This summer, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program will fund 23 students from across the University with funds from the Vice President for Research and the Honors Institute. The total funding for the program this year is $80,500.
Among the recipients are:
Robert Innis
Applied Physics
Yoke Khin Yap
CVD growth of Molybdenum DiSulfide
Adam Laxo
Physics
Raymond Shaw
An Investigation of Aerosols as Catalysts for Contact Nucleation
It’s International Dark Sky Week: Take Back the Night
The Lyrid meteor shower peaked earlier this week, and here in the Upper Peninsula it would not have been difficult to see from pretty much anywhere. For the best view, one might drive out of town a little ways, maybe to the Breakers or McLain parks, but a short drive is all it takes.
The International Dark Sky Association tries to raise awareness to these affects and more. Information can be found at the IDSA website.
Read more at Tech Today, by Teresa Wilson, physics PhD candidate.
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 24, 2014
at 4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
Observing Very High Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Geminga with the HAWC Observatory
Hao Zhou
Advisor: Dr. Petra Huentemeyer
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 24, 2014
at 4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
RCI Calculations to Hyperfine Structure Constants in V II
Marwa Abd Almoneam
Advisor: Dr. Donald Beck
View the Photo Gallery for the Department of Physics Senior Research Oral Presentations
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 17, 2014
2014 recipient Michael Adler (right) accepts the award from 1995 alum Jason LaCosse (left).
Back Row: Dr. Ray Shaw, Joseph Charnawskas, Michael Adler, Sawyer Hopkins, Dr. Ravi Pandey
Front Row: Darcy Jacobson, Emily Makoutz, Greg Furlich, Stephen Dipple
Assistant Professor of Physics Ramy El-Ganainy is a co-author of a new article “Supersymmetric mode converters” in the journal Nature Communications volume 5 published April 16, 2014.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4698
The article concerns the concept of supersymmetry as it is used to systematically design a new class of optical structures.
High School Girls Come to Michigan Tech to Explore Nanotechnology
Michigan Tech’s GEAR UP, a Pre-College Innovative Outreach Institute, and the physics department sponsored a workshop on nanotechnology to help spark the interest of pre-college girls on Tuesday, April 15, 2014, at Michigan Tech. The workshop is funded by the outreach component of a National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant. Yoke Khin Yap, a physics professor, talked about the subject, and the students had the opportunity to build model molecules.
Read more at Tech Today, by Monica Lester.
View the Nanotechnology Day! Photo Album in the Facebook Page of Michigan Tech GEAR UP.
Ran Duan, a PhD candidate in engineering physics, has been named a finalist in the Student Paper Competition of the 2014 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, cosponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society and the Union of Radio Science.
As a finalist, Duan has been been invited to present a poster on his paper titled “Multiband Unidirectional Cloaking Based on Geometric Optics” at the symposium in Memphis, July 6-11. He will also receive a $1,250 award to help him attend the symposium.
Duan won Michigan Tech’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for the fall 2013 semester.
Duan’s research is on an invisibility cloak being developed by Associate Professor Elena Semouchkina (ECE/Physics). An invisibility cloak is a device that allows electromagnetic waves such as microwaves or light to bypass objects, essentially making them invisible.