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Honors Day 2002 ............................................................................... 2Alumnus Profile: Dr. Gene Ray .......................................................... 4New Faculty: Dr. Geoff Greene .......................................................... 5The Business of Physics ....................................................................... 6

SectionsCrossThe Newsletter of the University of Tennessee

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Volume 6, Number 1Spring/Summer 2002

A Message from the Department Headby Professor Soren Sorensen

Good News

Continued on page 3

Reading recent newspaper reportsabout the University of Tenness-ee gives one the impression that

the forecast is very gloomy. And it is ofcourse correct that we desperately needmore funds in order to be competitivewith many other programs and to attractthe best and brightest students fromTennessee. However, there are also a lotof positive signs, at least in the depart-ment of physics.

This academic year we have beenable to carry out four searches for newfaculty members. We still have to finishone search for a joint UT/ORNL asso-ciate professor in high energy physics.The other searches have resulted in ushiring three extremely good physicists,which seems to bode well for the future.

On page five you will read aboutGeoff Greene, who has joined us as ajoint faculty professor in fundamentalphysics with neutrons. Geoff will beresponsible for building a program inthis field at the Spallation NeutronSource and at UT. The SNS will have atleast one beam line dedicated to thisarea of physics, which is using the decayproperties of neutrons to study funda-mental aspects of the weak interaction.The hiring of Geoff is also anothergreat example of the close collaborationour department has with ORNL. With-out this collaboration we would nothave been able to attract, nor to afford,a senior and accomplished researcherlike Geoff.

The search for a replacement forGeoff Canright in theoretical con-densed matter physics was one of themost successful searches in many, manyyears. We had more than 60 applicationsand more than 20 of them were fromcandidates that we all would have lovedto interview. In the end we interviewedsix outstanding candidates, all of whomwould have been great faculty members.The chosen candidate for the assistantprofessorship, Victor Barzykin, has anextremely impressive record. When hewas only 16 he won first prize in the1985 International Physics Olympiad inYugoslavia. Later he received hismaster’s degree from the prestigiousLandau Institute in Moscow (Yes, hehas read and mastered all of the Landauand Lifshitz text books!) and his Ph.D.from Illinois under the supervision ofDavid Pines. Currently he is at the Na-tional High Magnetic Field Laboratoryat Florida State University.

In high energy physics there is bothgood and bad news to report. The badnews is that Bill Bugg has decided toretire. Bill has been one of the most in-fluential members of the departmentever and he cannot be replaced. In thenext issue we will have more on Bill’sretirement, so I will not dwell on thisissue for now. The good news is thatBill’s retirement has allowed us to searchfor two new faculty members for thehigh energy physics group. One will behired in the above mentioned joint fac-ulty position and the other will be a new

assistant professor. We have just fin-ished the latter search, which also at-tracted several impressive candidates.The chosen candidate, Stefan Spanier,got his education in Mainz, Germany,after which he spent several years atCERN and SLAC. He has been offeredtwo very prestigious fellowships, aCERN Fellowship and a SLACPanofsky Fellowship, but in both caseshe turned them down to pursue some-thing even better. In the latter case, afaculty position in our department! Heis currently working on the BaBar ex-periment and is expected to continuethis work on understanding the natureof CP violation when he joins us.

Bringing in new, energetic facultymembers is one of the physicsdepartment’s highest priorities, so get-ting four in one year is extremely en-couraging. But we also want to bring ingreat students at all levels. In the lastnewsletter I described the changes toour graduate program, but our under-graduate program has also received a lotof attention. In particular, due to gener-ous contributions from many of you,we now have three scholarships namedfor Bill Bugg, Sam Hurst, and RufusRitchie, which will provide ProfessorJon Levin, who is responsible for ourundergraduate recruiting efforts, a won-derful tool in trying to get the best highschool students from Tennessee tocome to our department. These scholar-

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Each spring the department recognizes its outstanding students,not with a huge formal banquet

or candlelit ceremony as other academicunits sometimes do, but with a casual,friendly air that allows half of the audi-ence to show up in shorts and T-shirts.This laidback approach, however,doesn’t detract from the importance ofthe awards, which acknowledge thework of top students in a demandingmajor. From those inducted into thephysics honor society to the winner ofa $25,000 graduate fellowship, all stu-dents worked hard for their respectivehonors.

Sigma Pi Sigma

This year’s Honors Day event wasApril 24. The ceremonies began withthe induction of students into SigmaPi Sigma, the physics honor society.Open to both graduate and undergradu-ate students, Sigma Pi Sigma at UT re-quires at least a junior standing with anoverall grade point average of 3.25 anda physics GPA of 3.5. The six studentsinducted this spring were undergradu-ates Donald Hornback, Brian Irickand George Noid; along with graduatestudents Hye Jung Kang, WilliamNewton and Korey Sorge. Dr. JimParks, associate department head, over-saw the induction.

UndergraduateAwards

After the Sigma Pi Sigma inductionscame the Outstanding First Year Stu-dent Award. The awards committeefound it impossible to select only onestudent for the 2001-2002 academicyear, so they decided to name two hon-orees. Oak Ridge native Nick Mooreand Anton Naoumov from Russiashared the award.

