James D. Brownridge, radiation safety officer in physics, applied physics and astronomy, was one of 30 speakers along with two Nobel laureates invited to speak at the sixth International Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water held at Mount Snow Resort and Conference in West Dover, Vt., in October. The title of his talk was 鈥淭ransitioning water to an enhanced heat-transferring phase.鈥 He also presented a poster titled 鈥淪table thermal oscillations in columns of partially supercool water.鈥 He also recently published a paper in the American Journal of Physics that answered the over 2,000-year-old question of why still or undisturbed hot water will sometimes freeze before still or undisturbed cold water.
James D. Brownridge
December 2, 2011