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Session G: Nuclear Power/Climate Change – Terrapower’S Traveling Wave Reactor, Tyler Ellis Nov 2011

Session G: Nuclear Power/Climate Change – Terrapower’S Traveling Wave Reactor, Tyler Ellis

Climate Change and the Future of Nuclear Power

TerraPower is moving forward with detailed plans for a sustainable, economic, and safe nuclear reactor. The Travelling Wave Reactor (TWR) – a reactor in the 500-megawatt electric range – uses unique core physics to initiate a breed and burn wave which can be completely sustained in fertile material. This process allows the TWR to convert depleted uranium waste into usable fuel as the reactor operates, providing a sustainable base-load power source. TerraPower is the first company to create a practical engineering embodiment of this previously studied concept thanks to a powerful advanced reactor modeling interface, developed in-house, which enables the …


Session G: Nuclear Power/Climate Change – Climate V. Climate Alarm, Richard S. Lindzen Nov 2011

Session G: Nuclear Power/Climate Change – Climate V. Climate Alarm, Richard S. Lindzen

Climate Change and the Future of Nuclear Power

The underlying physics of climate contains important elements that are widely agreed on though frequently misunderstood. In this lecture, the basic physics of greenhouse warming are simply described. It will be shown that the dynamic mixing of the troposphere is essential to the mechanism. It will further be shown that there is nothing intrinsically alarming in the basic physics. Alarm depends critically on the assertion that the climate system is dominated by large positive feedbacks that greatly amplify such warming as may be due to increasing CO2 alone. The nature of possible feedbacks will be described, and the conditions for …


Session B: The Future Of Nuclear Power - Aim High! Thorium Energy Cheaper Than From Coal, Cavan Stone Nov 2011

Session B: The Future Of Nuclear Power - Aim High! Thorium Energy Cheaper Than From Coal, Cavan Stone

Climate Change and the Future of Nuclear Power

This century, we face significant environmental challenges. Our demand for limited natural resources is rapidly increasing and much of humanity is concerned about the consequences. Our unsustainably growing population drives these challenges, and humanely stabilizing it would alleviate these pressures. Demographic data clearly shows that prosperity stabilizes population and it also shows that prosperity critically requires energy. In spite of the pressing and demonstrable nature of these challenges however, politically there is no international consensus on global energy policy. Developing nations simply will not accept a policy that will hamper their economic growth. Yet, we do have a solution to …


Session B: The Future Of Nuclear Power - The Fukushima Nuclear Event And Its Implications For Nuclear Power, Michael W. Golay Nov 2011

Session B: The Future Of Nuclear Power - The Fukushima Nuclear Event And Its Implications For Nuclear Power, Michael W. Golay

Climate Change and the Future of Nuclear Power

The combined strong earthquake and super tsunami of 12 March 2011 at the Fukushima nuclear power plant imposed the most severe challenges ever experienced at such a facility. Information regarding the plant response and status remains uncertain, but it is clear that severe damage has been sustained, that the plant staff have responded creatively and that the offsite implications are unlikely to be seriously threatening to the health, if not the prosperity, of the surrounding population. Reexamination of the regulatory constraints of nuclear power will occur worldwide, and some changes are likely; particularly concerning reliance upon active systems for achieving …


Session B: The Future Of Nuclear Power - The Fundamentals And Status Of Nuclear Power, Regis A. Matzie Nov 2011

Session B: The Future Of Nuclear Power - The Fundamentals And Status Of Nuclear Power, Regis A. Matzie

Climate Change and the Future of Nuclear Power

Nuclear power has enormous potential to provide clean, safe base-load electricity to the world’s growing population. Harnessing this potential in an economic and responsible manner is not without challenges. Safety remains the principal tenet of our operating fleet, which currently provides ~20% of U.S. electricity generated. The performance of this fleet from economic and safety standpoints has improved dramatically over the past several decades. This nuclear generation also represents greater than 70% of the emission free electricity with hydroelectric power providing the majority of the remainder. There have been many lessons learned from the more than 50 years of experience …


Conference Poster, Gerald Peterson Nov 2011

Conference Poster, Gerald Peterson

Climate Change and the Future of Nuclear Power

No abstract provided.


