[Panda-webmaster] faculty additions

Tue Sep 13 16:57:45 EDT 2011

Hi Janet,

Please add these categories (below) and entries (from Dick Manson) to the Faculty web page. I have personal email addresses for some, but I don't want to list those without asking.

Also note -- the Swift Conference is 24--26 October, not as listed on the home page.

As for the other questions you had ...

I did the cascade training a few years ago, but haven't used it since. I think someone in the office could handle it for basic editing/changes.

We will prepare some basic information for the planetarium pages and hand them off to you.

Dieter has a colloquium schedule. I will ask him to send it to you. The first two are enclosed below.

Right, the Italian job is off for now.

Thanks,
Mark

Adjunct Professors:

Fesen, Cassandra

fesen at clemson.edu<mailto:fesen at clemson.edu>

Liebenberg, Donald

dlieben at clemson.edu<mailto:dlieben at clemson.edu>

Pomeroy, Joshua

jmp4z at clemson.edu<mailto:jmp4z at clemson.edu>

http://physics.nist.gov/MajResFac/EBIT/pomeroy.html

Welch, David

bwelch at bnl.gov<mailto:bwelch at bnl.gov>

Emeritus and Adjunct Professors:

Lyndon Larcome                lllrcm at clemson.edu<mailto:lllrcm at clemson.edu>

Joseph R. Manson                   jmanson at clemson.edu<mailto:jmanson at clemson.edu>
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/surfphys/index.htm

Malcolm Skove                       mskove at clemson.edu<mailto:mskove at clemson.edu>

(Emeritus Distinguished Alumni Professor)

Emeritus Professors:

Donald Clayton                      cdonald at clemson.edu<mailto:cdonald at clemson.edu>
http://www.clemson.edu/ces/astro/People/clayton.html

Raymond Turner                    traymon at clemson.edu<mailto:traymon at clemson.edu>
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~traymon/index.htm
(Emeritus Distinguished Alumni Professor)

Donald P. Miller

E. P. Stillwell

John R. Ray

H. Willingham Graben

Max Sherrill

Carlton Ulbrich

John McKelvey
http://www.phys.psu.edu/people/display/index.html?person_id=405

Frederick J. Keller

W. Edward Gettys

Colloquium

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Kinard G01 Lecture Hall

Thursday, September 8, 4:00 pm

Dr. Michael E. Hodsdon

Yale University

Understanding the pH-dependent structural and functional properties of human cytokine/hormones.

Abstract: The hydronium ion (H_3 O+) concentration, most often expressed as its negative log (i.e. pH), or more simply as the solution acidity, represents a fundamental property of any biologic environment. Within the human body, the acidities of compartmentalized fluids are tightly regulated and generally vary over a range from pH 5 -- 8, corresponding to hydronium ion concentrations between 10^-5 and 10^-8 M. Proteins have necessarily evolved to both accommodate and react to these regulated changes in pH. In particular, secreted protein hormones and cytokines experience a functional lifecycle with diverse microenvironments, with diverse acidities. As pathology is frequently associated with alteration in the pH of the local environment, experimental exploration of the biophysical basis of pH-dependent regulation of protein function and its cellular implications will improve our understanding of both basic human biology and associated pathologic processes. This talk will explore the structural and functional consequences of such variations in pH for two human hormone/cytokines, prolactin and growth hormone. We are in the process of developing a thermodynamic model for the pH dependence of their structural stability and receptor-binding affinities, which will be detailed along with our speculations on its biologic importance. Our goal is to successfully engineer protein variants with altered pH-dependent behavior, which will have experimental and potential therapeutic value.

Michael E Hodsdon, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pharmacology Yale University School of Medicine: http://medicine.yale.edu/labmed/faculty/hodsdon.aspx

Refreshments are served at 3:30pm in the PandA café on the 1st floor of  the Kinard Laboratory of Physics

Colloquium
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Kinard G01 Lecture Hall
Thursday, September 15, 4:00 pm

Dr. Sankar Das Sarma
University of Maryland, College Park

Computing with Quantum Knots
- Majorana Fermions, Non-Abelian Anyons, and Topological Quantum Computation-

Abstract: I will discuss the revolutionary new concept of topological quantum computation, which is fault-tolerant at the hardware level with no need, in principle, of any quantum error correction protocols. Errors simply do not happen since the physical qubits and the computation steps are protected against decoherence by non-local topological correlations in the underlying physical system. The key idea is non-Abelian statistics of the quasiparticles (called 'anyons' as opposed to fermions or bosons), where the space-time braiding of the anyons around each other, i.e. quantum 'knots', form topologically protected quantum gate operations. I will describe in detail the status of the subject by discussing the theoretical principles guiding the experimental search for the appropriate topological phases of matter where such non-Abelian anyons may exist. Among the most significant possibilities are certain even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states, exotic chiral p-wave superconductors, sandwich structures made from superconductors/semiconductors or superconductors/insulators, and suitably designed cold atomic systems. In this context, I will also discuss the race to find Majorana fermions in solid state systems, with the Majorana fermions being the simplest generic examples of non-Abelian objects in nature. I will explain how the subject of topological quantum computation synergistically brings together conformal field theory and advanced mathematics on one hand with materials science and quantum information on the other.

Prof. Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland, College Park) is a Distinguished University Professor and Richard. E. Prange Chair in Physics at the University of Maryland. He is the Director of the Condensed Matter Theory Center at the University of Maryland and is an author of more than 100 articles. Access his departmental  URL at http://umdphysics.umd.edu/index.php/about-us/people/faculty/125-dassarm.html and find info about the Condensed Matter theory Center he directs at http://www.physics.umd.edu/cmtc/.

Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in the PandA Café on the 1st floor of  the Kinard Laboratory of Physics

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