Congratulations to Asst. Professor Leo C. Stein, who was selected as one of the 2023 Sloan Research Fellows! This is the first Sloan Fellowship awarded to a faculty member at the University of Mississippi. The University’s newsroom covered this story here: https://news.olemiss.edu/um-physicist-named-alfred-p-sloan-fellow/.
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The 2022 Physics Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science” to be shared jointly between Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger.
Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have each conducted groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated. Their results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information.
Congratulations to our Class of 2021 – 2022 Graduates
Class of 2021 – 2022: Sudeep Adhikari, Hollie Danielle Arnsdorff, Quinn Campagna, Claudia Chambliss, Lucretius Coleman, Alex Denette, Xudong Fan, Paul Stanley Gebeline, Justin Guilliams, Nicholas Allen Kruse, Adedotun Michael Lawal, Sakul Mahat, BB Pilgrim, Mason Smith, John Wilson Stacy, Jessica Blake Swindoll, Huu Do Tran and John Vincent Waite
Our graduating class consists of the following 7 undergraduate students:
- Hollie Danielle Arnsdorff earned the bachelor of science degree in physics and will be working for General Atomics.
- Claudia Chambliss earned the bachelor of science degree in physics and was accepted into a biophysics PhD program at Cornell.
- Paul Stanley Gebeline earned the bachelor of science degree in physics and is continuing on in the graduate program in physics.
- Nicholas Allen Kruse earned the bachelor of science degree in chemistry and is continuing on in the graduate program in chemistry.
- Sakul Mahat earned the bachelor of science degree in physics and has been accepted at the University of Texas — Dallas in the graduate program in mathematics.
- John Wilson Stacy earned the bachelor of science degree in physics and is continuing on in the graduate program in physics.
- Jessica Blake Swindoll earned the bachelor of science degree in physics and has been accepted at the University of Maryland — Baltimore County in the graduate program in physics.
Our graduating class consists of the following 8 graduate students:
- Quinn Campagna earned the master of science degree in physics and is continuing on in the Ph.D program here in experimental physics.
- Alex Denette earned the master of science degree in physics.
- Justin Guilliams earned the master of science degree in physics and is continuing on in the Ph.D program here in experimental physics.
- Adedotun Michael Lawal earned the master of science degree in physics.
- Mason Smith earned the master of science degree in physics and is going on to a medical physics program at University of Kentucky.
- Sudeep Adhikari earned the doctor of philosophy degree in physics and will be working for Merck.
- Lucretius Coleman earned the doctor of philosophy degree in physics.
- Xudong Fan earned the doctor of philosophy degree in physics.
- BB Pilgrim earned the doctor of philosophy degree in physics.
- Sashwat Tanay earned the doctor of philosophy degree in physics.
- Huu Do Tran earned the doctor of philosophy degree in physics and will be teaching at the University of Illinois — Chicago.
- John Vincent Waite earned the doctor of philosophy degree in physics and will be teaching at Morehead State University.
We congratulate our graduating class and wish each of them the best.
Physics Graduate Student Lorena Magaña Zertuche is the winner of the 2022 Advancing STEM Scholarship!
Lorena Magaña Zertuche is the winner of the 2022 Advancing STEM Scholarship! As the call for nominations by the Graduate School said, “Eligible individuals are prospective or current University of Mississippi doctoral students in a STEM discipline whose background, achievements, and experience demonstrate a commitment to contributing to the advancement of women in STEM, regardless of the recipient’s gender or gender identity.” That call also stated that “Priority will be given to the recruitment of new students.” The fact that Lorena was chosen attests to her commitment to advancing women in STEM, and is very well deserved. As Dean Kluck wrote in the award letter, “It was quite difficult to select just one winner. However, the committee felt your leadership to advance women in STEM caused you to stand out from others and is the type of work we seek to recognize with this important award.” Congratulations to Lorena!
UMiss Physics Students Investigate Great Mysteries of the Universe
Four physics majors are working with a University of Mississippi professor and an international team of scientists to search for new particles and interactions that may help solve big questions about the universe. Along the way, they’re getting a head start on their own research careers.
The students – Paul Gebeline, Sakul Mahat, Matthew Mestayer and Wil Stacy – are working with Jake Bennett, an experimental elementary particle physicist and assistant professor in the University of Mississippi Department of Physics and Astronomy. Bennett collaborates with more than 1,000 physicists and engineers from 26 countries on the Belle II experiment, a groundbreaking project at the SuperKEKB electron-positron accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan.
For more details please see the article in the Oxford Eagle.