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Department of Physics

STAR Program Poster Day: Physics STAR student Jennifer Pillion presenting a poster summarizing her summer research, "Investigation of Substrate Preparation for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy."

Announcements

Dr. David Gross

15th Kaczmarczik Lecture: 2004 Nobel Laureate Dr. David J. Gross will be presenting "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics". The event will be held on March 4, 2010.

Recent News

  • Dr. Dave Goldberg, Associate Professor, and Jeff Blomquist, MS, physics’ alumnus, have written a book “A User’s Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty”, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

  • Dr. Stephen L. McMillan, PhD, Professor of Physics, received a 3-year grant award for $443,768 from NSF to support his research on “MRI-R2: Acquisition of a GPU-accelerated High-Performance Computing Cluster”.

  • Dr. Enrico Vesperini, Research Professor of Physics, received a 3-year grant award for $289,155 from NASA to support his research on “Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters”.

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Reminders

Thursday, March 18, 2010
Colloquium
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Colloquium
Monday, March 29, 2010
Classes Begin
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Colloquium

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Student Profiles