The Douglas V. Roseberry Awardis the highest honor the department be-stows on an undergraduate student.Named for the late Doug Roseberry, astellar student in his own right in the1950s, it recognizes not only academicachievement and scholarly potential, butalso contributions made to the depart-ment in terms of innovation and cre-ativity. Erin McMahon was named the2002 Roseberry Winner. She is a formerLide Citation winner for her contribu-tions to the astronomy labs. Just thisspring she won three awards at UT’s Ex-hibition of Undergraduate Research andCreative Achievement: the Natural Sci-ence DivisionAward of Excel-lence; the PhiKappa Phi Natu-ral Science Divi-sion Award ofExcellence; andthe College ofArts and SciencesNatural ScienceDivision Award.Erin will move toAustin this fall tobegin her Ph.D.work in astro-physics at theUniversity ofTexas.

Lide Citations

The Robert W. Lide Citations rec-ognize students who have made excep-tional contributions to theundergraduate instructional laboratories.They are named in honor of the late Dr.Bob Lide, who came to campus eachweek, even after he retired, to help outwith the physics labs. This year the de-partment awarded Lide Citations to twostudents: Jason Smith and JohnMeyer. Jason began helping in the labslast summer by working on the new op-tics lab. He has also taken the initiativeto clean out and organize the lab stor-age space, getting rid of archaic equip-ment to make room for the new. John isknown for his diligence in monitoringthe newsgroup for the online As-tronomy 162 course and giving detailedanswers to students’ questions. He hasalso taken the initiative to scheduleopen extra credit and help sessions forthese students and has researched newideas for present and future virtual labs.

Graduate Awards

Most graduate students get their firsttaste of teaching by taking on the un-dergraduate physics and astronomy

laboratories, atough crowd byanyone’s stan-dards. Each yearthe departmenthonors one stu-dent with theOutstandingGraduateTeaching Awardas determined byevaluations fromthe studentsthemselves, whoare often harshcritics. This year’swinner was ChadMiddleton, who

Honors Day Awards 2002

Dr. Sorensen congratulates GTAAward Winner Chad Middleton

Dr. Jim Parks welcomes Brian Irickinto Sigma Pi Sigma

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The Tennessee AdvancedMaterials Laboratory is a $5million center dedicated toexploring the creation of newmaterials through computermodeling and experimentalresearch. Part of TAML’smission is to attract topgraduate students to UT tostudy materials sciencethrough TAML Fellowships,$25,000 fellowships for stu-dents in the core departmentsof chemistry, chemical engi-neering, materials science &engineering, and physics &astronomy. Although primarily a recruit-ing tool, this year the fellowship com-mittee decided to acknowledge the

exceptional per-formance of acurrent graduatestudent, JohnPierce. He workswith the surface/interface physicsgroup at UT andthe ORNL SolidState Division. In2001 he won aUniversity Cita-tion for Aca-demicAchievement andProfessionalPromise, as well

as our own Fowler-Marion Award.Last year the Society of Physics Stu-

dents instituted the SPS Teacher ofthe Year Award as a way to make acontribution to the physics department.The undergraduate physics majorsnominate faculty members they believeare superior instructors and then electone professor to receive the award. Thisyear the students chose Dr. StuartElston, who teaches the electronicslaboratory.

After the awards, Dr. MarkRhoades-Brown of Renaissance Tech-nologies Corporation gave the HonorsDay Lecture. His talk, entitled, “My Lifein a Hedge Fund: Physics and Econom-ics Meet the Real World,” underscoredthe possibilities of taking a science edu-cation into the world of business. Anuclear theorist by training, Dr.

came to UT from Eastern Illinois Uni-versity, where he graduated with abachelor’s degree in physics and a minorin math. He is a Ph.D. candidate work-ing with George Siopsis studying sixdimensional gravity.

The Paul H. Stelson Fellowship inPhysics is named for the former direc-tor of the ORNL Physics Division whooversaw the funding, construction, andoperation of The Holifield Heavy IonResearch Facility. Dr. Stelson was alsoan adjunct professor of physics at UTfrom 1967 until 1992 and served as amentor for many young scientists. Hisfamily established this award to assistaspiring physicists in their educationand to continue the strong physics rela-tionship between UT and ORNL. Thisyear’s Stelson Fel-low has already be-gun an impressivecareer in experi-mental condensedmatter physics.Korey Sorge haseight papers pub-lished, in press, orsubmitted, includ-ing five on his cur-rent work onnanomagnetic par-ticles. He has re-cently been electedas an associatemember in theSigma Xi Scientific Society and hasgiven four presentations at national andinternational conferences.

The Fowler-Marion OutstandingGraduate Student Award was estab-lished to recognize, as the name implies,outstanding achievement by a graduatestudent. The 2002 winner, IzabelaSzlufarska, is a native of Wroclaw, Po-land. She previously won three scholar-ships from the Polish Ministry ofNational Education, as well as recogni-tion from the Wroclaw University ofTechnology and the Polish Physical So-ciety for extraordinary laboratory per-formance, creative writing, and bestmaster’s thesis. She also won the physicsdepartment’s outstanding GTA award in2000. Izabela graduated in May and isheaded to LSU for a post-doctoral posi-tion.

