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2004-2006 Edition

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Over the past two years we've had a small but outstanding group of physics majors and dual-degree engineering students graduate from Berry:

• December 2004: Robyn Smith (dual-degree engineering)
• April 2005: Brent Hutchinson (dual-degree engineering)
• December 2005: Chad Grennor (physics)
• April 2006: Carly Donahue (physics), Courtney Griffin (physics), Frank Petruzielo (physics), Matt Wilson (dual-degree engineering)

Berry physics majors have been conducting professional-level research all over the world during the past two years. The list below indicates the students who participated in summer reserach programs or research with Berry faculty during the academic year.

• Academic Year 2004-2005
  • Frank Petruzielo and Courtney Griffin conducted reserach with Dr. Timberlake at Berry
• Summer 2005
  • Carly Donahue participated in the USRP at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL.
  • Courtney Griffin participated in an REU program at Rice University in Houston, TX.
  • Frank Petruzielo participated in an REU program at the University of Washinton in Seattle, WA.
  • Jeff Tucker conducted research with Dr. Lane at Berry.
• Academic Year 2005-2006
  • Sarah Earl conducted research on Berry Foucault Pendulum at part of her honors Classical Mechanics II course.
• Summer 2006
  • Trinity Allen participated in the USRP at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, CA.
  • Ryan Bessey participated in an REU program at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN.
  • John Boyea participated in an REU program at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
  • Sarah Richards traveled to Argentina to study volcanoes with faculty from the University of Georgia.
  • Sarah Earl conducted research with Dr. Lane at Berry.

All three of Berry's Spring 2006 graduating physics majors are heading to graduate school. Frank Petruzielo will enter the physics Ph.D. program at Cornell University. Carly Donhue will enter the physics Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Courtney Griffin will enter the Finance Ph.D. program at the Red McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin. We wish all three of these fantastic students the best of luck as they begin the next phase of their lifelong eduction!

Frank Petruzielo, winner of the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship during his junior year at Berry, has garnered two more major awards. Frank was awarded one of 170 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships. This prestigious fellowship is sponosred by the United States Department of Defense and will provide Frank with full tuition for his graduate program at Cornell plus a stipend of over $30,000 per year for three years. In addition, Frank won the Phi Kappa Phi Award of Excellence. Only 40 Phi Kappa Phi Awards are given each year and the award comes with $2000 to be used toward graduate school.

Berry physics majors Carly Donahue and Frank Petruzielo presented their research at the 2006 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Anchorage, AL. Carly and Frank traveled to Alaska along with Drs. Lane, Timberlake, and Wallace who also gave presentations at the meeting.

The McAllister award is given to an outstanding student in Berry's physics program. The 2005 award was given to Frank Petruzielo. The 2006 award was given to Carly Donahue. Both Frank and Carly graduated with double-majors in Physics and Mathematics in April 2006 and they will both begin physics Ph.D. programs in Fall 2006.

Berry physics major Carly Donahue was one of ten students from NASA's USRP program selected to present her research at the 56th International Astronautical Congress in Fukuoka, Japan. Carly presented a poster entitled ''Empirical Scaling Laws of Rocket Exhaust Cratering''. Carly conducted this research with Dr. Philip Metzger of NASA's Kennedy Space Center during Summer 2005. Carly also presented this work at the 2006 Earth & Space Conference in Houston, TX.

Berry physics majors Frank Petruzielo and Carly Donahue were inducted as Associate Members of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, in April 2006. Sigma Xi inducts associate members on the basis of the potential to conduct significant research.