Screening Properties And Phase Transitions In Unconventional Plasmas For Ising-Type Quantum Hall States, Egil Herland, Egor Babaev, Parsa Bonderson, Victor Gurarie, Chetan Nayak, Asle Sudbø Nov 2011

Screening Properties And Phase Transitions In Unconventional Plasmas For Ising-Type Quantum Hall States, Egil Herland, Egor Babaev, Parsa Bonderson, Victor Gurarie, Chetan Nayak, Asle Sudbø

Egor Babaev

Utilizing large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations, we investigate an unconventional two-component classical plasma in two dimensions which controls the behavior of the norms and overlaps of the quantum-mechanical wavefunctions of Ising-type quantum Hall states. The plasma differs fundamentally from that which is associated with the two-dimensional XY model and Abelian fractional quantum Hall states. We find that this unconventional plasma undergoes a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition from an insulator to a metal. The parameter values corresponding to Ising-type quantum Hall states lie on the metallic side of this transition. This result verifies the required properties of the unconventional plasma used to demonstrate that …


Mass Flow Through Solid 4he Induced By The Fountain Effect, M. W. Ray, Robert B. Hallock Oct 2011

Mass Flow Through Solid 4he Induced By The Fountain Effect, M. W. Ray, Robert B. Hallock

Robert Hallock

Using an apparatus that allows superfluid liquid 4_He to be in contact with hcp solid 4_He at pressures greater than the bulk melting pressure of the solid, we have performed experiments that show evidence for 4_He mass flux through the solid and the likely presence of superfluid inside the solid. We present results that show that a thermomechanical equilibrium in quantitative agreement with the fountain effect exists between two liquid reservoirs connected to each other through two superfluid-filled Vycor rods in series with a chamber filled with solid〖 4〗_He. We use the thermomechanical effect to induce flow through the solid …


Microscopic Derivation Of Two-Component Ginzburg-Landau Model And Conditions Of Its Applicability In Two-Band Systems, Mihail Silaev, Egor Babaev Oct 2011

Microscopic Derivation Of Two-Component Ginzburg-Landau Model And Conditions Of Its Applicability In Two-Band Systems, Mihail Silaev, Egor Babaev

Egor Babaev

We report a microscopic derivation of two-component Ginzburg-Landau (GL) field theory and the conditions of its validity in two-band superconductors. We also investigate the conditions when microscopically derived or phenomenological GL models fail and one should resort to a microscopic description. We show that besides being directly applicable at elevated temperatures, a version of a minimal two-component GL theory in certain cases also gives accurate description of certain aspects of a two-band system even substantially far from $T_c$. This shows that two-component GL model can be used for addressing a wide range of questions in multiband systems, in particular vortex …


Programmed Buckling By Controlled Lateral Swelling In A Thin Elastic Sheet, M. A. Dias, J. A. Hanna, Christian Santangelo Sep 2011

Programmed Buckling By Controlled Lateral Swelling In A Thin Elastic Sheet, M. A. Dias, J. A. Hanna, Christian Santangelo

Christian Santangelo

Recent experiments have imposed controlled swelling patterns on thin polymer films, which subsequently buckle into three-dimensional shapes. We develop a solution to the design problem suggested by such systems, namely, if and how one can generate particular three-dimensional shapes from thin elastic sheets by mere imposition of a two-dimensional pattern of locally isotropic growth. Not every shape is possible. Several types of obstruction can arise, some of which depend on the sheet thickness. We provide some examples using the axisymmetric form of the problem, which is analytically tractable.


Measurements Of Gravity Driven Granular Channel Flows, Kevin Facto Sep 2011

Measurements Of Gravity Driven Granular Channel Flows, Kevin Facto

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation presents experiments that studied two gravity driven granular channel flows. The first experiment used magnetic resonance imaging to measure the density and displacement distributions of poppy seeds flowing in a rough walled channel. Time-averaged measurements of normalized velocity and density showed little flow speed dependence. Instantaneous measurements, however, showed marked velocity dependence in the displacement distributions. There was evidence of aperiodic starting and stopping at lower flow speeds and the onset of density waves on a continuous flow at higher speeds. The second experiment measured forces in all three spatial directions at the boundary of a flow of …


Capillary Interactions Among Microparticles And Nanoparticles At Fluid Interfaces, Chuan Zeng Sep 2011

Capillary Interactions Among Microparticles And Nanoparticles At Fluid Interfaces, Chuan Zeng