Rhoades-Brown said that his companyemploys 185 people, half of whom aretechnical. “The biggest chunk are physi-cists,” he added. He also pointed outthe value of critical thinking as an assetmany scientists possess and one “thathas value in the outside world beyondphysics.”

Among the guests for the ceremonieswere Dr. Sam Hurst, Dr. John Fox,and Dr. Glenn Young (all members ofthe department’s board of visitors),Mrs. Jane Ann Nielsen, Dr. Don Cox(Associate Dean of Academic Pro-grams, College of Arts and Sciences),Dr. Susan Martin (Associate Dean forAcademic Personnel, College of Artsand Sciences), Dr. Lynn Champion(Director of Academic Outreach, Col-lege of Arts and Sciences), and retiredphysics professor Dr. Ed Harris.

Michael Driskill and Stephen Wilson, graduatingseniors, enjoy the post-ceremony reception

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Dr. Sorensen congratulates Fowler-Marion Winner Izabela Szlufarska

“Good News,” continued from page 1

ships are a great start, but I sincerelyhope that through future increases inour endowment we will be able to addeven more scholarships.

As I hope you can see from thisshort overview of recent good news inour department, there are a lot of thingsto be optimistic about. The future is notnearly as gloomy as many will lead youto believe. We just all need to keepworking hard together in order to makethe good things happen.

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Gene Ray: Creating New Technologies

Some 20 years ago Gene Ray foughtwhat he describes as a losing battlewith his boss, packed up his things

and headed for the door. Today he isthe chairman, president, and chief ex-ecutive officer of a company that willearn $1.6 billion in revenue this year. Itsort of makes you wonder who lost thefight.

In 1981, Dr. Ray co-founded the Ti-tan Corporation, a company that createsnew technologies to launch innovativebusinesses specializing in areas like e-business, broadband telecommunica-tions, and even the electronicpasteurization of food. With four majorsubsidiaries (Cayenta, SureBeam, TitanWireless and Titan Systems), Dr. Rayexplained that the San Diego-basedcompany has about 11,000 employeesand projects a 30% growth in both theirtop and bottom lines this year.

One of Titan’s latest prospects iscalled 80211A, an up-and-coming tech-nology with a much broader band thatwill allow for wireless computers, tele-phones, and video in individual homes.

“That should be out within a year,”he said.

Dr. Ray said Titan has another fourtechnologies in the emerging stage andhalf a dozen or so in earlier stages ofdevelopment. The company has a full-time staff to evaluate proposals onpromising technologies and contem-plate how Titan can bring value tothem. He credits a dedicated and for-ward-thinking staff with moving thebusiness forward. Recent projects in-clude a $40 million deal to provide tech-nical engineering services for U.S. Navyaircraft and a contract worth $88 millionto support U.S. Air Force strategic andnuclear deterrence command and con-trol. In the wake of the October anthraxscare Titan made news when the com-pany teamed up with the US Postal Ser-vice to use electron beam technologyfor sanitizing mail.

With so much going on, what doesthe CEO do in his spare time?

“I’m sleeping,” he said half-jokingly.“That’s the only time that’s left.”

However, the avid sports fan didmanage some time off to attend themen’s final four in the NCAA basketballtournament. Then it was back to work.

Football, Prelims, andLaunching a Business

A native of Murray, Kentucky, Dr.Ray said he has always been interestedin math and the sciences. He earned abachelor’s degree in mathematics, phys-ics and chemistry at Murray State Uni-versity in 1960. He came to UT andearned both his master’s and doctoraldegrees in physics, finishing up in 1965.

“I remember Knox-ville very, very well,” hesaid.

One memory from hisfirst year at Tennesseeinvolves a common phe-nomenon among stu-dents: the elusive footballticket. He recounted howhe was standing in linebehind a young manwearing a Shell servicestation uniform whoasked to buy a ticket andpromptly wrote a checkfor the amount. WhenDr. Ray got to the win-dow, he asked to buy aticket and readied his checkbook, onlyto be told, “Oh no, we don’t take checksfrom students.”

Dr. Ray also has a vivid memory ofthe crunch time surrounding his Ph.D.qualifying exams.

“It’s always tough after your prelims,”he said. “You need to take some timeoff.”

So once he cleared that hurdle hesaid he began avoiding his research ad-viser, Dr. Ed Deeds, in order to recover.This proved to be an unnecessary tactic,as Dr. Deeds later confessed that he had

been avoiding his student as well in or-der to get caught up on his own work.

For a couple of months, Dr. Raysaid, “we were dodging each other.”

