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 2009
The discovery of magnetotactic/magnetosensitive bacteria, Richard B. Frankel
Magnetosomes and Magneto-Aerotaxis, Richard B. Frankel and Dennis A. Bazylinski
Application of Hertz Vector Diffraction Theory to the Diffraction of Focused Gaussian Beams and Calculations of Focal Parameters, Glen D. Gillen, Kendra Baughman, and Shekhar Guha
Nuclear Testing And Proliferation – An Inextricable Connection, Thomas Graham Jr. and David W. Hafemeister
High-Temperature Deformation During Continental-Margin Subduction & Exhumation: The Ultrahigh-Pressure Western Gneiss Region of Norway, Bradley R. Hacker, Torgeir B. Andersen, Scott Johnston, et al.
Input to the NAS CTBT Study, David Hafemeister
Assessing the Merits of the CTBT, David W. Hafemeister
Capabilities of the IMS Seismic Auxiliary Network, David W. Hafemeister
CTBT Evasion Scenarios: Possible or Probable?, David W. Hafemeister
CTBT Space-Based Monitoring: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar and National Technical Means, David W. Hafemeister
Review of the 2008 APS Energy Study, Energy Future: Think Efficiency, David W. Hafemeister
Small-Volume U-Pb Zircon Geochronology by Laser Ablation-Multicollector-ICP-MS, Scott Johnston, George Gehrels, Victor Valencia, et al.
Chiral sedimentation of extended objects in viscous media, Nathan W. Krapf, Thomas A. Witten, and Nathan C. Keim
Galaxy Zoo: ‘Hanny's Voorwerp’, a quasar light echo?, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, William Keel, et al.
de Vries Behavior in Smectics near a Biaxiality Induced Smectic A - Smectic C Tricritical Point, Karl Saunders
De Vries Behavior of the Electroclinic Effect in the Smectic-A* Phase Near a Biaxiality-Induced Smectic-A*–Smectic-C* Tricritical Point, Karl Saunders
Memory-encoding vibrations in a disconnecting air bubble, Laura E. Schmidt, Nathan C. Keim, Wendy W. Zhang, et al.
The lick AGN monitoring project: photometric light curves and optical variability characteristics, Jonelle L. Walsh, Takeo Minezaki, Misty C. Bentz, et al.
Submissions from 2008
Results from a search for the 0 νββ-decay of 130Te, C. Arnaboldi, D. R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone III, et al.
Evidence for merger remnants in early-type host galaxies of low-redshift QSOs, Nicola Bennert, Gabriela Canalizo, Bruno Jungwiert, et al.
Lecture Notes, Thomas J. Bensky
Observation of Nanosecond Laser Induced Fluorescence of In Vitro Seawater Phytoplankton, Thomas J. Bensky, Lisa Clemo, Chris Gilbert, et al.
First results from the lick AGN monitoring project: the mass of the black hole in ARP 151, Misty C. Bentz, Jonelle L. Walsh, Aaron J. Barth, et al.
Search for Cosmic Strings in the GOODS Survey, Jodi L. Christiansen, E. Albin, K. A. James, et al.
Temperature-dependent Refractive Index Measurements of Wafer-shaped InAs and InSb, Glen D. Gillen, Chris DiRocco, Peter Powers, et al.