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Researchers at the School of Physics and Astronomy are trying to solve a thirty year old mystery: what causes high-temperature superconductivity? Guichuan Yu is a postdoc in a lab that is entirely focused on the problem. Yu has been with Martin Greven’s superconductivity laboratory since he was a graduate student and has spent the past ten years refining the technique of creating one class of materials, Mercury Barium Copper Oxides. As a postdoc he is now in charge of growing the single crystal samples the group uses in their experiments. |
NewsLIGO detects gravitational waves from Neutron Star collision
For the first time, physicists have detected gravitational waves from the collision of two neutron stars. The observation was made by LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, a collaborative project with over one thousand researchers from more than twenty countries, including the University of Minnesota. More » Fernandes named APS Fellow
Associate Professor Rafael Fernandes was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "pioneering works on nematic order and nematic fluctuations in iron-based superconductors and other strongly correlated materials." More » Vuk Mandic named APS Fellow
Professor Vuk Mandic has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "significant contributions to searches for primordial gravitational waves using LIGO data and for pioneering studies of the ultimate limits to low frequency sensitivity of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors." More » Physics Force to appear on public television program
The Physics Force will appear on the Twin Cities Public Television program "Hands-on Science." The program will air on Sunday, October 15 at 7:00 p.m. on TPT's Minnesota Channel. Physicists at Minnesota play vital part in Nobel Prize winning experiment
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne, and Barry C. Barish, creators of the LIGO experiment which made the first observations of gravitational waves. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a collaborative project with over one thousand researchers from more than twenty countries, including the University of Minnesota. More » |
CalendarMonday, October 23rd
12:15 pm: Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 301-20 New Information in Ancient Photons: Novel Approaches to CMB Foregrounds and Secondary Anisotropies — Colin Hill, Department of Physics, Columbia University Tuesday, October 24th
Wednesday, October 25th
1:25 pm: Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN Prospects for an optical link to superconducting qubits via engineered micromechanical motion — Cindy Regal, University of Colorado-Boulder 4:30 pm: CM Journal Club
in Tate 201-20 Machine Learning circumvents sign problem in Quantum Monte Carlo — Ruiqi Xing Thursday, October 26th
10:30 am: Thesis Defense
in 110 PAN Quantum Hall stripes under in-plane magnetic fields — Qianhui Shi, University of Minnesota This is the public portion of Ms. Shi's thesis defense. Her advisor is Michael Zudov. 3:35 pm: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in B50 Tate Interferometry in a Strong Light — Cindy Regal, University of Colorado-Boulder Friday, October 27th
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