Eventually, of course, the 125-pagedissertation was written, and Dr. Rayfinished his graduate work in theoreticalphysics. From there he went to San Ber-nardino, California, to work for theAerospace Corporation. His officialLevel was 0, something he said he willalways remember, but it was the highestpaid offer he had. He specialized innuclear survivability. His next positiontook him to the Pentagon, where he wasclassified as a PL313 (Public Law 313);a rank he explained was the equivalentof a two-star general, a more impressivetitle than 0, to be sure. For his two and a

half years there, he led ateam made up of militaryand civilian analysts, aswell as other scientists.Then it was back to Cali-fornia, where he workedfor the Science Applica-tions International Corpo-ration in San Diego for 11years as executive vicepresident and a memberof the board. In a way,this was actually whereTitan began.

“I had an argumentwith my boss and lost,”Dr. Ray said, so he leftSAIC, taking with him a

couple of his personnel. They foundedthe Titan Corporation in 1981. Withintwo weeks of opening shop they landeda $560,000 contract from GTE to de-sign a communications system. But de-spite Titan’s good fortune, Dr. Rayinsists he never takes successes like thatfor granted.

“I’m still worried every day,” he said.Yet Dr. Ray knows he can draw on

his scientific background to help himmake sound business decisions.

Alumnus Profile

Continued on page 5

Dr. Gene Ray(photo courtesy of Titan)

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Dr. Geoff Greene joined thephysics faculty on May 1, bringing with him a distinguished

record in studying those subatomic mar-vels: neutrons. He comes to UT fromLos Alamos National Laboratory wherehe served most recently as Deputy Divi-sion Director at the Los Alamos Neu-tron Science Center (LANSCE). Hisprevious work has taken him to neutronsources all over the world, from Franceto England to the National Institute forStandards and Technology in Maryland.

“Wherever the neutrons are, that’swhere I’ll go,” he said.

Neutron science has become an in-creasingly important research area forboth UT and the region with the con-struction of the Spallation NeutronSource in Oak Ridge. That was a largepart of what inspired Dr. Greene toleave Los Alamos for Knoxville.

“I’ve been working in this field formore than 25 years,” he said, and “it’sbeen very clear that for the next coupleof decades the SNS is the best place todo this.

“Clearly, we have the opportunity tobecome world leaders in the field ofneutron science.”

Dr. Greene’s particular area of exper-tise is fundamental neutron physics.

“Our interest is in precise measure-ments of neutron properties and inter-actions,” he explained.

Discovered in 1932, the neutron hasproven itself a valuable tool to studymatter. By using an accelerator beam toknock these neutral particles free fromthe nucleus of an atom, scientists cantrack how many neutrons scatter, how

much energy they have, and where theyend up, thereby shedding some light onthe target material’s structure and prop-erties. Understanding the neutron itselfcan answer questions about beta decay,test basic theories of high-energy phys-ics, and illuminate models in cosmologysuch as the Big Bang or the universe’spreference for left over right.

Part of Dr. Geene’s job is building aprogram in fundamental neutron phys-ics at Oak Ridge and the SNS providesthe perfect backdrop for recruiting newpersonnel to join the team.

“I hope over the next five years tomake a number of hires in this field,”he said, particularly junior faculty andpost-docs.

He is also the Director of the SNSFundamental Physics Instrument Devel-opment Team, which is online to useone of the initial beam lines when theneutron source becomes operational.

“Our hope is that when the first neu-tron comes down the pike, we’ll bethere to see it,” he said.

At present there are 60 people from20 institutions on his team and, he said,“we expect that number to grow.”

Eventually, he explained, the SNSwill have the capability for 20 beamlinesand when fully operational, should have1,000 to 2,000 visitors to year.

Although the SNS isn’t scheduled tobe up and running until 2006, there’splenty of work for Dr. Greene’s groupin the interim. They’ll be developingexperiments at the High Flux IsotopeReactor in Oak Ridge, as well as atLANSCE and other neutron sources.That way they’ll be ready when theirbeam time becomes available in OakRidge.

Dr. Greene himself will also be busywith new responsibilities as a professorof physics at UT, part of his joint fac-ulty appointment between the Univer-sity and ORNL. He will be teachingElectricity and Magnetism for engi-neers during the fall term. He’s norookie in the classroom, however, hav-

ing taught at Yale University for threeyears before moving into research posi-tions at the National Bureau of Stan-dards and later, LANL. He will also addstudents to his research team.

“There will be opportunities for un-dergraduates and graduate students,” hesaid. “There will be some activity oncampus,” but “the actual experimentswill be done at the SNS.”

He explained that many students inthe U.S. have little experience in neutronscience simply because they have lackedaccess to facilities. The SNS will changethat, allowing him and other scientiststo train a new generation of researchersin the field.

Students will also benefit from hislong-standing collaborations and on-going work with other scientists at neu-tron sources including the NIST Centerfor Neutron Research and the InstitutLaue-Langevin (ILL) in France.

“I’m extremely enthusiastic aboutgetting back into teaching and re-search,” he said.

Anyone interested in working withDr. Greene should contact him atgreenegl@ornl.gov.

“What physics really teaches you todo is how to reason,” he said. Scientiststhink differently about how to approachand solve problems. The best physicianhe knows, he said, is a physicist by train-ing. Another asset his physics back-ground offers is credibility.

