1996 JRM Newsletter Article

	1996 JR Macdonald Lab Departmental Newsletter Article
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NEWS FROM THE MACDONALD LABORATORY

The good news from the Macdonald Laboratory for this year is tempered by the loss of Professor John Giese. He was a friend to everybody and the driving force on the ion-ion collision facility. He was directing two graduate students, Chun-Yen Chen and Allen Landers. In addition, Frank Melchert from the University of Giessen, who was on a one-year Humboldt Fellowship, worked with John on the construction and the installation of the ion-ion facility.

FUNDING

In spite of hard times for government funding of research, the Lab continues to fare well. We are operating on the first year of a three-year Department Of Energy grant. The first year funding level is $1.8M. We also received a $621K from DOE from the Accelerator and Reactor Improvement and Modification fund. This money allowed us to relocate the He compressor for our LHe production plant to a new building located off of the accelerator roof, in order to reduce the noise and vibration in the Lab, and to perform upgrades to the Tandem, LINAC, and CRYEBIS. We have submitted a second request for ARIM funds for FY-96.

The personnel associated with the laboratory are 12 faculty, 4 research associates, 14 graduate students, 6 undergraduate students, and 10 staff members.

VISITORS

The number of visitors, users, and collaborators during the last two years has been visibly up. We have had Prof. Eduardo Montenegro, Pontificia Universidade Catholica Do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Prof. S. L. Varghese, University of South Alabama; Dr. Reinhard Dörner, Feodor Lynen Fellow, and Dr. Joachim Ullrich, G.S.I., Germany; Dr. Hiro Tawara, National Institute for Fusion, Japan; Dr. Mititaka Terasawa, Himeji University, Japan; Prof. Burkhard Fricke and Dr. Peter Kürpick, University of Kassel, Germany; Prof. Jean Pierre Briand, University of Paris, France; Prof. Steve Lundeen and Dr. Charles Fahrenbach, Colorado State University; Dr. Yohko Awaya, Dr. Tadashi Kambara, and Dr. Yasuyuki Kanai, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan; and Prof. Eugene Rudd and Dr. George Kerby, University of Nebraska.

RECENT NEWS

Other recent news of note:

Tracy Tipping, Lab Safety Officer, has been elected Director of the Accelerator Section of the National Health Physics Society for a three-year period;
Chunlie Liao, a graduate student of Prof. Siegbert Hagmann, accepted a position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California;
Lokesh Tribedi, Research Associate, received an award for the outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Physics in India.
Baby Huey, our dear old 3 MV single-ended Van de Graaff accelerator, all 6,200 pounds, found a new home at Western Illinois University. Prof. Vickie Frohne (Ph.D. KSU 1994 with Prof. Lew Cocke) will oversee its installation and operation at Western Illinois University.
Drs. Peter Kürpick and his wife, Ulrike, both received fellowships from Germany to work two years at K-State. Peter is working with Prof. Uwe Thumm and Ulrike is working with Prof. Talat Rahman in condensed matter theory.
For the fourth consecutive summer, we have hosted graduate students from the University of Dresden, Germany. Enrico Langer is spending three months of research training with Dr. Martin Stöckli on the CRYEBIS in the JRM Lab.
Also for the fourth consecutive year, the Macdonald Lab hosted undergraduate students from around the U. S. in the NSF REU summer trainee program. Prof. Larry Weaver was in charge of the program, doing an outstanding job lecturing these students and quizzing them during oral reports on their research projects.

Pat Richard
Director, Macdonald Lab
11/95

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This document prepared by Vincent Needham at vneedham@phys.ksu.edu.