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Faculty Updates 2018
Nov 9, 2018
Physics major Audrey Profeta adjusts an experiment to study driven liquid contact lines. To read more about
her research, see Nathan Keim's update below.
Cal Poly physics faculty make significant contributions to fundamental and applied knowledge about the world and the universe. Undergraduates explore, experiment, publish and present alongside their faculty mentors, creating a vibrant learning environment. Below you'll find a sampling of what students and faculty have done and discovered in the last year.
Matthew Beekman
Matthew Beekman
Over the past year, Matthew Beekman and his students have been working to construct a custom measurement system to measure thermomagnetic transport properties in his lab. The measurement system, which is nearing completion, will be used to study the electronic properties of a variety of scientifically and technologically relevant materials as a function of temperature from 78 K to 700 K. Physics majors Randy Sterbentz, Roger Dorris, Juan Tolento and Dominic Gallelli have all contributed to the project.
For his senior project, in collaboration with researchers from University of San Franciso, Illinois Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology and advised by Beekman, physics major Michael Troesch analyzed temperature dependent synchrotron X-ray diffraction data to understand how the Na guest content in NaxSi136 clathrates affects thermal expansion in these materials. A new mechanism for controlling thermal expansion in guest-host crystals was discovered in this work, the findings of which were published in Applied Physics Letters and presented by Beekman at the Spring 2018 Materials Research Society meeting in Phoenix.
Physics major Tom Linker, who is now pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, gave a talk on his senior project research on modeling thermomagnetic transport properties of materials at the 2018 American Physical Society March Meeting in Los Angeles, Calif.
Vardha Bennert
Vardha Bennert
Vardha Bennert spent spring quarter 2018 on sabbatical at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. She worked with her collaborator Bernd Husemann on 3D spectroscopic data of active galaxies to determine the motion of the stars in the bulge of these galaxies. Since active galaxies have a bright central core, it is challenging to measure the underlying stellar absorption lines in the center via traditional methods.
Together with a team of international collaborators, Bennert and Husemann have gathered data with the new 3D spectrographs MUSE and KCWI at the largest optical telescopes of the world, the VLT and Keck, respectively. Using a technique to subtract the bright central core developed by Husemann, the team can measure the so-called stellar velocity dispersion and correlate it to the mass of the supermassive black hole in the center.
The latter was previously determined by the team using a time-consuming observational technique called reverberation mapping; observations included several Cal Poly undergraduate students. The relation between black-hole mass and stellar-velocity dispersion is important not only since it suggests a co-evolution between galaxies and black holes but also since it is an essential way to measure black hole masses in active galaxies.
Louise Edwards
Louise Edwards
Louise Edwards presented the inaugural Granville Academy at Yale, a week-long workshop on diversity and inclusion in science and astronomy designed to help undergraduate researchers succeed in summer research. Three Cal Poly students attended the academy.
Edwards also authored a chapter introduction for the “Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Observer's Handbook 2018” and an article on the formation and evolution of galaxy outskirts, published in the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union.
Nathan Keim
Nathan Keim spent four weeks of winter quarter 2018 in residence at the Kavli Institue for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara as part of an international program to explore how materials can retain information about past conditions. During his visit, Keim also presented research at a conference for high school physics teachers from across the U.S.
Last summer, Cal Poly students Ben Kauffman, Dani Medina, Esmeralda Orozco, Audrey Profeta and Juan Ortiz Salazar worked on experiments to study memory formation in a liquid contact line and to develop sensitive methods to characterize suspensions of passive and self-propelled particles in collaboration with researchers from the University of Minnesota (see photo at top of page). Keim and Profeta presented at the Yosemite Fluids Meeting in September, and Keim, Profeta and Medina will present at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in November in Atlanta.
Themis Mastoridis
Devin Wieker, Aron Daw, Themis Mastoridis and
Philippe Nguyen (left to right) at the LINAC4
accelerator tunnel at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Themis Mastoridis received a Early Career Research Program grant from the Department of Energy. With this and additional funding from the National Science Foundation, he and his students are working on accelerator physics research. Their goal is to optimize the accelerator systems in particle colliders to improve performance and reliability.
Mastoridis and his students are studying a future upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, known as the High Luminosity LHC. Major upgrades will be required to achieve an increase of collision rates by up to an order of magnitude. They are estimating the performance of this future accelerator, identifying possible limitations, and designing mitigation techniques.
The protons in the LHC are first accelerated to an intermediate energy by a chain of smaller accelerators, the last of which is the Super-Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The SPS was a very important accelerator in the 1980s, leading to the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics. Some of its systems are outdated, though, and it is currently limiting the LHC performance. Mastoridis and his students are investigating various options for the SPS accelerating system upgrades.
The group is also working on design studies for the Compact Linear Collider, a proposed accelerator at CERN that will collide electrons and positrons at the Teraelectronvolt range, an energy that has never been achieved by an electron/positron collider.
David Mitchell
Liberal Studies majors Carly Muller, Sarah
Coyle, Sara Bettencourt and Aileen Saucedo
(left to right) constructing a dipole radio antenna.
Liberal Studies majors Sara Bettencourt, Sarah Coyle, Carly Muller and Aileen Saucedo worked with Professor David Mitchell over the summer to build a set of dipole radio antennae. The students built the antennae and receivers from basic components and constructed them at the Cal Poly Leaning Pine Arboretum. The radio observatory was successfully used to listen for storms on Jupiter induced by its closest moon, Io, and can also be used to observe solar activity, which was at a historic minimum over the summer. The students also spent several weeks acquiring data at the Cal Poly Observatory to look for extrasolar planet transits.
In winter quarter 2019, the radio antenna system will be installed at San Benito Elementary School in Atascadero. The four students will create a curriculum for the teachers and students at that school for their senior projects before they all graduate in spring.
Stephanie Wissel
Attendees at a four-day workshop on the ANITA
experiment hosted by Cal Poly.
Stephanie Wissel received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation this year to explore a new kind of telescope. The telescope would be placed on a high mountain and pointed down, not up, to look for interactions of subatomic particles called neutrinos with the Earth’s crust. Rather than a traditional optical telescope, this one searches for the radio waves emitted due to the neutrino interaction. Her group has already made progress by surveying the radio backgrounds at the White Mountain Research Station site. Physics undergraduates Caroline Paciaroni, Mercedes Vasquez and Andres Rodriguez helped build and calibrate the equipment for the survey and traveled to the site for the survey.
Wissel and her group have also been active in experiments searching for neutrinos interacting in Antarctic ice as well. As part of that research, mechanical engineering undergraduate Zoe Riesen contributed to an accelerator run at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif., to test whether RADAR can be used to search for neutrinos.
Greetings from Department Chair Karl Saunders 2018
Nov 9, 2018
Dear Friends of the Physics Department,
I write to you as the new department chair, having stepped into Bob Echols’ big shoes, and would like to start by thanking and commending Bob for his dedicated service as chair.
I am thrilled to share news of three prestigious awards received by professors Brian Granger, Stephanie Wissel and Themis Mastoridis. These three provide perfect examples of the Physics Department’s active engagement in expanding human understanding of the universe.
Stephanie works at the frontier of particle physics studying high-energy neutrinos, a topic that saw groundbreaking discoveries this year. Brian co-leads an international software development team that has created Project Jupyter, the go-to tool for data analysis in research, education, journalism and industry. Themis’ computer models will contribute to the coming upgrade to the world’s largest particle collider at CERN.
With such accomplished faculty leading the way, our undergraduate research experiences continue to shine. Over the last summer, 82 students engaged in hands-on research with 25 of our faculty members. Projects ranged from the evolution of galaxies to biosensing with carbon nanotubes, and took place in locations from right here on campus, to the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, to deep underground at CERN in Switzerland.
Not only are our students doing this world-class research, but they are also presenting their results at international conferences and as coauthors of journal publications. We are so proud to provide our students such authentic, start-to-finish research experiences.
Moreover, I can’t begin to tell you how much it means to us that 43 of our summer research students were supported by the generosity of donors. Without the generosity of all of our donors, we simply could not provide our students with such amazing classroom, laboratory and research experiences.
Excellent curricular instruction also continues to be a point of pride for our faculty, staff and, more recently, for the large number of our majors who serve as Learning Assistants. Our LAs help students succeed in the classroom while also learning and growing as teachers themselves.
We know our alumni are making contributions to the world, and we’d love to hear about them. If you’re ever on campus, drop by the department office in the Baker Center.
Please keep in touch,
Karl Saunders
ksaunder@calpoly.edu
Physics Students Help Peers Improve Their Learning
Nov 9, 2018
An insightful physics instructor once said to a novice teacher, “You have one mouth and two ears. In teaching, use them in that proportion.” The learning assistants (LAs) in the Physics Department have taken this advice to heart.
LAs are undergraduate students who help fellow students learn under the supervision of a faculty member. An LA’s job is not to explain concepts but to ask good questions that help struggling students make progress by themselves.
To succeed with their peers, LAs revisit class topics from the point of view of a learner, discussing possible difficulties and practicing with each other the art and science of listening and asking questions. They also enroll in a course that introduces them to big issues in education — what do we know about how people learn? What role do social threats to learning play in a university classroom? How can we help students take charge of their own thinking to learn better?
With help from the LAs, students learn physics by doing physics, by problem-solving and working through labs. Instead of memorizing isolated facts and formulas, students in LA-facilitated classes see physics as what it is: an opportunity for students to engage in sense-making about the world around them.
The physics LAs have created a powerful, mutually supportive and equitable community of students who celebrate physics learning and enjoy the technical aspects of teaching.
Newsletter 2018
Nov 8, 2018
Featured Articles
Physics Students Help Peers Improve Their Learning
Physics Learning Assistants help their fellow students grapple with the concepts of physics. Along the way, they get an education in the technical aspects of teaching.
Letter from the Department Chair
New department chair Karl Saunders looks at Cal Poly's connection to the wider world of physics and gives some highlights of student-faculty research.
NSF Recognizes Wissel as One of Nation's Top Young Professors
Professor Stephanie Wissel received the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for new faculty, only the fifth Cal Poly professor to earn the honor.
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Jupyter Team Joins World Wide Web Inventor as Top Software Awardee
The international team that developed Project Jupyter received one of the computing world's top awards. Past recipients include the inventors of the World Wide Web and the UNIX operating system.
Read more about the computing award ›
More Particles Please: Upgrading CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Themis Mastoridis and his student researchers are helping to upgrade CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Their computer models will help optimize the number of particle collisions, possibly increasing the number tenfold every second.
Read more about the particle collider upgrade ›
Faculty Updates: Listening to Jupiter, Thermomagnetic Transport and More
Cal Poly physics faculty make significant contributions to fundamental and applied knowledge about the world and the universe. Undergraduates explore, experiment, publish and present alongside their faculty mentors, creating a vibrant learning environment.
Read more about faculty achievements ›
Randy Knight Named American Association of Physics Teachers Fellow
Apr 11, 2018
Professor emeritus Randy Knight was named an American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Fellow for making exceptional contributions to enhancing the understanding and appreciation of physics through teaching. Fellows are selected by their professional peers. Knight also received an AAPT Reviewer Excellence Award for his work for the American Journal of Physics.
Knight has authored multiple textbooks, including the first phiscs textbooks to take advantage of research into education and cognitive psychology that shed light on how students learn physics.
AAPT is an international organization for physics educators, physicists, and industrial scientists dedicated to enhancing the understanding and appreciation of physics through teaching.
Longtime Staff Members Retire
Dec 4, 2017
Technician David Arndt and administrative coordinator Shirley Huston both retired this year. Their contributions and dedication to the department helped countless students and faculty members over the years.
David Arndt
by Matt Moelter
David Arndt, technician extraordinaire, retired in July after 33 years of valued service to our department and the university. He joined the Physics Department in 1984 as an instructional support assistant. During his career, his many and varied responsibilities evolved to include demonstrations, lower and upper-division laboratories, equipment maintenance and repair, inventory, purchasing, metal and woodworking, and safety coordinator.
David was essential in several department moves, most recently into the Baker Center. His approachable demeanor, willingness to help with projects large and small, and fine workmanship was appreciated by faculty, staff and students, and he is missed. You will no doubt agree that the department will not be the same without David, the kilt-wearing, thoughtful and humorous technician who contributed so much for so long.
Shirley Huston
by Nilgun Sungar
Shirley Huston, the Physics Department administrative support coordinator, retired in July 2017. Shirley joined Cal Poly in 2002 as an administrative support coordinator for the Kinesiology Department where she served until she moved to the Physics Department in 2012. Her dedication to the department and her positive attitude were greatly appreciated by faculty, staff, and students.
