2013 Film by Mark Levinson
Rozsa Center-Thursday, October 23, 7:00 pm (run time 99 min)
(Free Admission)
(5:30-6:30 pm Reception for Mark Levinson / Rozsa Gallery)
Director Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider.
Atlantic observatory faces rocky future
Mountaintop facility in Azores can track pollution from North America.
For the past 13 years, atmospheric scientists have been tasting the air above Pico Mountain, a dormant volcano in the Azores archipelago. From a perch at 2,225 metres, just below the mountain’s summit, the Pico observatory can dip directly into the gases and particulates that sweep across the Atlantic Ocean.
Other high-altitude stations in the oceans, such as on the Canary Islands, are closer to Africa, and their measurements can be influenced by dust and particles from biomass burning, says Claudio Mazzoleni, an atmospheric physicist at MTU. “In the case of Pico it’s north enough to get mostly air coming from North America and travelling to Europe,” he says. “There isn’t any other place that is on that path at that elevation.”
Read more at Nature, by Alexandra Witze.
Nature, one of the top science journals in the world, published a news article about the Pico Observatory atmospheric research of Associate Professor Claudio Mazzoleni (Physics) and Associate Professor Lynn Mazzoleni (Chem).
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, October 16, 2014
4:00PM, Fisher Hall 139
Physics and Physicist in Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
Dr. Ed Augustyniak
Technical Director at Lam Research
Tualatin, Oregon
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday October 9, 2014
4:00 PM Fisher Hall 139
High Spectral Resolution Lidar–Physics at Work in the Atmospheric Sciences
Ed Eloranta
Senior Scientist University of Wisconsin—Madison
Graduate School Announces Summer 2014 Doctoral Finishing Fellowship Awardees
The Graduate School is pleased to announce that Douglas Banyai, PhD candidate in Physics, has earned a Doctoral Finishing Fellowship.
Yoke Khin Yap (Physics) has received $166,750 from the US Department of Energy for the first year of a potential two-year research project totaling $333,500, “Hetero-Junctions of Boron Nitride and Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Characterization.”
PI Claudio Mazzoleni and Co-PIs Raymond Shaw, Will Cantrell (Physics) and Lynn Mazzoleni (Chemistry), “Cloud-Processing of Brown and Black Carbon Aerosol from Biomass Burning: Spectroscopic, Chemical and Physical Properties—A Laboratory Study in Michigan Tech Turbulent Cloud Chamber,” NASA
Ravi Pandey (Phys) has received $75,000 (with a potential award total of $726,291) from the US Department of Defense-Army Research Laboratory for the first year of a potential three-year research and development project titled “First Principles Studies of Structure-Property Relationships in Two-dimensional Nanomaterials Beyond Graphene for Defense Applications.”
Robert Nemiroff (Phys) has received $30,000 of $238,362 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the first year of a three-year project titled “Supporting Astronomy Picture of the Day.”
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday September 25, 2014
4:00 pm 139 Fisher Hall
Thresholdless nanoscale lasers and the promises of metallic nano-cavities
Mercedeh Khajavikhan
Assistant Professor, College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), University of Central Florida
Partially sponsored/funded/by the Visiting Women & Minority Lecturer/Scholar Series
Professor John Jaszczak (Physics), adjunct curator at the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, published a paper in the September/October issue of The Mineralogical Record, “Spectacular Sulfides from the Merelani Tanzanite Deposit, Manyara Region, Tanzania.” The paper’s coauthors are Simon Harrison, Mike Keim, Mike Rumsey (Natural History Museum, London) and Michael Wise (Smithsonian Institution).
Vol. 45, No. 5 September – October 2014