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WELCOME to the Department of Physics. The Department is committed to education and research in physics, the study of the fundamental universal laws that govern the behavior of matter and energy, and the exploration of the consequences and applications of those laws... continued
Latest News:
 Special Colloquium, Monday November 17th, 12-1p.m. in EPS 258: “The Production, Detection and Imaging of Solar Radio Bursts”, Dr. Dale Gary, Physics Dept. Chair and Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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MSU satellite recommended for flight with NASA.
See article here.
Congratulations to all of the Explorer-1 Prime Team and to the earlier Electra and BarnacleSat teams that developed the early systems that will fly on E1P!
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The High Altitude Student Platform (HASP) balloon successfully launched from Fort Sumner, NM yesterday. One of the four large experiments onboard is the Montana Space Grant Consortium's BOREALIS cosmic dust capture experiment.
The balloon is approximately 11 million cubic feet and has a 2,000 lb. payload.
Congratulations to the BOREALIS HASP team, which is lead by undergraduate students Jayson Nissen and Jenny Sue Hane with guidance from BOREALIS Flight Director Berk Knighton.
More details at http://laspace.lsu.edu/hasp/index.html
(09/12/08) |
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The MSU HiTEC website is live! The High Temperature Electrochemistry Center (HiTEC) is a multidisciplinary research collaboration funded by DOE, managed by NETL, and based at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash.
More information (09/09/08)
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Nikolay Makarov is awarded the 2008 D.J.
Lovell Scholarship from SPIE, an international society advancing an
interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light. The
D.J. Lovell is the society’s largest and most prestigious award, and is
awarded to students who show potential for long-range contribution to
the fields of optics, photonics or related disciplines.
Congratulations Nickolay!
More information (09/05/08)
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Nobel laureate in physics,Professor John L. "Jan" Hall
to visit MSU Physics, September 3 - 5, 2008.
Details Here
(08/29/08)
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The Department of Physics would like to welcome our new graduate students:
Sean Brannon,
Hans Courrier,
Paul Festler
Will Johnson,
Jonathan Jorgensen
Wenjuan Liu,
Gary Lowe,
Laura Sampson
Roger Scott,
Kathryn Williamson
Prof. Richard J. Smith has been appointed as the new Head of the Department of Physics effective August 1, 2008. He succeeds Prof. William Hiscock who served as Department Head beginning in 2003. Prof. Smith joined the department as a faculty member in 1980. Congratulations to Dick, and a heartfelt thank you to Bill for his years of service in leading the department in its tradition of excellence.
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