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Group Members
Karen Daniels
[more info]
Email: kdaniel@ncsu
Twitter: @karenedaniels
Skype: karenedaniels
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Ted Brzinski, postdoc
acoustical measurements
in sheared granular systems, including geophysical applications
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Zhu Tang, graduate student
granular rheology
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Scott Lindauer, graduate student
granular materials,
labsteroids, and
flow stabilized solids
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Michael Mann, senior physics major
active granular matter
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Austin Reid, graduate student
folding dynamics
in the service of
ultra-cold neutron physics
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Stephen Strickland, graduate student
surfactant dynamics
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José Medrano, senior physics major
wave propagation in gels
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Ephraim Bililign, senior physics major
statistical mechanics of granular materials
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Chris Kaneshiro, graduate student
granular materials
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Hannah Tekleab, first year physics major
acoustical measurements
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Giorgio Oliveri, Visiting Master Student
acoustical measurements
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Jonathan Kollmer, postdoc
granular materials,
labsteroids
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Michael (Mika) Murphy, Junior Physics Major
Active Matter
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Emily P. Brown, senior physics major
Active Matter, Flour Beetles
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Sydney Dorman, Summer Undergrad, Haverford College
labsteroids
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Chad Province, Summer Undergrad, USC
flow stabilized solids
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Group Photo: Summer 2010
Left to right: Kali Allison, Karen Daniels, James Puckett, Wynn Vonnegut, Eli Owens, Carlos Ortiz, Adam Keith
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Collaborators
- Bob Behringer, Duke Physics
- Patrick Charbonneau, Duke Chemistry
- Karin Dahmen, UIUC Physics
- Nick Hayman, Institute for Geophysics, UT-Austin
- Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd Mathematics
- Matthias Schroeter, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen
- Michael Shearer, NC State Mathematics
- Sally Thompson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley
- Tom Witelski, Duke Math
Group Alumni
Undergraduate students
- Philip Boyne (BS 2008) → high school physics teacher
- Melissa Fender (BS 2011) → PhD student at Wake Forest
- Kate Foco Millwood (BS 2010) → PhD Student at Scripps Oceanography Institute
- Laura Golick Gray (BS 2008) → PhD student in physics at Emory University → postdoc at Princeton University
- Paul Houseworth (BS 2007) → Progress Energy
- Adam Keith (BS 2012) → NSF Graduate Fellow, PhD student at U. Colorado, Boulder
- Rebekah Lee (postbac 2015)→ graduate student, Idaho State University Geophysics
- Adele Lichtenberger Igel (BS 2010 )→ PhD student in atmospheric sciences, Colorado State
- Alex Mauney (BS 2014) → NSF Graduate Fellow, PhD student in physics, Cornell University
- Kasey Phillips (BS 2007) → NSF Graduate Fellow, PhD student in Applied Physics from Harvard → Boston Consulting Group
- Mark Schillaci (BS 2013) → PhD student, Ohio State Physics
- Megan Szakasits (BS 2013) → PhD student, Michigan Chemical Engineering
Graduate students
Postdocs
Visiting students
- Kali Allison (REU from Harvey Mudd) → PhD student, Standford Geophysics
- Caroline Bauer (DAAD-RISE from Uni. Magdeburg, Germany) → diplom student MPI-DS, Gottingen → science journalism
- Stephanie Couvreur (Master's student from ENS, Paris) → PhD, Physics, University of Paris 7 → Chef de Projet, La Diagonal (Paris-Saclay)
- Georgi Dinolov (REU from Harvey Mudd) → PhD student in mathematics, UC Santa Cruz
- Lucie Ducloue (Master's student from ENS, Pars) → PhD student, Paris → postdoc at Manchester
- Chris Fox (REU from Harvey Mudd) → PhD student, University of Chicago Statistics
