| Date | Presenters and paper |
| Sept 22 | #1 Regina Bendig: Library resources |
| #2 Christine | |
| "Progressive field state collapse and quantum non-demolition photon counting", Nature, 448, 889 (also News&Views: "Wave Goodbye") | |
| Sept 29 | #1 Scott and Jordy |
| "Strong tidal dissipation in Io and Jupiter from astrometric observations", V. Lainey et al., 2009, Nature, 459, 957 (see also News&Views, p 920 and Physics Today: August 2009) | |
| #2 Ash and Kyle P. | |
| NEW paper: "Efficient Wireless non-radiative mid-range energy transfer", Karalis et al., 2008, Annals of Physics, 323, p34 | |
| OLDER paper: "Wireless Power Transfer via Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonances", Kurs et al., 2007, Science, Vol 317, pp 83-86 (See also Perspective, pg 55) | |
| Oct 6 | ** NO CLASS ** |
| Oct 13 | #1 Judi and Steve |
| "Preparing high-school physics teachers", Hodapp, Hehn, and Hein, 2009, Physics Today, Vol 62, Issue 2, pg 40 | |
| #2 Paul and Andrew | |
| "Growth of Oxides Single Crystals by the Optical Floating Zone Method", Dabkowski and Gaulin, in CRYSTAL GROWTH OF TECHNOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT ELECTRONIC MATERIALS ed. K.Byrappa, T. Ohachi, H.Klapper and R. Fornari Allied PublishersLtd, 2003 pp 341 - 354 | |
| Paul and Andrew requested a copy of this using RACER as it is not in our library; you may download a pdf version here) | |
| #3 Evan and Brittany | |
| "Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission VIII. CoRoT-7b: the first Super-Earth with measured radius", A. Leger et al., 2009, Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press (ArXiv:0908.0241) (see http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/astro-ph) | |
| (see also http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=8627 for a popular article on this finding) | |
| Oct 20 | #1 Laurelle and Dan |
| "Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photsynthetic systems", G. Engel et al., 2007, Nature, 446, 782 (see also News and Views, pg. 740) | |
| #2 Ajay and Marcel | |
| "Decoherence of matter waves by thermal emission of radiation", L. Hackermuller et al., 2004, Nature, 427, 711 | |
| Oct 27 | ** NO CLASS ** |
| Nov 3 | #1 Jeff and Kyle N. |
| "The unphysical nature of 'warp drive'", Pfenning and Ford, 1997, Classical and Quantum Gravity, v 14, p 1743-51, | |
| #2 Erik, Sean K. and David | |
| "Auralization of Spaces", M. Vorlander, 2009, Physics Today, Volume 62, pg 35-40 | |
| Nov 10 | #1 Marlon, Sean M., and Radhika |
| "Maxwell, Hertz, the Maxwellians, and the Early History of Electromagnetic Waves." D. Sengupta and T. Sarkar, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, v 45, n-2, p 13-19 April 2003 | |
| #2 Amit and Charmaine | |
| "Numerical evaluations of the fields induced by body motion in or near high-field MRI scanners", Crozier and Liu, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 87 (2005) 267-278 | |
| Nov 17 | #1 Greg and Kelsey |
| "Broadband Invisibility by Non-Euclidean Cloaking" by Ulf Leonhardt and Tom Tyc, 2009, Science, 323, 110 | |
| #2 Katie and Brandon | |
| "The a.c. and d.c. Josephson effects in a Bose-Einstein condensate", 2007, S. Levy et al., Nature, 449, 579 (see also News & Views) | |
| Nov 24 | #1 Sara and Michael A. |
| "Fabrication and characterization of an electrically variable, nanospring based interferometer", Dice et al., 2007, Applied Physics Letters, 90, 253101 (see also "New Materials at a Glance", Brett and Hawkeye, Science, 319, 1192 (2008)) | |
| #2 Ian and Russell | |
| "A biological quarter-wave retarder with excellent achromaticity in the visible wavelength region." N. W. Roberts, T.-H. Chiou, N. J. Marshall, T. W. Cronin, Nature Photonics 3, 641-644 (25 October 2009) | |
| Dec 1 | #1 James, Uzair, and Michael D. |
| "Relativistic Archimedes law for fast moving bodies and the general-relativistic resolution of the `submarine paradox,' " George E. Matsas, Phys. Rev. D 68, 027701 (2003) | |
| Dec 1 | #2 Christine |
| Overview of expectations for research paper in Term 2, and course evaluations for Physics 4AA1 (co-op) students |