Sentences with phrase «said physics graduate student»

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Any graduate student studying the physics of living systems can request to join the network, says Christopher Smith, director of program logistics and technical organization for PoLS - SRN.

«It's a piece of the puzzle,» said Armitage, who worked on the experiments along with Liang Wu, who was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins when the work was done, Maryam Salehi of the Rutgers University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Nikesh Koirala, Jisoo Moon and Sean Oh of the Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy.

This is achieved for the first time on a chip,» said Semere Tadesse, a graduate student in the University of Minnesota's School of Physics and Astronomy and the first author of the paper.

«We calculate we could easily detect 10 milligrams [of cobalt - 60] with a laser aimed within half a meter from an unshielded source, which is a fraction of what might go into a dirty bomb» said Joshua Isaacs, first author on the paper and a graduate student working with University of Maryland physics and engineering professors Phillip Sprangle and Howard Milchberg.

Dagmar Beck, who oversees four PSM programs at Rice University in Houston, Texas, says she has information on all but one of the 75 students who have graduated since the programs in nanoscale physics, subsurface geoscience, and environmental analysis and decision - making were established in 2002.

Clifford Chancey, director of the PSM program in applied physics at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, says that all 13 students who graduated from the program in the past 5 years found immediate employment, with starting salaries ranging from $ 50,000 to $ 70,000.

«Too many students are faced with hostile environments, and it's making it hard for us to get work done,» says Susan Mahan - Nieber, a physics graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis and former president of the NAGPS.

Although it's still theoretical, this world clock «wouldn't have lost a second or gained a second even if it started at the beginning of the universe,» nearly 13.8 billion years ago, says Peter Komar, a physics graduate student at Harvard.

The trouble is the hydraulics normally used to pump liquids from place to place, says Manu Prakash, a physics graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

«There is a lot of new physics that can be done even with these small systems,» said James Raftery, a graduate student in electrical engineering and one of the authors.

«The device enables us to detect and identify the products of reactions on the single - particle level, and for us, it has really been a bridge between chemistry and physics,» said Michael Mills, a UCLA graduate student who worked on the project.

«We've been exploring the potential of defect spins for thermometry for the past few years,» said David Toyli, a graduate student in physics at UCSB and lead author of the temperature sensing work.

«Compared to how the NV center is usually studied, these techniques in some ways are more general and could potentially enable the study of unexplored quantum systems,» said UCSB physics graduate student Bob Buckley.

«To get a full understanding of the corona, you need to understand the magnetic field,» says Jenna Samra, an applied physics graduate student at Harvard University.

«Quantum theory can describe certain details of the propagation of waves in plasma,» said Yuan Shi, a graduate student in the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics and lead author of a paper published July 29 in the journal Physical Review A. Understanding the interactions behind the propagation can then reveal the composition of the plasma.

«In KATRIN, the electrons are detected in a silicon detector, which means the electrons smash into the crystal, and a lot of random things happen, essentially destroying the electrons,» says Daniel Furse, a graduate student in physics, and a co-author on the paper.

«The goal was to get the double quantum dots to communicate with each other,» said Yinyu Liu, a physics graduate student in Petta's lab.

«Given the lack of any visible signals and the careful review of the timing of the pulsar, we concluded that the most likely companion was another neutron star,» Joe Swiggum, a graduate student in physics and astronomy at West Virginia University in Morgantown and lead author of a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, said, in a statement.