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Welcome to

the Department of Physics & Astronomy

at

California State University

Northridge

COLLOQUIUM

Electric Sector Challenges and Opportunities: Climate Change, Renewables, SmartGrid, and Electrification of Transportation

Matt Sheriff

Southern California Edision

Wednesday Nov. 18, 3:45, Bianchi Planetarium

Abstract

SPOTLIGHT

  • Undergraduate student Andrew denio and Professor Debi Choudary travelled to China this summer to observe the solar eclipse. Check out their travel dairy and pictures HERE.

  • CSUN Graduate student Hankyu Lee developed a technique to make little dips in the atomically flat surface of graphite. These dips are about 20 nm wide and about 1 nm deep. To demonstrate the high level of control of this new technology, he wrote "CSUN". This technique is a step towards a new DNA sequencing technology that is currently being developed in the Postma lab.  See HERE for a picture of the graphite sheet.

Conference on the Physics of the Sun and Star Spots.  Click here for conference information. 

Department News

Sept. 2, 2009

The department welcomes three new arrivals:

Dr. Alex Zharov from the Illinois Institute of Technology has joined as post-doctoral fellow the group of Professor  Igor Beloborodov.

Dr. Zi Li  and Dr. Dr. Xu Zhang (in October)  from the Department of Physics at  Tshinghua University,  have joined as post-doctoral fellows the group of Professor Gang Lu.

 

June, 2009

Congratulation to  Professor Nicholas Kioussis  for receiving the 2009 CSUN Outstanding Faculty Award. This award  honors faculty members who have established an extraordinary record of contribution to the learning experience of their students and to their discipline.

 

May 15, 2009

Congratulations to  the recipients of the 2008-2009 awards:

1. John W. Nagle Outstanding Senior Award, 2009: Gordon McDonald
2. C. Y. Liang Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2009: Han Kyu Lee and Andrew
              Vandenberg
3. Daniel Raponi Memorial Scholarship: John Hodgson
4. Best Physics Graduate/Teaching Assistant Award, 2009: George Gomes da Costa

5. Best Astronomy Graduate/ Teaching Assistant Award, 2009: Michael Lund
6. C. Y. Liang Memorial Scholarship, 2008-09:  Frances Wulke  
 7. Adrian Herzog Outstanding Graduate Student Scholar, 2009-10: Nathan Brown

8. Robert Romagnoli Physics Graduate Scholarship, 2009-10: Colin Klinger

 

April 9, 2009

Professor Debi Choudary has been chosen to organize the IAU (International Astronomical Union) symposium 273 on the "Physics of Sun and Star Spots". The conference will be held in Los Angeles on 23-26 August 2010

 

March 22, 2009:

Professor Damian Christian and collaborators recently published a paper in Science entitled:

"Alfvén Waves in the Lower Solar Atmosphere" with David B. Jess,

Mihalis Mathioudakis, Robert Erdélyi, Philip J. Crockett,1 Francis P. Keenan,1 Damian J. Christian, Science Vol 323, 1582, 2009.

 

Feb 1, 2009:
 Professor Deqing Ren has received $547,581 from NSF to support the project  "CAREER: a Portable Solar Adaptive Optics System for High-Resolution Imaging Investigations".