Mark Meisel's Homepage


Mark W. Meisel	Dr.h.c. (2010) Snapshots of a Collaboration in Košice Fulbright Scholar (2012)
Department of Physics
Schedule/Contact Details
Research Preprints, Publications, and CV	NSF DMR-1202033 Research Highlight

Research Group
Present Courses: Fall 2013 PHY 1033 Discovering Physics PHZ 6493 Condensed Matter Seminar
Previsous Course Pages
	Gainesville, FL

UF Counseling and Wellness Center (a Division of Student Affairs)
Dean of Students Office (a Division of Student Affairs)

Some Sites Useful for Graduate Student Affairs:
UF Graduate School American Physical Society Career Center
Science's Next Wave: Career Resources for Young Scientists

Student Opportunities:
National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering
Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

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Some Outreach Activities
    (Note: I am not involved with the programs whose logos are to the left, but I get ideas when reviewing these pages.)
    Now, with the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) for Mathematics and Science (M/S),
        my elementary school visits (focus on 2 - 5) involve hands-on activities and other demonstrations related to:
        Free Fall, Gravity, Solids, Liquids, and Gases. We talk about scientific methods, forming and testing a theory,
        finding a Law of Nature, the usefulness of models to understand matter, and just fun & cool stuff.

xkcd.com

"Stand back and try Science" (image from xkcd.com)
    Newberry Elementary School, 4th Graders (4 sessions of 30 min each), Feb 2010 and 2011 and 2012
    Idylwild Elementary School, 2nd Graders (4 sessions of 30 min each), 09 March 2010
    Norton Elementary School, Ms. Schroepfer's 3rd Grade (60 min session), 14 April 2010

Florida PROMiSE at UF: "Matter and Energy" Institutes for Duval County (Jacksonville, FL) K-8 Teachers
U-FUTuRES co-instructor of "Force, Motion, and Energy" for Middle-School Teachers, Summer 2012

Erik
at Tybee Island, GA (Summer 1997)

Biophysics: Strong Magnetic Field Effects on Gene Regulation
Bioinformatics: Microarray Analysis
Biophysics: Stimulating Needles
7 Tesla SQUID Homepage

Spouse : Anna-Lisa Paul (Ph.D.)
(doing "zero-gravity" Space Biology Research on NASA's KC-135)
(photo on the back cover of the IFAS Magazine IMPACT, Winter 2003, page 40 as a pdf file)

ALP at "Muddy Pass", Devon Island, Nunavut,
Canada

        (in the Gainesville Sun , 30 March 2003, article by Carrie Miller, photo by Rob C. Witzel, photo as a jpg file)

    Anna-Lisa Paul, July 2008
   "Muddy Pass", Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada

Plants in Space: NASA ISS Update Interview (19 Dec 2012)
Plants Grow Fine Without Gravity (National Geographic Daily News, 07 Dec 2012)
What happens to plant growth when you remove gravity? (PHYS.ORG, 07 Dec 2012)

2012 Blog Posts (by others):
How Plants Deal With Space Travel, by Jeffrey Marlow, Wired, 16 May 2012
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/how-plants-deal-with-space-travel/

Transcriptomes in space. Sweet., 29 May, 2012 (11:59) | Genomics Research | By: Mary
The OpenHelix Blog at OpenHelix, http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=12220

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Chapter 1: They Don't Call It The Vomit Comet For Nothing
Chapter 2: Grow Baby Grow
Chapter 3: Reporter Gene Tells All
Plant Growth in Space
Plant Growth in the Canadian Arctic

Video Report for the Haughton-Mars Project's 2009 field season on Devon Island, High Arctic, Nunavut

Present Members of the Research Group

   Elisabeth S. Knowles, Graduate Student,
   entering class of Fall 2008, qualifying exam passed,
   Candidate for PhD (projected December 2013).

   Marcus Kwasi Peprah, Graduate Student,
   enterning class of Fall 2009, qualifying exam passed,
   Candidate for PhD (projected in 2015).

   Alejandro (Pedro) Quintero Cabra, Graduate Student,
   enterning class of Fall 2009, qualifying exam passed,
   Candidate for PhD (projected in 2015).

Image TBA    Tatiana V. Brinzari, PhD (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
                    Postdoctoral Research Assistant (2012-present), supported by UF-DSR
                    UF Center for Tomorrow's Materials (Today).

