Accomplishments of Berry Physics Majors
The papers below were co-authored by Berry physics students (whose names are in
red). The names of Berry faculty co-authors are in
bold.
- Jeffery Tucker and Todd Timberlake, "Statistical Analysis of the Randomness of Prime Numbers," Proceedings of the Harriet J. Walton Symposium on Undergraduate Mathematics Research (2007) 5: 15-19.
- 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).
- Carly M. Donahue, 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).
- T. Timberlake, F. Petruzielo, and L. E. Reichl, "Localization of Floquet states along a continuous line of periodic orbits," Physical Review E 72, 016208 (2005).
- P. Wallace, S. Bloom, and M. Lewis, "A multiwavelength investigation of unidentified EGRET sources," Astrophysics and Space Science 297, 409-414 (2005).
- Philip T. Metzger and Carly M. Donahue, "Elegance of Disordered Granular Packings: A Validation of Edward's Hypothesis," Physical Review Letters 94, 148001 (2005).
- T. Timberlake and J. V. Foreman, "Correlation of Photodetachment Rate of a Scarred Resonance State with the Classical Lyapunov Exponent," Physical Review Letters 90, 103001 (2003).
- P. M. Wallace, N. J. Griffis, D. L. Bertsch, R. C. Hartman, D. J. Thompson, D. A. Kniffen, and S. D. Bloom, "A systematic search for short-term variability of EGRET sources," The Astrophysical Journal 540, 184-191 (2000).
The presentations below are organized into three categories: off-campus presentations given by Berry students, off-campus presentations for which
Berry students were co-authors, and presentations given by Berry students at Berry's Annual Student Research Symposium. The names of Berry students are in
red). The names of Berry faculty are in
bold.
- Off-campus presentations by Berry students
- Molly Nelson, "Eigenvalue spacings of the asymmetric infinite square well," talk given at the Society of Physics Students Joint Zone Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 2007.
- Sarah Earl, "Measurement of Silver Nanoparticles on Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate (PPLN) Surfaces," poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Nashville, TN, November 2007.
- Jeffery Tucker, "Statistical analysis of the randomness of prime numbers," talk given at The Fifth Annual Harriett J. Walton Symposium on Undergraduate Mathematics Research, Atlanta, GA, March 31, 2007.
- 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.
- 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.
- J. V. Foreman, M. Eracleous, J. P. Halpern, D. J. Thompson, and P. M. Wallace. "Confirmed Identification of BL Lac Object
3EG J0433+2908." Poster presented at the 199th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC. January 2002.
- Off-campus presentations co-authored by Berry students
- T. Timberlake and Jeffery Tucker, "Is there quantum chaos in the prime numbers?," talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Nashville, TN, November 2007.
- P. M. Wallace, S. D. Bloom, and M. S. Lewis. "A Multiwavelength Investigation of Unidentified EGRET Sources." Poster
presented at the Second Workshop on Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources, Hong Kong, China. May 2004.
- T. Timberlake and J. V. Foreman. "Correlation of Photodetachment Rate and Lyapunov Exponent for a Scarred Resonance
State." Talk given at the International Conference on Dynamical Chaos in Classical and Quantum Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. 4-9 August 2003.
- T. Timberlake and J. V. Foreman. "Correlation of Photodetachment Rate and Lyapunov Exponent for a Scarred Resonance
State." Poster presented at the International Conference on Dynamical Chaos in Classical and Quantum Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia. 4-9 August 2003.
- P. M. Wallace, S. D. Bloom, M. S. Lewis, and A. Vargas. "A Search for Optical Counterparts of
Unidentified EGRET Sources." Talk given at the 202nd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Nashville, Tennessee. May 2003.
- T. Timberlake and J. V. Foreman. "Correlation of Photodetachment Rate and Lyapunov Exponent for a Scarred Resonance
State." Talk given at the American Physical Society Southeastern Section Meeting, Auburn, Alabama. 31 October - 2 November, 2002.
- P. M. Wallace, D. L. Bertsch, S. D. Bloom, N. J. Griffis, D. A. Kniffen, R. C. Hartman, and D. J. Thompson. "Variability of Unidentified
3EG Sources." Talk given at the 5th International Compton Symposium on Gamma-ray Astrophysics, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. September 1999.
- Presentations by Berry physics majors at Berry's Annual Symposium on Student Scholarship (awards indicated in parentheses)
- Sarah Earl, "Measurement of Silver Nanoparticles on Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate (PPLN) Surfaces." Talk given at the 2008 Symposium. Mentor: Dr. Jack Rowe (Sarah's REU supervisor at NC State).
- Molly Nelson, "Eigenvalue Spacings in the Asymmetric Infinite Square Well." Talk given at the 2008 Symposium. Mentor: Dr. Timberlake. Molly also presented "Thomas Campion and the Lyric" which describes work she has done in conjunction with her major in English.
- Robby Boston, "Wavepacket Revivals in the Asymmetric Infinite Square Well." Talk given at the 2008 Symposium. Mentor: Dr. Timberlake.
- Tim Margrave, "Science Majors' Beliefs about the Nature of Science." Talk given at the 2008 Symposium. Mentor: Dr. Timberlake. (awarded first place for Effective Communication)
- Sarah Earl, "An Introduction to Exponential Particle Decay." Talk given at the 2007 Symposium. Mentor: Charles Lane.
