Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Allen Shafter, from SDSU Dept. of Astronomy who will talk on "Nova Rates and Properties Across Differing Stellar Populations". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009b/shafter.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Prof. Laura I. Cerviño, from University of California - San Diego who will talk on "Real-time surface imaging in radiation therapy". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009b/cervino.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Eric Hudson, from University of California - Los Angeles who will talk on "Investigation of the optical transition in the ²²⁹Th nucleus: Solid-state optical frequency standard and fundamental constant variation". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009b/hudson.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Don Neill, CalTech who will talk on "UV Explorations of Galaxy Evolution". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009b/neill.html .

Defense - Wednesday 21st October at 2:00pm in the Education and Business Administration Building, Room 110 there will be a Ph.D. Thesis Defense presented by Rodrigo Negreiros who will talk about "Numerical Study of the Properties of Compact Stars" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/09negreiros.html .

Free Coffee and Cake served from 1.30pm in P-145A. This is the first Ph.D. defense supervised by the Dept. of Physics.

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Meir Shimon, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego who will talk on "CMB and Fundamental Physics". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009b/shimon.html .

Friday 25th September at 3:30pm in GMCS 214 the Computational Science Research Center Colloquia will be jointly presented by Mr. Rodrigo Negreiros, Dept. of Physics, who will talk on "Composition, structure and thermal evolution of strange quark stars". Read more here.

http://www.csrc.sdsu.edu/csrc/events/colloquium/20090925.php .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Aditi S. Risbud, Outreach Coordinator at The Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) who will talk on "Undergraduate research opportunities at the Molecular Foundry". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009b/risbud.html .

Defense - Monday 3rd August at 1:00pm in P-149 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Kyle Rollin who will talk about "Polarizabilities of the Al⁺ Atomic Clock Ion" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/09rollin.html .

Defense - Tuesday 7th June at 10:00am in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Martin Kandes who will talk about "Multimode Interferometry of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Circular Waveguide" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/09kandes.html .

Defense - Monday 18th May at 1:00pm in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Charles (Chuck) Tally who will talk about "On the Interaction Between Ince-Gaussian laser beams and Bose-Einstein condensates" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/09tally.html .

Ph.D. in Computational Science student Rodrigo P. Negreiros (advisor: Prof. Weber) won second place at the 23rd Annual CSU Student Research Symposium held May 1st and 2nd, 2009, at CSU, Los Angeles with his talk on "The Puzzling Thermal Behavior of Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters and Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars". Read more here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2009/05_001.html

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by the Physics Undergraduates: Rita Philavanh and Stephen Swift who will give their 498A/B thesis reports. Read their Abstracts here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/09spring.html

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Clifford Surko, Dept. of Physics, University of California, San Diego, who will talk on "Physics with Low-energy Antimatter". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009a/surko.html .

The 2009 Doc Morris Public Lecture is presented by Prof. Michael Phelps from the University of California, Los Angeles who will inject us with "Molecular imaging of the biology of disease with Positron Emission Tomography (PET)". This is a FREE public lecture, aimed at a general audience. Brought to you by the SDSU Dept. of Physics. FREE Parking, Directions and info as well as the Abstract and his Biography are here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/docmorris/2009/phelps.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Bruce Twarog, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas who will talk on "Using Open Clusters to Bridge the Lithium Gap". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009a/twarog.html .

Friday 24th April at 3:30pm in GMCS 214 the Computational Science Research Center Colloquia will be presented by Prof. Arlette Baljon, Dept. of Physics, who will talk on "Simulations of Thin Polymeric Films". Read more here.

http://www.csrc.sdsu.edu/csrc/events/colloquium/20090424.php .

Tuesday 28th April from 2:00 to 3:15 Prof. Al Sweedler, Dept. of Physics, will be giving a lecture in room PSFA 300 to an ISCOR class. on "Energy Futures and International Relations in the 21st Century". All interested students are welcome. Read more here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2009/04_001.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. William Song, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Diego who will talk on "Radiation Oncology Physics: Current State-of-the-Art". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009a/song.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. William Welsh, Dept. of Astronomy, SDSU who will talk on "The Kepler Mission To Find Earth-like Planets". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009a/welsh.html .

Defense - Friday April 9th at 12:00pm in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Tyler Otto who will talk about "Data Collection, Analysis and Modeling of Silicon Based Photovoltaic Arrays" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/09otto.html .

Defense - Tuesday December 7th April at 4:00p in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by David Tibbets who will talk about "Investigating Student Success with Kinematics and Force-Dynamics Solutions Using Increased Visual Reasoning" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/09tibbets.html .

