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The aurora borealis, or Northern Lights have long been a subject of fascination in folklore and for those of us lucky enough to see them in northern latitudes. Professor Bob Lysak is a theoretician who has been studying the unique physics of aurora since the 1970’s. The classic model of the Aurora is that electrons trapped in the Earth’s magnetosphere are accelerated by quasi-static electric fields that form parallel to the Earth’s magnetic field and cause the light display. |
NewsKnauber wins Ovshinsky Award
Brenda Knauber, a physics Ph.D. candidate in Professor James Kakalios’s research group, has been selected for an Ovshinsky Student Travel Award to present her research at the 2019 March American Physical Society’s (APS) Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. More » Minnesota physicists receive grant to develop quantum computing
Professors Vlad Pribiag and Paul Crowell from the School of Physics and Astronomy are part of a group that will receive a $2.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop materials and device knowledge for creating quantum computing. More » Skillman elected as APS Fellow
Professor Evan Skillman was elected a 2018 Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was cited for his contributions to "observational constraints on the primordial helium abundance and significant contributions to understanding the chemical evolution of galaxies." More » Shklovskii awarded 2019 Buckley Prize
Professor Boris Shklovskii of the School of Physics and Astronomy and William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute was jointly awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics. The prize recognizes his "pioneering research in the physics Chubukov Awarded Bardeen Prize
FTPI Professor Andrey Chubukov was a winner of the 2018 John Bardeen Prize for his "seminal contributions to the theory of unconventional superconductivity, including applications to the iron-based superconductors." The prize was given at the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity. More » |
CalendarWednesday, February 20th
1:25 pm: Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN Magneto-transport phenomena related to the chiral anomaly in Weyl and Dirac semimetals — Boris Spivak, University of Washington 3:30 pm: Elementary Particle Physics Seminar
in Physics Taking aim at New Physics — Nadja Strobbe (FNAL) Thursday, February 21st
10:10 am: Biophysics Seminar
in 120 PAN Development of large-scale networks in visual cortex. — Gordon Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UMN 12:10 pm: MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club
in Physics Tate 301-20 Grantland Hall and Pat Kelly 3:30 pm: Special Public Lecture
in Best Buy Theater, Northrop, University of Minnesota Why Go to the Moon? Apollo, the Space Race, and the Many Faces of Lunar Exploration — Roger Launius, Chief Historian for NASA and Senior Curator of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (retired) Consider attending - invite students! Get more details at http://www.northrop.umn.edu/events/why-go-moon-apollo-space-race-and-many-faces-lunar-exploration 3:35 pm: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics Tate B50 Lifting the lid on DUNE, the new international mega-science project in the US — Flavio Cavanna, Yale Friday, February 22nd
11:00 am: Nuclear Physics Seminar
in Tate 301-20 To be announced. — Tom Welle, University of Minnesota 12:20 pm: Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in Tate 301-20 Broken symmetry states in the N = 3 Landau level of GaAs quantum wells with alloy disorder — Xiaojun Fu 12:30 pm: High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 110 (note location change for this week) Radu Roiban (Penn State) 2:30 pm: MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Physics Tate 301-20 Exploring the coevolution of magnetic fields and galaxies in different environments — Anna Williams, Macalester University 
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