Open Access Dissertations

Particles can be adsorbed to liquid-fluid interface to minimize interfacial energy. The adsorbed particles interact in many ways. There has been a lot of theoretical predictions as well as experimental measurements of the interaction potential between particles confined at interfaces. Experimentally, we track multiple particles using optical microscope image processing of isolated pairs of particles and of more concentrated systems. Statistical methods were implemented to compute microparticle interaction forces from tracking data. The accuracy of different methods were tested with Monte Carlo simulation, which showed that care is needed to avoid artifacts. Our measurements confirmed the absence of significant pair-interactions …


Search For Contact Interactions With Dimuons At The Atlas Detector, Emily Thompson Sep 2011

Search For Contact Interactions With Dimuons At The Atlas Detector, Emily Thompson

Open Access Dissertations

The Standard Model has been very successful over the last few decades in its agreement with experimental evidence; however there are some remaining puzzles in our understanding of the Universe which have yet to be solved. Even if the Higgs boson and Super Symmetry are discovered, questions still arise, such as why Nature is primarily made of matter when antimatter should have been produced in equal amounts at the beginning of the Universe, why the fundamental particles have the mass hierarchy that they do, what the nature of dark matter is, or whether or not quarks and leptons are themselves …


Dynamics Of Localized Kaluza-Klein Black Holes In A Collapsing Universe, David Kastor, Lorenzo Sorbo, Jennie Traschen Aug 2011

Dynamics Of Localized Kaluza-Klein Black Holes In A Collapsing Universe, David Kastor, Lorenzo Sorbo, Jennie Traschen

David Kastor

The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 prohibits corporate mergers that would result in certain highly undesired end states. We study an exact solution of the Einstein equations describing localized, charged Kaluza-Klein black holes in a collapsing deSitter universe and seek to demonstrate that a similar effect holds, preventing a potentially catastrophic black hole merger. As the collapse proceeds, it is natural to expect that the black hole undergoes a topological transition, wrapping around the shrinking compact dimension to merge with itself and form a black string. However, the putative uniform charged black string end state is singular and such a …


Precision Measurement Of The Be Solar Neutrino Interaction Rate In Borexino Aug 2011

Precision Measurement Of The Be Solar Neutrino Interaction Rate In Borexino

Laura Cadonati

The rate of neutrino-electron elastic scattering interactions from 862 keV Be solar neutrinos in Borexino is determined to be 46.0+/-1.5(stat)+1:5/-1:6(syst) counts/(day •100 ton). This corresponds to a ve-equivalent Be solar neutrino flux of (3.10+/-0.15) ×109 cm-2s-1 and, under the assumption of ve transition to other active neutrino flavors, yields an electron neutrino survival probability of 0.51+/-0.07 at 862 keV. The no flavor change hypothesis is ruled out at 5.0σ. A global solar neutrino analysis with free fluxes determines ϕpp=6.06+0:02 /-0:06×1010 cm-2s-1 and ϕCNO<1.3×109 cm-2s-1 (95% C.L.). These results significantly improve the precision with which the MSW-LMA neutrino oscillation model is experimentally tested at low energy.


Length Scales, Collective Modes, And Type-1.5 Regimes In Three-Band Superconductors, Johan Carlstrom, Julien Garaud, Egor Babaev Jul 2011

Length Scales, Collective Modes, And Type-1.5 Regimes In Three-Band Superconductors, Johan Carlstrom, Julien Garaud, Egor Babaev

Egor Babaev

The recent discovery of iron pnictide superconductors has resulted in a rapidly growing interest in multiband models with more than two bands. In this work we specifically focus on the properties of three-band Ginzburg-Landau models which do not have direct counterparts in more studied two-band models. First we derive normal modes and characteristic length scales in the conventional U(1) three-band Ginzburg-Landau model as well as in its time reversal symmetry broken counterpart with $U(1)\times Z_2$ symmetry. We show that in the latter case, the normal modes are mixed phase/density collective excitations. A possibility of the appearance of a massless phase-difference …


Topological Solitons In Three-Band Superconductors With Broken Time Reversal Symmetry, Julien Garaud, Johan Carlstrom, Egor Babaev Jul 2011

Topological Solitons In Three-Band Superconductors With Broken Time Reversal Symmetry, Julien Garaud, Johan Carlstrom, Egor Babaev

Egor Babaev

We show that three-band superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry allow magnetic flux-carrying stable topological solitons which have only a slightly higher energy than ordinary vortices. Therefore they can be induced by fluctuations or quenching the system through a phase transition. It can provide an experimental signature of the time reversal symmetry breakdown.