“The big contribution it made wasthat people didn’t think they could snowyou,” he said.

That’s an advantage Dr. Ray believesfuture physics graduates can capitalizeon if they pursue a career in the indus-trial sector.

“They’ve had the best training theycould ever get,” he said.

More information on Titan is avail-able on the Web at www.titan.com.

Dr. Gene Ray, continued from page 4

More Information on the Web

Spallation Neutron Source:http://www.sns.gov/

SNS Fundamental Neutron Physics:http://www.phy.ornl.gov/nuclear/neutrons/

The Neutron Quest

Dr. Geoff Greene Joins UT Physics

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Both Craig Hunter and TomWhitaker are physicists by training and businessmen by choice.

Each has taken his background in sci-ence and drawn on specific strengths tobuild a successful career in the commer-cial sector. While they work for vastlydifferent companies and face differentchallenges, both have found a niche inthe professional world that bridges sci-ence and industry.

Craig Hunter finished his bachelor’sdegree in physics and math at the Uni-versity of Winnipeg and then came toUT to get a master’s in nuclear physics.He graduated in 1975. He said althoughhe enjoyed physics, he lacked the pas-sion he thought would be necessary tokeep going on the Ph.D. track and havean enjoyable and fulfilling career. In-stead, when reviewing his post-master’soptions, he chose another path.

“I went straight into businessschool,” he said.

After finishing an MBA in financeand international business at the Uni-versity of Western Ontario, he hit thepavement looking for a job.

“I basically started applying to allsorts of different companies,” he said,although he said his MBA was moremarketable than his physics degrees atfirst. He landed a position with TheContinental Group, Inc., in New YorkCity, handling financial planning, inter-nal audits, and corporate business de-velopment. After a few other stops onthe resume trail, he is now Vice Presi-dent for Business Development andStrategic Growth at MDS Nordion inOttawa.

Tom Whitaker took a different routeto the business world. He has abachelor’s degree in physics, chemistryand math from Stephen F. Austin StateUniversity in Texas and a master’s de-gree in physical chemistry fromPrinceton. He earned a Ph.D. in physi-cal chemistry at the University of Wash-ington while working at Battelle’sPacific Northwest Laboratory. He was

Getting Down to BusinessPhysicists Tackle the Corporate World: Large and Small

managing the Atomic and MolecularSpectroscopy Section when he decidedto move into the private sector.

“I succumbed to my entrepreneurialyearning,” he said, explaining that hehas far fewer constraints at a small pri-vate company than he experienced at anational laboratory. He is now the Presi-dent and CEO of Atom Sciences, Inc.,an Oak Ridge firm that markets reso-nance ionization technology and its ap-plications. He explained that for ahigh-tech company, it’s useful for uppermanagement to understand the technol-ogy.

That’s a sentiment echoed by Hunter,who joined MDS Nordion four yearsago. The companyis part of MDS,Inc., an interna-tional company of11,000 employeesthat uses radioiso-tope technology toprevent, diagnose,and treat disease.They specialize innuclear medicine,radiation treat-ment for cancerpatients, andgamma steriliza-tion. His positiontakes advantage ofboth his physicssavvy and his busi-ness training.

Business incor-porates “all sorts of different peoplefrom different backgrounds,” he said,and they have different approaches tohow they think about problems.

“You get people who have a propen-sity for marketing and sales who thinkabout things a lot less analytically than Iwould,” he said. The difference hisphysics and math background brings tothe table is a strong bent toward analy-sis, math skills (“I can do estimates ofthings in my head”) and above all, a

sense of taking a hard look at the con-clusion of problem.

“Looking at the answer and asking‘does that make sense’” is somethingHunter said he learned as a physics stu-dent that has become an important partof the business process for him. Forexample, his company is looking at thepossibility of developing aradiopharmeceutical based on neutroncapture. The venture would result in aprocess that can be used either as atreatment to destroy cancerous cells oras an imaging tool to see how muchcancer exists in a patient and where it’slocated. While the project has somesupport in his company, Hunter said he

considers factorslike available neu-tron sources andexisting cancertreatments andthen asks, “Howpractical is thisgoing to be?” Hesaid a scientificbackground“gives me theability to say, ‘willthis make sense?’”

Whitaker hasto ask the samesorts of ques-tions, particularlysince his companyis much smaller(nine employees,some of whomare part time) and

the implications of their businesschoices are therefore much more obvi-ous.

“You have to stay focused on whatyou’re being paid for,” he said.

“The biggest difference is simply thatyou have to do everything on your ownat a small company,” he explained. Hepersonally tackles everything from mar-

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“Physics has made many contri-butions to the economy, but theyaren’t clearly recognized because,in part, there is no industry that islabeled as the ‘physics industry.’But we might well give that labelto (for example) the semiconduc-tor industry, which depends onsolid-state physics, chemical phys-ics, plasma physics, materials phys-ics, and so on.”

