If any changes/corrections, please contact me
at davis@phy.syr.edu
Martin Arnold Abkowitz:
Background and research interests
Martin A. Abkowitz received his BS with honors in Physics from CCNY in 1957 where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Abkowitz received an MA in Physics in 1959 from the University of Rochester and his Ph.D. in Physics from Syracuse University in 1964. During the period 1964-65, Abkowitz was Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1965, Abkowitz joined the Webster Research Center (now the Wilson Center for Research and Technology) of Xerox Corporation where he was a Principal Scientist until retirement in1999. Abkowitz is currently a Partner with Imaging Systems Solutions Inc. and a Visiting Scientist at the University of Rochester. Abkowitz has chaired Gordon and international research conferences and serves on several international research advisory panels. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and has served on the New Materials Prize Committee and the Committee on Applications of Physics of that society. Abkowitz has also served as chair of the New York State Section of the A.P.S. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester and has been an Industrial co- principal Investigator at the NSF Science Center on Photoinduced Electron Transfer at the U of R.. Abkowitz’s current research interests include; injection and interfacial phenomena, electronic transport and the dielectric properties of amorphous semiconductors and disordered molecular and composite materials. In addition, Abkowitz has participated in the design of polymer based electronic and transducer devices including imaging receptors. He has 174 cited publications including major reviews, encyclopedia and book chapters and 34 U.S. patents issued or pending. Abkowitz has made over 250 contributed and invited presentations at international conferences.
Education:
B.S. City College of New York 1957
Cum Laude with Physics honors
M.A. University of Rochester 1959
Ph.D. Syracuse University 1964
Andrew Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow
University of Pittsburgh 1964-1965
Educational Honors:
Undergraduate Physics honors
Phi Beta Kappa
Appointed Andrew Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow
Professional Societies:
American Physical Society
American Chemical Society
Materials Research Society
Professional Honors:
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Vice Chair NYS Section of the American Physical Society 1988
Chairman NYS Section of the American Physical Society 1990
Elected Vice Chairman 1982 Gordon Research Conference on Photoconductivity and Related Phenomena
Elected Chairman 1984 Gordon Research Conference on Photoconductivity and Related Phenomena
Served on Committee on the Applications of Physics (CAP) American Physical Society
Served two terms on New Materials Prize Committee of the American Physical Society
Co-Chairman of the 13th International Conference on Amorphous and Liquid Semiconductors
Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos:
Greetings from sunny and economically troubled Athens!
Thank you for the invitation but I am afraid it is not possible for me to travel to the US at this time.
Best Regards to everyone there, here are some pictures in case you forgot me!
http://www.physics.ntua.gr/~konstant/homepage/eirini/
Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos
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Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, School of Applied Sciences
National Technical University, Zografou Campus, 157 80 Athens, GREECE
tel. : +30 2107721641(work),2107723009(secretary),2107723025(fax)
2106548547(home),6973987183(mobile)
e-mail: konstant@mail.ntua.gr WWW: http://www.physics.ntua.gr/~konstant/
Homer Antoniadis, Ph.D.:
I would love to join the celebration but I am not certain if I can make it to Syracuse on the 24th of April as I have already made plans for couple trips for that month. As we come closer to that date I will have better visibility and I may be able to postpone one of my trips, I hope to know by Feb 15th.
Warm Regards, Homer
Homer Antoniadis, Ph.D.
CTO & VP of Engineering
Innovalight, Inc.
965 East Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
T: 1.408.419.4488
F: 1.408.419.4755
C: 1.408.314.6460
E: hantoniadis@innovalight.com
Dr. Durdana Balakishiyeva:
Harold (Harry) Berger:
Current Personal Info: BS Physics, 1949, MS Physics, 1951 (with Charlie Bachman). Married to my wife Dawn (57 years and counting), five children, eleven grandchildren. Now almost retired (still doing some consulting work).
Current Address: 701 King Farm Blvd., Apt. 437, Rockville, MD 20850
Tel. 240-246-7870. Email: harryberger@comcast.net or harryberger@alum.syr.edu.
Say hello for me --
Yohanan Brada:
it was great to hear from and I would have loved to take part in the festivities, but being somewhat beyond horizon from SU I am afraid I won't be able to make it. Still I hope that you can forgo my presence and have a merry reunion even without me.
I hope you are doing well also personally and let me take this opportunity to wish , your family and the Physics Department Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
In friendship and with fond memories,
Yohanan Brada
Arnold I Feldman:
Sorry but I cannot make it. Give Arny my best regards. I am now retired from the University of Hawaii physics department. If he and Dolly ever make it to Hawaii please let me know so that I can see them.
Aloha.
