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Vlad Pribiag is a condensed matter experimental physicist. His research focuses on novel low-dimensional semiconductors. He is particularly interested in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling, studying how the unique properties of certain materials can be used for information processing. Spin orbit coupling refers to the interaction between a particle’s spin and its motion. Physicists can control the spin by manipulating the motion of the particle. Physicists have found ways to encode either classical information or quantum information in the spin. |
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Professor Clem Pryke and his group are on their way back to Minnesota from the South Pole in Antarctica after completing installation of the new BICEP Array Telescope. Over the next few years this specialized radio telescope will study the Cosmic Microwave Background - an afterglow from the Big Bang - looking for the imprint of gravitational waves from the beginning of time. The project, which has been several years in the making, is a collaboration between the University of Minnesota, Caltech, Harvard and Stanford. More » Fernandes group improves understanding of high temperature superconductors
Prof. Rafael Fernandes and Dr. Morten Christensen are part of a collaboration that seeks to better understand the interplay between structural distortions and superconductivity in nickel-based materials. Structural distortions are commonplace in many high-temperature superconducting materials, and experimentalists recently identified one material in which fluctuations associated with a structural distortion lead to a six-fold increase in the superconducting critical temperature. More » New Traineeship will train researchers at the intersection of astrophysics and data science
School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Vuk Mandic is the principal investigator of a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship designed to train graduate students in data science, in the context of the nascent field of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics. The new training program will be conducted by an interdisciplinary group of faculty, cutting across two Colleges and five programs and will provide a total of 30 annual stipends for graduate students, during 2020-2024, each in the amount of $34,000 plus tuition and fees. More » First University of Minnesota-built small satellite to deploy soon
The first Minnesota-built CubeSat, a small satellite the size of a shoe-box, named Signal of Opportunity CubeSat for Ranging and Timing Experiments (SOCRATES) will observe X-ray and gamma ray photons from the Sun and other astrophysical sources. It will be deployed from the International Space Station at 7:00 a.m., February 12th. The satellite was built by a team of students including project leader Jenna Burgett, a physics major. The group will watch the deployment in the Akerman Hall hangar and will meet with interested students at that time. More » CUWIP focuses on undergraduate women
One hundred and twenty undergraduate women physicists from the Midwest region participated in the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWIP) hosted by the School in Tate Hall, January 17-19, 2020. More » |
CalendarMonday, February 24th
12:15 pm: Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in Tate 301-20 Testing gravity and dark energy with gravitational waves — Jose Maria Ezquiaga Bravo, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Chicago Tuesday, February 25th
2:30 pm: Nuclear Physics Seminar
in Tate 301-20 Dynamical modeling of baryon stopping in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC Beam Energy Scan and CERN SPS energies — Chun Shen, Wayne State University & RIKEN BNL Research Center Wednesday, February 26th
1:30 pm: Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN The Condensed Matter Seminar will be on Thursday this week only. Thursday, February 27th
10:00 am: Quantum Materials Seminar
in Tate 301-20 Electronic Pairing at Ultra Low Density — Jonathan Ruhman, Bar-Ilan University 1:30 pm: Special Condensed Matter Seminar
in Tate 201-20 Mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in disordered Majorana wires — Daniil Antonenko, Skoltech / L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics Please note the date and time of the seminar 3:35 pm: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in B50 Tate The NANOGrav search for nanohertz gravitational waves — Xavier Siemens, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Refreshments in atrium after the Colloquium. Friday, February 28th
12:20 pm: Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in Tate 301-20 MM:12.20 Alex Hamill, 12.35 Fei Chen, 12.50 Saumitran Kasturaringan, 13.15 Lis Stolik 13.30 Wen-Han Kao13.45 Cody Schimming 
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