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www.phys.lsu.edu www	NEWS !! Archive - 2006 - LSU Medical Physics Program Gain Full Accreditation - Partnership with Mary Bird Perkins provides research in cancer treatment. - - posted December 22, 2006 Gerard Milburn, Adjunct Professor of Physics at LSU was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). - - posted December 1, 2006 Endowed Chair Supports Cancer Research Through LSU and Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Partnership - Dr. Charles M. Smith Chair of Medical Physics Established - - posted November 20, 2006 The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the IEEE-Computer Society have appointed Professor Joel Tohline as an editor of the Visualizations department for their technical magazine Computing in Science and Engineering. The constituent readerships that CiSE serves include scientists and engineers from many disciplines as well as applied mathematicians and computer professionals, whose collaboration drives the cutting edge of computational science and education. - - posted November 20, 2006 Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Team Wins First John C. Polanyi Prize - LSU researchers among those honored - - posted November 16, 2006 Professor Philip Adams has been selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). His citation reads, "For his major contributions to the understanding of high field superconductivity and two dimensional electron localization." Election to Fellowship in the American Physical Society (APS) is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership. - - posted November 16, 2006 Professor Jorge Pullin was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). - - posted November 16, 2006 LSU Physics Department Racks up Prestigious Awards - - posted October 31, 2006 Professor Jorge Pullin has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. - - posted October 19, 2006 Professor Jerry P. Draayer has been awarded the 2006 SESAPS Francis G. Slack Award. This award is made by the Southeastern Section of the American Physics Society. - - posted October 16, 2006 Physics Faculty receive major awards - Gabriela Gonzalez, Edward Bouchet Award of the American Physical Society (APS); Edward Seidel, Sidney Fernbach Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE); Rainer Weiss, Einstein Prize of the American Physical Society (APS) - - posted October 9, 2006 LSU students participate in NASA's HASP balloon experiment. - - posted September 21, 2006 The paper "Multi-block simulations in general relativity: high-order discretizations, numerical stability and applications" by Luis Lehner, Manuel Tiglio, and Oscar Reula was highlighted by the editorial board of the journal "Classical and Quantum Gravity". - - posted September 18, 2006 Jorge Pullin has been appointed to the Basilis Xanthopoulos Prize selection committee. This prestigious international prize is awarded every three years to a physicist under the age of 40 for contributions in gravitational physics. It consists of $10,000 and the opportunity to give a plenary lecture at the International meeting on General Relativity and Gravitation. The prize is funded by the Greek Foundation for Science and Technology (FORTH). - - posted September 11, 2006 Physics faculty involved in $1M National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer Science initiative at LSU. - - posted September 8, 2006 Professor Rainer Weiss of MIT (LSU Physics Adjunct Professor), received the Gruber Prize - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/dbnl-cbe081406.php - - posted August 21, 2006 Luis Lehner guest edited a special issue of the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (Institut of Physics, UK), collecting the papers of the program on numerical relativity at the Banff International Research Station. - - posted July 31, 2006 Luis Lehner has been appointed to the NSF cyberinfrastructure User Advisory Committee. Taken from his invitation to join this new committee, "Your nationally renowned research expertise and experience with cyberinfrastructure make you an ideal choice as one of the initial members of this new advisory committee. You will be among one of the initial twelve members asked to serve on this CUAC. - - posted May 26, 2006 Article published in Physical Review Focus by Philip Adams, et al. - out of hundreds of papers published every week in the Physical Review series, one is chosen for a Focus coverage. -- posted May 4, 2006 Gabriela Gonzalez is quoted in "Black Holes Collide, and Gravity Quivers", The New York Times, May 2, 2006 article. - - posted May 4, 2006 Scientists pitch regional hurricane center - - posted April 6, 2006 Nicholas Van Meter, Senior Undergraduate Physics Major, has been named a 2006 Goldwater Scholar - - posted