are all invited.
Saturday, October 8, 2005
9:00 AM	Breakfast, Registration for Conference Monsanto Auditorium, Life Sciences Building The morning session will begin with the inauguration by Jim Coleman, MU Vice Provost for Research and plenary talks. We break for coffee around 10:30. Technical sessions begin later on. Leaders are free to attend talks, meet students, faculty, alumni and visitors and plan their day according to their choice.
6:30 PM	Banquet Stotler Lounge (will include some speeches and entertainment).
Sunday, October 9, 2005
7:30 AM	Breakfast
12:40 PM	The conference concludes. Leaders are free to participate depending on their schedule.