Ex-Members (Thesis students and Postdocs) of the Research Group

   Matthew W. Calkins, B.S.
   supported by NSF REU, Undergraduate Research Fellowship
   from the UF Center for Condensed Matter Sciences (CCMS), UF Honors Scholar,
   Honors Thesis (2013): Implementation of a Differential Hall Element Magnetometer

   Matthieu F. Dumont, PhD in Chemistry (Talham Group)
    Postdoctoral Research Assistant (2011-2012), supported by (UF DSR-ROF),
    as of April 2012: Research Post Doctoral Fellow,
    Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation
    at Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Daniel M. Pajerowski, Ph.D., NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    NIST Center for Neutron Research
    Ph.D. Thesis (2010): Photoinduced Magnetism in Nanostructures of Prussian Blue Analogues

   Justin D. Cohen, B.S., Graduate Student
    Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology
    Honors Thesis (2009): AC magnetic susceptibility probe for use in a commercial SQUID magnetometer

   Ju-Hyun Park, Ph.D., Assistant Scholar/Scientist
    National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
    1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32310-3706
    Email: jhpark at magnet.fsu.edu
    Ph.D. Thesis (2006): Magneto-Structural and Magneto-Optical Studies of Prussian Blue Analogs

   James Ch. Davis, B.S., Graduate Student
    Department of Physics
    Ohio State University
    Honors Thesis (2006): Modeling of the Anisotropic Electric Fields Generated by Stimulating Needles

   Erik Cizmar, Ph.D. from P.J. Safarik University, 2002-2003 NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Scientist
    Centre of Low Temperature Physics
    P.J. Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia

   Sara J. Gamble, B.S. UF (2003), Ph.D. Stanford (2010)
    Applications Development Engineer
    KLA Tencor in CA
    Honors Thesis (2003): Magneto-Optical Properties of Thin Film Prussian Blue Analogues

   James R. Maloney, B.S. UF (2002), M.S. Caltech (2006)
    Staff Member, Biological Imaging Center
    Beckman Institute, Caltech
    Pasadena CA 91125 USA
    Email: maloney at its.caltech.edu
    Honors Thesis (2002): Acoustic Resonance Measurements During the Evolution of Sol-gel Synthesis

   Brian C. Watson, Ph.D., Senior Engineer
    Information Systems Laboratories, Inc.
    San Diego, CA   92121
    Email: bwatson@islinc.com
    Ph.D. Thesis (2000): Quantum Transitions in Antiferromagnets and Liquid Helium-3

   Garrett E. Granroth, Ph.D., Instrument Scientist
    Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Oak Ridge, TN 37830
    Email: granrothge@sns.gov
    Ph.D. Thesis (1998): Experimental Studies of Integer Spin Antiferromagnetic Chain

   Philippe J.-C. Signore, Ph.D., Partner
    Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.
    1755 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202
    Email: psignore@oblon.com
    Ph.D. Thesis (1994): Inductive Measurements of Heavy Fermion Superconductors

   Johan Bremer, Ph.D. (Leiden University)
    Cryogenics Division and Atlas Collaboration: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.7214.pdf
    CERN, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
    Email: johan.bremer@cern.ch
    Postdoctoral Fellow (1993)

Useful physics links:

Daniel Talham, Departement of Chemistry, UF

Alexander Feher, Centre of Low Temperature Physics, P. J. Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia

Steve Nagler, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Previous Course Pages:

Fulbright Scholar Spring 2012 (no classroom teaching assignment)
PHY 1033C Discovering Physics (Fall 2012)
PHY 3323 Electromagnetism 1 (Fall 2012)
PHY 2048 Physics with Calculus 1 (Summer 2012)
PHY 3323 Electromagnetism 1 (Spring 2012)
PHY 3101 Intro Modern Physics (Fall 2011)
PHY 3323 Electromagnetism 1 (Spring 2011)
PHY 3101 Intro Modern Physics (Fall 2010)
PHY 3063 Honors Modern Physics (Spring 2010)
PHY 3101 Intro Modern Physics (Fall 2009)
PHY 3063 Honors Modern Physics (Spring 2009)
Sabbatical Leave Fall 2008 (no classroom teaching assignment)
PHY 3063 Honors Modern Physics (Spring 2008)
PHY 4802L Advanced Electronics Lab (Fall 2008)
PHZ 4710 Intro. to Biophysics (Spring 2007)
PHY 2020 Intro. to the Principles of Physics (Fall 2006)
PHZ 4710 Intro. to Biophysics (Spring 2006)
PHY 2020 Intro. to the Principles of Physics (Fall 2005)
PHZ 4710 Intro. to Biophysics (Spring 2005)
PHY 2020 Intro. to the Principles of Physics (Fall 2004)
Stat Phys: PHY 4523 (Spring 2004) Thermal Phy: PHY 3513 (Fall 2003)
Stat Phys: PHY 4523 (Spring 2003) Thermal Phys: PHY 3062 (and PHY 3513) (Fall 2002)
Stat Phys: PHY 4523 (Spring 2002) Thermal Phys: PHY 3062 and PHY 3513 (Fall 2001)
PHY 4324 Electromagnetics II Course Webpage
PHY 2048L and PHY 2053L (Spring 2001) Intro. Lab Information