Convergent Calculation Of The Asymptotic Dimension Of Diffusion Limited Aggregates: Scaling And Renormalization Of Small Clusters, Benny Davidovitch, Anders Levermann, Itamar Procaccia Jun 2011

Convergent Calculation Of The Asymptotic Dimension Of Diffusion Limited Aggregates: Scaling And Renormalization Of Small Clusters, Benny Davidovitch, Anders Levermann, Itamar Procaccia

Benny Davidovitch

Diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) is a model of fractal growth that had attained a paradigmatic status due to its simplicity and its underlying role for a variety of pattern forming processes. We present a convergent calculation of the fractal dimension D of DLA based on a renormalization scheme for the first Laurent coefficient of the conformal map from the unit circle to the expanding boundary of the fractal cluster. The theory is applicable from very small (2–3 particles) to asymptotically large (n⃗ ∞) clusters. The computed dimension is D=1.713±0.003.


Relating Bs Mixing And Bs → Μ+Μ− With New Physics, Eugene Golowich, Joanne Hewett, Sandip Pakvasa, Alexey A. Petrov, Gagik K. Yeghiyan Jun 2011

Relating Bs Mixing And Bs → Μ+Μ− With New Physics, Eugene Golowich, Joanne Hewett, Sandip Pakvasa, Alexey A. Petrov, Gagik K. Yeghiyan

Eugene Golowich

We perform a study of the Standard Model (SM) fit to the mixing quantities ∆MB_s, and ∆TB_s/∆MB_s in order to bound contributions of New Physics to B_s mixing. We then use this to explore the branching fraction of B_s → μ+μ− in certain models of New Physics (NP). In most cases, this constrains NP amplitudes for B_s → μ+μ− to lie below the SM component.


Mass And Free Energy Of Lovelock Black Holes, David Kastor, Sourya Ray, Jennie Traschen Jun 2011

Mass And Free Energy Of Lovelock Black Holes, David Kastor, Sourya Ray, Jennie Traschen

David Kastor

An explicit formula for the ADM mass of an asymptotically AdS black hole in a generic Lovelock gravity theory is presented, identical in form to that in Einstein gravity, but multiplied by a function of the Lovelock coupling constants and the AdS curvature radius. A Gauss' law type formula relates the mass, which is an integral at infinity, to an expression depending instead on the horizon radius. This and other thermodynamic quantities, such as the free energy, are then analyzed in the limits of small and large horizon radius, yielding results that are independent of the detailed choice of Lovelock …


Comment On Phys. Rev. B 83, 054515 (2011) By V. G. Kogan And J. Schmalian And Comment On Their Reply Phys. Rev. B 86, 016502 (2012), Egor Babaev, Mihail Silaev May 2011

Comment On Phys. Rev. B 83, 054515 (2011) By V. G. Kogan And J. Schmalian And Comment On Their Reply Phys. Rev. B 86, 016502 (2012), Egor Babaev, Mihail Silaev

Egor Babaev

The recent paper by V. G. Kogan and J. Schmalian Phys. Rev. B 83, 054515 (2011) argues that the widely used two-component Ginzburg-Landau (GL) models are not correct, and further concludes that in the regime which is described by a GL theory there could be no disparity in the coherence lengths of two superconducting components. This would in particular imply that (in contrast to $U(1)\times U(1)$ superconductors), there could be no "type-1.5" superconducting regime in U(1) multiband systems for any finite interband coupling strength. We point out that these claims are incorrect and based on an erroneous scheme of reduction …


Muon And Cosmogenic Neutron Detection In Borexino, G. Bellini, J. Benziger, D. Bick, S. Bonetti, M. Buizza Avanzini, B. Caccianiga, L. Cadonati, F. Calaprice, C. Carraro, A. Chavarria, A. Chepurnov, D. D'Angelo, S. Davini, A. Derbin, A. Etenko, F. Von Feilitzsch, K. Fomenko, D. Franco, C. Galbiati, S. Gazzana, C. Ghiano, M. Giammarchi, M. Goeger-Neff, A. Goretti, E. Guardincerri, S. Hardy, Aldo Ianni, Andrea Ianni, M. Joyce, V. Kobychev, Y. Koshio, D. Korablev, G. Korga, D. Kryn, M. Laubenstein, C. Lendvai, T. Lewke, E. Litvinovich, B. Loer, F. Lombardi, P. Lombardi, L. Ludhova, I. Machulin, S. Manecki, W. Maneschg, G. Manuzio, Q. Meindl, E. Meroni, L. Miramonti, M. Misiaszek, D. Montanari, V. Muratova, L. Oberauer, M. Obolensky, F. Ortica, M. Pallavicini, L. Papp, L. Perasso, S. Perasso, Andrea Pocar, R. S. Raghavan, G. Ranucci, A. Razeto, A. Re, A. Romani, D. Rountree, A. Sabelnikov, R. Saldanha, C. Salvo, S. Schönert, H. Simgen, M. Skorokhvatov, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, S. Sukhotin, Y. Suvorov, R. Tartaglia, G. Testera, D. Vignaud, R. B. Vogelaar, J. Winter, M. Wojcik, A. Wright, M. Wurm, J. Xu, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Zavatarelli, G. Zuzel May 2011

