Professor Lucas Illing together with graduates Greg Hoth '10 and Chris May `08 have published a paper entitled Scaling behavior of oscillations arising in delay-coupled optoelectronic oscillators in the February 2011 issue of Physical Review E. The paper is based on Greg's senior thesis and an experimental setup pioneered by Chris. A second Physical Review E paper, coauthored by Cris Panda '12, was published in the July 2011 issue. It is entitled Isochronal chaos synchronization of delay-coupled optoelectronic oscillators and presents the results of Cris's 2010 summer research.

Professor Joel Franklin and recent graduate Todd Garon '11 have published a paper entitled Approximate Born-Infeld effects on the relativistic hydrogen spectrum in the March 2011 issue of Physics Letters A. The paper is based on work that Todd and Joel completed over the previous summer.

Professor Darrell Schroeter has been chosen as a Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) Scholar for 2011-2013.  The award provides funding for visits to the institute in Santa Barbara. The KITP is a world-renowned research institute that brings theoretical physicists together for extended periods of time to work on a broad range of problems.

Professor Joel Franklin and recent graduate Frank Morton-Park `10 have published a paper entitled Charged radial infall for spherical central bodies in the December 2010 issue of the American Journal of Physics. The paper is based on work that Frank did as part of his senior thesis.

The Reed College Physics Department has a collaboration with Pomona College and New Mexico Skies observatory which affords Reed thesis students and PHY 332 students the possibility of remote observation while funding persists. The telescope is a well maintained 14 inch Cassegranian reflector at about 7300 feet in the mountains of southern New Mexico. The seeing in Mayhill, New Mexico is outstanding and several huge astronomical facilities are nearby. More information can be found at the website for New Mexico Skies and at the website of Professor Bryan Penprase at Pomona.