Graduate Research Participation Seminar at Physics Department - UTK

1. Physics 599 Graduate Research Participation Seminar Instructor/coordinator: Witold Nazarewicz witek@utk.edu 574-4580 Place: PHY 304 Time: Wednesdays 3:35-4:25 pm www.phys.utk.edu/witek/PHY599/phy599.html • The course introduces new graduate students to the current research at the physics • department. The research directions will be presented by our faculty is short seminars. • In order to facilitate the efficiency of participation, each student is required to: • Complete a confidential survey indicating the individual research interests, preferences, and expectations. The name of each student is strictly kept confidential. • Turn in a short paragraph before a seminar that consists of two parts. (1) What major research topic(s) of that day's speaker may be of interest to you. (2) Any new perspective that you have learned from the previous week's speaker. What you will submit is also kept confidentially. • Be active during the seminars • Attend a discussion forum at the end of the semester (Dec. 4, 2008) • The attendance is mandatory and it will be checked.

2. Preliminary Schedule Aug. 20 Nazarewicz: Introduction Aug. 27 Sorensen (Read) Sep. 3 Compton/Siopsis Sep. 10 Greene/Kamyshkov Sep. 17 Dai (colloquium) Sep. 24 Macek/Egami Oct. 1 Weitering/Mannella Oct. 8 Hix (Cardall, Guidry, Messer) Oct. 15 Dagotto/Moreo Oct. 22 Spanier/Efremenko Oct. 29 Papenbrock (Dean, Nazarewicz) Nov. 5 Nov. 12 Davis/Breinig Nov. 19 Nov. 26 Dec. 4 Discussion Forum

3. Education Outreach Infrastructure Research Department of Physics and Astronomy, UTKResearch, Infrastructure, Outreach

4. Distinguished Scientists (3) Dagotto, Elbio Macek, Joseph H. Plummer, E. Ward Distinguished Professors (1) Quinn, John J. Professors (18) Bingham, Carrol R. Blass, William E. Breinig, Marianne Callcott, Thomas A. Compton, Robert N. Elston, Stuart B. Georghiou, Solon Guidry, Michael Handler, Thomas Kamyshkov, Yuri A. Levin, Jon C. Nazarewicz, Witold Pegg, David J. Riedinger, Lee L. Shih, Chia Chang Siopsis, George Sorensen, Soren P. Thompson Jr., James R. Joint Faculty Professors (8) Barnes, Ted Eguiluz, Adolfo Greene, Geoffrey Dai, Pengcheng Moreo, Adriana Read, Kenneth Weitering, Hanno H. Zhang, Zhenyu Our Faculty • Associate Professors (0) • Joint Faculty Assoc Prof. (1) • Efremenko, Yuri • Assistant Professors (4) • Barzykin, Victor • Grzywacz, Robert • Jones, Kate • Spanier, Stefan • Joint Faculty Assi. Prof (2) • Papenbrock, Thomas • Cardall, Christian • Research Professors (8) • Dobaczewski, Jacek • Ferrell, Thomas • Kerman, Arthur • Ovchinnikov, Serguei • Pinnaduwage, Lal • Thundat, Thomas • Wong, Cheuk-Yin • Zhang, Jing-Ye • Research Associate Prof (3)  • Datskos, Panos • McCorkle, Dennis • Stoitsov, Mario  • Research Assistant Prof. (8) • Aytug, Tolga • Boiadjiev, Vassil • Hausladen, Paul • Hix, William Raph • Ito, Takeyasu • Kwon, Youngil • Senesac, Lawrence R. • Cardall, Christian • Adjunct Professors (16) • Burgdoerfer, Joachim • Calarco, John • Cohn, Hans O. • Egami, Takeshi • Gabriel, Tony • Garrett, William R. • Larson, Bennett C. • Mandrus, David G. • Mason, Thom E. • Mezzacappa, Anthony • Nagler, Stephen • Schultz, David R. • Singh, David • Smith, Michael • Townsend, David • Zucker, Alexander • Adjunct Associate Prof. (8)  • Dean, David • Henderson, Stuart • Holmes, Jeffrey • Hutchinson, Donald • Reinhold-Larsson, Carlos • Richards, Roger • Simpson, John T. • Stockli, Marti  • Adjunct Assistant Prof (2) • Grice, Warren • Shen, Jian  • Lecturers (3) • Abdelrazek, Margie • Armen, G. Bradley • Daunt, Stephen

