Physics Department Computer resources Physics colloquium series Careers in physics program Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff SPS & T-shirt design contest Undergraduate honors and award programs Lab teaching assistant, tutoring, and grading opportunities Research opportunities Presentations by undergraduate research students

Physics Department Computer resources –Presentation by Ching-Wan Yip and Tim Miller.

Physics Department Physics colloquium series

Careers in physics program Coordinated by Professor Dany Kim-Shapiro – Events: Thursday Sept. 16 th : Mark Wilson – Editor for Physics Today Tuesday Oct 12 – Hank Yochum – Sweet Briar College (?) November – Mark Roberson – MCNC Physics Department

Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff New Faculty Members: Jed Macosko  Assistant Professor of Physics -- undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT and UC-Berkeley and post doctoral training at UNM – expert in biophysics experimental research Lukasz Turski – Visiting Professor of Physics -- Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences -- College of Science of Cardinal Wyszynski University – collaborating with Professor Bill Kerr and his students. New Staff Members: Jiwen Liu, Swati Basu, Mick Knaggs New Graduate Students: Matthew Cass, Todd Fallesen, and Ye Yuan New Undergraduate Students (juniors): Zachary Abernathy, Kevin Berardinelli, Richard Gaut, Jared Hill, Katherine Lee, John McQuirt, Thomas Rutledge, Tyler Zimmerman New Prospective Undergraduate physics majors: Physics Department

Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff Undergraduate Physics Majors: Zachary Abernathy, Ivan Azarov, Kevin Berardinelli, Matthew Caudill, Ierisha Davis, Richard Gaut, Kristen Hall, Jared Hill, Charles Inman, Katherine Lee, Ben Martin, John McQuirt, Thomas Rutledge, Bryan Stephens, Jacqueline VanDeventer,Tyler Zimmerman Physics Department

Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff Physics Graduate Students: Yonas Abraham, Doug Bonessi, Matthew Cass, Faith Coldren, Kevin Conley, David Evanich,, Todd Fallesen, Jason Grigsby, William Hirsch, William Hodge, Kris Huang, Anne Jeffers, Jerrold Kielbasa, Nicole Levi, Wenhua Liu, Lu Peng, Yong Qiu, Matt Rave, Jean Rockford, Ping Tang, Gang Xiong, and Ye Yuan Physics Department

Since last spring: Students who completed their graduate work: Chanté Singleton – Completed her MS degree with Daniel Bourland  medical physicist at Anderson Cancer Institute in Savannah, GA. Virginia Lockamy – Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim-Shapiro  resident in medical physics at U. Minn. Xuili Xu -- Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim- Shapiro  postdoctoral position at NIH Keijing Chen -- Completed her PhD degree with Dany Kim- Shapiro  postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins University Physics Department

Physics Department VIP Staff: Judy Swicegood – Administrative Coordinator Gale Burns – Secretary Chin-Wan Yip – Instructional Technology Analyst Machele Cable – Physics Laboratory Manager Bob Morris – Machine Shop Instructor Burak Uçer – Laser specialist Tim Miller – Computer cluster administrator and guru Research Group VIP Staff: NanoTech: Richard Czerw, Ben Harrison, Jiwen Liu, Scott Webster Fetrow Group: Mick Knaggs and Stacy Knutson Kim-Shapiro Group: Jinming Huang, Swati Basu, Man Cho Physics Department

Physics Department Faculty: Physics Department Rick Matthews (Chair) – Olin 217 Paul Anderson – Olin 308Natalie Holzwarth – Olin 300 Keith Bonin – Olin 310William Kerr – Olin 310 Bob Brehme (emeritus)Dany Kim-Shapiro – Olin 208 Eric Carlson – Olin 306Jed Macosko – Olin 215 David Carroll – Olin 214Fred Salsbury – Olin 301A Greg Cook – Olin 304Howard Shields (emeritus) – Olin 216 Jacquelyn Fetrow – Olin 301BLukasz Turski – Olin 303C Martin Guthold – Olin 302Jack Williams (emeritus) George Holzwarth (emeritus) – Olin 300Richard Williams – Olin 212

Welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff Please see Judy Swicegood in Olin 100 To prepare your photo for our display case. Please check your mailboxes in the Physics Dept. Office (Olin 100 or 108) for important announcements –All declared physics majors have mailboxes in Rm. 108 and graduate students have mailboxes in Rm –Judy needs some forms by Sept. 1 st from all undergraduate graders and teaching assistants. –To obtain keys to rooms in Olin Physical Lab, please see Machele Cable in Olin 110. Physics Department

112 Machine shop 105 Lab 104 Lab SPS 108 Bob Morris Machele Cable Judy Swicegood & Gale Burns Physics majors’ mail boxes Faculty, staff, & graduate student mail boxes Bill, Will, Matt, Jason,David You are here First floor of Olin Physical Laboratory

Second floor of Olin Physical Laboratory Kris, Ivan, Anne, Matt, Lu, Wenhua, Jerry, Gang, Kevin Rick Matthews Jed Macosko Dany Kim- Shapiro Richard Williams David Carroll Advanced Lab Electronics Lab Conference Room

Third floor of Olin Physical Laboratory D305C 305A 303D 303C303A 301B 301A Natalie/George Holzwarth Martin Guthold Greg Cook Eric Carlson Paul Anderson Keith Bonin William Kerr Yonas, Ping, Qui Yip Burak Jacque Fetrow Fred Salsbury Luckasz Turski Stacy, Mick, Michael, Ye Current journals

Physics Department SPS (Society of Physics Students) –Coordinated by Professor Martin Guthold – first meeting in a few weeks T-shirt design contest –T-shirt comments by Natalie Holzwarth

Physics Department Undergraduate honors and award programs –Presentation by Professor W. C. Kerr.

Physics Department Lab TA, Tutorial, and Grading Opportunities –Undergraduate TA’s and graders have forms in their mail boxes and should return them to Judy Swicegood soon. –Announcements by Professor Keith Bonin

Physics Department Research opportunities –Undergraduate students are especially encouraged to participate; course credit, Wake Forest University Fellowships, or individual faculty grants

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Research GroupArea of researchSlotsCurrent students Keith BoninLaser and optical physics, biophysics ~1Doug Bonessi, Jean Rockford David CarrollNano-technology~5Faith Coldren, Jerry Kielbasa, Nicole Levi Martin GutholdAtomic force microscopy of biological molecules ~1Wenhua Liu, Lu Peng, Saami Yazdani, Minnu Mudigonda,Bryan Stephens * Jed MacoskoBiophysics~2Jean Rockford Dany Kim- Shapiro Biophysics~1Matthew Cass, Kris Huang, Anne Jeffers, Ivan Azarov, Kevin Berardinelli, Toyin Okanlawon, Rachel Maree * Richard Williams Solid state and laser physics ~2Yonas Abraham, Jerry Kielbasa, Yong Qiu, Gang Xiong Physics Research Participation – Experimental Physics * Undergraduate students

Research GroupArea of researchSlotsCurrent students Paul AndersonGravitational physics~2 Eric CarlsonParticle physics and astrophysics ~1Bill Hirsch Greg CookGravitational physics and computational astrophysics ~1David Evanich, Jason Grigsby, Matthew Caudill * Jacquelyn Fetrow Computational biophysics~3Ryan Huff, Michael Hicks * Natalie Holzwarth Computational materials physics ~3Yonas Abraham, Kevin Conley, Ping Tang William KerrComputational solid state physics ~1William Hodge, Matthew Rave Rick MatthewsComputational solid state physics ~1Ben Martin * Fred SalsburyComputational biophysics~2Ye Yuan, Jared Hill * Physics Research Participation – Theoretical/Computational Physics * Undergraduate students

Undergraduate physics students who participated in research this summer: At WFU: Ivan Azarov (Dany Kim-Shapiro) Matthew Caudill (Greg Cook) Michael Hicks (Jacquelyn Fetrow) Jared Hill (Fred Salsbury) Bryan Stephens (Martin Guthold) Elsewhere: Ierisha Davis Ben Martin