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NSCL Greensheet (HSHSP Makes a Difference)
The High school Honors Science/Mathematics/Engineering Program (HSHSP) is a seven-week, intensive summer research program designed for motivated students from across the United States who wish to gain more experience conducting research. Every year, several NSCL faculty members participate, including Vladimir Zelevinsky, Georgios Perdikakis and Richard Cyburt this past summer (2010). Georgeios Perdikakis' student SonYon Song was chosen as a semi-finalist for the Intel competition, as was Richard Cyburt's student Rachel Myers, who also was chosen as a semi-finalist for the Siemens competition. Both competitions honor high school students and their research projects. Congratulations to the students, their mentors and everyone who participates in this wonderful program. Hopefully the laboratory~s involvement in this program and its success will continue to grow.
NSCL Greensheet (Astronomy Magazine)
The February 2011 edition of the magazine Astronomy features a story that was informed partly by a familiar face. The article, "Where has all the lithium gone?" features quotes and material from nuclear and particle astrophysicist Richard Cyburt. The article details how measurements of levels of lithium-7 one of the first four elements created by the Big Bang in ancient stars are nowhere near what theory predicts it should be. Explanations center on either processes in the stars destroying their original amounts of the element or brand new physics that would affect models of how much lithium-7 was created soon after the Big Bang. The lack of lithium-7 is exasperated further by the apparent over-abundance of lithium-6 in these same stars, which should not have been created without even higher levels of lithium-7 than theory predicts. Cyburt provides insight into some new physics ideas that could explain the observations. He talks about supersymmetric particles that lay outside the scope of the Standard Model. If the standard interactive particles we know of had highly energetic supersymmetric partners that exist, these could decay, interact with normal particles and create the lithium needed to explain the results of recent experiments.
Science Watch
One of my papers has been flagged by ScienceWatch.com
as a "key" paper in their April 2009 issue. They
asked me to discuss the paper in one of their
podcasts. Please, check it out.
Quotes
"Relax. What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind!" Homer Simpson
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." Douglas Adams (1952-2001)