The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Newsletter        Number S15-08 2008-May-05

             Editor: Eric Gawiser        Publisher: Nancy DeHaan
Contributions should be sent to newsletter@physics or placed in mailbox.

SOCIAL EVENTS: 
                              Department Tea 
          Monday: 3rd floor of Serin East(Common Room) - 4:00pm
                    Wednesday: Lecture Hall - 4:30pm

CONGRATULATIONS:

Rouven Essig successfully defended his thesis "Physics Beyond the 
Standard Model: Supersymmetry, Dark Matter, and LHC Phenomenology" on 
April 28, under the supervision of Professor Scott Thomas.


The following awards were announced at the Departmental Awards Banquet
on April 29, 2008:

Richard J. Plano PhD Dissertation Prize: Elena Loginova
Richard T. Weidner Physics Prize: Javier Sanchez, Jack Hanson, Anthony
Barker
Mary Wheeler Wigner Memorial Scholarship: David Ruffner
Robert L. Sells Scholarship: Jordan Ledvina, Hou Keong Lou
Herman Y. Carr Scholarship: Yifan Lin, Benjamin Shappee
Noemie B. Koller Scholarship: Jennifer Van Saders, Brenna Krieger
Richard J. Plano Summer Research Internships: Sonal Patel, Richard
Bavier
Summer Research Internship Award in Experimental High Energy Physics:
Michael Park
SPS Outstanding Teacher Award: Prof. Premala Chandra 


SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA:

NPS Mon May 5  Steffen Srauch, University of South Carolina
11:45 112W      "Search for Proton Medium Modifications in the
                 4He(e,e'p) Reaction"

COL Wed May 7  Craig Fennie, ANL
4:45 PLH        "Phase Competition in Complex Oxides by Design"

**********************Partial List of Next Week's Seminars*********************

LSM Fri May 16 Juergen Kirschner, Max-Planck-Institut fur 
12:00 Chem 260 Mikrostrukturphysik
                "Experiments on the Exchange-Correlation Hole in Solids"


              The Newsletter will resume September 2, 2008
                           Have a great summer!

For the calendar of upcoming colloquia and seminars in the department, visit
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu

      MPS=Mathematical Physics Seminar   LSM=Lab for Surface Modification
      NPS=Nuclear Physics Seminar        HEX=High Energy Experimental
      AST=Astrophysics Seminar           SSS=Surface Science Seminar
      INS=Instructional Seminar          CMS=Condensed Matter Seminar
      SIP=Seminar in Physics             SPS=Society of Physics Students
      HET=High Energy Theory             COL=Colloquium
      MSS=Materials Science Seminar      HON=Honors Seminar
      BPS=Biological Physics Seminar