Friday, Jan. 25 | 3-3:50 p.m. | Hagen Hall 325 A Physicist’s Journey to a Career in Software EngineeringPresented by Wyatt DavisDISTek Integration Inc. Ninety five percent of U.S. physics Bachelor’s recipients and 90% of physics Master’s recipients who enter the private sector do not have physicist/astronomer in their job title. Most physics degree recipients, like myself, enter into engineering, […]
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 […]
Friday, Oct. 12 | 3-3:50 p.m. | Hagen Hall 325 Andrew Louwagie Gordon, Updating Java applets using python notebooks. With new updates to the most modern browsers, Java has become obsolete and is being discontinued. Since some of the university’s simulations are written in Java, the simulations needed to be re-written. The presentation is about the python notebooks that have been used […]
Friday, Oct. 5 | 3-3:50 p.m. | Planetarium, Bridges Hall 167 Featured Speaker: Ullar Kivila from the Science Centre AHHAA in Tartu, Estonia This presentation will take a look at the historical journey of the search for extrasolar (or Exo-) planets and the important advances and discoveries along the way that got us to the point where we are now with […]
Friday, Sept. 28 | 3-3:50 p.m. | Hagen Hall 325 Investigations of Noise Transients in the Advanced LIGO Calibration Model LIGO searches for gravitational waves in calibrated data using time-dependent calibration parameters. In this project, we looked for significant fluctuations in these parameters during the second observing run. Large fluctuations in these parameters may indicate a significant error in the Advanced […]