A celebration and tribute to an outstanding scholar, teacher, and moral being, by former students and colleagues.
Friday schedule Saturday schedule DirectionsChris Hohenemser has made outstanding contributions to Clark. He applied for and received uninterrupted external research support in physics and directed the research of many physics graduate students, many of whom have had successful careers. In 1972 he initiated with colleagues in physics and elsewhere what is now the Environmental Science, and Policy program. With students and colleagues he published many papers in experimental condensed matter physics. In science, technology and society he worked on issues with policy relevance including arms control, risk analysis, energy, and environmental assessment and technological hazards. A complete list of his accomplishments would take many pages. Unfortunately his career was cut short by the onset of multiple sclerosis in 1987 at age 50. His most recent papers were on a retrospective note on the Chernobyl accident (1997) and the Clark cogeneration plant (2000).
The program featured talks on Friday afternoon from 2 pm - 5:45 pm on public policy, arms control, risk analysis, energy, and environmental assessment technological hazards. The Saturday morning session from 9 am - 12:30 pm will featured talks on physics and related subjects from Chris' former undergraduate and graduate students.
Copies of some of the talks are available by clicking on the titles. It is recommended that you use Mozilla on Mac OSX to view the Powerpoint presentations.
| 2:00-2:15 | Welcoming remarks | John Bassett, President, Clark University |
| Session A | Chair: Gordon Thompson, Institute for Resource and Security Studies, Cambridge | |
| 2:15-2:30 | "Nuclear weapons, energy, and risks: Themes from Chris's research." | Rob Goble, Research Professor, Clark University |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | "Lessons from the efforts of independent scientists to promote responsible nuclear policies." | Frank von Hippel, Frank von Hippel is Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director, Program in Science and Global Security, Princeton University |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | "The struggle for a sensible national energy strategy." | John Holdren, Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University |
| 3:30 - 3:45 | Discussion and Comments | |
| 3:45 - 4:10 | break | |
| Session B | Chair: Mary Melville | |
| 4:10 - 4:30 | "Is the answer to climate change mitigation blowing in the wind?" | Joseph DeCarolis, research assistant, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | "Hazard and risk: Transition anticipated, terror encountered, taxonomy revisited." | Robert Kates, Co-convenor, Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability and Distinguished Scientist, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Commentary and Discussion | |
| 5:30 - 5:45 | "Reflections on Chris' impact on physics." | Joe Budnick, Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut. Joseph Budnick is a long-time friend and collaborator. |
| 5:45 pm | Adjourn | |
| 6:15 pm | Banquet in Tilton Hall |
| 9 - 9:30 am | bagels and coffee | |
| Session C | Chair: Al Gottlieb, Photuris, Inc. | |
| 9:30 - 9:42 am | "Electron backscatter diffraction studies of crystallographic texture in deformed metals." | Robert Reno, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Bob was Chris' first graduate student and received his Ph.D. in physics from Brandeis in 1970. |
| 9:42 - 9:58 am | "Observations on the art, science, and business of making photomasks, a key ingredient for turning sand into gold." | Tom Kachnowski, Intel Corporation. Tom received his Ph.D. in physics from Clark in 1976. |
| 9:58 - 10:10 am | "Doing physics in Lebanon: Challenges and future prospects." | M. Ali Kobeissi, Professor of Physics, Lebanese University and a member of the Lebanese Council for Scientific Research. Ali received his Ph.D. in physics from Clark in 1977. |
| 10:10 - 10:22 am | "The NIST neutron spin echo spectrometer: How a Clark physics colloquium changed my life." | Nicholas Rosov, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Nick is responsible for the Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer at the Center for Neutron Research. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Clark in 1991. |
| 10:22 - 10:34 am | "Ultra-high density data storage and magneto-optic materials." | Ataur Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Alaska. Fairbanks. Dr. Chowdhury received his Ph.D. in physics from Clark in 1985. |
| 10:34 - 10:46 am | "Twenty-five years of defect studies." | Gary Collins, Professor of Physics at Washington State University. Gary was a post-doc in Chris' group (1977-79) and a research assistant professor at Clark (1979-85). He will speak about his work during the past 25 years since he learned to do PAC (perturbed angular correlations) and became interested in defects while in Chris's group. |
| 10:46 - 11:10 am | break and informal discussion | |
| Session D | Chair: Tom Bergstresser, Sandia National Laboratories | |
| 11:10 - 11:22 am | "Three-dimensional X-ray diffraction microscopy: Shining a six-dimensional light on internal bulk microstructures." | Robert Suter, Professor of Physics at Carnegie-Mellon University. Bob received his Ph.D. in physics from Clark in 1978. |
| 11:22 - 11:34 am | "Online education: why it fails and why it shouldn't." | Lisa Dundon, Project Manager, eCornell. Lisa received her B.A. in psychology from Clark in 1985 and then returned to complete the equivalent of a physics major in 1988. She received a M.S. in physics from Oregon State University in 1991. |
| 11:34 - 11:46 am | "SiC diode degradation due to stacking fault growth." | Robert Stahlbush, Naval Research Laboratory. Bob received his B.A. in physics from Clark in 1973 and his Ph.D. from Cornell. |
| 11:46 - 11:58 am | "What is it like to be a high school physics teacher at a Waldorf school?" | Janet Saylor, Physics Teacher, Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge, NY. Janet received her Ph.D. in physics from Clark in 1991. |
| 11:58 - 12:10 pm | "DNA nanowires: scanning probe microscopy investigations of biomolecular nanostructures." | James Vesenka, Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of New England. Jamie received his B.A. in physics from Clark in 1982 and his Ph.D. from U.C., Davis. |
| 12:10 - 12:22 pm | "An insider's perspective on Physical Review Letters." | Reinhardt Schuhmann, Managing Editor of Physical Review Letters. Reiny received his B.A. in physics from Clark in 1982 and his Ph.D. from Clark in 1987. |
Candid photos of participants.
The symposium was co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Department of Physics, the Marsh Institute, and the ES&P/IDCE programs.
Please send comments and corrections to Harvey Gould.
Updated 24 April 2005.