Publications and presentations
Recent conference presentations by students:
“Investigating the Periods of Two Delta Scuti Star Candidates in the Field of Open Cluster NGC 2286”, Andrea Schiefelbein, 39th Mid-American Regional Astrophysics Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2009.
“Searching for Stellar Flare Events in the Field of Open Cluster M23”, Kirsten Strandjord, 39th Mid-American Regional Astrophysics Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2009.
"Measurement of Baryon-Antibaryon Decay Branching Fractions of J/Psi", Andrew Webber, July meeting of the CLEO Collaboration, Ithaca, NY, July 2008.
"Improved Measurements of Branching Fractions for Dipion Transitions in Bottomonium," Kris Klein, American Physical Society April Meeting, St. Louis, MO, April 2008.
"Search for h_b in Dipon Transitions in Bottomonium," Kris Klein, Pew Midstates Undergraduate Research Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 2007.
“Stellar Variability in the Field of Open Cluster NGC7380,” Nathan Rengstorf, McElroy Research Symposium, Waverly, IA, May 2007.
“Investigation of Hadronic Transitions Among States of Bottomonium with the CLEO Experiment,” Kris Klein and John Xavier, McElroy Research Symposium, Waverly, IA, May 2007.
“New Variable Stars in the Field of Open Cluster NGC7380,” Nathan Rengstorf, 37 th Mid-American Regional Astrophysics Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2007.
“BVRI Photometry of the Field containing Open Star Cluster M23,” Andrea Schiefelbein, 37 th Mid-American Regional Astrophysics Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2007.
“Evidence of Period Evolution in Short-period Eclipsing Binaries in the Field of Open Star Cluster M23,” Ujjwal Joshi, 37 th Mid-American Regional Astrophysics Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2007.
Conference Presentations by Faculty with Student Co-Authors
Erin E. Flater, Isaac A. White, Kevin T. Turner, Robert W. Carpick, "Development and Implementation of Atomic Force Microscope Tip Blind Reconstruction Algorithms", Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, Waterville, ME, July 2008
T. Pedlar, "Observation of Transitions in Bottomonium involving single eta mesons", American Physical Society April Meeting, St. Louis, MO, April, 2008.
T. Pedlar, "Recent Bottomonium Spectroscopy Results from CLEO", February meeting of the BaBar Collaboration, Stanford, CA, February, 2008.
T. Pedlar, "Recent Results in Heavy Quarkonium Spectroscopy from CLEO", 34th Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste, La Thuile, Italy, February, 2008.
“Observation of New Variable Stars in the Field of Open Cluster M23”, J.A. Wilkerson, T.S. Brown, K.A. Frank, U. Joshi, B. K. Lacoul, N.P. Rengstorf and A.M. Schiefelbein, 210th Meeting of the AAS, Honolulu, HI., May 2007.
Journal Publications with Student Co-Authors
“Improved measurement of branching fractions for ππ transitions among Υ(nS) states”, S. Bhari, T. Pedlar et al., Phys. Rev D., 79, 011103, 2009.
“Observation of Υ(2S)→ηΥ(1S) and Search for Related Transitions”, T. Pedlar, J. Xavier et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 192001, 2008.
"Measurement of the Near Infrared Xenon Scintillation Yield Near Atmospheric Pressure," J. Wilkerson, J. McLaren and U. Raut, Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A., 500, pp. 345-350, 2003.