Our Computational Physics students are presenting their research on Friday March 27th in Montezuma Hall (Aztec Center) in the afternoon poster session as part of the Computational Science Research Center's 6th Curriculum Development Forum and ACSESS for Industry Event. Registration is recommended.

Read the Read more here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2009/03_003.html .

Physics is involved in Explore SDSU: Open House on this Saturday 21st March 2009.

11am-11.50am in the GMCS building Room 301: Prof. Fridolin Weber presents a lecture on the 'Life and Science of Albert Einstein' at a level accessible to the general public.

12pm-4pm in the Physics-Astronomy building Room 215: Prof. Torikachvili presents 'The Cool World of Cryogenics'. Including: 1- ice cream making and tasting, 2- superconducting levitation, 3- balloon freezing, 4- electrostatic charge separation, 5- other cool stuff.

9am-3pm (all day) there will be Faculty members along with our Society of Physics students on hand at the 'Physics: Accelerating your Universe' information stall, as part of the Science and Technology Village.

Read the links/maps here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2009/03_002.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. David Cassidy, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Riverside who will talk on "Experiments with Positronium Atoms and Molecules". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009a/cassidy.html .

Friday's CSRC Colloquia is presented by Prof. James P. Vary, Department of Physics, Iowa State University, who will talk on "Computing the nucleus of the atom from first principles". Read the Abstract here

http://www.csrc.sdsu.edu/csrc/events/colloquium/20090313.php .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Jeffrey Alger, Department of Neurology and Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles who will talk on "Assessing Acute Stroke with Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2009a/alger.html .

Rodrigo Negreiros (Doctoral student, Computational Science, Mentor: Fridolin Weber, Professor of Physics) won a President's Award for his presentation "Cooling of Superconducting Strange Stars" at the 2009 Student Research Symposium February 27-28th, 2009. See links here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2009/03_001.html .

Prof. Matt Anderson created and directed a movie with the Oxford crew while on sabbatical. It's called "The DiVincenzo Code" and it is a cross between The DaVinci Code, The Matrix, and Spinal Tap. It's all about quantum physics, but you will likely learn nothing valuable from this movie. You can view the film as a series here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2009/02_002.html .

The (second!) annual SDSU Student Research Symposium is on this Friday and Saturday (27/28th Feb). The opening ceremony is at 8.00 AM on Friday. The physics talks and posters are scattered throughout the schedule, so read here for the schedule

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2009/02_001.html .

The Spring 2009 Physics class info is online. The Calendar, Physics Schedule, Natural Sciences Schedule, and the Final exam timetable are available online here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2009/01_001.html .

Defense - Friday December 12th at 12:00pm in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Miguel Villalobos who will talk about "The Effects of Amplitude Modulation and Higher Harmonic Detection on Obtaining Hyperfine Spectra" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/08villalobos.html .

Defense - Monday December 8th at 10:00am in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Barbara Golf who will talk about "Pycnonuclear Reactions in Multi-Component Neutron Star Crust Matter" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/08golf.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Amos Sharoni, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego who will talk on "Properties of Complex Oxides at the nanoscale: First Order Phase Transitions through Avalanches.". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008b/sharoni.html .

Defense - Monday December 1st at 2:00pm in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Bret Davis who will talk about "Hydrostatic pressure study of single-crystalline UNi_0.5Sb₂" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/08davis.html .

Some photo's from the 2008 Open House are now online here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/department/openhouse/2008/ .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Michael McNitt-Gray, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles who will talk on "X-Ray CT Imaging as a Biomarker for Lung Cancer: Detection, Characterization and Evaluation of Treatment". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008b/mcnittgray.html .

Thursday November 20th at 3.30-5pm: save the Date. The Department of Physics has it's first Open House! Roll up, roll up: alumnus, current and prospective students and your families. Come along and get a taste of the fine teaching and research our students and faculty are involved in. There is an invitation only reception 5-6:30 PM in the Faculty Staff Club Main Dining Room with remarks given by President Weber, Dean of Science Stanley Maloy and Physics Chair Usha Sinha. More details.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/11_002.html .

Saturday November 8th at 4-8pm. The Department of Physics co-presents InnerSpace / OuterSpace, an afternoon of science aimed at inspiring both the young and the old. It's free, and all are welcome! Download the event flyer for Trolley/parking directions. Permalink here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/11_001.html .

Defense - Thursday November 6th at 3:00pm in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Sidney (Ntseindie) Tazeh who will talk about "Development and Evaluation of a Linear Accelerator Based System for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) Using Circular Collimators" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/08tazeh.html .

