Friday, Nov. 16 | 3 p.m. | Planetarium – Bridges 167 Students Melissa Foley and Boston Heaford present: Sharing the Universe Through the Planetarium This past Summer 2018, Boston Heaford and Melissa Foley received Strong Scholarship funds to conduct research and create content for the MSUM Planetarium. The planetarium is a fun and effective teaching tool for people of every […]
Friday, Nov. 9 | 3 p.m. | Hagen Hall 325 Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Study Glassy Sodium Ionic Conductors – Dr. Ananda Shastri Sodium ionic conducting glasses have application in sodium batteries. There is great interest and economic potential in developing sodium batteries to store electrical energy generated from solar and wind farms. In this talk, we discuss a sodium-based glass recently […]
Friday, Oct. 26 | 3-3:50 p.m. | Hagen Hall 325 Isobel Snellenberger and Adam Kline, Preparing to Observe TESS Exoplanet Candidates: The purpose of this project was to prepare the equipment at the Feder Observatory at the Minnesota State University Moorhead Regional Science Center to be able to observe exoplanet candidates identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). To calibrate our […]
Sunday, Oct. 28 | 1-3 p.m. | Langseth Atrium Where’s Waldo? The Annual Society of Physics Students Halloween Show will be held Sunday, October 28, from 1 to 3 p.m. in Langseth Atrium. This event is free and open to the public. Come experience some haunting physics demos! This event is for all ages and is provided to edutain the […]
Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. in Hagen Hall 325 Thursday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in Hagen Hall 325 The Hiroshima Peace Studies Tour (PSCI 385/HON 385) is a LASC 8 (Global Studies) 3-credit course that will be offered Spring 2019. Information about the tour may be found at http://physics.mnstate.edu/Hiroshima/ Come to one of the information meetings on the dates listed […]