Natasha Holmes

Ann S. Bowers Associate Professor

Publications

Schang, Andy, Matthew Dew, Emily M. Stump, N. G. Holmes, and Gina Passante. 2023. “New Perspectives on Student Reasoning about Measurement Uncertainty: More or Better Data.” Phys. Rev. PER, 19(2), 020105. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.020105.

Walsh, Cole, H. J. Lewandowski, and N. G. Holmes. 2022. “Skills-Focused Lab Instruction Improves Critical Thinking Skills and Experimentation Views for All Students.” Phys. Rev. PER, 18(1), 010128. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.010128.

Sundstrom, Meagan, Ashley B. Heim, Barum Park, and N. G. Holmes. 2022. “Introductory Physics Students’ Recognition of Strong Peers: Gender and Racial or Ethnic Bias Differ by Course Level and Context.” Phys. Rev. PER, 18(2): 020148. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.020148.

Stump, Emily M., Matthew Dew, Sophia Jeon, and N. G. Holmes. 2023. “Taking on a Manager Role Can Support Women’s Physics Lab Identity Development.” Phys. Rev. PER, 19(1): 010107. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.010107.

Heim, Ashley B., Cole Walsh, David Esparza, Michelle K. Smith, and N. G. Holmes. 2022. “What Influences Students’ Abilities to Critically Evaluate Scientific Investigations?” PLOS ONE 17(8): e0273337. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273337.

Smith, E. M., & Holmes, N. G. (2021). Best practice for instructional labs. Nature Physics, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01256-6

Smith, E. M., Stein, M. M., Walsh, C., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Direct Measurement of the Impact of Teaching Experimentation in Physics Labs. Phys. Rev. X, 10(1), 011029. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.011029

Quinn, K. N., Kelley, M. M., McGill, K. L., Smith, E. M., Whipps, Z., & Holmes, N. G. (2020). Group roles in unstructured labs show inequitable gender divide. Phys. Rev. PER, 16(1), 010129. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010129

Holmes, N. G., & Wieman, C. E. (2018). Introductory physics labs: We can do better. Physics Today, 71(1), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3816

Holmes, N. G., Wieman, C. E., & Bonn, D. A. (2015). Teaching critical thinking. PNAS, 112(36), 11199–11204. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1505329112

 

Klarman Hall
ngholmes@cornell.edu

Education

BSc. (Hons), Physics, University of Guelph, 2009. MSc., Physics, University of British Columbia, 2011. PhD., Physics, University of British Columbia, 2015. Post-doctoral Researcher, Stanford University, 2015-2017. Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 2017.

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Robert Thorne

Professor, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow

Publications

Millisecond mix-and-quench crystallography (MMQX) enables time-resolved studies of PEPCK with remote data collection.  J. A. Clinger, D. W. Moreau, M. J. McLeod, T. Holyoak, and R. E. Thorne. IUCrJ 8, 784-792 (2021). DOI: 10.1107/S2052252521007053

High-resolution single-particle cryo-EM of samples vitrified in boiling nitrogen.  T. Engstrom, J. A. Clinger, K. A. Spoth, O. B. Clarke, R. Jayne, B. A. Apker and R. E. Thorne.  IUCrJ 8, 867-877 (2021). DOI: 10.1107/S2052252521008095

Integrated sample handling and mounting system for fixed-target serial synchrotron crystallography.  G. Illava, R. Jayne, A. D. Finke, D. Closs, W. Zeng, S. K. Milano, Q. Huang, I. Kriksunov, P. Sidorenko, F. W. Wise, W. R. Zipfel, B. A. Apker and R. E. Thorne.  Acta Cryst. D 77, 628-644 (2021). DOI: 10.1107/S2059798321001868.

Hypothesis for a mechanism of beam-induced motion in cryo-electron microcopy.  R. E. Thorne. IUCrJ 7, 416-421 (2020). DOI: 10.1107/S2052252520002560.

Resolution and dose dependence of radiation damage in biomolecular systems. H. Atakisi, L. Conger, D. W. Moreau, and R. E. Thorne. IUCrJ 6, 1040-1053 (2019).  DOI: 10.1107/S2052252519008777

Solvent flows, conformation changes and lattice reordering in a cold protein crystal. D. W. Moreau, H. Atakisi and R. E. Thorne.  Acta Cryst. D 75, 980-994 (2019). DOI: 10.1107/S2059798319013822

Ice formation and solvent nanoconfinement in protein crystals. D. W. Moreau, H. Atakisi, and R. E. Thorne.  IUCrJ 6, 346-356 (2019).  DOI: 10.1107/S2052252519001878

Lifetimes and spatio-temporal response of protein crystals in intense X-ray microbeams.  M. A. Warkentin, H. Atakisi, J. B. Hopkins, D. Walko, and R. E. Thorne, IUCrJ 4, 785-794 (2017).  DOI: 10.1107/S2052252517013495

