Faculty Active Learning Research
Read about some of the undergraduates who have engaged in research and internships:
Dr. Arshad Kudrolli,
Associate Professor of Physics had lights, cameras, and action in the Sackler Sciences Center as a crew from
Cineflix Productions, of Montreal, worked on a new National Geographic International “MadLab” film series.
Dr. Harvey Gould uses
computer simulations to understand the behavior of atoms and molecules in a variety of contexts, especially
those that are difficult to study using traditional experimental methods.
Dr. Les Blatt realized
that non-science majors, who might never take more than the one required semester of science, needed an approach
to learning physics that was tailored to their particular needs. In partnership with colleagues in Clark's
physics and education departments, he developed Discovering Physics, a course designed to teach, not just
physics, but basic scientific literacy using an entirely "hands on" approach.
Some of Our Latest Research
Charles Agosta, Ph.D.
I. Mihut, C. C. Agosta, C. Martin, L. de Veieros, Z. Bayindir, C. H.
Mielke, and M. Tokumoto and M. Kurmoo, "New approach to calculate the
magnetic breakdown field in the organic conductor &kappa-(ET) 2 Cu(NCS) 2 ,"
Will be posted shortly.
C. Martin, C. C. Agosta, S. W. Tozer, H. A. Radovan, E. C. Palm, T. P.
Murphy, J. L. Sarrao, "Evidence for the FFLO state in CeCoIn 5 from
penetration depth measurements," cond-mat/0309125.
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0309125
Harvey Gould, Ph.D.
Junchao Xia, Harvey Gould, W. Klein, and J. B. Rundle, "Simulation of the Burridge-Knopoff model of earthquakes with variable range stress transfer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 , 248501 (2005), cond-mat/0507616.
Yong Wu, Mathias Koerner, Louis Colonna-Romano, Simon Trebst, Harvey Gould, Jonathan Machta, and Matthias Troyer, "Overcoming the slowing down of flat-histogram Monte Carlo simulations: Cluster updates and optimized broad-histogram ensembles," Phys. Rev. E 72 , 046704 (2005), cond-mat/0412076.
Arshad Kudrolli, Ph.D.
"Dynamics of channel incision in a granular bed driven by subsurface water flow," A. E. Lobkovsky, B. Smith, A. Kudrolli, and D. H. Rothman, cond-mat/0505352.
"Maximum angle of stability of a wet granular pile," S. Nowak, A. Samadani, and A. Kudrolli, Nature Physics 1 , 50 (2005). reprint. See related News and Views, and Cover Story. Press Coverage in The Boston Globe, CNN, among others.
Christopher P. Landee, Ph.D.
"S=1/2 Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Ladders" J. Giantsidis, M. M. Turnbull, C. Galeriu, C. P. Landee, and F. M. Woodward, Submitted to Synthetic Metals, 5 July 2000.
"Low-Temperature Heat Capacities and Magnetic Phase Transition of the S = 1/2 Two Dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnet, Bis(2-amino-5-chloropyridinium) Tetrabromocuprate(II), (5CAP) 2 CuBr 4 ", T. Matsumoto, Y. Miyazaki, A. S. Albrecht, C. P. Landee, M. M. Turnbull, and M. Sorai, Accepted for publication, J. Phys. Chem. B.
Research Groups
It is common for our undergraduates to publish papers in referred journals along with their faculty advisor and other collaborators. Here are our active groups:
- organic superconductivity and high magnetic fields
- novel magnets
- statistical mechanics and computer simulations
- quantum effects in magnetic chains
- plasma instabilities
- physics education
- complex matter and nonlinear physics