Discoveries from the edge of the universe
From leading-edge research to extraordinary showmanship, few scientists have made as big an impact on their field as astrophysicist Robert Nemiroff, the corecipient of Michigan Tech’s 2012 Research Award.
Read more in Michigan Tech Research Magazine.
Spacetime: A Smoother Brew Than We Knew
Spacetime may be less like beer and more like cognac. Or so an intergalactic photo finish would suggest. Michigan Tech physicist Robert Nemiroff reached this heady conclusion after studying the tracings of three photons of differing wavelengths recorded by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in May 2009.
Read more in Michigan Tech Research Magazine, by Marcia Goodrich.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the recipients of the fall 2012 finishing fellowships. The fellowships were made available by the support of the Graduate School. Among the recipients is engineering physics graduate student Pradeep Kumar.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the recipients of the fall 2012 finishing fellowships. The fellowships were made available by the support of the Graduate School. Among the recipients is physics graduate student Xiaoliang Zhong.
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, March 7, 2013
at 4:00 pm
in Room 139 Fisher
Functionalized Boron Nitride Nanotubes for Switching Devices
Boyi Hao
Advisor: Dr. Yoke Khin Yap
Physics Department
Michigan Tech University
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, March 7, 2013
at 4:00 pm
in Room 139 Fisher
Detection of Long-lived Weakly Interacting Particles
in the Cosmic Ray Shower Experiment
Niraj Dhital
Advisor: Dr. Brian Fick
Physics Department
Michigan Tech University
Graduate students in Physics will be giving poster and oral presentations at the Graduate Research Colloquium 2013. Their presentations will take place on the second day of the colloquium, February 22, 2013, in the MUB Ballrooms A & B. Presenters, abstracts, and schedules are posted on the Graduate Student Government website.
Day 2 Feb 22 Poster Presentations 10am-12pm
Abhilash Kantamneni
Day 2 Feb 22 Oral Presentations 1:00pm to 3:00 pm
Colin Gurganus
Matthew Beals
Tolga Yapici
Boyi Hao
Madhusudan Savaikar
GRC Awards Banquet 2013
A night of food and festivity to celebrate the best of Michigan Tech in research, scholarship and service.
View the gallery on the GSG Facebook page.
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
Exploring the High Energy Universe
with VERITAS
Ester Aliu
Barnard College
Partially sponsored/funded by the
Visiting Women & Minority Lecturer/Scholar Series
The Discover blog “Out There” features Professor Robert Nemiroff’s (Physics) research on the nature of spacetime. In “Dispatches from AAS: The Not-There Universe,” editor Corey Powell writes about three discoveries that are remarkable for what they did not find and quotes Nemiroff as saying “perhaps the golden age of cosmology is not over just yet. There may be more discoveries out there.”
Special for classic rock fans: Powell draws a parallel with the 1960s Zombies hit “She’s Not There.”
From Tech Today.
Dispatches from AAS: The Not-There Universe
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity implies that space should be smooth at very small distances, just as it is smooth at the distances we experience. Some newer theories, which attempt to go beyond relativity, suggest otherwise: They predict that sub-subatomic space is a froth of unseen particles and energy. Nemiroff figured out a way to see who is right. He tracked gamma rays—radiation that is like light but much more energetic—from an exploding star roughly 7 billion light years from Earth, and looked for signs that they had scattered off any frothy space along the way. He found none. For the umpteenth time, a challenge to Einstein has failed.
Read more at Discover Magazine, by Corey S. Powell.
The Yap Research Lab has updated publications for 2012 and 2013 in Peer Reviewed Papers and Other Publications.