Class Notes
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Stanley Brodsky (B. S. '61, Ph.D Physics '64) is currently a Distinguished Fellow at Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia during his sabbatical from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University.
Arnold Dahm (Ph. D. '65) Would like to announce his promotion to Emeritus status after 33 years teaching at Case Western Reserve University. Dahm will continue doing full-time physics research with a major portion of his time spent doing background research necessary for realizing a quantum computer. He and his wife, Susan have two daughters, one is an interior designer and theother works in art conservation at the Art Institute of Chicago. Dahm's hobbies remain skiing and tennis.
Andrew K. McMahan (Ph.D., '71) was recently named a fellow of the American Physical Society, at the 2003 March Meeting. McMahan is a Staff Scientist in the Condensed Matter division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Chung Ngoc Leung (Ph.D., '83) is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Delaware.
Heinrich Jaeger (Ph.D., '87) was recently named a fellow of the American Physical Society at the 2003 March Meeting. Jaeger is a Professor at the University of Chicago, Director of the University of Chicago Materials Research Center, 2001 and Co-Director of UC - Argonne Consortium for nanoscience Research, 2001.
Chip Hart (B. S. '92). After working as a manager at Deloitte & Touche from 1996-2000, Hart is now the owner of Quantrobe, Inc. He and his wife Lucy, an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, have two children, Damyan and Gabriel.
Amit Chakrabarti, (Ph.D. '87)recently received the Kansas State 2002 Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching or Advising. Chakrabarti is currently a professor of physics at Kansas State University.
William Bardeen and Jeffrey Harvey gave a symposium, "Advances in Theoretical Physics: A Journey from Minnesota," to celebrate the occasion of the University bestowing them honorary degrees.
Talks were presented by William Bardeen, Fermilab; Jeffrey Harvey, University of Chicago; Mikhail Shifman, University of Minnesota, and Gregory Gabadadze, University of Minnesota.
Dr. Bardeen (Ph.D. 1968) and Dr. Harvey (B. Sc. 1977) are alumni of the University of Minnesota with degrees in Physics.
Allen Goldman received the prestigious London Memorial Prize for his "contributions to the physics of superconductors, particularly the discovery of the gapless collective modes, and for his inventive work on superconductor-insulator transitions in ultrathin films." Professor Goldman wished to recognize the contributions of the following former Research Assistants in this prize-winning effort:
- John T. Anderson, who worked with Goldman's group in the late 1960s, now works at Hewlett-Packard Corporation.
- Frank Aspen, who worked with Goldman's group in the mid 1970s, now works at Imation on the devlopment of optical data storage.
- R. Carlson, who worked with Goldman's group in the early 1970s, now works at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- David B. Haviland, who worked with Goldman's group in the late 1980s, is now a professor of nanostucture physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Heinrich Jaeger, who worked with Goldman's group in the late 1980s, is now a professor of physics at the University of Chicago.
- Ying Liu, who worked with Goldman's group in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is now a professor of physics at Penn State.
- Bradford Orr, is now a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Jaeger is a U of M physics alumnus (Ph.D. 1987, M.S. 1982) and was recognized for his scientific accomplishments in three research areas of condensed matter science: the study of granular media, vortex dynamics in superconductors, and mesoscopic physics. Following the award ceremony, Jaeger presented the Winifred B. and Henry A. Erikson Lecture on "Grains, Physics and the Art of Packing."
Dr. Nicholas Kraus (Ph.D. 1972) was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Lund University in Sweden on June 1, 2001. Kraus was cited for his contribution to coastal engineering and for numerical models of shoreline change and erosion, which he developed in collaboration with three doctoral students from Lund. Dr. Kraus is currently a Senior Scientist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Daniel L. McFadden (B.S. 1957) shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice." McFadden is currently a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.