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 Henk Postma was interviewed about his research into rapid sequencing of DNA with graphene nanogaps. Listen to the interview here.

 

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".

 

The Department welcomes two new arrivals:

 

Dr. Luis Agapito from University of Florida has joined as a post-doctoral fellow the group of Professor Nick Kiossis.

 

Mr. Jiangpei Dou from the Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology in China is continuing PhD studies, originally started in his home institution, under the direction of Dr. Deqing Ren.

 

The department congratulates the mid-year graduates.

 

MS Physics: Lisbeth Jensen, Robert Lofing, Jamie Osorio, Zuleyha Unlu.

 

BA Physics:  Nadia Souri, Aspram Torosian

 

BA Biomedical Physics:  Olubukola Laditan, Miran Mavalan and Hubert Peng.

 

Professor Donna Sheng is one of the coordinators for the workshop "Low Dimensional Electron Systems", January 20 - June 12, 2009, at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (UCSB).