The Dean’s List for SPH and SAP physics majors is available for Fall 2012 under Physics Awards and Achievements. Congratulations to all the majors!
The best graduate student talks and posters 2013 have been found by popular vote. As in previous years we had two clear favorites in each of the two categories. And the winners are:
Best Posters
Renee Batzloff – Paleomagnetism of the Baraga-Marquette Dyke Swarms
Li Jie – Implementation of a Hot-Deformation Process for Making Nd2Fe14B-based Permanent Magnetic Materials
Best Talks
Marwa Abdalamoneam – Atomic Moments and Polarizabilities of Ni II
Hugo Albert Ayala Sorlares – Studying Galactic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission with the HAWC Observatory in Mexico
The Physics Department Poster Session was held on April 18, 2013, in the Fisher Atrium. The physics graduate students were held throughout the latter part of Spring Semester 2013.
Congratulations to the four winners and everyone else on their presentations!
View the 2013 Physics Department Poster Session photo gallery.
2013 recipient Tyler Plamondon (right) accepts the award from Dr. Will Cantrell (left).
Back Row: Raymond Shaw, Ethan Miltenberger, Jacob Smock, Jonathan Curtis, Jeremy Dobbs, Mac Brennan
Front Row: Eric Kaphengst, Clarence King, Kathryn Cox, Tyler Plamondon, Abigail Dillon, Derek Van Damme
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 25, 2013
at 4:00 pm
in Room 139 Fisher
Atomic Moments and Polarizabilities of Ni II
Marwa Abdalmoneam
Advisor: Dr. Donald Beck
Physics Department
Michigan Tech University
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, April 25, 2013
at 4:00 pm
in Room 139 Fisher
Studying Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Pulsars and Pulsar Wind Nebulae: Geminga and Boomerang
Hao Zhou
Advisor: Dr. Petra Huentemeyer
Physics Department
Michigan Tech University
Miguel Levy (Physics) has coauthored the book “Magnetophotonics: From Theory to Applications” (Springer Series in Materials Science) with Mitsuteru Inoue and Alexander V. Baryshev.
From Tech Today.
Gretchen Hein (EF), Amber Kemppainen (EF) and Michael Meyer (PHYSICS) have received $2,000 grant for their first year project, “ENGAGE E3s for First-Year Engineering Students.”
From Tech Today.
Two Physics majors, Darcy Jacobson and Michael Adler, will be accepting summer internships with the German Academic Exchange Service this summer. The program is called RISE, or Research Internships in Science and Engineering. The internship is offered through DAAD, or Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, the German Academic Exchange Service.
Darcy Jacobson will be working at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany. Darcy will be collaborating with PhD student Martin Rohloff on a project entitled “Size Distribution of Rain Droplets,” measuring droplet size distributions and velocity fields for various temperature ramps, compositions and stirring rates. The research group, coordinated by Jürgen Vollmer, is working on a wide range of topics in non-equilibrium statistical physics.
Michael Adler will be collaborating with Konrad Makowka on “Numerical Simulation of Supersonic Combustion including Turbulence Chemistry Interaction with Large Eddy Simulation.” The application is for scramjets, which are hypersonic airbreathing engines that may offer more efficient travel to space than classical rocket engines. This work will take place at the TU München, or Technical University of Munich, preceded by a two week language immersion program in Berlin.
In mid July members of the RISE program will meet in Heidelberg for a conference.
BBC News has reported on the image captured by the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory or Hawc. This facility now holds the record for the highest-energy light captured. The image shows the shadow cast by the Moon as it blocks light and particles.
Hawc is currently composed of 30 detectors located in a national park near the Mexican city of Puebla.
Assistant professor of physics Petra Huentemeyer, whose background is in astrophysics and elementary particle physics, is involved with the Hawc Observatory.
Read more at BBC News Science & Environment, by Jason Palmer.