Arnold I Feldman [feldman@hawaii.edu]
Qing Feng:
Senior Business Assistant
Nanophotonics Lab
Electrical and Computer Engineering
1012 Boston Ave.
Box 43102
Edward E. Whitacre, Jr. College of Engineering Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-3102
qing.feng@ttu.edu
http://www2.ece.ttu.edu/nanophotonics/
Josh Goldberg
I was here at Syracuse in 1947 when the PhD program got started with the post war faculty. Nate Ginsburg, Herb Berry, Henry Levinstein, John Trischka, and Charlie Bachman were the primary faculty engaged in atomic and solid state research. Arny Honig came in 1954 and has been a fixture and feature of the Physics Department since then. Arny’s 80th birthday gives us an opportunity to celebrate the growth and expansion of condensed matter research in the department. The department may have changed with research in soft condensed matter, low temperature physics, quantum computing, solar energy, and biophysics. But, Arny is still here and still generating ideas and putting them into research proposals.
So, we feel that it is time to celebrate the physics of materials and to celebrate in the name of Arny. You have been invited by Cristina Marchetti, the current Department Chair and I want to add my voice to the invitation. Over the years, I have known many, if not most, of you in my various roles as grad student, professor, chair, and now emeritus.
Sincerely yours,
Josh Goldberg
Joan Feynman Hirshberg:
Sorry, I won’t be able to make it. I live too far away.
Give Arny my regards and regrets.
Feynman, Joan (3263) [joan.feynman@jpl.nasa.gov]
Ralph Levitt
Love to come but unable due to prior commitments. Give my congradulations to Arny.
You can include me in the posting of graduates as:
Ralph (& Betty) Levitt, rlevitt@hotmail.com,
Sarasota, FL, & Falmouth (Cape Cod), MA
Retired
Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin:
We plan to attend the event. For contact and catchup information, we have
Hongxing Jiang
Edward E. Whitacre Jr. Endowed Chair and Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
1012 Boston Ave. (Room 224)
Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
(806) 742-3533 x 256 (phone)
(806) 742-1245 (fax)
hx.jiang@ttu.edu
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ece/faculty/jiang/
http://www2.ece.ttu.edu/nanophotonics/
Jingyu Lin
Linda Whitacre Endowed Chair and Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
1012 Boston Ave. (Room 224)
Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
(806) 742-3533 x 253 (phone)
(806) 742-1245 (fax)
Jingyu.lin@ttu.edu
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ece/faculty/lin/
http://www2.ece.ttu.edu/nanophotonics/
Aaron Lewis:
I am look forward to spending some time with all of you in April. Here's wishing you and your family all the very best for the New Year.
Aaron
Wilson Wei Li:
Paul LoVecchio:
Eric and Christina,
I plan to come and would like to give a brief summary of what I have been doing since getting my doctorate many many years ago.
Paul LoVecchio
lovecc [lovecc@comcast.net]
John McNabb
My apologizes for not getting back to you sooner. Arny, my heartfelt congratulations for 50 years at Syracuse. If those 50 years were anything like the 3 years I had with you, they must have been a wild ride. I won’t forget your generosity, kindness, and sense of humor. (No matter how hard I try, I can’t forget the bad jokes!) Thank you.
We are doing well here. Melissa and I now have two daughters: Celia (5 yr) and Anna (3 yr), both full of life and energy. They like all the same kinds of nerdy things their parents do: trees, plants, gardens, bugs, worms, snakes, dirt, planets, dinosaurs, books, etc. Melissa has stayed home with the kids the last 5 years, while completing her PhD, writing papers, and working as a part-time post-doc with her PhD advisor at SUNY-ESF. She’s looked for academic jobs the past two years, and although she’s had three on-site interviews, none has produced an offer. This fall she will teach a class in forest ecosystems at Portland State University as an adjunct faculty member. I continue to work at Intel Corporation, doing computer modeling of reliability physics. However, when Melissa gets an academic job somewhere (I’m currently voting for Norway!), I will also try to move back into academia.
Thank you and congratulations again,
-john mcnabb
The girls: Celia and Anna
John Mazurowski:
I need to get to a meeting in Texas during the reunion.
I regret that I won’t be able to attend, but send everyone my best wishes.
Thanks...John Mazurowski
Mark Reed:
Mark A. Reed
Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Director, Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Yale University
mail: PO Box 208284, New Haven CT 06520-8284
courier: 15 Prospect Street, Room 523, New Haven, CT 06520
email: mark.reed@yale.edu
dept tel: (203) 432-4300 (voice), (203) 432-6420 (fax)
pers tel: (203) 432-4306 (voice), (203) 432-7808 (lab)
URL: http://www.eng.yale.edu/reedlab/
a short bio
Carlo Schaerf:
Dear Colleagues,
I regret very much that I'll not be able to attend your Symposium in honor of my old friend and colleague Arny Honig. Unfortunately this is my teaching semester and I can not leave for such a long-distance trip.
I have known Arny for many years since we started our collaboration for the realization of a frozen spin polarized HD target and I have always appreciated his capacity to explain complicated physics to people not specialized in his field and his ability to realize sophisticated experiments with very simple technological tools.