March 20, 2006 News Release - Local Astronomy and Educational Groups to Celebrate Sun-Earth Day with a Special Event. - - posted March 15, 2006 "Boundary Conditions for Einstein's Field Equations: Mathematical and Numerical Analysis", by Olivier Sarbach and Manuel Tiglio, published in The Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations 2,839-883 (2005), has been chosen as featured article of the Journal. - - posted February 6, 2006 The Louisiana Board of Regents gave their final approval to the creation of the Horace Hearne, Jr. Institute of Theoretical Physics. - - posted January 25, 2006 Bradley Schaefer made announcement through a Press Release on Wednesday, January 11 at the 207th meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., described his GRB results and its implications for the not-so-constant cosmological constant. See and hear "All Things Considered" on NPR and read more in the New York Times. - - posted January 17, 2006 Dmitry Uskov and Ravi Rau have developed a very compact solution of time dependent operator equations in quantum physics. - - posted January 11, 2006 Jorge Pullin has been appointed Managing Editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics D. This is a peer reviewed journal published by World Scientific in Singapore and is the leading journal in gravitation and cosmology published in Asia. - - posted January 5, 2006 2005 - Assistant Professor, Hwang Lee, has been awarded as Principal Investigator of a $400K one year grant from the prestigious National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Directors Innovation Initiative (DII) program for a seed research project entitled "Photonic-Crystal Satellite Reflectors and Radiators: A New Approach to Satellite Thermal Control." - - posted December 19, 2005 Visiting Professor, Rodolfo Gambini, has been elected to the Academy of Sciences of the Third World (Trieste). - - posted December 7, 2005 Jonathan Dowling was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) by the OSA Board of Directors at the October 18th meeting. He is being recognized for "fundamental contributions to optics in the areas of photonic crystals, quantum imaging, quantum metrology, and quantum information processing, and for service to OSA." Dowling will receive the award at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference in May, 2006. - - posted December 7, 2005 Book Authored by LSU Researcher Published - Carlos Palenzuela, Postdoctoral Researcher at LSU in Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Computation & Technology, celebrated the publication of his first book, "Elements of Numerical Relativity: From Einstein's Equations to Black Hole Simulations." - - posted October 3, 2005 Jorge Pullin has been elected as a corresponding member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences. The Academy has 205 members from Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela. - - posted September 27, 2005 Research paper by M. Tiglio, L. Lehner, and O. Reula highlighted in Classical and Quantum Gravity journal (PAPERS 5819). - - posted September 13, 2005 Jonathan Dowling has been awarded a NASA Tech Brief Award for NTR no 40552: "High Power Fiber Laser Technology Using Linear and Nonlinear Photonic Bandgap Materials" by the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board. - - posted August 1, 2005 Jorge Pullin and Rodolfo Gambini receive 2005 Essay Award from the Gravity Research Foundation. "Classical and Quantum General Relativity: A New Paradigm", R. Gambini, Instit. de Fisica, Montevideo, Uruguay and J. Pullin, LSU Physics and Astronomy. - - posted June 28, 2005 Jonathan Dowling and Hwang Lee are Co-Investigators on a new four-year, Quantum Computation Concept Maturation (QCCM) grant on Linear Optical Quantum Computing, awarded by the National Security Agency (NSA) in conjunction with the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARDA) and Army Research Office (ARO). - - posted April 8, 2005 Jonathan Dowling is Co-Investigator on a new 5-year, Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) on Quantum Imaging, awarded by the Army Research Office (ARO). - - posted March 3, 2005 Picture of a binary black hole simulation of the LSU Relativity Group on the cover of the National Science Foundation (NSF) budget. - - posted February 9, 2005 LSU Physics & Astronomy Assistant Professor receives prestigious NSF CAREER Award. Grant will support research related to superconductors, education initiative targeting minority students. - - posted February 1, 2005 LSU researcher, Bradley E. Schaefer, solves ancient astronomy mystery - Physics & Astronomy faculty member discovers long-lost star catalog on Roman statue - Farnese Atlas. Updated: Fri, 09-Nov-2007 10:16 AM

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