2011 summer research
The Physics & Astronomy department had several research projects in summer 2011:
Astronomy:
- Asteroid Collisions (with L. Molnar)
- Contact binary stars (with S. Steenwyk)
- Professor Deb Haarsma and her student researchers, Nathan Harkema and David Sebald, studied the largest galaxies in the universe. Read more>>
Atomic physics and optics:
- Computer modeling of double ionization of atoms by visible and infrared lasers (with S. Haan)
- Experimental Studies of Pattern Formation in Dynamical Systems with Periodic Boundary Conditions (with M. Walhout)
Biophysics and interdisciplinary:
- Optical and DSC Studies of Lipid-Sugar Phase Behavior (with P. Harper
- Microscopy Measurements of Crystallization Kinetics (with P. Harper)
- Developing a computer model of evolution of interlocking complexity in biology (with L. Haarsma)
- Computer modeling evolution of a complex, interdependent, self-organized economy (with L. Haarsma, B. Haney of economics, and V. Norman of computer science)
- Jonathan Wong worked with psychology professor Paul Moes and physics and astronomy professor Loren Haarsma doing electrophysiology experiments which study tissue slices from a mouse brain. See a video about their work.
