Publications, honors, and patents have been updated for the Quantum Optics Group at Michigan Tech. The research group is led by Dr. Kim Fook Lee, who is interested in experimental quantum optics and biophotonics. In the area of quantum optics, Lee is interested in developing entanglement source for quantum cryptography, communication and information processing.
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, September 27, 2012
4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
Nano-Magnets and Nano-wires
Dereje Seifu
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD
Associate Professor Ranjit Pati (Physics) has received $69,128 from the NSF for a one-year project, “EAGER: Designing a Molecular Scale Spin-Switch.”
EAGER stands for EArly Concept Grants for Exploratory Research.
The Yap Research Group has updated its people and publications. The group is led by Dr. Yoke Khin Yap, who is interested in the fundamentals of synthesis, properties, and applications of functional materials, which include B-C-N nanostructures and more. Dr. Yap is the director of the Engineering Physics PhD program and a recent recipient of the Michigan Tech Bhakta Rath Research Award. His group of two research colleagues, a postdoc, five graduate students, and five undergraduate students is interested in synthesis, characterization and application of nanomaterials.
Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, September 20, 2012
4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
Mats Selen
University of Illinois
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Assistant Professor Claudio Mazzoleni (Physics) has received $30,000 from NASA for a project, “Ice Nucleation Studies in an Environmentally Controlled Acoustic Levitation Trap.”
MIT Lincoln Laboratory will be on-campus on October 2-3 to recruit undergraduate and graduate students for potential employment opportunities. We will be participating in the Career Fair on October 2nd and holding on-campus interviews on October 3rd . If you know top students who might be interested in employment at Lincoln Lab, please ask them to sign up for an on-campus interview with the Career Center and apply online at Lincoln’s website (http://www.ll.mit.edu/college). *The deadline for applying for interview slots is September 23rd .* Please note that all Lincoln employees must be able to obtain and maintain a SECRET-level U.S. security clearance.
*Peter A Kiefer*
/Associate Staff/
Advanced Sensor Systems & Test Beds
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood St, Lexington, MA 02420
Mailstop: KH1-235H
Phone: 781-981-4005
pakiefer@ll.mit.edu
Looking for a fun and “tasty” class? Want to impress your significant other? Enroll in PH 4999 (3 credits), “What’s Cooking? A Physicist in the Kitchen.” The class will be available in spring 2013.
Apart from cooking and tasting delicious food, you will learn quantum physics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and even laser spectroscopy.
For more information, contact Professor Jacek Borysow.
Assistant Research Scientist Loredana Valenzano (Physics) and Co-PI Chair Ravindra Pandey (Physics) have received $4,481 from the University of California-Los Angeles for “First Principles Study of Primary Components of Portland Cement.”
Professor Raymond Shaw (Physics) and Co-PI graduate student Matthew Beals (Physics) have received $30,000 from NASA for a project, “Improved Mixed Phased Cloud Microstructure Measurements: The Holographic Detector for Clouds II (HOLODEC II).”