Physics Open Mic Night
The Physics Department held an acoustic open mic night on April 15, 2009. Organizers, including Tom Gleason, Erik Crowe, Lorraine DeSalvo, Luci Jones and Charles Hawkins, transformed the John S. Toll room into a coffee house for faculty, staff and students. The following is a list of performers:
Tom Gleason
Erik Crowe
Dylan Bargteil
Tom Langford
Matt Severson
Daniel Jaskot
Steven Jones
Mike Richman
Bill McConville
To view pictures from the event, click here.
CMPS Spring Academic Festival
The 21st Annual Spring Academic Festival was held on April 24, 2009, in the Rotunda of the Mathematics Building. Several members of the Physics Department were recognized for their exceptional service to the College and University. The following is a list of honorees:
Physics Distinguished Post Doctoral Award -
William "Joey" Thompson, Circadiant Systems, Incorporated Co-Founder and Executive Vice President
2009 Dean's Outstanding Non-Exempt Employee Award -
Clay Daetwyler, Physics Science Tech
2009 Dean's Outstanding Exempt Employee Award -
Donna Hammer, MRSEC Associate Director
Outstanding Non-Exempt & Exempt Nominees -
Paulina Alejandro, Program Management Specialist
Robert Bard, Electrical Engineer
Douglas Bensen, Coordinator
Melissa Britton, Program Management Specialist
Lorraine DeSalvo, Director
Jane Hessing, Academic Program Specialist
Margaret Lukomska, Research Coordinator
Pornshuda Rirksopa, Manager
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Student - Faculty Dinner
The Physics Department, Students of Physical Sciences and Sigma Pi Sigma organized the frist Student -Faculty Dinner held in the Juan Jiminez Room in the Stamp Student Union on April 24, 2009. The dinner provided faculty and students to interact outside of the classroom.
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2009 MD Day
Largely due to the hard work of over 125 physics volunteers, Maryland Day 2009, held on April 25, was a huge success! Physics was one of the main attractions on campus. Faculty, staff, students and friends came together to help accommodate the huge number of visitors we had on campus - especially to the Physics Department. The following is list of 2009 Volunteers (apologies to anyone who was left off):
Aabo, Thomas Adams, Matthew Alejandro, Paulina Amare, Yonas Anderson, Bob Baden, Drew Barr, Matthew Beeler, Matthew Bensen, Doug Berg, Richard Bobrowsky, Matt Britton, Melissa Burrola, Beatriz Callis, Julie Cassidy, Meghan Cho, Suehyun Cohen, Tom Conners, Mark Cooper, Ben Crowe, Erik Cuaresma, Carole Daetwyler, Clay De, Subhadeep DeSalvo, Lorraine Dev, Bhupal Driscoll, Erin Edwards, Emily Gabilondo, Beatriz Gaff, Kristy Gleason, Tom Goodman, Jordan Graves, Matthew |
Halperin, Molly Hamilton, Doug Hammer, David Hammer, Donna Hammer, Erin Hammer, Lauren Hammer, Nick Han, Jahye Haque, Azharul Harbitz, Caroline Harold, Creston Hessing, Jane Hussain, Amnav Islam Rajibul Johnson, Jenn Johnson, Luke Kanner, Jonah Kim, KiChun Knouse, Melanie La, Ahn Lasley, Scott Lathrop, Dan Lathrop, Emily Lathrop, John Lathrop, Paul Lee, MooHyun Lee, SangEun Lenski, Dan Li, Qiuzi Liu, Tung-Chang Lobb, Chris Losert, Wolfgang |
Lukomska, Margaret Lukomska, Roxy Manning, Andrew McCann, Colin McMullen, Thomas Monroe, Lexi Moulding, Laura Nagornykh, Pavel O’Toole, Dorthea Olmschenk, Steve Porto, Trey Prasertchoung, Alex Rericha, Erin Riddick, Blake Rolston, Steve Russell, Brock Ryu, SangSu Seal-Filatreau, Bonnie Seo, Eun-Suk Slotterback, Steven Smith, Brian Suplee, Curt Teitelbaum, Samuel Tosado, Jacob Vartanyan, Aram Wellstood, Fred Yen, Yung-Ruey Yoon, YoungSoo Zimmerman, Dan |
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Physics Olympics
The Department held the 2009 Physics Olympics. For those of you who were here, you know it was an amazing event featuring 13 teams of students from 12 different schools in the area.
I want to thank the following people whose presence not only made the Physics Olympics a huge success, but also significantly furthered the education of the >100 students who took part in this event.
In alphabetical order: Dick Berg, Krishna Bhamidipati, Lorraine DeSalvo, Clay Daetwyler, Ted Einstein, Tom Giza, Brittany Hill, John Jacobson, Luci Jones, Saara Khan and Peter Shawhan. (If I omitted someone who should be included here, please let me know.)
Photos and results from the event are now on the Physics Olympics Web site in two places.
The scores and photos of the winning teams are at:
http://www.physics.umd.edu/deptinfo/facilities/lecdem/outreach/physolym/2009scores.htm
Photos of the students engaged in the various activities are located at:
http://www.physics.umd.edu/deptinfo/facilities/lecdem/outreach/physolym/2009pictures.htm