Anil Panta has been selected to receive a Graduate Achievement Award.  The award will be presented to Anil at the Honors and Awards Convocation, on April 7, 2022.  To learn more about Anil’s research, you can click on this link: https://physics.olemiss.edu/grad_dir/

The Graduate School awards up to a total of eighteen Graduate Achievement Awards each year for recognition on Honors Day. These include a maximum of two each from Accountancy, Applied Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, and Pharmacy, and six from the College of Liberal Arts. (In Liberal Arts, the two awards are given in each of the following three areas: Area A, which includes Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Philosophy and Religions, and Physics and Astronomy; Area B, which includes Art, Classics, English, Journalism, Modern Languages, Music, and Theatre Arts; Area C, which includes History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology.)

University of Mississippi researchers are sending a sonic experiment to Space Station. The project aims to develop method to control fluids in zero gravity using sound waves.

A device that can move liquids without physical contact sounds like the stuff of science fiction, so perhaps it’s appropriate that a prototype of just such a marvel is headed to the International Space Station for an out-of-this-world test of its capabilities.

When NASA’s next resupply mission to the ISS, Cygnus NG-17, blasts off Saturday morning (Feb. 19) from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, an acoustic tweezers device conceived and built at the University of Mississippi will be among its cargo.

Likun Zhang, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and a researcher at the university’s National Center for Physical Acoustics, and Robert Lirette, a former UM doctoral student in physics and postdoctoral research associate, hope to explore the ability of the device to control fluids in the zero-gravity environment of space.

For more details please see the article in the University of Mississippi News.

The department of Physics and Astronomy would like to welcome our newest postdoctoral scholar, Dr. Janaka Kospalage.

Dr. Kospalage completed his PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. His research interests include experimental searches for heavy flavor physics and CP violation. As a member of the Belle II experiment, based in Tsukuba, Japan, he has contributed to software and computing efforts as well as detector commissioning.

Last semester, we were also joined by four postdocs, Drs. Crnkovic, Csukás, Johnson-McDaniel, and Mukherjee. You can read their brief bios here. Welcome to all!

Students and Faculty from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Mississippi had a very strong showing at the 2021 South East Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS2021) meeting.

From left to right: Dr. Davies , Sakul Mahat, Paul Gebeline, Wil Stacy, Matthew Mestayer, Dr. BennettDr. Gavin Davies presented results from NOνA

Sumeet Kulkarni ties for first place in the doctoral student category of 3MT (3 minute thesis).