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Department News and Colloquium

Department News

Read the 2012 Newsletter and Pamphlet

The Graduate Program Deadline: The graudate application deadline has passed for the Fall 2013 semester. See the graduate page for the Spring 2014 semester.

Apply online at www.csumentor.edu

Contact the graduate advisor for more information.

In Memoriam of Slobodan Bob Stankovic

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our colleague and friend Slobodan Bob Stankovic, Faculty Lecturer at the department of Physics and Astronomy. Bob unexpectedly passed away on Friday May 31, 2013. Read the epitaph here.

Peer to Peer Instruction Summer Workshop - July 11, 2013 - 11:30am-3:30pm - HSCI-102

    The departments of Physics & Astronomy and Science Education invite you to the Peer to Peer Instruction Summer Workshop. The workshop is free, and lunch is provided. Please register at: http://tinyurl.com/knl37vn More information is found on the calendar.

Southern California Condensed Matter Theory Meeting

    This meeting is organized by Drs. A.Bill, M. Peterson and S. Haas (USC) Friday April 12, 2013 from 12-6pm in HSCI-102. Eight talks will be given, among which one by Dr. Peterson. The program, abstract and other information can be found on the meeting webpage.

Spring Fellows Colloquium

  • Dr. P. Jaikumar is one of two featured guest speakers at this years fellows colloquium on, Cosmic Secrets Unlocked - The Bright and Dark Sides of Our Universe, Thursday March 14, 2013, RSVP online by March 9th at beach-physics.com

PhysTEC Open House:

5th CNSM Faculty Research Symposium:

Congradulations to our Faculty:

Congratulations to our Alumni:

  • Firuz Demir, Alumni of our department just finished his PhD in Physics at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
  • Joe Day, Alumni of the department and PhD student at University of Graz, Austria will come give the colloquium talk on February 11, 2013!

Congratulation to our SPS!

The CSULB Society of Physics Students (SPS) is recognized as 2012 Outstanding Chapter! Congratulation to the president Julia Meiner, all participating students and the SPS advisor Dr. T. Gredig for a lively SPS and for all its activities!

New PhysTEC teacher in residence.
We welcome Kevin Dwyer as our newest teaching resident for 2012-2013. Read more on Kevin Dwyer profile page.

Congratulations to our students for obtaining the following awards:

  • Tom Baker won the 2012 CSU wide Student Research Competition in Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
  • Sarah E. Grefe - CSULB Graduate Research Fellowship
  • Sam Koshy - 2011, NASA Graduate Student Award.
  • Jill Pestana, Stephanie Sodergren - NASA summer research internship.
  • Tom Baker - CSULB Graduate Research Fellowship and Philip Ord Johnson awards.
  • Brandon Kawata - John and Terry Milligan award.
  • Chris Safranski - Philip Ord Johnson award.
  • Daniel Javier - Richard and Florence Scalettar Scholarship.
  • Matthew Werber and Anastasia Woo - Richard Scalettar Special Scholarship.
  • Ralph Damato - Simon George Physics Scholarship.
  • Brian Flores, Victoria Marsh, Hanming Yuan, Ramsey Noah and Ryan Hashi - Physics Department Scholarship Fund.
  • Daniel Javier – Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Fellow

GRE Boot Camp, 2012. The department hosted its second Physics GRE Boot Camp on May 19-20, 2012. The weekend was organized by the California Professoriate for Access to Physics Careers (CPAPC). Thirty-two students attended the preparation camp and faculty members from UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Irvine and UC San Diego came to present their respective PhD programs and participated in a Question & Answer session with students.

Nasa Graduate Award, 2012. Graduate student Sam Koshy obtained for the second time a NASA Graduate Student Award. Sam is the only student from a non-PhD granting University to obtain this award this year!

CSULB Faculty recieved Award of Excellence, 2011. One of our faculty, Andreas Bill, was awarded the 2011 Faculty Award for Excellence (aka the "Pretty Darn Good Professor award") of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Cali, Colombia, June 29-July 1, 2011.
Last summer two of our faculty, Thomas Gredig and Andreas Bill, co-organized a conference entitled Trends on Nanoscale Superconductivity and Magnetism, International  workshop,

Poster of international workshop co-organized by two faculty of the department (T.Gredig and A.Bill).

In 2010 the department had the largest number of Physics Master's students graduating among Master's granting institutions in the nation! See more news in our Physics & Astronomy Department Newsletter.

This Year's Nobel Prize

Nobel medal for the Nobel prize winners 2011The Nobel prize in Physics has been given to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Ries for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observation of distant supernovae". See the official website of the announcement.

The Nobel prize in Chemistry has been given to D. Shechtman for "the discovery of quasicrystals." See the official website of the announcement. Note: this topic is one of the semester projects offered in our Intro. to Solid State Physics class (PHYS-470/569).

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