-From the background for the survey,Physics in a New Era by the NationalAcademy of Sciences

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He is ever the sharp dresser, not theslightest bit frazzled or unkempt on amuggy April morning when the tem-perature is already creeping toward 80degrees. You would never guess thatjust minutes earlier he arrived from ameeting across town, in a convertible noless, to keep his 11:30 appointment. Dr.Lee Riedinger simply offers a welcom-ing smile, drapes his crisp blue jacketacross the back of a chair, and sitsdown to calmly explain exactly howthings are different now.

For three years his calendar entrieswere items like “budget due in Dean’soffice,” or “review faculty committees.”His meetings sometimes included teen-agers. And among his concerns wererecruiting graduate students and ex-plaining the importance of servicecourses to the College of Arts and Sci-ences. That was what it was like to bethe head of the physics department. Buttwo years ago he packed up his office inthe Nielsen Physics Building andheaded to Oak Ridge National Labora-tory. There he became the Deputy Di-rector for Science and Technologywhen UT, with its partner Battelle, tookover ORNL management in April 2000.Now it’s a whole different set ofmemos and meetings, budgets and con-cerns.

“National laboratories are fundamen-tally different from universities,” he ex-plained.

While a university has several roles toplay, from sponsoring research to teach-ing students to public service, a nationallaboratory is more streamlined in itsgoals.

“It’s fun to be at a high-tech placehighly focused on research,” Dr.Riedinger said, when the technology,expertise, and resources are all readilyavailable. The centerpiece of his re-sponsibilities is orchestrating all thoseassets.

“My first priority is overseeing thetotal research program at the lab,” hesaid, paying particular attention to keep-

ing communication open across disci-plines and divisions. To that end, he isresponsible for reinvestment, with some$20 million to allocate to meet ORNL’sgoals. Roughly $15 million goes towardlab-directed research and development.

“That’s a way to start new areas ofresearch,” and is essentially seed fund-ing, he explained.

The remaining funds are earmarkedfor program development, includingscouting for sponsorship, writing pro-posals and planning initiatives.

Another key component of the job isdeveloping university partnerships. Dr.Riedinger is ORNL’s primary contactwith UT and the lab’s core universitypartners (Duke, Florida State, GeorgiaTech, North Carolina State, the Univer-sity of Virginia and Virginia PolytechnicInstitute), as well as with Oak Ridge As-sociated Universities. He works closelywith the joint faculty program, whereinnew scientists are hired with joint uni-versity-ORNL appointments, and thejoint institutes, which combine the re-spective resources of university partnersand the laboratory to strengthen facili-ties for research and education.

“We’re trying to bring universitiesmore intimately into the laboratory,” hesaid. “It’s important to the laboratoryand to the country.”

His experience as a physics professorand department head, as well as a four-year stint as UT’s Associate Vice Chan-cellor for Research, prepared him wellfor the challenge.

“I understand both arenas prettywell,” he said.

For Lee Riedinger, understanding isanother requirement for keepingORNL’s research program runningsmoothly.

“Being a diplomat is very important,”he stressed. He has to balance the goalsand challenges of the research staffwhile at the same time handling a cer-tain degree of public relations outsidethe national lab. The fact that he hasmaintained a long-running research pro-

gram in nuclear physics goes a long wayin building trust, not only with otherscientists but also with media, political,and agency representatives, because itillustrates that he’s a scientist as well asan administrator.

“Credentials mean a lot,” he ex-plained.

Still, he enjoys being the face ofORNL when the situation demands it.

“Being kind of a public spokesmanfor the lab is fun,” he said. “You get tobrag about all the neat stuff going on byso many different people at the lab.”

And unlike the more technical andspecialized talks he’s accustomed to giv-ing in nuclear physics, a general discus-sion of ORNL’s success and futurecaptivates a broader audience.

“They’re willing to listen and bedazzled,” he said.

To listen to him talk about this jobfor more than three minutes is to seehow much he loves being part of thenational laboratory. He did his graduatework at ORNL, spent time there as afaculty member, and helped launch theJoint Institute for Heavy Ion Research.So how does he feel about becomingone of the lab’s most visible leaders?

“It’s really a profound honor,” hesaid.

Getting Started

When UT-Battelle assumed manage-ment of Oak Ridge National Labora-tory two years ago, the new leadershipteam had a few challenges. Dr.Riedinger explained that although therewas plenty of space for researchers,much of it was old and inferior.

While universities can eke out reno-vations even in times of poor budgetaryoutlook, “that doesn’t happen at na-tional labs,” he said. “There’s rarely in-frastructure money.”

So while funds might be available forbuilding a new project (the Spallation

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New job, new office, new challenges

Dr. Lee Riedinger: Managing at ORNL

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Getting Down to Business, continuedfrom page 6

keting to graphics to public relations.While the upside is that small compa-nies have more control over the variousaspects of their business, Whitaker saidthe downside is that they don’t have asmuch interaction with other scientists asthey would like.

“We try to augment that by going tomeetings,” he said, to keep up-to-dateon emerging trends, technologies, andopportunities.

Although many students decide topursue academic employment, bothWhitaker and Hunter see openings forphysics graduates to chart a professionalcourse in business.

