News & Events
Friday | November 20, 2009
Physics Phun Nite
The entire community is invited to this exciting event! Witness a professor lie on a bed of nails and have a cement block broken upon him. Experience light sabers, burning bubbles, rocket propulsion and giant smoke rings!Admission is FREE!!!We hope to see you either on Friday, November 13th or Friday, November 20th at 7pm in PAS room 201. For more information please contact Larry Hoffman at 621-6826.
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Friday | October 16, 2009
Quantum Signatures of Chaos
A team led by Physics and Optical Science professor Poul Jessen has seen directly how the presence of classical chaos affects the behavior of a quantum system. Chaos is common in our everyday world where it affects wide range of phenomena, including electron transport, chemical reactions, neural networks, population dynamics, weather systems, and the motion of planetary bodies.
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Wednesday | May 13, 2009
Angels & Demons: The Science of Antimatter and the Large Hadron Collider
You may have seen advertisements for the upcoming movie "Angels & Demons," a story from the author of "The DaVinci Code." In this one, some bad guys steal antimatter from CERN (a laboratory on the Swiss/French border), and use it to make a bomb with which they intend to destroy the Vatican.
Come hear Physics Professor Erich Varnes give a public lecture about the science behind the movie and what really goes on at places like CERN on May 13th at 8pm in Harvill room 150.
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Tuesday | March 31, 2009
The Physics of Solar Energy
Alexander Cronin, a UA associate professor of physics and optical sciences, is working with a team of students working with panels at the Tucson Electric Power solar test yard.
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Tuesday | March 24, 2009
Closing in on the Higgs boson
Researchers at Fermilab are narrowing the search for the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the standard model of particle physics. For the first time, we have enough evidence to show that the mass of the Higgs is not between 160 and 170 GeV.
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Thursday | March 12, 2009
Researchers explain how patches of photosynthetic plankton form at sea
Tiny photosynthetic plankton sometimes swim into the watery equivalent of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone: a sharp variation in marine currents that traps billions of the organisms until a shift in wind or tide sets them free by altering the currents.
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Wednesday | February 25, 2009
Are we all Martians? The Meteoritic Exchange of Life between Planets
The Professor Leon and Pauline Blitzer Award for Excellence In the Teaching of Physics and Related Sciences will be awarded to H. J. Melosh, Ph.D., Regents Professor of Planetary Science, Lunar and Planetary Science Lab on February 25th at 4pm in PAS room 201.
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Thursday | August 21, 2008
From the Big Bang to Dark Matter: Turning on the Large Hadron Collider
University of Arizona physicists are part of the international team working on the world's biggest scientific experiment ever.
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Wednesday | August 13, 2008
Physicists Ready for Science with World's Most Powerful Accelerator
The University of Arizona is known for doing Big Science. It partners in the most powerful telescope projects on Earth and in space. It makes the world's largest telescope mirrors. It leads a global center tackling the toughest problems in plant biology. It directs a lander mission to Mars.
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Friday | May 16, 2008
Willis E. Lamb Jr., 1955 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dies at 94
Nobel laureate Willis E. Lamb Jr., 94, University of Arizona Regents' Professor emeritus of physics and optical sciences, died of complications arising from a gallstone disorder early Thursday, May 15, at University Medical Center.
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