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Department of Physics and Astronomy

 


 Welcome to the Department of Physics and Astronomy!

 ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Upcoming Physics Colloquium, February 5 - Karsten Pohl, University of New Hampshire
For a current Colloquium schedule, please click HERE.

Please welcome back Dean Astumian, who has been on sabbatical in Germany for the past 6 months .


 UPCOMING EVENTS:

  • 30th Annual Physics Teachers' Meeting
    We are pleased to announce the Thirtieth Annual High School Physics Teachers' Meeting at the University of Maine, to be held at the UMaine campus in Orono on Friday, March 12, 2010. For more information, please click HERE. For an updated schedule, please click HERE.

 NEWS IN 2010:

  • UMaine professor early researcher on radon
    Bangor Daily News excerpt - 2/3/10
    ORONO, Maine — "You will not find bears unless you hunt for bears," says University of Maine physics professor C. Thomas Hess. Likewise, he said, people who don’t test their homes for the presence of radon might never identify the presence of the potentially deadly gas. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
    To read more, click HERE.

Physics Dept. News Archives


 Selected Recent Publications:

Daniel J. Breton, Gordon S. Hamilton, C.T. Hess, "Design, optimization and calibration of an automated density gauge for firn and ice cores", Journal of Glaciology, 55(194):1092-1100, 2009.

R.W. Meulenberg, J.R.I. Lee, S.K. McCall, K.M. Hanif, D. Haskel, J.C. Lang, L.J. Terminello, T. van Buuren, "Evidence for Ligand-Induced Paramagnetism in CdSe Quantum Dots." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 6888-6889 (2009).

R.W. Meulenberg, J.R.I. Lee, A. Wolcott, J.Z. Zhang, L.J. Terminello, T. van Buuren, "Determination of the Exciton Binding Energy in CdSe Quantum Dots." ACS Nano, 3, 325-330 (2009).

M.J. O’Brien and J.R. Thompson, “Effectiveness of ninth-grade physics in Maine: Conceptual understanding,” The Physics Teacher 47(4), 234-239 (2009).

J.P. McClymer and H.M. Shehadeh, Photon Localization in a Nematic Liquid Crystal, Phys.Rev. A 79, 031802(R) (2009)

Yongfeng Wu, D.J. Batuski, A. Khalil. 2008, "The Fractal Structure of the Universe", (VDM Verlag Dr. Muellere.K ISBN-978-3-369-03629-9)

Neil Comins, "What would happen to Earth if the moon were only half as massive?" Scientific American, 299(4):104, October 2008.

A. Lita, X. Ma, R. W. Meulenberg, T. van Buuren, A. E. Stiegman, "Synthesis and Characterization of Phase-Pure Manganese(II) and Manganese(III) Silicalite-2". Inorg. Chem., 47, 7302 (2008).

M.C. Wittmann and J.R. Thompson, “Integrated approaches in physics education: A graduate level course in physics, pedagogy, and education research,” American Journal of Physics 76(7), 677-683 (2008).

Travis Gould, Joerg Bewersdorf and Samuel Hess, "A quantitative comparison of the photophysical properties of selected quantum dots and organic fluorophores," Journal of Research in Physical Chemistry & Chemical Physics, 222(5-6):833-49, 2008.

Dean Astumian, "Microscopic reversibility and reciprocal relations for Brownian molecular machines," Tetrahedron, 64(36):8287-91, Sept. 1, 2008.

Jayendran C. Rasaiah and Jianjun Zhu, "Reaction Coordinates for Electron Transfer Reactions ", J. Chem. Phy. l29, 214503 (2008)

Jayendran C. Rasaiah, Shekhar Garde, and Gerhard Hummer, "Water in Nonpolar Confinement: From Nanotubes to Proteins and Beyond", Ann. Rev. Physical Chemistry 59, 713-740, (2008).

T. Gould, M.V. Gudheti, J. Zimmerberg and S. Hess, "Methods for quantification of lateral organization in biological membranes," Microscopy and Microanalysis, 13:12-13, Suppl. 2, 2007.
 

IN MEMORIAM:

KENNETH R. BROWNSTEIN

EDWARD F. CARR

GEORGE C. KRUEGER

 

Department of Physics
120 Bennett Hall
Orono, Maine 04469-5709
Phone: (207) 581-1039 | Fax: (207) 581-3410
Chairperson: Dr. David Batuski


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