Erik, July
2006, The Gunks,
LT-22 Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, August 1999.
Junkyard South, New River Gorge,
WV. Photograph by
Peter
Berglund.
Mark W. Meisel [
Contact Information]
[
Present Schedule]
Colonel
Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor
in the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences for 2008
Department
of Physics
University
of Florida MyUF
LT24
Research
Interests and Openings
Recent
Preprints and Publications
NSF DMR-0701400 Research Nugget
(*.ppt)
NSF DMR-0305371 Research Nugget
(*.ppt)
Present Course Page:
Sabbatical Leave Fall
2008 (no classroom teaching assignment)
Previsous Course Pages
Some Sites Useful for
Undergraduate and Graduate Students:
UF
Counseling Center (a
Division
of Student Affairs)
Sophomores
and Juniors: Go for the Gold!
Goldwater Scholarships
Molecular
Biophysics Journal Club
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
Some Recent Outreach Activities
(Note: I am not involved with the programs whose
logos are to the left, but I get ideas when reviewing these pages.)
Free Fall,
Gravity, Simple Machines, and Some
Physics Fun: J.J. Finley Elementary School's 75 3rd Graders
(repeated 25 Jan 06 and 24 Jan 07: Newberry Elementary School,
4th
grade, 4 sessions of 30 min. each with ~22 students per session.
A
BLAST!)
Fun, Force, Free Fall,
Friction, Physics, Push, Pull, Gravity: Newberry's 75 1st Graders
Rolling Cans
for Fun and Thought: Mrs. Field's 2nd Graders
Aluminum Boats,
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream, and Pulleys: Mrs. Field's
3rd
Graders
How does low temperature
physics affect our daily lives?
A two-part public television special airing in
2007, will demonstrate how
civilization has been
profoundly affected by the mastery of cold.
Biophysics:
Strong Magnetic Field Effects on Gene Regulation
Bioinformatics:
Microarray Analysis
Biophysics:
Stimulating Needles
7
Tesla SQUID Homepage
Weather
Dictionary Library Gainesville High
School
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)
(in the Gainesville
Sun
, 30 March 2003, article by Carrie Miller, photo by Rob C. Witzel, photo
as a jpg file)
Chapter
1: They Don't
Call It The Vomit Comet For Nothing
Chapter
2: Grow Baby
Grow
Chapter
3: Reporter
Gene Tells All
Present Members of the Research
Group
Daniel
M. Pajerowski, Graduate Student,
entering class of Fall 2005, qualifying
exam passed 2008,
Candidate for PhD (anticipated in 2010).
Justin
D. Cohen, undergraduate physics major.
Ex-Members of the Research Group
Ju-Hyun
Park, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate
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., Graduate Student
Applied Physics
Stanford
University
Honors Thesis (2003): Magneto-Optical Properties of
Thin Film Prussian Blue Analogues
James
R. Maloney, B.S., Graduate Student
Condensed Matter Physics
Caltech 114-36
Pasadena CA 91125 USA
Email: maloney@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
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