- Kirsten Harth (PhD student, Magdeburg, Germany)
- Matt Hin (REU from Harvey Mudd) → PhD student, Cornell Applied Mathematics
- Antoine Le Bouil (Master's student from U. Rennes, France) → PhD student University of Rennes
- Kiri Nichol (PhD student from U. Leiden, Netherlands) → postdoc in Netherlands → corporate data analyst
- Richard Sayanagi (REU from Harvey Mudd) → PhD student, U. Wisconsin
- Wynn Vonnegut (REU from Harvey Mudd) → software engineer
Karen E. Daniels
Professional History
A.B. Physics Dartmouth College, 1994
Science Teacher, St. Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY, 1994-1997
Ph.D. Physics Cornell University, 2002
Postdoc Duke University, 2002-2005
Asst-Assoc-Full Professor of Physics, NCSU, 2005-present
Other Appointments
Visiting Scientist, Department of Complex Fluids, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen, Germany, 2011-2012
Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters, 2017-present
Awards
NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2007
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 2011
LeRoy and Elva Martin Award for Teaching Excellence, 2013
North Carolina State University Faculty Scholar, 2013-2018
Equity for Women Award, North Carolina State University, 2015
Outstanding Referee, Physical Review Letters, 2017
Biography
Karen Daniels is a Professor of Physics at NC State University. She received her BA in Physics from Dartmouth College in 1994, taught school for a few years, and then pursued a PhD in Physics at Cornell University. After receiving her doctorate in 2002, she moved to North Carolina to do research at Duke University and then joined the faculty at NC State in 2005. Her lab at NC State investigates a number of problems in the deformation and failure of materials, from fluid flows, to piles of sand, to fracturing gels. When not working with her students on experiments in the lab, she likes to spend time in the outdoors, which has led her to contemplate the implications of her research for geological and ecological systems. In 2011-2012, she received an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship which allowed her to spend the year conducting research in Goettingen, Germany.
Community
Soft Matter, Fluids, and Statistical Physics
Women in Physics
Teaching
Courses Taught
- HON292A/297: Entropy and Chaos: Order and Disorder in the Universe
F08
F10
- HON293: Patterns and Pandemonium
F15
Media Blog
- PY203: Modern Physics F16,F17
Twitter Feed
- PY205: Physics for Scientists and Engineers I (Matter and Interactions) S06, F06, S08, S09, S17
Media Blog S09
- PY208: Physics for Scientists and Engineers II (Matter and Interactions and SCALE-UP) F07, S10, S13, F13
- PY413: Thermal Physics
S14,
S15, S16
- PY722: Statistical Physics II
F09,
F12,
F14
Teaching Publications
- K. E. Daniels. "Student Blogging about Physics."
The Physics Teacher.
48: 366-7 (Sept 2010)
[PDF]
Introductory Fluid Dynamics
In connection with the Matter & Interactions curriculum, I wrote an appendix which covers fluid statics and dynamics in language consistent with the rest of the course. [Link to PDF]
Instructors: I also have a set of WebAssign-coded problems and buoyancy lab which I'd be happy to share if you email me.
Computational Activities for Modern Physics
I have written a set of Jupyter notebooks for use in conjunction with our introductory Modern Physics class, approximately one for each chapter in Krane Modern Physics. If you'd like tor try them out, contact me. After Fall 2017 (their second draft), I'll find a way to post them more permanently/publicly.
Outreach
- Squish! Not-so-Solid Science 50-minute workshop suitable for 5th-8th grade students [Link to PDF]
Course Registration
Prior to our meeting during the course registration period, please prepare a list of what courses you intend to take for at least the next semester. You should confirm that these courses are in fact being offered during the semester in question and that you have already satisfied the prerequisites. You can either use the "Plan of Work" feature on MyPack Portal, email me the list, or bring it written out.
Resources:
Career Guidance
What do physics majors do after graduation? Here are some links to information which looks beyond the "grad school in physics" option.
Looking for a science-related summer/campus job?
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