Professor Breese Quinn’s research group at the University of Mississippi is playing key roles on the Muon g-2 experiment. The first results from the Muon g-2 experiment, hosted at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, show fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. These results confirm an earlier experiment of the same name performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Combined, the two results show strong evidence that our best theoretical model of the subatomic world is incomplete. One potential explanation would be the existence of undiscovered particles or forces.

For more details see the University of Mississippi News article and our web page.

Henry E. Bass Basic Acoustics Summer School

The BASS 2021 EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAM.
The program will take place June 7 – July 30, 2021. Application deadline is April 15, 2021.

The 2021 Basic Acoustics Summer School Program (BASS) will celebrate its 12^th year this summer. The program was first created in memory of Dr. Henry E. Bass, who was a physicist and acoustics researcher that led efforts to create the National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA) in the 1980s and served as the Center’s director from 1992 until his passing in 2008. He was a talented researcher and a gifted teacher. Up-to-date, 20 undergraduate students from various backgrounds and universities have successfully completed the program.

The following are from the PDF announcement:

The National Center for Physical Acoustics invites undergraduate students to apply for the BASS Program that will take place June 7 – July 30, 2021. Application deadline is April 15, 2021. Further information and application can be found at  – https://ncpa.olemiss.edu/bass-2021/.

Meghna Bhattacharya received the Graduate Achievement Award in Physics and Astronomy. She will be recognized at the 2021 Honors and Awards Convocation, which will be held in The Pavilion at Ole Miss at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 8, 2021.

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.)

The University of Mississippi Society of Physics Students (SPS) Chapter has been selected as a 2020 Blake Lilly Prize recipient. “Your Chapter’s outreach efforts and dedication to physics education has visibly made a difference in your community and the SPS National Office is proud to present you with this prestigious award.”

All Blake Lilly Prize winners will be officially announced on the SPS National website within the coming weeks and will be sent a set of Feynman books. Please click on the image for a larger view of the certificate.

James Hill, department of Physics and Astronomy faculty member, gave a presentation to the Antique Telescope Society at their 2020 Virtual Convention about the Astronomical facilities at the University of Mississippi. His talk described the history of the Barnard Observatory, the Kennon Observatory, the 1893 Grubb Telescope and other historic astronomical devices associated with the University of Mississippi.

This conference took place on November 14-15 and 21-22, 2020.