Six senior undergraduates will be graduating this spring. They are JD Brown, Anna Stevens and Jarod Wright with the BS in Physics and Mollie Burkes, Taylor Cabrera and Taylor Martin with the BA in Physics. Two of our seniors have been accepted to graduate programs in Physics and Mathematics. Congratulations to all our graduating seniors!
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Oxford Science Café moves online
Thanks to the hard work of graduate students Lorena Magaña Zertuche and Sumeet Kulkarni and Assistant Professor Jake Bennett, we now have a digital version of the Oxford Science Café. New Ssippin’ Science podcasts will be released in the coming weeks, including one of Earth Day.
Physics graduate student Anil Panta has received a fellowship from the 2020 Ozaki Exchange Program
Anil Panta, a physics graduate student in High Energy Physics, has received a fellowship from the 2020 Ozaki Exchange Program.
Each year, up to five proposals will be selected and recommended for funding in Japan and up to five will be selected and recommended for funding in the United States. The award will provide for travel, housing, and cost-of-living expenses for the stay overseas.
This program is US-JAPAN collaboration for exchange of graduate students enrolled in PHD program .
He will be working with Hadron Physics group at Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute(KMI) at Nagoya University.
Physics graduate student Kevin Yi-Wei Lin is one of six recipients of the 2020 College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Achievement Award.
Each year College of Liberal Arts departments present Graduate Student Achievement Awards at Honors Day. Kevin Yi-Wei Lin, a physics graduate student in Acoustics, is one of the six recipients of the 2020 College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Achievement Award. These six represent scholars across the discipline areas housed in the College.
Kevin Yi-Wei Lin received his Ph.D. in 2020. His Dissertation was “Nondestructive Evaluation Of Solid Cargo Inside Cylindrical Containers By Using Linear And Nonlinear Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy“.
Dr. Cremaldi, Dr. Sanders and Dr. Summers publish in Nature
University of Mississippi physicists with the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) publish results in Nature.
“Demonstration of cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment” was published in Nature on February 5, 2020. For the first time scientists have observed muon ionization cooling – a major step in being able to create the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Until now, the question has been whether it’s possible to “squeeze” a beam of muons sufficiently to achieve the luminosity needed to study new physics. The new research, published in Nature on Feb. 5, shows that it is possible. The results of the experiment, carried out using the MICE muon beamline at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, clearly show that ionization cooling works and can be used to channel muons into a tiny volume, thus providing a beam for a new type of particle accelerator.
For more details please follow these links from Fermilab, and in Scientific American and Science News.