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Ithaca College Physics Department
News From Summer 2006 to Graduation 2007
You can also Read About This Year's Events in the Monday
Mornin' Memo |
Nine physics students graduated this year |
Students from L to R: Michael Pacelli, Zach Brown, Adam Karnish, Kris Georgiev, Can Coler, Sanya Levi, Tayza Yeelin, Sweta Shah, and Nitin Rajan.
Faculty from L to R: Bruce Thompson, Michael "Bodhi" Rogers, Luke Keller, Dan Briotta, Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, and Matthew C. Sullivan
View the photos here
The American Council on Education appoints a Committee
on Academic Costumes and Ceremonies. In 1986, the committee updated the
code and added a sentence clarifying the use of the color dark blue for
the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. The Code
of Academic Regalia outlines the shape and color of academic regalia.
The robe should be black in color with trimming in the color of the advanced
degree (Ph.D.s wear dark blue trim, Doctorates in Music wear pink trim,
and light blue trim for a Doctorate in Education.). Additional edging
is in the color of the discipline (Science is represented by Gold. See
the list below for more colors associated with different disciplines.).
The academic hood has colors representing the institution that awarded
the advanced degree. Some schools have created their own special, colored
robes (use the pulldown menu below to see robes that deviate from the
Code of Academic Regalia).
| DISCIPLINE | COLOR | DISCIPLINE | COLOR |
| Agriculture | Maize | Music | Pink |
| Arts, Communication, Letters, Humanities | White | Nursing | Apricot |
| Commerce, Accountancy, Business | Drab | Oratory (Speech) | Silver Gray |
| Dentistry | Lilac | Pharmacy | Olive Green |
| Economics | Copper | Philosophy | Dark Blue |
| Education | Light Blue | Physical Education | Sage Green |
| Engineering | Orange | Public Administration, including Foreign Service | Peacock Blue |
| Fine Arts, including Architecture | Brown | Public Health | Salmon Pink |
| Forestry | Russet | Science | Golden Yellow |
| Journalism | Crimson | Social Work | Citron |
| Law | Purple | Theology | Scarlet |
| Library Science | Lemon | Veterinary Science | Gray |
| Medicine | Green |
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Beth Ellen Clark Joseph has been awarded the all-college 2006-2007 Excellence in Scholarship Award |
The Faculty Development Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2006-07 Faculty Excellence Awards.
Claire Gleitman, associate professor, English – Excellence in Teaching
Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, assistant professor, physics – Excellence in Scholarship
Janet Galván, professor, music education – Excellence in Service
Please join the members of the Committee in congratulating these faculty whose exemplary work advances learning and the quality of academic life on campus.
See the Center for Faculty Excellence website for details about the awards and recipients.
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$189K Awarded to Matthew C. Sullivan, Physics |
The National Science Foundation has awarded $188,820 to Ithaca College for support of "RUI: Critical Dynamics of the Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors," which is under the direction of assistant physics professor Matthew C. Sullivan.
This individual investigator award supports a project that will study how novel electron-doped materials become superconducting in the hopes of understanding the underlying mechanism that creates superconductivity in these materials. The proposed studies will add to the knowledge of high-temperature superconductors and help fulfill the promise of attaining higher transition temperatures.
The project will also train undergraduate students in state-of-the-art film growth, characterization, and measurement techniques, and will create collaborations between Ithaca College and the Center for Superconductivity Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, and between Ithaca College and Cornell University.
This award is effective June 1, 2007, and expires May 31, 2010.
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We had another successful and well attended Spring Banquet |
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IC Team Places Third in Regional Programming Contest |
A team of IC student programmers placed third overall in the programming contest held during the 2007 Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges — Northeastern Region conference (CCSCNE 2007). The programming team members were Sigurd Teigen '08, computer science; Ross Skaliotis '08, computer science; and Max Sipos '08, physics/mathematics. The team was advised by computer sciences assistant professor Ali Erkan.