“There’s a move in industry to recog-nize that diverse thinking within yourcompany is an asset,” Hunter said. Di-versity means innovation, and he ex-plained that innovation is a premium inNorth American business right now. Hesaid more companies are beginning tosee the value of looking beyond busi-ness schools for their employees.

“The good thing is that it’s a lot bet-ter to study something that you’re inter-ested in and enjoy,” he added, becausethat enthusiasm spills over into attitudesabout approaching a project or solving aproblem, no matter what the context.He said having the word “physics” on aresume also builds credibility becausepeople who do the hiring “know you’reno dummy.”

However, he maintained that addi-tional training is a good idea for anyonewho wants to make the leap from phys-ics to business.

For example, “anyone who’s good inphysics is going to be good in math,”Hunter said, so finance is a logicalchoice for picking up some additionalexperience to be better prepared forcorporate life.

Whitaker agreed with that idea.“Scientists don’t really get a lot of

the background they should in busi-ness,” he said, pointing out that no busi-ness courses are required for a degree inphysics. He suggested that graduateslooking to one day strike out on theirown as business owners pursue an

Neutron Source, for example), there’sno real budget for maintaining existingfacilities. UT-Battelle is following an ag-gressive plan to build five new build-ings, private space on land leased fromthe Department of Energy, to tacklethat problem and, it is hoped, to attractnew people. Dr. Riedinger said hegained some experience with this ap-proach 20 years ago when he worked onstarting the Joint Institute for Heavy IonResearch, a collaborative effort betweenthe UT, Vanderbilt, and ORNL.

Aside from space, a second majorproblem he faced after coming onboard was the high cost of doing busi-ness.

“The overhead is roughly twice ashigh as at a university,” Dr. Riedingersaid, because of issues dealing with ra-diation safety, meeting governmentregulations, and the absence of infra-structure funds. He conceded that thismakes all national labs expensive to run,but “Oak Ridge was even at the highend of national labs,” which hurt theircompetitive ability.

Since taking over, UT-Battelle hasissued two layoffs of around 500 peopletotal, mostly those on overhead. Now,Dr. Riedinger said, there’s a greater em-phasis on meeting budgets and keepingoverhead costs steady throughout thefiscal year.

Overall, however, he said “the lab isin really good shape.” New opportuni-ties in neutron science, nanoscience,computational sciences, nuclear energy,and national security all stand toheighten ORNL’s profile. The Spalla-tion Neutron Source and recently refur-bished High Flux Isotope Reactor willmake the region a world leader in neu-tron science. A new 40,000-square footcomputer room will make ORNL thefirst DOE science lab working withinthe hundreds of teraflop computing re-gime. A new research division in nuclearscience and technology will address is-sues like global warming and usingnuclear power to ease national depen-dence on foreign oil.

“This is one of the biggest energyresearch and development labs in thecountry,” he said. “We have to be mis-sion-focused.”

Keeping up with all the various divi-sions, programs, goals and responsibili-ties means a full plate for Lee Riedinger.He said the pace is one the biggest chal-lenges he faces.

“A laboratory is a fast-moving place,”he said.

He explained that can be a positiveelement in that “you can make thingshappen more quickly,” by bringingpeople and resources together at a fasterclip than at a university. The downside,however, is the pressure it brings interms of visibility, expectations, and re-sponsibility. Does that pressure evermake him misty for his old gig as de-partment head?

“There’s something very specialabout a university,” particularly the“presence of bright young people,” hesaid.

Ultimately, he would like to give uphis administrative responsibilities gradu-ally, easing back down the ladder andreturning to his true passion: nuclearphysics experimentation. He said hisideal retirement would be to join a re-search group as a post-doc as sort of areturn to that happy period when hisonly concern was analyzing data withoutthe pressure of writing proposals or jus-tifying the project.

“Going cold turkey, I think, is hard,”he said. “I would like to end my careeras I began it.”

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MBA, while others might consider ven-turing into opportunities like patent law.

“One of the tricks here is to be ver-satile,” Whitaker said, particularly forbachelor’s graduates. Learning aboutoptics, vacuum systems, and even me-chanical drawing can arm physics gradu-ates with skills that qualify them for awide range of professional choices.

“Versatility counts at all levels.” hesaid, pointing out that his companystarted out in the characterization ofmaterials and is now moving more to-ward biotechnology projects to expandtheir business opportunities.

That sort of flexible thinking is anattribute he looks for when hiring em-ployees. “We want people who can fixthings,” he said, “And make thingswork.”

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Faculty

News from the Physics Family

Students

Dr. Witek Nazarewicz won a Re-search and Creative Achievement Awardat the Provost’s Honors Awards cer-emony on April 10. The University of-fers these awards “to honor and nurturescientific exploration and creative ac-complishments of our senior faculty.”Dr. Nazarewicz is an internationally-recognized nuclear theorist who alsoserves as a deputy director for science atORNL’s Holifield Radioactive IonBeam Facility. The January/February2002 issue of Europhysics News fea-tures his article, “Quest for SuperheavyNuclei,” a general description of hiswork on filling out the nuclear land-scape. The paper is available online athttp://www-highspin.phys.utk.edu/~witek/papers/she.pdf.

