Missouri S&T Physics

Prof. Marco Cavaglia is the organizer of the conference "Detection and Analysis of Gravitational Waves in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy" which is held November 17-22, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The conference is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Government of Alberta. The S&T LIGO group is participating, along with scientists from North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Dr. Marco Cavaglia and his LIGO group won a 2024 Physics Department Outreach Award. Congratulations!

Dr. Hasti Khoraminezhad is one of the winners of this year's Physics Department Outreach Award. Congratulations!

The First Year Research Experience (FYRE) program of our college kicks off today. Fourteen of our new physics majors are participating - more than half of the class! They will be working on research projects and receive one-on-one mentoring from faculty members. Thanks to all the faculty who designed projects and will mentor the students.

We bid a warm welcome to Dr. Amit Kumar who is joining us from the Inter University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India. He will be working in Dr. Shun Saito’s group.

This Thursday, November 21, our department chair, Dr. Thomas Vojta, will give his annual lecture on the Nobel Prize in Physics. The lecture is open to the public and suitable for undergraduate students. Please share widely.

Interested in quantum materials?

For National STEM Day last Friday, over 40 highschool students visited Dr. Hyunsoo Kim's low-temperature lab for demonstrations and hands-on activities. Outreach events like this are made possible through the work of a team, from first-year undergraduates to graduate students: thanks to Agrim Gupta, Pranesh Sundararajan, Harshit Agarwal, and Gabe Duncan (pictured)

Happy Halloween from the SPS. Who else would carve the Schroedinger Equation into a pumpkin?

Save the date! On Thursday, November 21, our department chair, Dr. Thomas Vojta, will give his annual lecture on the Nobel Prize in Physics. The lecture is open to the public and suitable for undergraduate students. Please share widely.