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Ulrich Hansmann Wins 2009 Michigan Tech Research Award
Michigan Tech News, June 12, 2009

Michigan Tech Physicists Make a Splash with Rain Discovery (Kostinski, Shaw)
Tech Today, June 11, 2009

Research Award Winners Ravi Pandey and Shuanglin Zhang
Pandey Finds a New Way to Sequence DNA
Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2009

The Incredible Shrinking Transistor (Pati)
Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2009

Filling in Some Age-Old Blanks: Physicists Calculate a Fundamental Property of the Rare Earths
Tech Today, March 12, 2009

O'Malley Completes the Lanthanide Anion Series
Physics News, March 12, 2009

Mathematical Sciences to Host Seminars on Emerging Computational Tools (Hansmann)
Tech Today, February 10, 2009

Michigan Tech Research Hits Top 10 Physics Stories (Auger)
Tech Today, January 8, 2009

TOP TEN PHYSICS STORIES OF THE YEAR (Auger)
American Institute of Physics, Inside Science Research—Physics News Update, December 22, 2008

Mazzoleni Research
Physics News, October 2, 2008

Yap Chairs CNMS 2008 Joint User Meeting
Associate Professor Yoke Khin Yap attended the 2008 Joint User Meeting of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As the chair of the user executive committee (UEC) of the CNMS User Group (CNMSUG), Dr. Yap chaired the user group business meeting on September 25 and attended the UEC meeting on September 26. The UEC meeting was attended by the UEC, the CNMS management, and the program manager for the Department of Energy (DOE) nanocenters and microscopy user facilities. The meeting was held at CNMS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory on September 24-26, 2008. CNMS is one of the five Nanoscale Science Research Centers currently being established by the Office of Science, U.S. DOE. CNMSUG is an organization whose members serve as the lead principal investigators on approved CNMS user projects. The purpose of the CNMSUG is to provide a formal channel for the exchange of information between the management of the CNMS and the investigators at the CNMS. There are more than 500 members in CNMSUG.

Yap Group Co-Authors Review Book Chapters
Physics News, September 24, 2008

Yap Serves as an Editorial Board Member in New Nanotechnology Journal: Journal of Nanotechnology
Physics News, September 24, 2008

Physics Lecture Series to Be Held Sept. 15-19
Tech Today, September 10, 2008

Dr. Kim Fook Lee is exploring the physics of quantum entanglement and its applications. In his PhD research, he has developed wave-mechanical implementation based on coherent light source for studying entanglement properties such as the test of Bell’s inequality and GHZ’s argument on the violation of locality. He also showed that the negative-valued of Wigner functions can be obtained by using classical fields [See Image 1]. His recent research is implementing various quantum-information-processing applications using fiber based entanglement sources. He has demonstrated generation of high-purity polarization-entangled photon pairs in the telecom band (1.5 µm) with liquid-nitrogen-cooled fiber (77 K) by using a compact counter-propagating scheme [See Image 2]. He was involved in generating degenerate and non-degenerate fiber based entangled photon-pairs for entanglement distribution over a distance of 100 km and linear optical quantum computing (in particular, a quantum controlled-NOT gate, see recent paper in Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133603 (2008)) [See Image 3]. He has published his recent results of observing polarization-entangled photon pairs in silicon waveguide on arxiv:0801.2606 (quant-ph). His current research interest at Michigan Tech is to develop entanglement source for quantum information processing and to invent biomedical-imaging technique based on quantum optics technology.

Molecular Switching Moves Closer to Reality (Pati)
Semiconductor International, August 5, 2008

Michigan Tech Scientist Models Molecular Switch (Pati)
IEEE-USA Today's Engineer, July 8, 2008

A model odnomolekulyarnogo switch (Pati)
CNews R&D, July 1, 2008 (translated from Russian)

Indian scientist explains computing 'holy grail' (Pati)
Deccan Herald, June 20, 2008

Physicist Models Single Molecular Switch (Pati)
Chemistry Time, June 18, 2008

Physicist Models Single Molecular Switch (Pati)
EnterTheGrid - PrimeurMagazine, June 18, 2008

Physicists Model Single Molecular Switch, Computing's Elusive Holy Grail (Pati)
Science News, June 17, 2008

Indian finds mechanism behind "Holy Grail" of computing (Pati)
Webindia123, June 17, 2008

Indian finds mechanism behind "Holy Grail" of computing (Pati)
Yahoo! India News, June 17, 2008

Scientists model molecular switch (Pati)
YubaNet, June 16, 2008

Physicists Model Single Molecular Switch, Computing's Elusive Holy Grail (Pati)
Betterhumans, June 17, 2008

Michigan Tech Scientist Models Molecular Switch (Pati)
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, June 16, 2008

Michigan Tech Scientist Models Molecular Switch (Pati)
Nerve: News of India, June 16, 2008