The following Berry students gave presentations at Berry's Annual Colloquium:

• 2005 Colloquium
  • Courtney Griffin (award for 2nd place in Research Design)
  • Frank Petruzielo (award for 1st place in Originality)
• 2006 Colloquium
  • Carly Donahue (award for 2nd place in Scientific Merit)
  • Sarah Earl
  • Frank Petruzielo

Berry physics majors are not only conducting original research, but they are publishing their work in prestigious journals. Matt Lewis co-authored a paper with Dr. Wallace that was published in Astrophysics & Space Science in 2005. Carly Donhue co-authored a paper with Dr. Philip Metzger of NASA's Kennedy Space Center that was published in Physical Review Letters in 2005, as well as an article that appeared in the proceedings of the 2006 Earth & Space Conference. Frank Petruzielo co-authored a paper with Dr. Timberlake and Dr. Linda Reichl of the University of Texas that was published in Physical Review E in 2005. Courtney Griffin was lead author on a paper published in The Journal of Chemical Physics in 2006. This paper was co-authored by Dr. Bruce Johnson and several of his colleagues at Rice University where Courtney participated in a Summer 2005 REU program.

The Physnic (or Physics Picnic) has become an annual tradition in which physics faculty and students, as well as several other guests, join to celebrate the year each Spring. Dr. Timberlake hosted the 2005 Physnic at his home (right), while the 2006 Physnic was at the home of Dr. Wallace (above). As always, a great time was had by all.

The names of Berry faculty who are co-authors of these publications and presentations are indicated in bold type. Names of Berry students are shown in red type.

• C. Lane "Probing Lorentz violation with Doppler-shift experiments," Physical Review D 72: 016005 (2005).
• C. Lane, "An SME Analysis of Doppler-Effect Experiments", in V. A. Kostelecky, ed., Third Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry (World Scientific, 2005).
• C. Lane, "Doppler-effect experiments and Lorentz symmetry", poster presented at DAMOP 2005, Lincoln, NE, May 2005.
• C. Lane, "An SME Analysis of Doppler-Effect Lorentz Tests", talk given at the Third Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, IN, August 2004.
• T. Timberlake, Frank Petruzielo, and L. E. Reichl, "Localization of Floquet states along a continuous line of periodic orbits", Physical Review E, 72: 016208 (2005).
• T. Timbelrake, "Random numbers and random matrices: Quantum chaos meets number theory", American Journal of Physics, 74 547-553 (2006).
• T. Timberlake, "Writing-Intensive Quantum Mechanics," talk given at the 2006 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Anchorage, AL, January 2006.
• T. Timberlake, "Inquiry-based physics for non-science students," talk given at the Ninth Legacy of R. L. Moore Conference, Austin, TX, May 2006.
• P. Wallace (with S. D. Bloom, R. Cool, D. A. Dale, A. Haugsjaa, C. Miller, C. Peters, and M. Tornikoski), "An Optical Survey of the Position Error Contours of Unidentified High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources at Galactic Latitude b > |20|,"
• P. Wallace and Matt Lewis (with S. D. Bloom), "A Multiwavelength Investigation of Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources", Astrophysics & Space Science, 297 409 (2005).
• P. Wallace, "The Copernican Revolution as Story: An Antidote for Scientific Illiteracy," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 37, 4.03, Cambridge, UK, September 2005.
• Carly M. Donahue (with Philip T. Metzger), "Elegance of Disordered Packings: A Validation of Edward's Hypothesis," Physical Review Letters, 94: 148001 (2005).
• Carly M. Donahue, "Empirical Scaling Laws of Rocket Exhaust Cratering," poster presented at the 2006 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Anchorage, AL, January 2006.
• Carly M. Donahue, "Empirical Scaling Laws of Rocket Exhaust Cratering," poster presented at the 56th International Astronautical Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, October 2005.
• Carly M. Donahue (with P. T. Metzger and C. D. Immer), "Functional Scaling for the Cratering of a Granular Surface by an Impinging Jet," ASCE Conference Proceedings, 188, 20 (2006).
• Courtney D. Griffin (with Ramiro Acevedo, Daniel W. Massey, James L. Kinsey, and Bruce R. Johnson), "Multimode wavelet basis calculation via the molecular self-consistent-field plus configuration-interaction method," Journal of Chemical Physics, 124: 134105 (2006).
• Frank Petruzielo, "Eigenvalue Statistics of Weakly Driven One-Dimensional Quantum Systems," talk given at the 2006 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Anchorage, AL, January 2006.