5. Condensed Matter Physics Experiment Tom Callcott Pengcheng Dai Ward Plummer Jim Thompson Hanno Weitering Takeshi Egami Jamie Fernandez-Baca Niels De Jonge Verle Keppens David Mandrus Thom Mason Steve Nagler Jian Shen Maria Varela Theory Ted Barnes Victor Barzykin Elbio Dagotto Adolfo Equiluz Adriana Moreo John Quinn Zhenyu Zhang John Cooke Ben Larson David Singh Nina Yoon Wenguang Zhu Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Experiment Bob Compton Bill Blass David Pegg Jon Levin Gary Van Berkel Ray Garrett Theory Joe Macek Joachim Burgdoerfer Serguei Ovchinnikov Carlos Reinhold-Larson David Schultz • Astrophysics • Experiment • Kate Jones • Michael Smith • Theory • Mike Guidry • Christian Cardall • Raph Hix • Tony Mezzacappa • Biophysics • Experimental • Solon Georghiou • Theory • Chia C. Shih • Physics Education Research • Marianne Breinig • Stuart Elston • Jon Levin • Applied Physics • Accelerator Physics • Stuart Henderson • Jeff Holmes • Marti Stockli • Micro/Nano sensors • Tom Ferrell • Lal Pinnaduwage • Panos Datskos • Larry Senesac • Medical Physics & Imaging • Chet Ramsey • David Townsend • Applied Optics • Don Hutchinson • Warren Grice Research Groups • Nuclear Physics • Experiment • Carrol Bingham • Geoff Greene • Robert Grzywacz • Kate Jones • Ken Read • Soren Sorensen • John Calerco • Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri • Alex Zucker • Theory • Ted Barnes • Witek Nazarewicz • Thomas Papenbrock • Carlos Bertulani • David Dean • Cheuk-Yin Wong • Jing-Ye Zhang • High Energy Physics • Experimental • Yuri Efremenko • Yuri Kamyshkov • Tom Handler • Stefan Spanier • Bill Bugg • Hans Cohn • Tony Gabriel • Theory • George Siopsis ______________________________ Tenured, Tenure-track, or Joint faculty Research, Adjunct or Active Emeritus Faculty

6. Refereed Publicationspublished with the UT Dept. of Physics’ byline

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8. Research Directions • Material Physics (MP) • Condensed Matter Physics (CMP) • Atomic Molecular Optical Physics (AMO) • Subatomic Physics (SAP) • High Energy Physics (HEP) • Nuclear Physics (NP) • Emerging Areas • Astrophysics • Biophysics • Physics Education Research • Applied Physics

9. Sub Atomic Physics SAP MP EAP Material Physics Quantum many-body problem; Tera-computing NP (TH) CMP (TH) NP (EXP) AMO Atmospheric effects in neutrino physics Neutron science CMP (EXP) Liquid scintillators HEP Nuclei; Nuclear matter Radiotracers Nano-bio; Advanced scanning probe Detectors Advanced imaging Complexity; Biomaterials Cosmology; Gravity; Strings; Neutrino science Medical The large number of collaborations and interactions across the boundaries of the sub-fields of physics: a unique strength Departmental Intersections (Cross-fertilization) Emerging Areas Bio Astro

10. Nuclear Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Science Materials Science School of Medicine Space Institute JIHIR JINS JIBS JICS Science Alliance JIAM East Tennessee Science Partnership Community Partnership Center Chemistry SMRC Physics Mathematics Biology Interactions within UTK Computational physics Structural materials Medical physics Physics Education Outreach Physics & Astronomy Education, Carbon fiber materials Synthesis, fabrication, discovery of new materials Exceptional large amount of external interaction with other departments in our college, other UT colleges, and joint UT/ORNL units Mathematical physics Atomic, molecular, chemical physics; Catalysis; Atmospheric physics & chemistry radiochemistry Research reactors; Neutrino beam spallation targets Biophysics Scanning Probe Molecular imaging

11. Infrastructure Matrix World-leading centers. The International and Intercultural Awareness Initiative Strong collaboration in all major areas Building strong on-campus presence Partial ownership of JIAM and JIHIR Building strong on-campus presence

12. Integrated P&A Strategic Plan (our vision for the future) http://www.phys.utk.edu/Documents/UTK_Physics_Strategic_Plan_2006.pdf

13. How to read the Plan?

15. description deliverables milestones