Category: Science and Tech

The two are among 496 scholarship recipients from an application pool of over 5,000 nationwide.

A team including assistant professor of physics and astronomy Ryan Terrien ’09 built a tool called the Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) to better detect planets orbiting M dwarf stars.

Haoyi Wang ’19, a mathematics major with a minor in music performance from Chengdu, China tells us about her senior capstone experience, or “Comps,” in support of her math degree.

Rou-Jia Sung and Andrew Wilson have developed a new augmented reality app.

Julianne Pyron ’19, a double major (physics and archaeology) from Houston, tells us about her senior capstone experience, or ‘Comps,’ in support of her physics degree.

Sam Stevenson ’19, a physics/mathematics major from Salt Lake City, spent the summer of 2018 working closely with associate professor of physics Marty Baylor.

Arjendu Pattanayak, Professor of Physics, presented recent results on ‘Using quantum back-action to control quantum chaotic systems’ at his former homes in Texas at the University of Texas at Austin, and Rice University on Friday, October 12 and Monday, October 15. This reported on work done with Yueheng Shi ’21, Sacha Greenfield ’19, Jessica Eastman (Australian National University), and Andre Carvalho (Griffiths University). 

Matt Whited, Associate Professor of Chemistry, published a paper in Organometallics with Jim Zhang ’18 entitled, “Synthesis and Reactivity of Pincer-Type Cobalt Silyl and Silylene Complexes.” The paper represents the first fruits of a collaboration with the Ozerov group at Texas A&M University and is an exciting example of the first-ever chemical compound featuring a cobalt-silicon double bond. These fundamental advances have laid the groundwork for ongoing studies into how abundant and sustainable metals like cobalt can be coaxed into transforming carbon dioxide and other pollutants into useful products.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics Barry Costanzi published a paper titled “Noise in Mesoscale Magnetic Dots from Random Telegraph Noise to 1/f Noise” in the journal IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, with collaborators from the University of Minnesota and from Honeywell International Inc. The paper discusses experimental work on the characterization and engineering of thermal fluctuations (or “noise”) in magnetic samples on the mesoscale (~100s of nm in size), with applications toward explaining the origin of noise signals in many other physical systems. Costanzi also presented his work in an invited talk at the International Conference on Magnetism in San Francisco this summer.

Carleton professors Nelson Christensen and Jay Tasson, along with alumni Jacob Broida ’17, Tom Callister ’13, Santiago Carides ’08, and Michael Coughlin ’12, all are authors on a newly-released paper describing a recent three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence.