Nov. 6, 2014 - Last week a group of 50 dancers surprised University of Delaware students on The Green with a seemingly spontaneous performance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller in full zombie regalia. Hundreds students and other members of the UD community stopped to watch the zombies perform Jackson’s famous dance. Michael Shay, professor of physics and astronomy, was on The Green at the time of the flash mob. “It was very creative,” said Shay. “It was entertaining to watch all those people dancing to a song from my high school days.
November 20, 2014 - In a recent Physical Review Letter article, which is highlighted by PRL as an “Editors Suggestion” to read, Prof. Mulders, Prof. Glyde and collaborators combine neutron scattering and torsional oscillator measurements to show that two originally quite separate theories of superfluidity in liquid 4He are based on mutually consistent liquid properties (phonons and BEC) that have a common physical origin.
One of Prof. Marianna Safronova's has been included in the Google 2014 version of Scholar Metrics, which highlights influential scientific papers published between 2009 and 2013: "Theory and applications of atomic and ionic polarizabilities," J. Mitroy, M.S. Safronova, C.W. Clark, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 43, 202001 (2010).
July 22, 2014 - In the recent Physical Review Letters article, Prof. Safronova and her collaborators from the US, Australia and Russia have proposed 10 highly charged ions as candidates for the development of next generation atomic clocks, search for variation of fundamental physical constants, and quantum information processing. They predicted the ion properties crucial for the experimental exploration and highlighted particularly attractive systems for these applications.
June 20, 2014 - The Journal of Plasma Physics (JPP), issued by Cambridge University Press, recently selected the top 12 articles it has published, and a University of Delaware professor has two on the list.
June 19, 2014 - In the recent Nano Letters article, Prof. Nikolic and DPA graduate student Po-Hao Chang, in collaboration with Prof. Naoto Nagaosa and Prof. Mohammad Saeed Bahramy from the University of Tokyo and RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan, have proposed a new type of nanoscale thermoelectric which exploits fundamental physics of topological states of matter to convert waste heat into electricity.