Scientists model molecular switch (Pati)
Physics News, June 16, 2008

Scientists model molecular switch (Pati)
Nanowerk, June 16, 2008

Michigan Tech Physicist Models Single Molecular Switch (Pati)
Bio-Medicine June 16, 2008

Michigan Tech Physicist Models Single Molecular Switch (Pati)
redOrbit, June 16, 2008

Michigan Tech Physicist Models Single Molecular Switch (Pati)
NanoTechWire.com, June 16, 2008

Michigan Tech Physicist Models Single Molecular Switch (Pati)
EurekAlert!, June 16, 2008

Michigan Tech Physicist Models Single Molecular Switch (Pati)
Nanotechnology Now, June 16, 2008

Michigan Tech Physicist Models Single Molecular Switch (Pati)
NSF News From the Field, June 16, 2008

Michigan Tech Physicist Models Single Molecular Switch (Pati)
Michigan Tech News, June 16, 2008

Yap Serves as an Editorial Board Member in New Nanotechnology Journal: Research Letters in Nanotechnology
Physics News, May 15, 2008

Fat Carbon Nanotubes Make Cover of the President’s Report of the University of Connecticut (Yap)
Physics News, May 15, 2008

NSF CAREER AWARD Recipients - In Their Own Words (Pati)
Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2008

He Works in Light (Levy)
Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2008

The Smallest of Nanotubes Yielding Big Results (Yap, Pandey)
Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2008

Clearing Up the Physics of Clouds (Fugal)
Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2008

From the Miniature to the Mammoth (Irish)
Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2008

Leading Physicist to Talk on Molecular Nanomagnets
Tech Today, April 18, 2008

Knowing When to Fold: For Proteins, Timing Is Everything (Hansmann)
Tech Today, April 16, 2008

Physics Colloquium Thursday by Distinguished Nanotechnology Researcher
Tech Today, April 1, 2008

Physics Grads Present at GSC Research Symposium
March 25-26, 2008

Deconstructing DNA-CNT hybrids (Gowtham, Scheicher, Pandey, Karna, Ajuha)
Lab Talk, Nanotechweb.org, March 10, 2008

Yap Named as the Chair of CNMS User Group at ORNL
Associate Professor Yoke Khin Yap is the first elected chair of the user group of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The CNMS User Group (CNMSUG) is an organization whose members serve as the lead principal investigators on approved CNMS user projects. The purpose of the CNMSUG is to provide a formal channel for the exchange of information between the management of the CNMS and the investigators at the CNMS. The CNMSUG will also serve as an advocacy group for the experimental and computational nanoscience-focused research activities at the CNMS. Since 2005, Yap served CNMS as one of the four Charter Members of the User Executive Committee responsible for the formation of CNMSUG. Yap is currently attending the CNMS Advisory Committee Meeting at the Center. Vice President for Research David Reed congratulated Yap on his election. "It's a reflection of the respect people in the project have for him and the quality of his research."
January 30, 2008

"Tracing Cosmic Bullets" Makes Number 3 in Science Magazine's Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2007 (Auger)
Science Magazine, December 21, 2007

"The Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays" Makes AIP's Ten Top Physics Stories for 2007 (Auger)
American Institute of Physics, December 13, 2007

Physics Researchers Participate in Nano Symposium
Nanotechnology research at MTU is gaining attention in an international symposium, “Symposium II: Nanotubes and Related Nanostructures,” being held on Nov. 26-30, in Boston. Associate Professor Yoke Khin Yap is the lead organizer of this symposium, which consists of about 290 contributed papers and 27 invited lectures. Yap research group will deliver five presentations while Professor Ravi Pandey will present an invited lecture, a poster presentation, and serve as a session chair. In addition, Professor Craig Friedrich (MEEM, Director of MuSTI) will serve as a session chair, present an oral talk, and host the symposium banquet to all the invited speakers, organizers, and session chairs of the symposium. Symposium II is the biggest symposium in the 2007 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting with a total of 42 symposia and ~4500 presentations.
December 3, 2007

The Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays (Auger)
American Institute of Physics, November 12, 2007

MTU plays key role in project (Auger)
Daily Mining Gazette, November 9, 2007

Universe's Highest-Energy Particles Traced Back to Other Galaxies (Auger)
Science Magazine, November 9, 2007

Auger Observatory Closes in on Long-Standing Mystery; Links Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Violent Black Holes
UNM Today, November 8, 2007

Scientists help solve mystery of cosmic rays (Auger)
EurekAlert!, November 8, 2007

Scientists help solve mystery of cosmic rays (Auger)
Science Centric News, November 8, 2007

Michigan Tech Helps Solve Mystery of Cosmic Rays (Auger)
Michigan Tech News, November 8, 2007

