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Physics doctoral students invited to prestigious Nobel meeting
Three University of South Florida physics doctoral students, Joseph Fogarty, Aaron Landerville, and Evan Lafalce have been invited to attend the 62nd Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau, Germany. read more>
Fall 2012 Colloquium Coming Soon!
New faculty members in USF Physics
2012
Dr. Robert S. Hoy (B. A. Physics, Johns Hopkins, 1999; Ph. D. Physics, Johns Hopkins, 2008; Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara, 2007-2009; Anderson Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 2009-2010; Associate Research Scientist, Departments of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and Physics, Yale University, 2010-present) will be joining USF Physics as Assistant Professor effective Fall 2012. His research area is in computational physics, specifically in soft matter physics/materials science.
Dr. Zhimin Shi (B. S. Information Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 2001; M. S. Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 2004; M. S. Optics, University of Rochester, 2009; Ph. D. Optics, University of Rochester, 2010; Scientist, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, 2011-present) will be joining USF Physics as Assistant Professor effective December 2012. His research area encompasses the physics of nonlinear quantum optics on nano-scale platforms and the development of novel optical materials and devices. Experimental research programs will include nanocomposite metamaterials (for energy harvesting) and optical antennas (for biophotonics and single photon source).
2011
 Dr. Jiangfeng Zhou, Assistant Professor
Dr. Zhou's research focuses on theoretical modeling and experimental characterization of photonic structures including metamaterials, surface plasmons and photonic crystals.
Florida Cluster for Advanced Smart Sensor Technologies (FCASST) Award
The Department of Physics at USF has been awarded a New Florida 2010 Clustering Grant from the Florida State University System’s Board of Governors to establish a Florida Cluster for Advanced Smart Sensor Technologies (FCASST). The $550K award to scientists and engineers from the Department of Physics at the University of South Florida and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida will establish an inter-institutional cluster directed at the discovery, development and optimization of smart sensors based on advances in materials science and technology.
USF Physicist Paul Kim Elected OSA Fellow
 Prof. Myung “Paul” Kim has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America by the Board of Directors of OSA on October 25, 2010. Paul is recognized for his “pioneering work in digital holographic microscopy and development of its techniques and applications, such as digital interference holography and total internal reflection holographic microscopy”.
The REU program leverages the expertise in over 20 research laboratories in our unique doctoral program in Applied Physics at USF. This three-year, $327,000 REU award from NSF will provide nationally recruited undergraduate students high-quality motivational research experiences in four thrust areas in our Department including materials physics; atomic, molecular & optical physics/sensors; biomedical/biophysics; and computational/theoretical physics.
Two win NSF CAREER awards
Two USF Physics researchers have received NSF CAREER awards, which are the foundation's most prestigious recognition of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher - scholars. The awardees are: Matthias Batzill and Casey Miller, both Assistant Professors of Physics.
 Batzill's project "CAREER: Nanoscale surface properties of functional metal oxides" will receive $577,076 effective July 15, 2009.
 Miller's project "CAREER: Magnetocaloric effect in metallic nanostructures" will receive $586,060 effective April 1, 2010.
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SPS (Society of Physics Students) Expo Crew wins the "Best Show" Award in Engineering Expo 2012 again!!!
SPS (Society of Physics Students) Expo Crew wins the "Best Show" Award in Engineering Expo 2009, again!!!
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Physics is now a part of the new School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (SNSM)
Computational Scholarship Available for Undergraduates.
Apply for up to $40,000 over four years. > more info
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Spintronics Steps Forward
Researchers show how to “set” the spin for spintronics applications important to faster electronic devices.
USF physicists discover “new recipe” for solid state refrigeration
Assistant Professors Inna Ponomareva and Sergey Lisenkov in USF's Department of Physics developed state-of-the-art computational experiments to simulate performance of ferroelectric materials as solid-state refrigerants. Such materials can convert electrical energy into thermal energy and vice verse - known as the electrocaloric effect.
Brian Demaske (Major Professor: Ivan I. Oleynik) has been awarded a prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.
Ivan I. Oleynik has been selected for the honor of receiving a 2012 Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award.
Jason Lewis (Major Professor: Xiomei Jiang) has been awarded 2010-2011 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Graduate School.
Dr. Michael Conroy (Major Professor Ivan Oleynik) has been appointed as Research Physicist at US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in Washington, DC. Read more
USF Physicists Discover Super-Elastic Shock Wave
Two USF Physicists awarded FY 2011 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) awards.
Matthias Batzill was awarded $206,650 for a photoelectron emission microscope. This instrument allows direct imaging of photo-emitted electrons from a surface with ~ 20nm resolution. Examples of applications include monitoring the growth of graphene and other two-dimensional nanomaterials.
Hariharan Srikanth was awarded $156,380 for a cryogenic probe station. This instrument will be custom-designed for a variety of transport measurements.
Stevce Stefanoski (Major Professor: George S. Nolas) has been awarded the prestigious German Academic Exchange award (DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) for the fall 2011 in partial support of his practicum at the Max Planck Institute for the Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany.
Adrian Popescu (Major Professor: Lilia M. Woods) has been awarded the Bright House Networks Endowed Fellowship for the fall 2011.
Shannon Hill (Major Professor: Martin Muschol) has been awarded the Bright House Networks Endowed Fellowship for the summer 2011.
FCASST Launched at USF
The Florida Cluster for Advanced Smart Sensor Technologies (FCASST) was initiated on December 9, 2010 at USF with a joint meeting of scientists and engineers from USF Physics and UF MSE. Proceedings of the Inaugural FCASST Meeting
M. Beekman, W. Schnelle, H. Borrmann, M. Baitinger, Yu. Grin and G.S. Nolas, ‘Intrinsic electrical and thermal properties from single
crystals of Na24Si136’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 018301 (2010).
Michael W. Conroy (Major Professor: I. Oleynik) has been awarded 2009-2010 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Graduate School.
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