Robert Nemiroff, professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, will address the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York (AAA) on “Best Short Astronomy Videos,” Friday, January 6. The free public lecture will begin at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann Theater of the American Museum of Natural History.
Professor of Physics Dr. Miguel Levy has been elected to the rank of Fellow with the Optical Society of America (OSA). The citation reads “For outstanding and fundamental contributions in the areas of magneto-optic and opto-electronic films, and extensions of the theory and applications of magneto-optic photonic crystals.”
Carl Pfendner
Auger Group
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Thursday, December 15, 2011
4:00 pm, Fisher 101 ROOM CHANGE
Researchers from the Multiscale Technologies Institute (MuSTI) gained noticeable attention in the 2011 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, held Nov. 27 to Dec. 2 in Boston. Professor Yoke Khin Yap (Physics) was the lead organizer of “Symposium AA: Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, and Related Nanostructures.” This symposium attracted about 450 contributed papers and 22 invited lectures and was the largest symposium of the 47 in the meeting.
Elena Dormidontova
Case Western Reserve University
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
2:00 pm, Fisher 139
Prof. Michael C. Kelley
James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng
Cornell University
Monday, December 12, 2011
3:00 pm, Fisher 139
The two new physics degrees are a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and a Bachelor of Arts in Physics with a concentration in secondary education. “The motivation for offering a BA degree in physics is to give students who are not planning to study physics in graduate school a strong foundation in physics but significantly fewer physics course requirements than our current BS programs,” Seel explained. “The resulting flexibility will allow students to pursue other scholarly interests and career goals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, business, entrepreneurship, medicine and law. Physics can provide an excellent foundation for interdisciplinary endeavors in all of these fields.”
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Bo Sun
Princeton University
Thursday, December 8, 2011
4:00 pm, Fisher 139
Numerous Michigan Tech faculty, staff and students are presenting at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco in December. Thirty-eight people from all across campus will be involved in more than forty sessions at the conference, which runs from Monday through Friday this week. Tech people are presenting on a variety of topics, including paleomagnetism, water management, organic aerosols, changing global environments, remote sensing, cloud evolution, wildfires and more. Represented are the Departments of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics, the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, the School of Technology, as well as the Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor. READ MORE