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
UF  Mark W. Meisel  Department of Physics
 
Contact Information  Present Schedule  MyUF  LT24
                          
Recent Preprints and Publications 

Fulbright  Fulbright US Scholar (2012-2013) granted to visit
  The Center for Low Temperature Physics
 
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

Kosice-2013 
BBC-Travel-KosiceUF-Library

UPJS  Honorary Degree (Doctor honoris causa)
  Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia
 
UPJS webpage with citation and photographs
  “Snapshots of a Collaboration in Košice”

 
(speech with photographs or text only, 12 Nov 2010)
 
Newspaper (Korzár) photo and article (in Slovak)

NSFNSF DMR-0701400 Research Nugget (2010) (pdf)
NSF DMR-0701400 Research Nugget (2009) (ppt)
NSF DMR-0701400 Research Nugget (ppt)
NSF DMR-0305371 Research Nugget (ppt)


Present Course Pages:
No traditional classroom assignments for Spring/Summer 2013 due to
Fulbright Scholar Award
granted to visit The Center for Low Temperature Physics
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

  
Previsous Course Pages

Some Sites Useful for Undergraduate and Graduate Students:
UF Counseling and Wellness Center (a Division of Student Affairs)
Dean of Students Office (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 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

 
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 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


Weather     Research Interests and Openings (dated)   
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



Plants in Space: NASA ISS Update Interview  (19 Dec 2012)

Plants Grow Fine Without Gravity (National Geographic Daily News, 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

YouTubeLogoChapter 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

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





Alex   Marcus Kwasi Peprah, Graduate Student,
   enterning class of Fall 2009, qualifying exam passed,
   Candidate for PhD (projected in 2014).



Alex   Alejandro (Pedro) Quintero Cabra, Graduate Student,
   enterning class of Fall 2009, qualifying exam passed,
   Candidate for PhD (projected in 2014)



Ashley   Ashley A. August, Graduate Student,
   enterning class of Fall 2012, qualifying exam expected 2015,
   Candidate for PhD (projected in 2017)

 

Alex   Matthew W. Calkins, Ungraduate Student,
   supported by an Undergraduate Research Fellowship
   from the UF Center for Condensed Matter Sciences (CCMS),
   BS projected 2013.


Scott   (Bradley) Scott Nicks, Undergraduate Student, supported by an Undergraduate Research Fellowship
   from the UF Center for Condensed Matter Sciences (CCMS) and an NSF-funded REU Program in
   the UF Department of Physics for Summer 2012
   BS projected 2014.


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

Matthieu
            Dumont   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 Pajerowski  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



JDCohen   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


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
            Davis   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

Low Temp Institute, Kosice   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

SJ Gamble   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


JR Maloney   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

BW Watson   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

GE Granroth   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

PJC Signore   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   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:

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