Please extend to Arny and his family the expressions of my friendship, great respect for his knowledge and great admiration for his lifelong scientific achievements.
Best regards
Carlo Schaerf
Sidney Teitler:
Unfortunately, I have a minor, but annoying, health issue that makes traveling impractical at this time. However, please include me in your directory. Best wishes for a successful celebration. Sidney Teitler [sdnyttlr@yahoo.com]
Charles Townes:
I would like to provide a comment to be recorded in connection with the occasion honoring Arny Honig, which unfortunately I cannot attend. Here is my comment:
Early in his career, Arny Honig did remarkable work in measuring rotational characteristics of many alkali halides using very high temperatures. It was a great pleasure to work with him, and now a pleasure to honor him and his accomplishments.
Charles Townes [cht@ssl.berkeley.edu]
Qi Wang:
Wish a wonderful party of CM60. I won't be able to attend the party. Say hi to everyone.
Qi Wang
Xiangdong Wei:
Xiangdong Wei
Jefferson Lab
12000 Jefferson Ave.
Newport News, VA 23606
(757) 269-5266
xwei@jlab.org
Short Bio:
Research Associate Syracuse University 1995-1998
Staff Physicist Brookhaven Lab 1998-2007
Staff Scientist Jefferson Lab 2008-present
If possible, I’d like to take a few minutes talking about the recent developments and results of polarized HD work, initiated by Arny more than 4 decades ago.
Sermet Yucel, Ph.D.:
Arny,
I am not surprised that you are still inventing something.
Nora is planning to study Genetics. She applied to a number of schools in California. She is likely to go Stanford, Berkley, and another UC school.
Best Regards
3601 Minnesota DriveSuite
690Minneapolis, MN 55435
Direct/Cell : (612) 961-2311
Office : (952) 921-0351 X201
Fax : (952) 921-0367
Sufi Zafar:
I will unfortunately not be able to attend the meeting due to work constraints.
Sufi
Sufi Zafar
T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
1101 Kitchawan Road
Route 134/PO BOX 218
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Tel : 914-945 3304
fax : 914-945 2141
Jiandi Zhang:
Research Interest: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
One grand challenge in condensed matter physics and materials science is to understand the remarkable properties emerging from complex correlations of atomic and electronic constituents, and to control these properties for technological applications. The complexity in many novel materials is directly responsible for their tenability and consequently their practical functionality. In many cases, Creating surfaces, interfaces, ultra-thin films, and artificial superstructures add the additional twist of “man-made” dimensions, approaching the quantum phenomena of correlated electrons with broken symmetry and reduced dimensionality.
My main research interest is in exploring novel properties of complex materials like transition-metal oxides by the effects of broken symmetry, reduced dimensionality and spatial confinement, and by controlling lattice strain and chemical composition. The research include growing artificially structured configurations of complex materials like transition-metal oxides with atomic scale precision and in-situ comprehensive characterization on lattice structure, chemical composition, electronic and magnetic properties.
Thanks
Jiandi
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Jiandi Zhang, Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Louisiana State University
229A Nicholson Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: (225) 578-4103
Website: http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~jzhang/
Jay N. Zemel:
Education:
1949 B.A. Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
1953 M.A. Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
1956 Ph.D. Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
Positions Held:
June 1996-December 2002
CEO and Chief Scientific Officer
Scitefair International (now defunct)
June1996-Present
H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor (Emeritus) of Sensor Technologies Department of Electrical Engineering University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6314
February 1993- June1996
H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Sensor Technologies Department of Electrical Engineering University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6314
1972-1977
Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6314
1986-1989
Director, Center for Sensor Technologies School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6314
1989-1986
Director, Center for Chemical Electronics Department of Electrical Engineering and Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6314 July 1966-February 1993
RCA Professor of Solid State Electronics Department of Electrical Engineering University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6314
1954-1966
Supervisory Research Physicist
Surface And Films Branch
U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory (now the Naval Surface Weapons Center) White Oak, Silver Springs MD 20110
WRT a "catch-up talk" .... I do have a story to tell about Arny Honig and myself in our freshman years, he at Cornell and me at Syracuse. I wonder if he still remembers...
Jay
Jay N. Zemel
H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor (Emeritus) of Sensor Technologies Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104
Tel: 215-898-8545
Fax: 215-573-2068
E-mail: zemel@ee.upenn.edu
Kai Zhu, Ph.D.:
I really appreciate the invitation for the Celebration event. I would love to attend this exciting event; however, I need to attend the 217th ECS Meeting in Vancouver, April 24-30. Please give my regards to Eric and Cristina.
Best,
Kai
Kai Zhu, Ph.D.
Chemical and Materials Science Center
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
1617 Cole Blvd, MS 3313
Golden, CO 80401
Tel: (303) 384-6353
Email: Kai.Zhu@nrel.gov
Hello Penny,