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Claudia Scarlata is an astrophysicist who studies the formation and evolution of galaxies. One question her research examines is the effect of galaxy formation on the so-called “reionization problem.” In the early universe, about 380,000 years after the Big Bang, free protons and electrons combined to form neutral hydrogen. This process produced a photon after-glow known as the Cosmic Microwave Background. A few hundred million years later, the neutral hydrogen was reionized—i.e. it absorbed high energy photons, released its bound electrons and became ionized hydrogen. |
NewsSchool celebrates opening of Physics and Nanotechnology Building
School faculty, students and staff celebrated the opening of the Physics and Nanotechnology building on November 13, with a reception in the new building. Installation of furniture, whiteboards, etc. and customer training on various building systems will continue through December. More » Zooniverse on Science Now
The research of Lucy Fortson and the Galaxy Zoo 2 project were featured in the program Science Now. (Galaxy Zoo story starts at 3:36.) More information about the citizen science efforts of projects like Galaxy Zoo 2, can be found on the Zooniverse website. A Particle Accelerator in the Radiation Belts
APS journals have highlighted the research of John Wygant and his collaborators in an article "A Particle Accelerator in the Radiation Belts" which deals with his work on the storm belt probe of the Van Allen radiation belts. Tate Lab Renovation Capital Request Approved by Regents
University of Minnesota Regents approved the University's capital request which would fund the proposed Tate Laboratory Renovations. The Tate Lab renovation is projected to cost $85 million total, with two-thirds requested from the state. More » Lysak named APS Fellow
Professor Robert Lysak has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was cited "for pioneering contributions to the theory of Alfven wave processes, including kinetic effects, their role in magnetosphere ionosphere coupling in planetary magnetospheres and development of gloval models of MHD wave processes in dipolar geometries." |
CalendarThursday, December 5th
11:15 am: Space Physics Seminar
in 157 Physics Possibility of electromagnetic sounding of planetary interior from a low-orbiting probe. — Viacheslav Pilipenko, Space Research Institute in Moscow and Augsburg College 12:15 pm: High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics Post-LHC R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry" — R. Franceschini (University of Maryland) 1:25 pm: Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics Novel Quantum Liquids in the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas — Gabor Csathy, Purdue University Friday, December 6th
2:30 pm: MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics A Theory for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions — Dr. Jeremiah Murphy, Florida State U 3:35 pm: History of Science,Technology, and Medicine Colloquium
in 131 Physics What Makes a Good Experiment? Mendel, Millikan, and Others — Allan Franklin, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m. Monday, December 9th
12:15 pm: Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics Dark matter signals from the Inner Galaxy? — Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins, Caltech Tuesday, December 10th
1:25 pm: Elementary Particle Physics Seminar
in 435 Physics Long-Baseline Physics. — Jaroslaw Nowak, University of Minnesota 2:30 pm: Biophysics Seminar
in 210 Physics Reaction-diffusion kinetics in the system of immune cells. — Oleg Krichevsky, Ben-Gurion University 
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