Friday, Dec. 7 | 3 p.m. | Hagen 325 Student Projects: Jane Glanzer, Senior Project: B-Band Stretch Method for SN 2011fe. SN 2011fe was a Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that occurred in the galaxy M101 in 2011. Type Ia act as good distance indicators because of their ability to be standardized, meaning that there is a distinct relationship between their […]
Friday, April 20 | 3-3:50 p.m. | HA 325 Want to know a party trick to amaze your friends? Worried about the apocalypse and only have a salad spinner? Want to know what big energy companies don’t want you to know? To learn more, attend the physics seminar project presentations! Physics students Aidan Shafer, Chloe Johnson and Jeffrey Crandall will […]
Wednesday, April 4 | 4-5 p.m. | BR 268 The student talks in the mathematics seminar continue on Wednesday, April 4 at 4 p.m. in BR 268. We will have Audrey Jensen speaking on Penrose Tilings and Aidan Shafer speaking on the Irrationality of Pi. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Friday, March 2 | 3-3:50 p.m. | HA 325 Physics Seminar this Friday will feature senior project proposal talks by MSUM physics students Aidan Shafer and Andrew Louwagie Gordon. Andrew will speak about measuring magnetic fields in a talk titled “Examining the Hall Effect Macroscopically.” Aidan will speak about different ways to determine the energy levels in the an atom where […]
Congratulations to Aidan Shafer, double major in Mathematics and Physics, who ranked in the top third of the Putnam Mathematical Competition, held on December 3, 2016. The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in all the United States and Canada. On the last edition there were 4,164 contestants from 568 institutions.