On Saturday April 26, The Astronomical Society of New York held its spring scientific meeting at Colgate. It included invited and contributed talks presented by faculty, graduate and undergraduate students from institutions throughout the state. Ian Hoffman '98 was one of the invited presenters. Jeyhan Kartaltepe '03 received an award for the best undergraduate research paper. She also delivered an invited talk on the subject of her research, "The Multiple Timescales of Optical Variability of the Blazar 3C279 During the 2001-2002 Outburst."
2003 Graduating Class: 11
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Physics: Erica Blomquist, Chris Hall, James Martin, Garrett Mason, George Newbury, Jun (Alex) Qian, and Adam Weiss.
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Astronomy-Physics: Joe Converse, Emily Fryer and Jeyhan Kartaltepe
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Astrogeophysics: Vanessa Simpson
Kiko Galvez became Chair of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society (April 2003).
Symposium on March 29, 2003 in honor of Charlie Holbrow's retirement.
Dr. Kenneth Segall hired as an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Ken is an Applied Physicist who plans to study nonlinear phenomena using superconducting Josephson junctions. His appointment will start in the Fall of 2003. Welcome Ken!
Charlie Holbrow becomes President of the American Association of Physics Teachers for the calendar year of 2003. (January 2003).
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Beth Parks promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations Beth! (December 2002).
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New on the published list, just in time for the holidays:
The Book of the Year:
A Brief History of Our Seasonal Holidays
by Anthony F. Aveni
(Oxford University Press), 2002.
For second year in a row the American Institute of Physics Enrollment Report lists Colgate Physics and Astronomy among the twenty nine bachelor-granting institutions (out of 517) graduating an average of ten or more students per year.
Third Edition of the
Physics and Astronomy
Newsletter (PDF file: 1.3 MB).
Colgate wins top award in Apparatus Competition at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Boise, ID (August 2002). Our two entries, "Black Box: Mass-Spring Laboratory Experiment" and "Archimedes: A Black Box Mechanics Laboratory" tied for second place.
Scott Lacey '96 returns to Colgate as Visiting Assistant Professor in Physics for the academic year 2002-03.
Check out where Andy Hock '00 is going - the highest lake in the world - in Chile, continuing his studies in Astrobiology. Andy has come a long way in the last two years - click here for the story and here for more updates.
Books published in 2002:
- Head and Heart: A Personal Exploration of Science and the Sacred,
by Vic Mansfield (Quest Books-2002).
