Physics Department faculty conduct research which contributes to the creation of new knowledge based in the most basic laws that govern the behavior of nature. Their research programs involve undergraduate students and international opportunities for collaborations with academics, industry, and governmental organizations.
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Submissions from 2010
The longitude problem from the 1700s to today: An international and general education physics course, Thomas J. Bensky
Web-Based Student Data Collection and Assessment, Thomas J. Bensky
Computer-Guided Solutions to Physics Problems Using Prolog, Thomas J. Bensky and Catherine A. Taff
The lick AGN monitoring project: Velocity-delay maps from the maximum-entropy method for Arp 151, Misty C. Bentz, Keith Horne, Aaron J. Barth, et al.
The lick AGN monitoring project: Reverberation mapping of optical hydrogen and helium recombination lines, Misty C. Bentz, Jonelle L. Walsh, Aaron J. Barth, et al.
SPS Ecloud Instabilities - Analysis of machine studies and implications for ecloud feedback, J.D. Fox, A. Bullitt, T. Mastoridis, et al.
Lessons Learned from Positon-Electron Project Low Level RF and Longitudinal Feedback, J. Fox, Themis Mastorides, C. Rivetta, et al.
Projection of Diffraction Patterns for Use in Cold-Neutral-Atom Trapping, Katharina Gillen-Christandl and Glen D. Gillen
Analytical Beam Propagation Model for Clipped Focused-Gaussian Beams Using Vector Diffraction Theory, Glen D. Gillen, Christopher M. Seck, and Shekhar Guha
The lick AGN monitoring project: alternate routes to a broad-line region radius, Jenny E. Greene, Carol E. Hood, Aaron J. Barth, et al.
SDSS J1254+0846: a binary quasar caught in the act of merging, Paul J. Green, Adam D. Myers, Wayne A. Barkhouse, et al.
PSC 307: Nuclear Proliferation, David Hafemeister
PSC 307: Nuclear Weapons Arms Control, David Hafemeister
Review of Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air by David MacKay, David W. Hafemeister
Characterizing the 410 km Discontinuity Low‐Velocity Layer Beneath the LA RISTRA Array in the North American Southwest, John J. Jasbinsek, Ken G. Dueker, and Steven M. Hansen
U–Pb Zircon Geochronology and Tectonostratigraphy of Southern Liverpool Land, East Greenland: Implications for Deformation in the Overriding Plates of Continental Collisions, Scott M. Johnston, Ebbe H. Hartz, Hannes K. Brueckner, et al.
Prospective Type Ia Supernova Surveys From Dome A, A. Kim, A. Bonissent, Jodi L. Christiansen, et al.
Defining a Standard Metric for Electricity Savings, Jonathan Koomey, Hashem Akbari, Carl Blumstein, et al.
Moderately Thermophilic Magnetotactic Bacteria from Hot Springs in Nevada, Christopher T. Lefevre, Fernanda Abreu, Marian L. Schimdt, et al.
RF System Models for the CERN Large Hadron Collider with Application to Longitudinal Dynamics, T. Mastorides, C. Rivetta, J.D. Fox, et al.
LHC Beam Diffusion Dependence on RF Noise: Models and Measurements, T. Mastoridis, C. Rivetta, J.D. Fox, et al.
Commissioning of the LCH Low Level RF System Remote Configuration Tools, D. Van Winkle, C. Rivetta, T. Mastoridis, et al.
The lick AGN monitoring project: the M BH-σ* relation for reverberation-mapped active galaxies, Jong-Hak Woo, Tommaso Treu, Aaron J. Barth, et al.
Submissions from 2009
A search for H2O megamasers in high-z type-2 active galactic nuclei, Vardha N. Bennert, Richard Barvainis, Christian Henkel, et al.
The lick AGN monitoring project: broad-line region radii and black hole masses from reverberation mapping of Hß, Misty C. Bentz, Jonelle L. Walsh, Aaron J. Barth, et al.