Muon And Cosmogenic Neutron Detection In Borexino, G. Bellini, J. Benziger, D. Bick, S. Bonetti, M. Buizza Avanzini, B. Caccianiga, L. Cadonati, F. Calaprice, C. Carraro, A. Chavarria, A. Chepurnov, D. D'Angelo, S. Davini, A. Derbin, A. Etenko, F. Von Feilitzsch, K. Fomenko, D. Franco, C. Galbiati, S. Gazzana, C. Ghiano, M. Giammarchi, M. Goeger-Neff, A. Goretti, E. Guardincerri, S. Hardy, Aldo Ianni, Andrea Ianni, M. Joyce, V. Kobychev, Y. Koshio, D. Korablev, G. Korga, D. Kryn, M. Laubenstein, C. Lendvai, T. Lewke, E. Litvinovich, B. Loer, F. Lombardi, P. Lombardi, L. Ludhova, I. Machulin, S. Manecki, W. Maneschg, G. Manuzio, Q. Meindl, E. Meroni, L. Miramonti, M. Misiaszek, D. Montanari, V. Muratova, L. Oberauer, M. Obolensky, F. Ortica, M. Pallavicini, L. Papp, L. Perasso, S. Perasso, Andrea Pocar, R. S. Raghavan, G. Ranucci, A. Razeto, A. Re, A. Romani, D. Rountree, A. Sabelnikov, R. Saldanha, C. Salvo, S. Schönert, H. Simgen, M. Skorokhvatov, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, S. Sukhotin, Y. Suvorov, R. Tartaglia, G. Testera, D. Vignaud, R. B. Vogelaar, J. Winter, M. Wojcik, A. Wright, M. Wurm, J. Xu, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Zavatarelli, G. Zuzel

Andrea Pocar

Borexino, a liquid scintillator detector at LNGS, is designed for the detection of neutrinos and antineutrinos from the Sun, supernovae, nuclear reactors, and the Earth. The feeble nature of these signals requires a strong suppression of backgrounds below a few MeV. Very low intrinsic radiogenic contamination of all detector components needs to be accompanied by the efficient identification of muons and of muon-induced backgrounds. Muons produce unstable nuclei by spallation processes along their trajectory through the detector whose decays can mimic the expected signals; for isotopes with half-lives longer than a few seconds, the dead time induced by a muon-related …


Microscopic Theory Of Type-1.5 Superconductivity In Multiband Systems, Mihail Silaev, Egor Babaev Feb 2011

Microscopic Theory Of Type-1.5 Superconductivity In Multiband Systems, Mihail Silaev, Egor Babaev

Egor Babaev

We report a self-consistent microscopic theory of characteristic length scales, vortex structure and type-1.5 superconducting state in two-band systems using two-band Eilenberger formalism.


Experiments And Simulations On Granular Gases, Hongqiang Wang Feb 2011

Experiments And Simulations On Granular Gases, Hongqiang Wang

Open Access Dissertations

In this thesis we report experimental and simulation study of granular gases. As a non-equilibrium system composed of macroscopic particles, a granular gas often shows a picture similar to a molecular gas in that the system is dilute and particles interact with each other through instantaneous collisions. Unlike in molecular gases, the collisions are inelastic so that the interactions are a continuous sink of kinetic energy. The study of granular gases is not only of theoretical interest as an important example of non-equilibrium physics, but also of practical value since granular materials play an important role in many industrial processes …


