Physics and Information Technology. David L Shealy, Chair Department of Physics June 23, 2003

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1 Physics and Information Technology David L Shealy, Chair Department of Physics June 23, 2003

2 Overview What scientist and engineers do and make? New Bio-Nano-Optical Technologies Computational Physics Research Experiences NSF & UAB Middleware Initiative & Infrastructure

3 What do Physics BS-holders do?

4 What s Important for a Science & Engineering major to know?

5 2000 Salaries of BS Scientist and Engineers Physicists in Alabama (Small Alabama employers; salaries 5-6% higher for large.) Salary ($) Yrs Experience < Physics CS/eng Mech Eng Biochem Biology

6 Careers you don t think of in Physics Engineering Biotechnology Medicine, Optometry Computing, internet Banking, Investment Business Journalism Philosophy, religion Consulting FBI, CIA Law, Politics

7 Physics in Movies A biophysicist trained to display structures of virus particles on computer was hired very early to develop computer animation.

8 The New American Defenders MISSION AREA: CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL AND NUCLEAR COUNTERMEASURES DETECTION/IDENTIFICATION BAA N Q-0678

9 The New Bio-Nano-Optical-Tech Physics. Laser / Biotechnology to detect dangerous agents

10 Lasers for Pollution detection Biohazard detection Communication

11 Developing New Lasers Colors produced by super-broadband laser

12 Biophysics: Laser Spectroscopy of DNA Tracking DNA molecules with a molecular optical probe.

13 Tomorrow s Hi-Tech Economy Cover of Nanotechnology report, U.S. National Science and Technology Council.

14 Are there jobs in nanotechnology? The impact of nanotechnology as significant as the combined influences of microelectronics, medical imaging, computer-aided engineering, and manmade polymers... National Science and Technology Council, 1999 Job growth is for students presently in high school. See also

15 World s Smallest Wire 1998, N. D. Lang and Ph. Avouris, Phys. Rev. Lett 81, A normal wire increases its resistance with increasing length. the resistance of an atomic chain of carbon atoms oscillates with length, higher for an even number of atoms than for an odd number.

16 Bio-Nanotechnology Bacterial motor and drive train. H.C. Berg, Physics Today, 1999.

17 Nanotechnology in Tissue Repair Nanostructured Coatings and Films for Dental Implants Yogesh Vohra Physics

18 Diamond Growing in a Plasma Reactor

19 Computational Physics Ryoichi Kawai Supercomputers Materials Biological Medical Imaging Chaos / Complexity Stock Market

20 Undergraduate Research Experience (REU) Projects in Computational Physics Dr. Joe Harrison, Department of Physics Research Experience for Undergraduates Summer, 2003

21 Chemical Vapor Deposition on Diamond Surface Use specialized software (CHEMKIN) to study how deposition is affected by temperature, pressure, gas composition, etc.

22 Possible Research Projects CVD: Effect of substrate temperature on growth rate Diamond: Defect-induced relaxation around N impurity LiBC: Phonon role in Tc MgB 2

23 EHMO: Electronic Structure BiconCEDiT, CPMD -- packages for electronic structure calculations Background Study: determine atomic structure or a starting guess and construct input data Calculation and analysis of results

24 Academic Tracks in Physics Normal Track Grad school, industry Biophysics Track Multidisciplinary Pre-med, Biotech Writing, consulting Teaching Track CAT scan of brain affected by lyme disease. From The Whole Brain Atlas

25 Undergraduates who do research

26 AND High School Students!

27 Physics Awards Winners

28 UAB Middleware Team IT ACADEMIC COMPUTING David Shealy Jill Gemmill John-Paul Robinson Ramesh Puljala Rajani Sadasivam Aditya Srinivasan Zachariah Garner Other IT Divisions Sheila Sanders Landy Manderson Tim Brown Terry Tatum David Green Mike McBride

29 Middleware What is it? What does it do? National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative, To help scientists and researchers use the Internet to effectively share instruments, laboratories and data, and to collaborate with their colleagues. Software; standardized methods and practices

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31 Middleware should relieve your application of certain tasks PORTAL application application application Middleware Really, really fast network Dbases Computer PCs Big Remote Honkin Instruments Computer Data Computer HPC

32 UAB Enterprise Directory Services