Mapping the Conformational Landscape of a Dynamic Enzyme by XFEL and Multitemperature Crystallography. D. A. Keedy, L. R. Kenner, M. Warkentin, J. B. Hopkins, R. A. Woldeyes, M. C. Thompson, A. S. Brewster, A. H. Van Benschoten, E. L. Baxter, M. Uervirojnangkoorn, J. M. Holton, W. I. Weis, A. T. Brunger, S. M. Soltis, H. Lemke, A. Gonzalez, N. K. Sauter, A. E. Cohen, H. van den Bedem, R. E. Thorne and J. S. Fraser. Elife 4, e07574 (2015). DOI: 10.7554/eLife/07574

Breaking the radiation damage limit with cryo-SAXS. S. P. Meisburger, M. Warkentin, H. Chen, J. B. Hopkins, R. E. Gillilan, L. Pollack and R. E. Thorne. Biophys. J. 104, 227-236 (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.11.3817

Application of X-ray fluorescence imaging to ceramics from the American Southwest. E. C. Geil, S. A. LeBlanc, D. S. Dale and R. E. Thorne. J. Arch. Sci. 40, 4780-4784 (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.05.014

Critical droplet theory explains the glass formability of aqueous solutions. M. Warkentin, J. P. Sethna and R. E. Thorne. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 015703 (2013). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.015703

X-ray fluorescence recovers writing from ancient inscriptions.  J. Powers, N. Dimitrova, R. Huang, D. M. Smilgies, D. H. Bilderback, K. Clinton, and R. E. Thorne. Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 152, 221 (2005).

Growth and disorder of macromolecular crystals: insights from atomic force microscopy and X-ray diffraction studies. A. J. Malkin and R. E. Thorne. Methods 34, 273 (2004). DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2004.03.020

Charge-density-wave conductors. R. E. Thorne. Physics Today. May 1996, p. 42. DOI: 10.1063/1.881498

Klarman Hall
529A Clark Hall
ret6@cornell.edu
607/255-6487

Education

B.Sc., 1981, University of Manitoba. Ph.D., 1987, University of Illinois at Urbana. Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell, 1988-1994. Associate Professor, Physics, Cornell, 1994-2000. Professor, Physics, Cornell, 2000-present. Presidential Young Investigator, 1988-1993. Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1988-1990. Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, 2011-present. Founder and CTO, MiTeGen LLC, 2004-present.

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Peter Lepage

Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus.

Publications

 

  1. Adaptive multidimensional integration: VEGAS enhanced, G. P. Lepage, J. Comput. Phys. 439 (2021) 110386.

  2. Demographic gaps or preparation gaps? The large impact of incoming preparation on performance of students in introductory physics, S. Salehi, E. Burkholder, G.P. Lepage, S. Pollock, C. Wieman, Phys. Rev. Phys. Ed. Res. 15 (2), 020114 (2019).

  3. High-precision quark masses and QCD coupling from nf = 4 lattice QCD, B. Chakraborty, C.T.H. Davies, B. Galloway, P. Knecht, J. Koponen, G.C. Donald, R.J. Dowdall, G.P. Lepage, C. McNeile, Phys. Rev. D91, 054508 (2015).
  4. Highly improved staggered quarks on the lattice, with applications to charm physics, E. Follana, Q. Mason, C.T.H. Davies, K. Hornbostel, G.P. Lepage, J. Shigemitsu, H. Trottier, and K. Wong, Phys. Rev. D75, 054502 (2007).
  5. High-precision lattice QCD confronts experiment, C. Davies, E. Follana, A. Gray, G.P. Lepage, Q. Mason, M. Nobes, J. Shigemitsu, H. Trottier, M. Wingate, C. Bernard, T. Burch, C. DeTar, S. Gottlieb, E. Gregory, U. Heller, J. Hetrick, J. Osborn, R. Sugar, and D. Toussaint, Phys. Ref. Lett. 92, 022001 (2004).
  6. How to renormalize the Schrödinger Equation, G.P. Lepage, summer school lectures at the 8th Jorge Andre Swieca Summer School on Nuclear Physics (Brazil, 1997) [arXiv:nucl-th/9706029].
  7. Rigorous QCD analysis of inclusive annihilation and production of heavy quarkonia, E. Braaten, G. Bodwin, and G.P. Lepage, Phys. Rev. D51, 1125 (1995).
  8. What is renormalization?, G.P. Lepage, summer school lectures at TASI (Boulder, 1989) [arXiv:hep-ph/0506330].
  9. Effective Lagrangians for Bound State Problems in QED, QCD, and other field theories, W.E. Caswell and G.P. Lepage, Phys. Lett. B167, 437 (1986).
  10. Exclusive processes in perturbative QCD, G.P. Lepage and S.J. Brodsky, Phys. Rev. D22, 2157 (1980).
Klarman Hall
gpl3@cornell.edu
607/255-5151

Education

B.Sc., 1972, McGill University. M.A.St. (Part III of Mathematics Tripos), 1973, University of Cambridge. Ph.D., 1978, Stanford University.
 

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