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Senior Austin Way Wins Top Honors at Physics Undergrad Research Conference

Senior Austin Way Wins Top Honors at Physics Undergrad Research Conference

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Austin Way ’14, HTC Engineering Physics, received top honors at the recent 6th Annual Society of Physics Student Research Conference at Ohio University. His talk, “Fabrication of Photovoltaics,” was voted Best Presentation by a panel of faculty judges from the Department of Physics & […]

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March 1, 2014 at 5:00 pmResearch

Graduate Student Wins Outstanding Poster in Low-Energy Nuclear Science

Graduate Student Wins Outstanding Poster in Low-Energy Nuclear Science

Physics graduate students Sushil Dhakal won Outstanding Poster for “Measurement of Neutrons from DD Reaction and Neutron Transmission from Iron Sphere” at the 2014 Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP) Annual Review Symposium in Washington, D.C. Drs. Carl Brune and Steven Grimes Professors of Physics & Astronomy, and physics graduate students […]

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March 1, 2014 at 5:00 pmResearch

Elster Gives Seminar at LSU on Spin Phenomena

Elster Gives Seminar at LSU on Spin Phenomena

Dr. Charlotte Elster, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, gives a Nuclear Seminar on Feb. 4 at Louisiana State University. Her seminar is on “Spin Phenomena in Elastic Scattering of 6He and 8He off Protons.” “The calculation and derivation of microscopic optical potentials for calculating scattering observables for […]

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January 21, 2014 at 10:53 amResearch

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

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