During the move from building 52 to the Baker Center in 2013, Shirley played a major role in making the transition a smooth one. Besides coordinating many aspects of the move, she took the lead on much needed re-organization of the department’s filing system.
After retirement, Shirley moved back to South Africa to be near her family. Shirley made many friends while she was at Cal Poly. We miss her but are happy to report that she is keeping busy with many projects (as always) and will soon be in email contact. We wish Shirley the very best.
Greetings from Department Chair Bob Echols 2017
Dec 4, 2017
Hello friends of the Physics Department and welcome again to our annual newsletter. I hope everyone is doing well.
Our student numbers remain strong. Forty-eight new physics majors joined our program this fall, and we graduated 29 students — 19 B.S. and 10 B.A., including two double majors — during the 2016-17 academic year.
We would not be able to provide the high quality education we’re known for without our dedicated staff and faculty. We have two new front office staff, Emily Orlando and Mikele Hushing-Kline. Yes, sadly this means that Jenny Cruz and Shirley Huston have left. Jenny is now program coordinator for the Center for Engineering, Science and Mathematics Education (CESAME). Shirley retired last summer and is living in South Africa, enjoying friends and family. We miss them both very much.
Yes, it is also true that David Arndt has retired after 33 years! Somehow we are managing without him, and he is sorely missed. Kevin Coulombe has joined the department as our newest instructional support technician. If you didn’t already know, Kevin is a Cal Poly physics alumnus, and if you are wondering, he is related to the Coulomb of Coulomb’s Law (a slight change of spelling with passing time).
We are grateful to have one new tenure-track faculty member joining us this year, Elizabeth Jeffery. In addition, we are pleased to have four new full-time lecturers: Irene Humer, Oleg Kogan, Graham Krahn, and Krithika Venkataramani. These new additions bring our total full-time faculty count to 50.
I'd also like to congratulate Professor Emeritus Randy Knight on being named an American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Fellow for making exceptional contributions to enhancing the understanding and appreciation of physics through teaching. Randy also received an AAPT Reviewer Excellence Award for his work for the American Journal of Physics.
As I have said before, many aspects of the Cal Poly Physics Department make us special, but undergraduate research certainly stands out. I hope you will enjoy reading about some of our student research experiences in this newsletter. Last summer we had 43 students working with 19 faculty members funded by the Frost undergraduate research program. Another 12 students conducted research with faculty thanks to funding from research grants.
A big thank you to all of our department donors. Your contributions help us continue to provide a truly Learn by Doing education to today’s physics students.
Please keep in touch,
Dr. Bob (Echols)
rechols@calpoly.edu
Student-Faculty Research 2017
Dec 4, 2017
Physics major Marissa Dierkes works on a research project aimed at optimizing electrical biosensors that use random carbon nanotube thin-film networks as the active sensing layer.
Student-faculty research is thriving in the Physics Department. Students discover how to approach new questions and build their confidence through designing and running experiments, co-authoring peer-reviewed papers and presenting at professional conferences. From nantobues to black holes, the universe is their laboratory. Learn more about their projects below.
Matthew Beekman
Thermoelectric Clathrates and Thermoelectric Power Generation
Thomas Linker displays the research poster
that he presented at the International
Conference on Thermoelectrics in Pasadena.
Beekman, physics major Thomas Linker and materials engineering major Glenn Lee investigated different models to predict the efficiency of thermoelectric devices, which convert heat to electrical energy. Physics student Aaron Vandergraaf joined Beekman to explore high-temperature thermal conductivity of thermoelectric clathrates. Semiconducting clathrates also have possible applications in converting heat to electrical energy. Both Linker and Vandergraaf co-authored peer-reviewed papers as a result of their research.
Beekman also spent the summer as a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany, as part of a collaboration on intermetallic clathrate materials.
Vardha Bennert
Supermassive Black Holes
Students (left to right )Priscilla West, Chance Spencer
and Ellen Glad in front of the one-meter Nickel
telescope during their training at the Lick Observatory.
For a two-year period, Vardha Bennert and her team of international collaborators will have viewing time on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which will obtain high spatial resolution images of a sample of 84 nearby active galaxies. These images will be used for detailed morphological classification of the host galaxies using 2D decomposition techniques. The team is investigating the relationship between the properties of the galaxies and the masses of the supermassive black holes at their centers. The data from the Hubble observations will be studied alongside spectra taken by the 10-meter Keck telescope in Hawaii. The award of HST time comes with more than $110,000 funding from NASA for data reduction, analysis and publication.