Outstanding Meeting Paper by Nadgorny
Presidential Professor Dr. Edward Nadgorny published an online paper in the e-Proceedings of the Materials Research Society meeting which was selected as the outstanding original research paper published in the symposium proceedings. The paper by Edward M. Nadgorny, Dennis M. Dimiduk, and Michael D. Uchic, Size Effects in LiF Micron-Scale Single Crystals of Low Dislocation Density, in "Size Effects in the Deformation of Materials — Experiments and Modeling", edited by E. Lilleodden, P. Besser, L. Levine, A. Needleman (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 976E, Warrendale, PA, 2007), 0976-EE06-24, has been invited for submission to the Journal of Materials Research. If accepted, it will be highlighted in the JMR as an "Outstanding Meeting Paper" from the Fall 2006 meeting.
September 6, 2007

Yap Research Highlighted in DOE Nanoscience Center
Nanoscience research work conducted at Michigan Tech is highlighted in the official web site of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS). This work is led by Associate Professor Yoke Khin Yap with support from the U.S. Department of Army, Yap's National Science Foundation CAREER award, and CNMS which is sponsored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the Division of Scientific User Facilities, U.S. Department of Energy. The Yap research project is one of the twelve research projects having been highlighted so far in the web site since 2003. There are currently more than 140 research projects in CNMS selected to be included in the user research program. Yap research on this project was published in Applied Physics Letters and featured as the cover of the March 12, 2007 issue. This paper was the most downloaded article published during March 2007 in the journal.
August 21, 2007

Yap Joins CINT
Nanoscience research lead by Dr. Yap is selected as a project in the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT). The project “Synthesis and Characterization of Individual Boron Nitride Nanostructures” was selected based upon the feasibility of the proposed research, the evaluations and prioritization by the external CINT Proposal Review Committee, and the availability of the CINT capabilities requested. CINT is a Department of Energy/Office of Science Nanoscale Science Research Center (NSRC) operating as a national user facility devoted to establishing the scientific principles that govern the design, performance, and integration of nanoscale materials.
August 8, 2007

Biomolecular Simulation Paper Presented
PhD student Parimal Kar presented a poster, "Algorithmic Refinements to an Enhanced Poisson-Boltzmann Approach Used in Biomolecular Simulation," at the From Computational Biophysics to System Biology 2007 workshop, held May 2-4 at John von Neumann Institute for Computing, Forschungzentrum, Juelich, Germany. Kar is part of the Computational Nano - and Biophysics research group of Dr. Ulrich H.E. Hansmann.
July 30, 2007

Michigan Tech Professor Developing Nanomaterials For Military, Auto Applications (Yap)
Michigan Small Tech, July 14, 2007

Jaszczak Co-Authors Paper on Graphite Cones and Tubes
Tech Today, May 29, 2007

Deformation Paper Most Downloaded
A paper co-authored by Dr. Edward Nadgorny proved to be in the Top 10 most downloaded Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment articles of April 2007, according to IOP. Entitled "Scale-free statistics of plasticity-induced surface steps on KCl single crystals", the paper is freely available for download.
May 23, 2007

ZnO Nanotube Paper Most Downloaded (Yap)
Physics News, April 23, 2007

Single Crystalline ZnO Nanotubes (Yap)
Physics News, March 17, 2007

SQUAN-2007
Associate Professor Yoke Khin Yap attended the Indo-US Shared Vision Workshop on Soft, Quantum & Nano Computing (SQUAN-2007) in Agra, India, Feb 22-25, 2007. Yap delivered an invited lecture, "Nanomaterials and Nanocomputers: Promises and Challenges". This workshop was sponsored by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). IUSSTF was established under an agreement between the governments of India and the United States of America in March 2000 to promote and catalyze Indo-US bilateral collaborations in science, technology, engineering and biomedical research through substantive interaction among government, academia and industry.

In addition, Yap presented another invited lecture, "Prospective Nanomaterials for Biological and Chemical Sensing," in the Center for Fire, Explosives & Environment Safety, Defense Research & Development Organization, New Delhi, India on Feb. 26, 2007.

2007 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows Named (Ben Coupland, Anthony Hegg, SAP and SPH Majors)
Tech Today, February 28, 2007

2007 Quantitative Computational Biophysics Workshop
Physics PhD student Yanjie Wei, from the Computational Nano- and Biophysics Group, presented a poster, "Sidechain and Backbone Ordering in Homopolymers," at the Quantitative Computational Biophysics '07 workshop, held Feb. 18-21 at Florida State University, Tallahassee. PhD student Parimal Kar, also from the Computational Nano- and Biophysics Group, presented a poster, "Systematic Refinement of an Enhanced Poisson-Boltzmann Algorithm Aimed at Semi-Quantitative Description of the Solvated State of Biomolecules." --Tech Today, February 26 & 28, 2007

Pati Gives MEEM Graduate Seminar
Tech Today, January 18, 2007

Circa 1100 Chinese astronomers built a stone planisphere of the heavens that correctly demonstrated the cause of solar and lunar eclipses.