- Adrienne Wootters
Adrienne Harding Wootters is chair of the physics department at the
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts . She has degrees from theUniversity of Texas at Austin and theUniversity of Massachusetts . Among the courses she teaches are the Sophomore Introductory Physics sequence, Modern Physics and Electricity and Magnetism. Her research area is low temperature condensed matter physics [http://www.mcla.edu/Academics/Majors__Departments/Physics/Physics_Department_Website/index.htm] .
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She has recently been election as a SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) Leadership Fellow. Adrienne is one of 76 educators elected to the inaugural class of fellows by the members of the Center’s national fellowship board. SENCER is the
National Science Foundation -supported signature program of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, and an initiative that engages students in science and math by focusing coursework on real world problems. In this position, Adrienne will present her research findings at a variety of SENCER regional and national meetings and will work with collaborators from around the country to focus on general education and K-12 teacher preparation [http://wootters.tripod.com/SENCER/] .----
Education
University of Texas at Austin, B. S. 1980
University of Texas at Austin, M. A. 1983
University of Massachusetts, Ph.D. 2002
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Publications
M. P. Lilly, A. H. Wootters, and R. B. Hallock, “Spatially extended avalanches in a hysteretic capillary condensation system: Superfluid 4He in Nuclepore,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4222 (1996).
A. H. Wootters, M. P. Lilly, and R. B. Hallock, “Hysteresis and avalanche behavior of helium in Nuclepore and Anopore,” J. Low Temp. Phys. 110, 561 (1998).
A. H. Wootters and R. B. Hallock, “The nature of avalanches of superfluid 4He in Nuclepore,” Physica B 284, 141 (2000).
A. H. Wootters and R. B. Hallock, “Hysteretic behavior of superfluid helium in Anopore,” J. Low Temp. Phys. 121, 549 (2001).
A. H. Wootters and R. B. Hallock, “The effect of perimeter—limited superfluid 4He fluid flow on avalanches in Nuclepore,” J. Low Temp. Phys. 126, 211 (2002).
M. P. Lilly, A. H. Wootters, and R. B. Hallock, “Avalanches in the draining of nanoporous Nuclepore mediated by the superfluid helium film” Phys. Rev. B 65, 104503 (2002).
A. H. Wootters and R. B. Hallock, “Simulated avalanches in the draining of superfluid helium from Nuclepore”, Physica B 329-333, 214 (2003).
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Links
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