A team of five physics majors has been conducting observations by controlling the Lick Observatory’s one-meter Nickel telescope remotely from Cal Poly. The students traveled to the Lick Observatory for training and then designed the remote observations themselves, including planning, coordinating, organizing, conducting and reporting. They are monitoring the variability of active galaxies with the goal of measuring their black hole masses. One of the students, Isak Stomberg (B.S., ’17), helped write the proposal to receive time on the HST. So far, the Cal Poly team has conducted 15 nights of observations with a total of 12 visitors, including local high school students, Cal Poly students taking astronomy as a general education class, and physics majors focusing on astronomy.
Louise Edwards
Brightest Cluster Galaxies
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows
the elliptical brightest cluster galaxy ESO 325-G004
at the center of galaxy cluster Abell S0740.
Louise Edwards gave an invited talk at the Galaxy Clusters 2017 conference in Spain, showcasing work from physics majors Matthew Salinas, Steffanie Stanley and Priscilla West. Edwards and the student researchers are investigating brightest cluster galaxies.
The largest objects in the universe today are clustered groups of hundreds of galaxies that move around each other under the influence of gravity. Each galaxy is composed of billions of stars, but one, the brightest cluster galaxy, is often several times the mass and size of all the others and found exactly at the cluster's center. Scientists still don’t know how these massive galaxies grew to their present size and location, and the Cal Poly researchers look at evidence for and against various formation scenarios. The students worked directly with a dataset that suggests these galaxies build from the inside out.
Scott Fraser
Black Holes and Time Travel
Laura Fleischman took second place at the 2017 CSU Student Research Competition for her work on the unique necklace-like "beads-on-strings" structure formed by unstable black strings (cylindrical black holes). This work plumbs the depth of black holes' known fluid behavior and is currently in being prepared to submit for publication.
Last summer, Fleischman followed a spin-off project of refining an energy-conservation model to predict the black string's evolving beaded shape; the goal is an analytical understanding of the only known limited numerical data. She found that the simplest conservation model worked well in one direction (numerical values input into an analytical formula) while in the other direction, it was extremely sensitive to parameters. To address this, she and Fraser augmented the setup by calculating the gravitational interactions among the thin "string" segments and the black hole "beads."
Fleischman’s calculations potentially open up a new frontier in black hole physics because they describe how an extended "lumpy" black horizon physically interacts with itself, which has never explicitly been done before.
Sebastian Pardo used a mathematical "embedding" technique to match the known flattened shapes of black holes (attached to membranes) to the shapes of fluid droplets on membranes (like water droplets that bead up on a windshield). Pardo and Fraser refined the fitting of two shape parameters for the fluid droplet down to a one-parameter search technique. This extends the work of a previous student to be one step closer to a form suitable to submit for publication. Intriguing future applications are to physically interpret the fluid parameters in terms of the black hole's properties and/or the properties of the "dark energy" that surrounds this black hole (similar to the dark energy measured in our universe).
In summer 2017, Matthew Imbriani learned how to scientifically phrase his childhood dream of examining ways to "bend" time (the fourth dimension) in general relativity. Matthew found a high-impact journal publication with a proposed time travel mechanism, with spacetime features that match our known universe (unlike all other known similar mechanisms). Following Imbriani’s interest in this paper, he and Fraser found a way to extend the paper's unique-yet-simplified "circular" design by adding a gap that allows for the "jump in time" expected of a true time machine. They also examined the energy and pressure that would be required to build this time-travel device, which allowed them to identify a flaw in an analysis technique suggested in the paper.
Nathan Heston, Nik Glazar and Pete Schwartz
Direct DC Solar
The research team presents its insulated solar
electric cooker at the American Solar Energy
Society Conference in Denver.
During the past year, physics faculty members Nathan Heston, Nik Glazar and Pete Schwartz mentored an interdisciplinary team of 18 students in Direct DC Solar (DDS) and related technologies, collaborating with organizations and schools in the U.S. and Africa. DDS is inexpensive and could result in global energy transitions. In poor countries, DDS can provide communities with access to electricity for the first time. The research team is developing technologies for cooking and making ice while investigating insulation and thermal storage.
