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Monday | January 9, 2012
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Tuesday | December 13, 2011
Prof. Jan Rafelski honored at 2011 SQM meeting
In celebration of his 60th birthday, Prof. Jan Rafelski was honored at the “Strangeness in Quark Matter” 2011 Conference in Krakow, Poland. Prof. Rafelski is one of the founders of the SQM conference series. A full report on SQM 2011 is available after the jump.
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Tuesday | November 8, 2011
2011 APS 4 Corners Meeting resounding success
The 2011 annual meeting of the 4 Corners Section of the American Physical Society (APS) was held at the University of Arizona Student Union on October 21-22, 2011. The meeting had 237 registered
participants, of which 177 were students!
UA Students won prizes for best Poster (Brenae Bailey, math; David Carlson, op sci; Deanna Lewis; Raisa Trubko, op sci) and Oral (Joseph Baker, physics; Joshua Barr, physics; Tim Johannsen, physics; Jiamin Xue, physics) Presentations.
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Tuesday | November 1, 2011
Emanuele Mereghetti wins APS Best Dissertation Award
Sean Fleming's recently-graduated student Emanuele Mereghetti has just been awarded the 2012 Dissertation Award by the Division of Nuclear Physics of the APS for best Ph.D dissertation in the US this year.
This award includes a monetary renumeration, a certificate, and an invited talk at the upcoming April 2012 APS meeting.
Emanuele, congratulations on a job well done!
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Tuesday | October 4, 2011
Art, Science, or Both?
The cover of Europhysics Letters features a specially adapted figure out of one of Prof. Philippe Jacquod's recent publications on superconductivity [Europhys. Lett. 91, 67009 (2010)]. It was Grenoble's Dr. Robert Whitney - Jacquod's co-author on that manuscript - who made the figures for their article but artist Frederique Swist who turned it into a piece of art.
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Tuesday | October 4, 2011
UA Physics Alumnus wins 2011 Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" with one half to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly by Brian P. Schmidt (BS 1989, Physics, University of Arizona) and Adam G. Riess. (Photo: Belinda Pratten, Australian National University).
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Monday | October 3, 2011
Building Bridges for Graduate Students from Minority Serving Institutions
Armando Garcia, the first UTEP student of UTEP-UA Bridge Initiative just won an award at the Joint Meeting of the National Society of Hispanic Physicists and the National Society of Black Physicists held in Austin last week. Armando won the award for his work with Prof. Mazumdar last summer.
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Monday | September 19, 2011
Deuteron vs. LHC
Graduate student Emanuele Mereghetti, Prof. Bira van Kolck and their collaborators have shown that experiments with the tiniest nucleus, the deuteron, could be sensitive to the origin of time-reversal asymmetry in the universe at a scale comparable to that probed by the largest particle accelerator in the world, the LHC in Geneva.
Also see http://uanews.org/node/42347
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Saturday | September 17, 2011
APS 4 Corners Section Meeting at the University of Arizona
The 2011 APS 4 corners Meeting of the American Physical Society will be held at the University of Arizona on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21 and 22, 2011. This annual meeting provides a unique forum for graduate students to present their research to the regional Physics community. For further information follow the title link.
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Tuesday | August 23, 2011
Science Teacher Prep Director Recognized with COS Distinguished Achievement Award
The Physics Department's Dr. Ingrid Novodvorsky recently received
accolades in the form of the Distinguished Achievement in Science
Education Award given by the College of Science. Dr. Novodvorsky
is the Director of the Science Teacher Preparation Program (STTP) and
teaches and advises science majors who desire a degree in Science
Education or teacher certification as an Arizona educator.
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