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Stony Brook Alumna organizes astronomy event in the White House
Dara Norman was a postdoc with Fred Walter and Michal Simon in the early 2000's. Currently she is a research astronomer at the NOAO. She has recently been one of the organizers of the "White House Star Party", an educational event and stargazing attended by the President, his family, and 150 students. See and interview with her in the November issue of the Astronomy Beat, a publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific http://chair.physics.sunysb.edu/star_party.pdf∞
2009-11-04 14:53:43 by MainOffice

Stony Brook Alumna organizes astronomy event in the White House

Dara Norman was a postdoc with Fred Walter and Michal Simon in the early 2000's. Currently she is a research astronomer at the NOAO. She has recently been one of the organizers of the "White House Star Party", an educational event and stargazing attended by the President, his family, and 150 students. See and interview with her in the November issue of the Astronomy Beat, a publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific http://chair.physics.sunysb.edu/star_party.pdf∞

2009-11-04 14:53:43 by MainOffice

Electron Ion Collider
Abhay Deshpande, together with Rolf Ent (Jefferson Laboratory) and Richard Milner (MIT) argues for the Electron Ion Collider in the November issue of "CERN Courier": http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/40740∞. The next meeting of the Electron–Ion Collider Collaboration will be held in Stony Brook, in January, 2010.
2009-11-04 14:35:49 by MainOffice

Xu Du wins major research award
Assistant Professor Xu Du is one of the 34 young scientists funded by the Air Force Young Investigators Research Program. See more at: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123173414∞ Getting major funding within two months of starting in Stony Brook is an exceptional achievement that can be credited primarily to Xu's talents. Senior faculty, including Kostya Likharev and Jim Lukens, and former chair Peter Koch contributed to this success by helping him in various ways. Thanks to them, and congratulations to Xu!
2009-10-22 19:08:52 by MainOffice

Xu Du wins major research award

Assistant Professor Xu Du is one of the 34 young scientists funded by the Air Force Young Investigators Research Program. See more at: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123173414∞

Getting major funding within two months of starting in Stony Brook is an exceptional achievement that can be credited primarily to Xu's talents. Senior faculty, including Kostya Likharev and Jim Lukens, and former chair Peter Koch contributed to this success by helping him in various ways. Thanks to them, and congratulations to Xu!

2009-10-22 19:08:52 by MainOffice

Barbara Jacak's article in the Physics World
Barbara Jacak's article about the RHIC physics, titled "Of gluons, atoms and strings" is in the September issue of Physics World. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/40224∞
2009-10-21 17:01:08 by MainOffice

P & A faculty in the news
Michael Zingale's research is featured in "Discovery News", the online service of the Discovery Channel: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/07/supernova-simulation.html∞ Affiliated Professor Artem Oganov's results are discussed in "Science Daily": http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091006093437.htm∞# Work by Marivi Fernandez-Serra and Phil Allen is discussed in "Chemical & Engineering News", the publication of the American Chemical Society. Some of the results mentioned there are from the Ph.D. thesis of (former graduate student, now Dr.) Xiao Shen. http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/87/i37/html/8737sci2.html∞
2009-10-09 17:57:21 by MainOffice

P & A faculty in the news

Michael Zingale's research is featured in "Discovery News", the online service of the Discovery Channel: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/07/supernova-simulation.html∞

Affiliated Professor Artem Oganov's results are discussed in "Science Daily": http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091006093437.htm∞#

Work by Marivi Fernandez-Serra and Phil Allen is discussed in "Chemical & Engineering News", the publication of the American Chemical Society. Some of the results mentioned there are from the Ph.D. thesis of (former graduate student, now Dr.) Xiao Shen. http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/87/i37/html/8737sci2.html∞

2009-10-09 17:57:21 by MainOffice

PRL "Viewpoint" articles by Fernandez-Serra and Weinacht
Marivi Fernandez-Serra has just published a http://physics.aps.org/articles/v2/67∞ "Viewpoint" article in Phys. Rev. Letters. The Viewpoint section is one of the innovations Gene Sprouse introduced at PRL, and the articles are extremely good at explaining the story to non-specialists. Tom Weinacht also had a Viewpoint recently, http://physics.aps.org/articles/v2/51∞
2009-08-30 12:08:50 by MainOffice

Highlighted PHENIX publication
One of the papers by the PHENIX collaboration (Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 012003 (2009) ) has been recently highlighted in Nature Physics, http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v5/n8/full/nphys1353.html∞ Abhay pointed out that the work was the focus of the Ph.D. thesis of Kieran Boyle. Kieran graduated from Stony Brook last year, after receiving the President's Award for Distinguished Doctoral dissertation. He is now a member of the RBRC group at BNL.
2009-08-30 12:08:01 by MainOffice

Highlighted PHENIX publication

One of the papers by the PHENIX collaboration (Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 012003 (2009) ) has been recently highlighted in Nature Physics, http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v5/n8/full/nphys1353.html∞ Abhay pointed out that the work was the focus of the Ph.D. thesis of Kieran Boyle. Kieran graduated from Stony Brook last year, after receiving the President's Award for Distinguished Doctoral dissertation. He is now a member of the RBRC group at BNL.

2009-08-30 12:08:01 by MainOffice

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