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Physicists at the School of Physics and Astronomy are using modeling techniques to make things easier for chemists working with polymers. Taher Ghasimakbari is a graduate student working in theoretical condensed matter physics on diblock copolymers, a family of materials with wide range of applications from drug delivery to strengthening plastics. Spandex and polyurethane are examples of block copolymers in the same family of materials as diblock copolymers ever since. This class of polymers were invented in the 1950s and have been studied extensively. |
NewsGherghetta receives Simons Fellowship
Professor Tony Gherghetta received the 2019 Simons Fellowship. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for significant advances. Gherghetta is a theoretical physicist specializing in physics beyond the standard model. More » Mandic receives Distinguished McKnight Professorship
Professor Vuk Mandic of the School of Physics and Astronomy has been selected as a 2019 Distinguished McKnight University Professor. The award recognizes Mandic's research in the field of experimental cosmology and astrophysics. Mandic will receive a grant of $120,000 to be used over a five year period. More » Knauber 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 » |
CalendarMonday, March 25th
Tuesday, March 26th
1:25 pm: Space Physics Seminar
in Tate 301-20 Fast time variations in solar flare X-ray flux - A probe for particle acceleration — Trevor Knuth 4:00 pm: Physics Guided Machine Learning: A New Paradigm for Modeling Dynamical Systems — Vipin Kumar Wednesday, March 27th
1:25 pm: Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN Dirty Entangled Quantum Magnets — Itamar Kimchi, University of Colorado - Boulder Faculty Co-Host: Alex Kamenev Thursday, March 28th
10:10 am: Biophysics Seminar
in 120 PAN Fast, volumetric imaging with microscopes — Jerome C. Mertz, College of Engineering, Boston University 12:10 pm: MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club
in Physics Tate 301-20 Jin-Ah Kim and Liliya Williams 3:35 pm: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics Tate B50 Atom interferometry for fundamental physics and gravitational wave detection — Jason Hogan, Stanford University Friday, March 29th
11:00 am: Nuclear Physics Seminar
in Physics Tate 301-20 The multidimensional character of nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae — James Austin Harris, Oak Ridge National Lab 12:20 pm: Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in Tate 301-20 The temperature and doping dependence of the inverse spin Hall effect in n-GaAs — Zhen Jiang 
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