Month: August 2016

Research from the laboratories of Dr. Ramakrishna Podila and Dr. Apparao Rao was recently featured in the Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight. The spotlight summarizes their journal article entitled, “Defect-Engineered Graphene for High-Energy- and High-Power-Density Supercapacitor Devices,” published in Advanced Materials this past June. Read the full text of the spotlight here.

Medical Physics Group of the Department of Physics & Astronomy and Medical Beam Laboratories, LLC
Contacts: Prof. Endre Takacs (etakacs@clemson.edu) and Donald Medlin (dmedlin@medbeamlabs.com)
Location: Kinard Laboratory, Lecture Hall 101

Program

(13:00 – 13:10) Opening Remarks
Endre Takacs, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Clemson University

(13:10 – 13:45) Title: “Monte Carlo dosimetry on GPU for radiation therapy applications”
Yannick Lemaréchal, Ph. D., Laboratoire de Traitement de L’Information Médicale (LaTIM), France

(13:45 – 14:20) Title: “Getting more from x-rays: Enhancing radiography with x-ray refraction”
Dean M. Connor, Jr., Ph. D., Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Medical University of South Carolina.

(14:20 – 14:40) Title: “Dosimetric Study of RGS”
Bishwambhar Sengupta, Graduate Student, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Clemson University

(14:40 – 15:00) Refreshment Break

(15:00 – 15:35) Title: “Radiation-therapy induced bone toxicity”
Jeff Wiley, Ph. D., Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Wake
Forest.

(15:35 – 16:10) Title: “Effects of ionizing radiation dose and dose rate on adipose stem cell growth and survival”
Delphine Dean, Ph. D., Gregg-Graniteville Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Clemson University

(16:10 – 16:30) Title: “Kinect programming basics and accuracy evaluation”
Tracy Sanders, Undergraduate Student, School of Computing, Clemson University

(16:30) Round Table Discussion about open projects at Medical Beam Laboratories, LLC
Lead by: Members of Medical Beam Laboratories, LLC. All guests are invited to participate.

The Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation environment was developed at CERN for the modeling of the interaction of particles and radiation with matter. Its use spans from high-energy physics through astrophysics to medical physics applications. The Medical Physics Group at the Department of Physics and Astronomy implemented the package on the Palmetto Cluster to run simulations of different radiosurgery equipment. Our collaborator Yannick LEMARECHAL, Ph.D. from the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Brest – LaTIM will give a three-part seminar series on the use of the package on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August 24-26 from 5:30-6:30 pm. Interested students and faculty are welcome.

Wednesday, August 24: The philosophy of Geant4 and how to install it

Thursday, August 25: The basics of Geant4

Friday, August 26: Advanced Examples

Please contact Dr. Endre Takacs (etakacs@clemson.edu) for more information.

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Marco Ajello for being featured in the NASA story, NASA’s Fermi Mission Expands its Search for Dark Matter. Dr. Ajello and his collaborators from NASA’s Fermi Mission utilized data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) to analyze possible sources of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). In a paper published in the April 14 issue of Physical Review Letters, Dr. Ajello and his colleague Mattia Di Mauro at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California concluded that nearly all of the EGB could be accounted for by blazars and other discrete sources of gamma-rays. This has relevance to dark matter research as it places limits on how much of the EGB could be be a result of dark matter interactions.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Clemson University seeks candidates to fill two faculty positions in Astrophysics and Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics at the tenure-track Assistant Professor or higher level to begin August 15, 2017.

The successful candidate will be expected to establish a vigorous externally funded research program and teach at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Required qualifications include a Ph.D. in Physics, Astronomy, Materials Science or closely related fields. The candidate should exhibit a record of substantive research and a commitment to excellence in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

For more information regarding the opening in Astrophysics, see the Astrophysics Job Listing.

For more information regarding the opening in Experiment Condensed Matter Physics, see the Experimental Condensed Matter Job Listing.

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