- Trinity Allen, "The Effects of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Surface Pressure of Oleic Acid Monolayers." Talk given at the 2007 Symposium. Mentor: Max Bernstein (NASA Ames Research Center).
- Jeffery Tucker, "Statistical Analysis of the Randomness of Prime Numbers." Talk given at the 2007 Symposium. Mentor: Todd Timberlake.
- Sarah Earl, "Testing Berry's Foucault Pendulum." Talk given at the 2006 Symposium. Mentor: Todd Timberlake.
- Frank Petruzielo, "Eigenvalue Statistics of Weakly Driven One-Dimensional Quantum Systems." Talk given at the 2006 Symposium. Mentor: Todd Timberlake.
- Carly M. Donahue, "Empirical Scaling Laws of Rocket Exhaust Cratering." Talk given at the 2006 Symposium. Mentor: Philip Metzger. (awarded 2nd place for Scientific Merit)
- Frank Petruzielo. "Localization of Quantum Wavefunctions along a Line of Periodic Orbits." Talk given at the 2005 Symposium. Mentor: Todd Timberlake.
(awarded First Place for Originality).
- Courtney Griffin. "Connections between Number Theory and Eigenvalue Statistics." Talk given at the 2005 Symposium. Mentor: Todd Timberlake.
(awarded Second Place for Research Design).
- Justin Harvey and Matt Lewis. "Indifferent Fixed Points on an Area-Preserving Map." Poster presented at the 2003 Symposium. Mentor: Todd Timberlake.
(awarded First Place for Research Design).
- Wes Taylor. "Indifferent Fixed Points on an Area-Preserving Map." Talk given at the 2003 Symposium. Mentor: Todd Timberlake.
(awarded First Place for Communication).
- John Foreman. "Confirmed Identification of BL Lac Object 3EG J0433+2908." Poster presented at the 2002 Symposium. Mentor: Paul Wallace.
(awarded Second Place for Research Design).
- Sarah Earl won a competitive fellowship to study physics at Vanderbilt University in 2008.
- Jeffery Tucker won the Berry Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Student Award in 2007.
- Frank Petruzielo won an NDSEG Fellowship in 2006.
- Frank Petruzielo won the Phi Kappa Phi Award of Excellence in 2006.
- Frank Petruzielo won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship in 2005.
- Summer Research Internships
- Robbie Gill, NSF REU program at Montana State University, 2008.
- Richard Royal, research with Dr. Lane at Berry, 2008.
- Andrew Duty, research with Dr. Timberlake at Berry, 2008.
- Trey Bobo, research with Dr. Lane at Berry, 2008.
- Robby Boston, research with Dr. Lane at Berry, 2008.
- Tim Margrave, research with Dr. Timberlake at Berry, 2008.
- Molly Nelson, research with Dr. Timberlake at Berry, 2008.
- Sarah Earl, NSF REU Program at North Carolina State University, 2007.
- Susanne Galyon, American Association of Physicists in Medicine Summer Undergraduate Fellowship, Emory University, 2007.
- Jeffery Tucker, research with Dr. Timberlake at Berry, 2007.
- Robby Boston, research with Dr. Timberlake at Berry, 2007.
- Molly Nelson, research with Dr. Timberlake at Berry, 2007.
- David Bolding, research with Dr. Lane at Berry, 2007.
- Trinity Allen, NASA USRP at Ames Research Center, 2006.
- Ryan Bessey, SARA REU at East Tennessee State University, 2006.
- John Boyea, REU at The College of William and Mary, 2006.
- Sarah Richards, research with UGA faculty in Argentina, 2006.
- Sarah Earl, research with Dr. Lane at Berry, 2006.
- Frank Petruzielo, NSF REU Program at the University of Washington, 2005.
- Carly Donahue, NASA USRP at Kennedy Space Center, 2005..
- Courtney Griffin, NSF REU Program at Rice University, 2005
- Frank Petruzielo, research with Dr. Timberlake at Berry, 2004.
- Carly Donahue, NASA USRP at Kennedy Space Center, 2004.
- Matt Lewis, NASA USRP at Marshall Space Flight Center, 2004.
- Matt Lewis, NASA USRP at Marshell Space Flight Center, 2003.
- John Foreman, research with Dr. Timberlake at Berry, 2002.
- John Foreman, Summer Internship at the University of Tennessee Space Science Institute, 2001.
- Graduate schools
- Sarah Earl, Vanderbilt University (Physics)
- Tim Margrave, University of Tennesee at Knoxville (Nuclear Engineering)
- Susanne Galyon, Mercer University (Medicine)
- Derrick Colbert, University of Georgia (Veterinary Medicine)
- Trinity Allen, University of Colorado (Geology / Planetary Science)
- Sarah Richards, University of Tennessee at Knoxville (Geology/Geophysics)
- Frank Petruzielo, Cornell University (Physics)
- Carly Donahue, University of Colorado (Physics)
- Courtney Griffin, University of Texas (Finance)
- Tyler Coats, Georgia Tech (Engineering)
- Jason Buczyna, University of Virginia (Physics)
- Matt Lewis, Dartmouth University (Physics/Astronomy)
- John Foreman, Duke University (Physics)
- McAllister Award Winners
- 2008: Sarah Earl
- 2007: Trinity Allen
- 2006: Carly Donahue
- 2005: Frank Petruzielo
- 2004: Matt Wilson
- 2003: Aitana Vargas
- 2002: Jason Buczyna
- 2001: John Foreman