Eleven students were co-authors on a published paper that reviewed their development of Insulated Solar Electric Cooking and their implementation of the technology in Uganda in collaboration with the nonprofit Aid Africa. An accompanying video on Insulated Solar Electric Cooking is receiving attention, particularly in India.
In November, industrial technologies major Madison Fleming presented the solar cookers at MIT’s Women in Clean Energy Symposium, winning first place. In October, students Adeel Ali, Madeline Larkin, Nicholas Crawford and Joshua Dimaggio attended the American Solar Energy Society Conference in Denver with Heston and Schwartz and presented three talks and four posters.
The team also partners with PG&E-supported We Care Solar to bring electricity for lights and cell phones to the global poor. The program also entails developing a curriculum for Cal Poly students to teach local elementary and high school students about solar electric technologies and about the lives of those outside of the U.S.
As the team continues to develop the technologies and build a collaborative business model for dissemination, they are planning a summer 2018 trip to Africa to learn more about how people live there and collaboratively implement DDS technologies.
Nathan Keim
Memory Formation in Disordered Materials and the Properties of Active Fluids
Nathan Keim and his students are working on two National Science Foundation-funded projects. The first investigates memory formation in disordered materials. For example, when a piece of paper is crumpled or a bridge is driven over, the material “remembers” that action and its future behavior may be influenced. The second project deals with the properties of active fluids. The student-faculty research team will build a thin-film rheometer that will be used to measure bulk properties of active suspensions. Students Jacob Hass, Natasha Proctor and Jeanette Smit, who have been working with Keim, presented their work at the American Physical Society Far West Section meeting in Merced, Calif.
Colleen Marlow
High Purity Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Networks
Roger Martinez Reyes loads a carbon nanotube field
effect transistor device for electrical characterization.
Newsletter 2017
Dec 4, 2017
Featured Articles
Student-Faculty Research: from Nanotubes to Black Holes
Along with their faculty mentors, students in the department have been exploring the universe as only physicists can. How do galaxies form? Are there neutrinos in the Antarctic ice? And don’t forget about time travel.
Letter from the Department Chair
Bob Echols introduces the new faces in the department and takes a look at the numbers from the previous year.
Once Every Thousand Trillion Universes
Why is the universe full of matter instead of antimatter? Is the neutrino its own anti-particle? The CUORE experiment is now online and starting to answer these questions.
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Thank You to Our Generous Donors
Thank you to all the individuals, corporations, foundations and organizations who donated to the Physics Department. Private support enables our department to continue to provide exceptional Learn by Doing opportunities for today’s students.
Longtime Staff Members Arndt and Huston Retire
Staff members David Arndt, pictured at left, and Shirley Huston both retired this year. Their contributions and dedication to the department helped countless students and faculty members over the years.
Read more about their contributions and future plans ›
Thank You to Our Generous Donors 2017
Dec 1, 2017
Thank you to all the individuals, corporations, foundations and organizations who donated to the Physics Department. Private support enables our department to continue to provide exceptional Learn by Doing opportunities for today’s students.
Armand G. and Michele N. Amoranto
Anonymous Donor
Apple Inc
Jay A. Austin and Elizabeth C. Austin-Minor
Dennis F. Baker
Benevity Community Impact Fund
Ross* and Sue Benitez
Richard J. Bietz Jr.
Brian C. Bloomfield
Anita L. and Richard M. Blumenthal
James C. Bunnell
Cathleen M. and Geoffrey R. Clarion
Robert H. Dickerson
Keith A. and Meg Evans
Alan F. and Patricia Francis-Lyon
Richard B. and Julie R. Frankel
Jay D. and Mary E. Freeman
Maureen L. Godbout
John P. Holler
Endel Kallas Jr.
Randall D. and Sally A. Knight
Steven J. and Bertha Madonna
Nam T. Nguyen and Ngoc N. Tran
Heidi Pearlman-Swartz and Craig Swartz
Raytheon Company
Lee and Shirley Rosen
Rebecca R. Rosen
James P. and Shobha C. Solomon
Walter M. and Gail M. Takatsuka
The Charles Schwab Corporation
Robert C. Webb
Every effort has been made to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the listing of contributors from July 2016 through June 2017. If you have been omitted from the list, please let us know at physics@calpoly.edu.