Students past and present both contributed to and gave several research presentations along with physics faculty members at the Society's 2009 Meeting in March.
Byron Drury '08 gave a LeRoy Apker Award invited talk on“Factoring Quantum Logic Gates with Cartan Involutions,” based on research with Assistant Professor Peter Love. Love also gave talks called“Applications of Cartan Involutions in Quantum Information” and“Computational Physics at Haverford College.” Andrew O'Hara '09 presented a poster (co-authored with Love) entitled“Scattering in quantum lattice gases.” Three of Love's students, Anna Klales '09, Donato Dianci '10 and Zachary Needell '10, presented a poster entitled“Towards a two dimensional lattice gas with dynamical geometry,” and two more students, Anna Pancoast '09 and Shea Garrison-Kimmel '09, collaborated on a poster called“Gaps and Tails: The restricted N-body problem in colliding galaxies and the asteriod belt,” which Pancoast presented herself.
Anna Klales '09, Elizabeth Janus Nett '04 and James Duncan '03 were co-authors of Associate Professor Suzanne Amador-Kane's talk“A biophysical model of prokaryotic diversity in geothermal hot springs”.
Finally, Gregory Guthe '09 gave a talk on“Simulating self-assembly of porphyrin nanorods,” based on research performed with Associate Professor Walter Smith, Assistant Professor Joshua Schrier, and Adam Subhas '09.
The students' conference-related expenses were funded by a gift to Haverford from Louis Green, who received an honorary degree from the College in 1983.