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Our Society of Physics Students chapter had two presentations and chaired a session at the Zone 2 meeting |
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Our Society of Physics Students chapter had another great paintball event |
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We had several physics students present at this year's J. J. Whalen Academic Symposium |
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Contratulations are in order: |
Beth Ellen Clark Joseph has been promoted to Associate Professor and granted Tenure
Charles Spencer has been granted Professor Emeritus status
Neal Applebee and Doug Blackmer were inducted into the Oracle Society
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L-R: Bruce Thompson, Michael "Bodhi" Rogers, Dan Briotta, Luke Keller, Stu Anderson, Steve Siedman, Beth Joseph, and Matt Sullivan
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This year's physics cafe discussed string theory |
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Is all matter in the Universe actually composed of inconceivably tiny filaments of vibrating energy? One of the most exciting scientific adventures of all time is the search for the ultimate nature of physical reality, a hunt that in the past century has yielded relativity and quantum mechanics, two theories that radically altered our picture of space, time, gravity, and the fundamental building blocks of matter. The latest theory in that venture is called Superstring Theory - and it seeks to resolve some of the surprising discrepancies between relativity and quantum mechanics.
Ithaca College has joined up with the Ithaca Visitors Bureau to feature a presentation on superstring theory by Dr. S. James Gates, Jr., on Monday, February 19, 2007. The Visitors Bureau is featuring the Café as a highlighted event in its annual Winter Recess teachers festival, February 17-24. Details are online at http://www.ithacalovesteachers.com/ .
While teaching, pursuing research, and writing scientific papers over the past two decades, Dr. Gates has also presented more than 100 public talks on string theory, honing a set of visual aids designed to convey to a lay audience the difficult mathematical ideas that underlie this subject.
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Michael "Bodhi" Rogers and Jason Hamilton run a sustainability workshop in New Orleans. They captured some great post-Katrina photographs |
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This fall our Society of Physics Student chapter had a great time playing paintball and raising money |
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Maksim Sipos '08 was named a top participant in the 67th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition |
The Putnam Exam is a highly competitive contest based on a maximum score of 120 points. The median score on this year's competition was 1 point. Maksim finished 390 out of 3,640 contestants.
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Fall term awards and kudos |
Rhea Hanrahan was inducted into Ithaca College's Oracle Society
Nitin Rajan was selected for membership in Phi Kappa Phi honor society
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L-R: Associate Provost David Garcia, Beth Clark Joseph, Bruce Thompson, and Nitin Rajan
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Sophomore physics student Blaine Laughlin looking fierce at Cortaca Jug |
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Inaugeration of the new performance-based physics room |
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In celebration of the start of Ithaca College's first comprehensive capital campaign we held a reception to inaugerate the new performance-based physics teaching laboratory. Physics chair Bruce Thompson did the introductions, Michael "Bodhi" Rogers showed off the room's capabilities, Dean Erlich shared his perspective on the success of the room, and Eric Liebensperger (IC Physics '05) gave a seminar on his graduate work at Harvard.
(photos)
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The annual Fall Picnic was fun as usual |
We had a great turn-out at our annual physics fall picnic. The weather was great and the food was awesome as usual.
See more photos here
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Physics Begins Teaching in the New Performance-based Physics Teaching Laboratory |
Construction over the summer
Luke's Physics of Sound class September 2006
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Summer Research Fieldtrip to Cornell's CHESS facility. |
IC Physics Alumnus Jay Schuren hosted a fieldtrip to see his experimental setup that he is using for his Ph.D. work at Cornell.
(Photos of the trip)
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Summer Research 2006: There is lots of research activity in the department this summer with 9 students engaged in research |
From L to R: Nirbhik, Kyle, George, Rhea, Nik, Kris, Adam, Lia, Sweta
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George DeBeck is working with Dan Briotta
Adam Karnish and Kris Geogiev are working with Beth Clark Joseph
Sweta Shah and Nirbhik Chitrakar are working with Luke Keller
Nik Batruch and Kyle Stone are working with Michael Rogers
Lia Stelljes is working with Bruce Thompson
Rhea Hanrahan is working with Bodhi, Luke, and Matt research how to convert existing laboratory activities to fit the new physics room being constructed this summer.
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We had six physics graduate students this year (3 more than the national average). The department wishes all of the graduates well and hope that they stay in touch so that we can help them succeed. |
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