physics department
Marco Cavaglià named chair of physics
Dr. Marco Cavaglià has been named chair of the physics department, effective Monday, Aug. 3. He takes over the position from Dr. Thomas Vojta, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of physics, who is returning to a faculty position after serving as chair since 2018.
Read More »2021 Nobel Prize in Physics: Public Lecture
“Hidden Patterns in Complex Systems”, a lecture on the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, will be presented by Dr. Thomas Vojta, the chair of the S&T physics department, at 4pm on Thursday, November 18 in 104 Physics . The lecture is free and open to the public and suitable for interested undergraduates. This will be the […]
Read More »Physics professors present public lecture “Black Holes and the Milky Way’s Darkest Secret”
Dr. Marco Cavaglia and Dr. Shun Saito will present a public lecture about the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 4 pm via Zoom. This year’s Nobel Prize was awarded to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” and […]
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Open house for new Physics lab
Join us Thursday, September 26, from 4 to 5 pm in 115 Physics, the new LIGO room at the Physics Department, and see live data from the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories. Talk to S&T LIGO researchers about the latest detections of colliding black holes and smashing neutron stars. Photo: Detector engineers install hardware upgrades […]
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