Chair's information page for Physics and Astronomy Department


last update: 2 September 2008

(new or updated entries below are in red)

Fall 2008 primary & secondary teaching assignments (revised 27 August 2008)

[2 page pdf file: search on your last name through the whole document with the Adobe Reader search tool]

Spring 2009 primary teaching assignments (at the 14 July 2008 PeopleSoft submittal deadline)

[by designators in pdf: 5 pages; search on your last name through the whole document with the Adobe Reader search tool] ,

Spring 2008 Newsletter for Physics and Astronomy (10 pages)

Spring 2008 Newsletter pdf

mp3 audio recording of Town Hall Meeting on the Governor's FY 2008-9 budget (crisis) called by Pres. Kenny and held in Staller on 8 May 2008

[mp3 audio recording lasts 1 hour and 17 minutes; use any program that plays mp3 files] ,

Spring 2007 Newsletter for Physics and Astronomy (8 pages)

Spring 2007 Newsletter pdf

Academic Calendars

calendars

Initiation of Faculty Lab Coordinator procedure (secondary assignment)

(pdf: pp. 1-3, January '06 email snippet and June '06 report; p. 4, TA evaluation form)

1 September 2008 memo from CAS Dean Jim Staros on Faculty Participation in Undergraduate Colleges

(pdf file)

Slides on the NSF-funded ADVANCE program at Univ. of Michigan for increasing diversity of faculty. Myron Campbell, Michigan Physics Department Chair, gave a talk based on them at the APS/AAPT Physics Chairs Meeting, 10-11 June 2006.

(pdf file of the slides furnished by Myron Campbell; some slides appear more than once)
More information worth reading: Conducting a Search from an EEO Perspective, from the SBU Office of Diversity and Affirmative Action
Still more worth reading: Faculty Recruitment Toolkit from University of Washington (given to me by our Status of Women Committee)

8 May 2006 SBU press release announcing 25 M$ gift of the Simons Foundation

(URL) , (pdf file, 2 pages)

Department Committees

2007-8 Committee assignments (as of 1/9/08) (pdf) , (html)

2006-7 Committee assignments (as of 10/17/06) (plain text) , (pdf) , (html)

2005-6 Committee assignments (updated 10/18/05) (excel) , (plain text) , (pdf) , (html)

2004-5 Committee assignments (excel) , (html)

2003-4 Committee assignments (excel) , (plain text) , (html)

Graduate Admissions Committee report: August 2006 (pdf) .

Committee reports for 2003-4

Computing Committee report: December 2003 (MS Word) , (pdf) .

Adjunct Professor report: December 2003 (MS Word) , (pdf) .

Revised undergraduate physics course descriptions

(MS Word version, with tracking changes on)
(pdf version)

Letter on graduate student tuition on grants

Letter to administration (pdf)

Information on international travel policy

pdf of latest university announcement 1/30/06 on travel policy Original memo Aug. 6, 2004 outlining travel policy
Questions on policy from Department
Forms and interim policy Sept. 15, 2004
More questions and answers; Sept. 28, 2004
Information on student insurance Sept. 24, 2004

INS information

New Regulations Dec. 13, 2002 (cover letter ) ; (Regulations: MS Word)
Advice for visas for travel Dec. 12, 2003
New rules for visa application fees (SEVIS) Sept 1, 2004 Information from SB International Services

Sabbatical Leave Policies (updated 2/10/06)

(pdf of CAS Dean's policy with live links to Provost's policy and form )

Reading on effective teaching

The book "Teaching Introductory Physics: a sourcebook" by Cliff Swartz and Tom Miner (1998) has much good advice for teachers on how to organize an effective learning experience for students. A copy of the book is available for viewing from Elaine Larsen in the main office.

Also see: "A Teacher's Dozen" T. Angelo (pdf) .

Form for request of exemption from filing full financial disclosure form

Exemption request form (pdf) ; Job description (MS Word)

Commencement 2004

Peter Kahn's slides (pdf) ;

Emilio Mendez' slides (pdf)

Talks

Koch Chair's colloquium, 11 Sept 2007 (pdf of the "superset" version that includes some items left out of the live talk)

Koch Chair's colloquium, 12 Sept 2006 (pdf)

Koch Chair's talk to prospective grad students, 26 March 2006 (pdf)

Koch Chair's colloquium, 13 Sept 2005 (pdf)

Summary of department research (Grannis blurb for development)

(pdf)

Physics and Astronomy tenure file check-off sheet (updated April 2007)

(MS Word) , (html) , (pdf) , (txt)

Information for postdoc/research scientist appointments

Postdoc roadmap to hire
Research Scientist roadmap to hire
Research Scientist roadmap for advertisement
Postdoc hire by waiver
Postdoc advertising

Long Range Plan, March 2002, is available upon request by faculty

Final Report of the Long Range Planning Committee, 19 October 2005, is availble upon request by faculty

Plaza-level-hallway art curated by former chair Paul Grannis

Atomic force microscope image of the control electrodes for an electron interferometer device (Goldman)
Frequency and amplitude contour map of atomic excitations (Metcalf)
Dendrites of magnetic flux penetrating a superconducting thin film (Zuxin Ye)
Electron spin transition energies versus magnetic field in lanthanum manganese oxide at four different temperatures (Mihaly)
The particle tracks emanating from a relativistic collision of two gold atoms in the PHENIX experiment (Hemmick)
Cerenkov rings caused by neutrino interactions in the SuperKamiokande experiment (McGrew)
Star formation in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, taken with the Stony Brook SMARTS telescope (Walter)
Event display showing the production of a top and anti-top quark at the DØ experiment (Grannis)

Some of the former Chairs who led us here

(at the P. Kahn celebration)

Slides from faculty meetings can be made available for faculty members upon request

e-mail to Peter Koch: Peter.Koch@stonybrook.edu