Matt Craig, MSUM Department of Physics & Astronomy, will talk about “Upside-down Rainbows, Sun Dogs and Halos: Optical Phenomenon Caused by Ice Crystals” at a free seminar Friday, January 21 from 2:30-3:20 p.m. in Hagen Hall room 325. Ice crystals in the atmosphere cause a much wider variety of optical effects than water droplets. Water droplets cause rainbows, but ice […]
An article co-authored by Juan Cabanela, Physics and Astronomy, has been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal. As part of a four-year project, Cabanela and his collaborators obtained detailed spectra for over 4,000 stars, allowing them to measure their motions and chemical compositions. Analysis of the motions and positions of these stars has revealed that as the bar-shaped core […]
The Physics and Astronomy Seminar Series presents a senior project talk by Devin Kasper on “MCP-Based Wind Farm Site Selection Using Variance Ratio Algorithm” at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19 in Hagen Hall 325. Wind companies, private investors, etc. need the ability to predict wind speed at a given location with limited wind speed data. The Measure-Correlate-Predict (MCP) method is one […]
The Student Organization Advisory Committee is pleased to present the Society of Physics Students with the October Student Organization of the Month Award. The Society of Physics Students is working hard at creating opportunities for the students of MSUM to meet new people and share anything related with physics. Their efforts as a student organization are passionate and aimed directly […]
Sigma Pi Sigma, the Physics Honors Society, inducted four new MSUM members on in a ceremony including all of the Tri-College Physics Departments on April 22. The inducted students, chosen based on academic excellence and service to the community, were seniors Heather Cegla, Fenner Colson and Kristin Rosenau, and sophomore Murshid Saqlain.