Friday Feb. 19, @ 3PM CST, Physics Seminar Location: Hagen Hall 325 and Zoom: https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/93592709892 The Physics and Astronomy Department will be hosting John Pfund, MS, who is a BS Graduate in Physics and MS Medical Physics from the University of Minnesota. John will be presenting a survey of careers in the field of Medical Physics and will be joining […]
Wednesday, Feb. 6 | 4-4:50 p.m. | BR 268 Dr. Linda Winkler will give a talk about classical mechanics in the Mathematics Seminar. The talk will be today at 4 p.m. in BR 268.The title of the talk is: “Calculus of Variations in Upper-level Physics.”
MSUM Physics/Astronomy Seminar Series Presents: Molecular machines: a problem at the intersection of the sciences By: Ananda Shastri, Department of Physics and Astronomy- MSUM Friday, Jan. 31 3 p.m. 325 Hagen Hall The ability to build and control machines at the nanoscale—the distance scale of atoms and molecules–would dramatically change science, technology, and how we live.
Faculty from the Department of Physics and Astronomy assisted, as lead mentors for the MHS FIRST Robotics team, in applying for a sponsorship grant for the team from NASA. The team was notified yesterday that it was awarded a grant for this academic year. The grant, which is very competitive, provides sponsorship for one year of competition while the team […]
Heather Cegla, MSUM 2010 graduate in physics with an astronomy emphasis, received her doctorate in astrophysics from Queen’s University Belfast where she was on a full scholarship. While at MSUM, Cegla was a Goldwater Scholar and completed three summer research experiences for undergraduates funded by the National Science Foundation. https://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/wiki/users/hcegla/start