March 15, 2010

The dept. of Physics and Astronomy welcomes Dr. Bing Dong and Mr. Xi Zhang who have joined Dr. Ren’s research projects in the department as postdoctorate fellow and a visting scholar, respectively.

 

Feb. 2, 2010

Professor Donna Sheng was recently chosen as an American Competitiveness and Innovation fellow. This award comes with a 375K 5 year NSF grant to fund Dr. Sheng's research on strongly correlated systems.

 

Jan.. 2, 2010

Assistant professors Igor Beloborodov and Henk Postma recently received the Cottrell College Science Awards from the Research Corporation.

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".