Joint Faculty Member Dr. TedBarnes is part of the ORNL researchgroup awarded $100,000 from theORNL Director’s R&D Fund. Themoney will finance their project“Heavy-Quark Reaction Cross Sectionsat RHIC: Studies of Quark-GluonPlasma Signatures.”

Congratulations to our most recentgraduating classes:

Fall 2001

Stewart Hager, Ph.D.Hyunjeong Kim, M.S.Suzanne Parete-Koon, M.S.Bin Liu, Ph.D.Dowman Varn, Ph.D.Gerald Woods, Ph.D.

Spring 2002

Michael Driskill, B.S.Paul Martin, B.S.

Erin McMahon, B.S.Ted Nichols, B.S.Geri Ragghianti, B.S.Izabela Szlufarska, Ph.D.Stephen Wilson, B.S.Omar Zeidan, Ph.D.

Erin McMahonwon three awards atUT’s Exhibition ofUndergraduate Re-search and CreativeAchievement on April5: the Natural ScienceDivision Award ofExcellence, the PhiKappa Phi NaturalScience DivisionAward of Excellence,and the College ofArts and SciencesNatural Science Divi-sion Award. She described her work asusing a new, stochastic algorithm tomodel the time evolution of isotopicabundances with constant temperatureand density conditions for the CNOand Hot CNO cycles. She successfullyobtained acceptable results to a massfraction of about 10-6 in comparisonwith the currently used element produc-tion code from the astrophysics groupat ORNL. This “embarassingly parallel”code has also been implemented on thenew 8-node Beowulf cluster, namedGEAT (General Engine for Astrophys-ics at Tennessee. See http://geat.phys.utk.edu for details about themachine). Erin will begin graduate workat the University of Texas this fall.

Michael Driskill has been selectedto join the New York City Teaching Fel-lows, a joint NYC/AmeriCorps pro-gram. The fellowship involves atwo-year commitment to teach in an un-der-resourced school in New York.Michael will teach physics or math atthe high school or middle school levelin Brooklyn. (He explained that the pro-gram is in short supply of science andmath teachers.) The NYC part of the

program provides a full teaching salaryand an accelerated masters in educationplus certification over two summers(both for free). AmeriCorps will provideabout $9,500 toward additional educa-tion when Michael finishes the program.

The applica-tion processinvolved writ-ing essays,providingtranscripts,and going toNew York fora long inter-view withother candi-dates and amock teach-ing session.More infor-mation on the

program is available at http://www.nycteachingfellows.org/.

Alumni

Dr. Dennis J. Erickson (Ph.D.,1971) has been elected to the NationalSafety Council’s 51-person Board ofDelegates. The board develops theNSC’s mission agenda, creates policy,and tracks safety, health and environ-mental trends. Dr. Erickson is divisiondirector for Environment, Safety andHealth at Los Alamos National Labora-tory. He is a physicist, a senior memberof the laboratory, and an operations ex-pert. Since 1993 he has been respon-sible for occupational safety and health,radiation protection, and operationalassurance involving some 12,000 LosAlamos workers.

Erin McMahon with her award-winningpresentation.

If you have any alumni news youwould like to share, please send it

to Catherine Longmire atcal@utk.edu.

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The 2002 Physics Picnic:The Faculty Strikes Back

The physics department braved cold and rain on May 4 to forge ahead with the annual spring picnic and, more impor-tantly, the annual softball game. The diamond at Clark Center Park was muddy and the outfield was a swamp, but thedetermined physicists would not be dissuaded from proving themselves in competition. The undergraduates teamed up

to battle with the faculty and graduate students, hoping to repeat last year’s victory. This year, however, Dr. Lee Riedinger re-joined the faculty squad as manager and shortstop, adding a new element of power to their lineup.

The undergraduates took an early lead, jumping out five runs to two by the end of the first inning. Undeterred, the facultyrebounded to a two-run lead by the middle of the sixth. The undergraduates managed to score once more before the gamewas called, although they protested the faculty victory. Last year’s game was a seven-inning event and the undergrads insistedthat one more at-bat would have made the difference in this year’s contest. As it stands, they’ll have to wait until next spring.

Graduate student Dane Gillaspie takes a few warm-up pitches from Dr. Riedinger before the game getsunderway.

Grad student Mehdi Bolorizadeh warms upbefore the game.

Dr. Lee Riedinger, manager and shortstop of thefaculty/graduate student team, assigns positions tohis players. Always a good sport, department headSoren Sorensen agreed to man the swampy outfield.Dr. Jim Parks enjoys the picnic with

granddaughter Carrine Cheney.

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The artwork above is a drawing of the “Untitled”sculpture over the entrance of the Nielsen PhysicsBuilding. The sculpture was designed by ProfessorPhilip Nichols of the Department of Art and isintended to convey the feeling of large and smallmasses, atoms, molecules, motions of chargedparticles in magnetic fields, and radiation emanatingfrom nuclear disintegrations.