Study Of Solar And Other Unknown Anti-Neutrino Fluxes With Borexino At Lngs, G. Bellini, J. Benzinger, S. Bonetti, M. Buizza Avanzini, B. Caccianiga, L. Cadonati, F. Calaprice, C. Carraro, A. Chavarria, A. Chepurnov, D. D'Angelo, S. Davini, A. Derbin, A. Etenko, K. Fomenko, D. Franco, C. Galbiati, S. Gazzana, C. Ghiano, M. Giammarchi, M. Goeger-Neff, A. Goretti, E. Guardincerri, S. Hardy, Aldo Ianni, Andrea Ianni, M. Joyce, V. V. Kobychev, D. Korablev, Y. Koshio, G. Korga, D. Kryn, M. Laubenstein, M. Leung, T. Lewke, E. Litvinovich, B. Loer, P. Lombardi, L. Ludhova, I. Machulin, S. Manecki, W. Maneschg, G. Manuzio, Q. Meindl, E. Meroni, L. Miramonti, M. Misiaszek, D. Montanari, V. Murativa, L. Oberauer, M. Obolensky, F. Ortica, M. Pallavicini, L. Papp, L. Perasso, S. Perasso, Andrea Pocar, R. S. Raghavan, G. Ranucci, A. Razeto, A. Re, P. Risso, A. Romani, D. Rountree, A. Sabelnikov, R. Saldanha, C. Salvo, S. Schönert, H. Simgen, M. Skorokhvatov, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, S. Sukhotin, Y. Suvorov, R. Tartaglia, G. Testera, D. Vignaud, R. B. Vogelaar, F. Von Feilitzsch, J. Winter, M. Wojcik, A. Wright, M. Wurm, J. Xu, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Zavatarelli, G. Zuzel Jan 2011

Study Of Solar And Other Unknown Anti-Neutrino Fluxes With Borexino At Lngs, G. Bellini, J. Benzinger, S. Bonetti, M. Buizza Avanzini, B. Caccianiga, L. Cadonati, F. Calaprice, C. Carraro, A. Chavarria, A. Chepurnov, D. D'Angelo, S. Davini, A. Derbin, A. Etenko, K. Fomenko, D. Franco, C. Galbiati, S. Gazzana, C. Ghiano, M. Giammarchi, M. Goeger-Neff, A. Goretti, E. Guardincerri, S. Hardy, Aldo Ianni, Andrea Ianni, M. Joyce, V. V. Kobychev, D. Korablev, Y. Koshio, G. Korga, D. Kryn, M. Laubenstein, M. Leung, T. Lewke, E. Litvinovich, B. Loer, P. Lombardi, L. Ludhova, I. Machulin, S. Manecki, W. Maneschg, G. Manuzio, Q. Meindl, E. Meroni, L. Miramonti, M. Misiaszek, D. Montanari, V. Murativa, L. Oberauer, M. Obolensky, F. Ortica, M. Pallavicini, L. Papp, L. Perasso, S. Perasso, Andrea Pocar, R. S. Raghavan, G. Ranucci, A. Razeto, A. Re, P. Risso, A. Romani, D. Rountree, A. Sabelnikov, R. Saldanha, C. Salvo, S. Schönert, H. Simgen, M. Skorokhvatov, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, S. Sukhotin, Y. Suvorov, R. Tartaglia, G. Testera, D. Vignaud, R. B. Vogelaar, F. Von Feilitzsch, J. Winter, M. Wojcik, A. Wright, M. Wurm, J. Xu, O. Zaimidoroga, S. Zavatarelli, G. Zuzel

Andrea Pocar

No abstract provided.


Institute Overview, Morton Sternheim Jan 2011

Institute Overview, Morton Sternheim

STEM Digital

Digital cameras and computers are widely available for students and teachers. However, they are mainly used for documentation: creating PPT presentations, handouts, posters, etc. STEM DIGITAL shows how digital image analysis can be applied to environmental (and other) research in STEM courses. Application to studies of air quality, water quality, arsenic contamination, climate change, diffusion, etc.


Digital Camera Basics, Stephen Schneider Jan 2011

Digital Camera Basics, Stephen Schneider

STEM Digital

No abstract provided.


Measuring Lengths And Areas With Adi. Student Guide, Morton Sternheim Jan 2011

Measuring Lengths And Areas With Adi. Student Guide, Morton Sternheim

STEM Digital

No abstract provided.


Measuring G With Movie Tracker, Stephen Schneider Jan 2011

Measuring G With Movie Tracker, Stephen Schneider

STEM Digital

No abstract provided.


Detecting And Mixing Colors, Rob Snyder Jan 2011

Detecting And Mixing Colors, Rob Snyder

STEM Digital

How can Analyzing Digital Images software reveal the differences between primary colors of light and primary colors of paints or pigments?