Erik, July 2006, The Gunks,               Arrive Košice Airport, Slovakia, July 2007.
Junkyard South, New River Gorge, WV.             Photograph by Radomír Mlýnek.
Arrive Kosice, July 2007
Erik on the Gunks, Junkyard South, New River Gorge, WV
Mark W. Meisel  [ Contact Information]  [ Present Schedule]
 
Department of Physics
     University of Florida   MyUF   LT24  GenEdComm

Research Interests and Openings  
Recent Preprints and Publications


NSFNSF DMR-0701400 Research Nugget (2009) (*.ppt)
NSF DMR-0701400 Research Nugget (*.ppt)
NSF DMR-0305371 Research Nugget (*.ppt)

Present Course Page:
PHY3101 Intro Modern Physics (Fall 2009)
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

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


La main a la pate  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

SPICE  Rolling Cans for Fun and Thought: Mrs. Field's 2nd Graders
 
Aluminum Boats, Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream, and Pulleys: Mrs. Field's 3rd Graders

Florida PROMiSE at UF: "Matter" Institutes for Duval County (Jacksonville, FL) K-8 Teachers

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


Weather    Dictionary   Library  Gainesville High School  GHS Swim and Dive Team

Mars on EarthSpouseAnna-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


YouTubeLogoChapter 1:  They Don't Call It The Vomit Comet For Nothing
Chapter 2:  Grow Baby Grow
Chapter 3:  Reporter Gene Tells All

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

Present Members of the Research Group

Daniel Pajerowski  Daniel M. Pajerowski, Graduate Student,
  entering class of Fall 2005, qualifying exam passed 2008,
  Candidate for PhD (expected  in 2010).




ESK  Elisabeth S. Knowles, Graduate Student,
  entering class of Fall 2008, qualifying exam expected 2011,
  Candidate for PhD (projected in 2013).




Alex  Alex Sincore, Undergraduate Student


Ex-Members of the Research Group

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

J-H Park
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

J Ch DavisJames 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

Low Temp Institute, KosiceErik 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

SJ GambleSara J. Gamble, B.S., Graduate Student
    Applied Physics
    Stanford University
    Honors Thesis (2003): Magneto-Optical Properties of Thin Film Prussian Blue Analogues


JR MaloneyJames 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

BW WatsonBrian 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

GE GranrothGarrett 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

PJC SignorePhilippe 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


Previous Course Pages:

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