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Phillips Presents Neutron Halos in Effective Field Theory in Mumbai

Phillips Presents Neutron Halos in Effective Field Theory in Mumbai

Dr. Daniel Phillips, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, is giving an invited talk at the International Symposium on Nuclear Physics in Mumbai, India, from Dec. 2-6. “In this talk, I will discuss recent work our group has undertaken to treat one- and two-neutron halos in effective field theory (EFT). We […]

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November 19, 2013 at 3:26 pmResearch

Smith Gives Invited Talk at International Conference in Japan

Smith Gives Invited Talk at International Conference in Japan

Dr. Arthur Smith, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, presents an invited talk Nov. 8 in Tsukuba, Japan, at the 12th International Conference on Atomically Controlled Surfaces, Interfaces, and Nanostructures, in conjunction with the 21st International Colloquium on Scanning Probe Microscopy. Smith will discuss “Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy of complex magnetic […]

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November 3, 2013 at 9:30 pmResearch

Hicks Speaks at Hadron 2013 International Conference

Hicks Speaks at Hadron 2013 International Conference

Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, will be giving an invited plenary talk at the international conference known as Hadron 2013 in November in Nara, Japan. His talk will be on recent results relevant to particle physics from the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) Collaboration, from data taken […]

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October 31, 2013 at 1:44 pmResearch

NASA Grant Helps Alum’s Search for Microbial Life

Ohio University alum Kyle Uckert ’10, an Honors Tutorial College graduate who majored in Astrophysics, “is working on the development of instrumentation to help identify signs of life on bodies of the solar system,” reports the Silver City Sun News. Now a graduate student at New Mexico State University, Uckert […]

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October 28, 2013 at 4:53 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Hicks: Government Squabbles Hurt Scientific Research

Dr. Kenneth Hicks

“Do you ever look up at the stars and think about how small our planet is and how insignificant humans are in the big picture?” writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, in an Oct. 27 Columbus Dispatch article. Maybe you think differently from me, but I find […]

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October 28, 2013 at 4:31 pmNews

Knowing the Future: A Focus of Human Attention for Several Thousand Years

Knowing the Future: A Focus of Human Attention for Several Thousand Years

By Dr. Daniel Phillips College of Arts & Sciences faculty are tackling the challenges of the 21st century by building interdisciplinary and team-taught courses around a new set of curricular themes. The Knowing the Future theme seeks to acquaint students with different ways in which we think about the future. […]

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October 28, 2013 at 10:24 amNews

Chandavar and Hicks Present Photoproduction of Scalar Mesons at CLAS

Chandavar and Hicks Present Photoproduction of Scalar Mesons at CLAS

Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Shloka Chandavar and Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, along with Dennis Weygand from the Jefferson Lab, present “Photoproduction of scalar mesons at CLAS” at the fall meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society on Oct. 25. Graduate […]

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October 22, 2013 at 11:13 amResearch