Join us for the Physics and Astronomy department seminar Friday, Feb 25 at 3PM for a talk by Mike Olson about his career and his current role as a Partner at Relational AI. Mike graduated in 2004 with a Physics and Mathematics B.S. from NDSU and was heavily involved in the Physics and Astronomy Department at MSUM. Mike took several […]
Dr. Loza Tadesse will speak about her research in bioengineering as a graduate student and postdoc at the Physics and Astronomy Seminar Friday, Feb 18 at 3PM in HA 314 or on zoom at Meeting ID: 952 2654 4371 Passcode: 675542 Dr. Tadesse graduated from MSUM in 2016, earned her Ph.D. from Stanford in 2021. Dr. Loza Tadesse is an incoming assistant […]
Physics and Astronomy students Brett Schulz and Maxibillion Thompson presented research on variable stars and on observations of planets in other stellar systems at the 113th annual meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers in November. Max presented a new observation of the exoplanet KELT-1b and used it to evaluate the accuracy of the measured period for the […]
Brett Schulz and Maxibillion Thompson presented a poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers ((AAVSO) in Boston, MA on Nov 6-7. Max reported on the measurement of the time of transit of an exoplanet, which is a planet orbiting around another star. Brett presented a technique for combining his measurements of a variable star […]
Theodore Roosevelt National Park held its annual Dakota Nights Astronomy Festival over Labor Day weekend. Dr. Matt Craig, Department of Physics and Astronomy, presented one of the evening keynote talks — about the impact of satellite constellation on astronomy — and an afternoon talk about similarities between the surface of Mars and the badlands.