Defense - Wednesday October 29th at 11:00am in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Mark Wilson who will talk about "The Network Properties of a Simulated Polymeric Gel" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/08wilson.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Douglas Leonard, SDSU Department of Astronomy, who will talk on "Seeking the Type Ia Supernova Progenitor". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008b/leonard.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Manbir Singh, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, who will talk on "Novel Methodologies in Functional MRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging to Map Human Brain Function and Connectivity". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008b/singh.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Orhan Nalcioglu, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, who will talk on "Magnetic Resonance Based Multimodality Imaging". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008b/nalcioglu.html .

The SDSU Graduate Dissertation and Thesis Manual is finally available online. You no longer have to purchase it from Aztec Shops. Read More here

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~gra/grad/thesisreview/dtm.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Michael Bromley, SDSU Department of Physics, who will talk on "Atom interferometry; like ships in the ultracold night". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008b/bromley.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Robert Hoy, University of California, Santa Barbara, who will talk on "What can coarse-grained simulations tell us about the mechanics and dynamics of polymers?". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008b/hoy.html .

Masters Student Derek Padilla was awarded a Wilmia Tyler Trott Memorial Scholarship for the 2008-09 academic year. Derek was also accepted to participate in the National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, IL. Derek is studying properties of novel materials under high pressure for his research with Prof. Torikachvili. Read More here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/09_003.html .

Prof. Fridolin Weber has been elected Associate Chair. Dr. Matt Anderson is the SPS Advisor. Dr. Michael Bromley is now the physics Colloquia coordinator. Read More here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/09_002.html .

Prof. Torikachvili recently had a paper published in Physical Review Letters [PRL v101 057006], that was highlighted in Physics, (a new online publication from the APS). Read More here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/09_001.html .

The Department welcomes Dr. Plamen Krastev who in July started a postdoctoral position working with Prof. Calvin Johnson. They are researching large dimension shell-model codes, funded by the US Department of Energy. Dr. Krastev is located in P-234, so drop by and say hello. Prof. Johnson also has a visitor from University of Granada, PhD student Miguel Moreno-Torres Tirado, will be with us for 3 months, and is working up in P-343. Read More here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/08_006.html .

Professor Saul Oseroff has officially started his FERP (the Cal State faculty early retirement program). Saul will still be teaching at SDSU every spring semester until his official retirement in fall 2013. He will now dedicate the other half of the year towards working in the lab, and with his collaborator's around the world. Read More here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/08_005.html .

As of July 1st, Prof. Fridolin Weber is the new Graduate Advisor. Prof. Calvin Johnson has handed over the reins as he is on sabbatical for the 2008/2009 year. Permalink here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/08_004.html .

Congratulations to two of our Physics Graduate students in the who have been awarded ARCS scholarships for 2008/2009. Martin Kandes is in the PhD in Computational Science Program, while Charles (Chuck) Tally is in the Masters in Physics Program. Read more here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/08_003.html .

Congratulations for the promotions to Full Professor that have been awarded to Prof. Calvin Johnson and Prof. Fridolin Weber Read more here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/08_002.html .

Prof. Usha Sinha was awarded funding from the 2007 round of the The President's Leadership Fund to provide an internship at a hospital for a Masters student in the Medical and Health Physics Program. Read more here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/08_001.html .

Defense - Wednesday May 21st at 8:30am in Alvarado 206 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Joseph Andrews who will talk about "Comparison of Teaching Techniques and Methods in Physics Pedagogy" Read the Abstract and get Directions here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/08andrews.html .

Dr. Michael Bromley, Assistant Professor in Physics, received the 2008 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award for the College of Sciences. Read more here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/05_003.html

Ph.D. in Computational Science student Rodrigo Negreiros and MS in Physics student Martin Kandes represented SDSU in the 22nd annual CSU-wide Student Research Competition held May 2/3 at CSU, East Bay. Special congratulations to Rodrigo who won 1st place for his talk on "Structure and Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars". Read more here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/05_002.html

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by the Physics Undergraduates: Joseph Chambers,Jason (Hau-Jian) Liu, Kristen Mecadon, Mark Mitry and Melinda Toth who will give their 498A/B thesis reports. Read their Abstracts here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/08spring.html

The end of the year party will be happening on Friday, May 9th at 12pm-1.30pm in PA-121. All staff and our students are invited! Permalink here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/news/2008/05_001.html

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Joseph Dolan, SDSU Dept. of Astronomy, who will talk on "Searching for Dying Pulse Trains in RXTE Observations of Cyg X-1". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008a/dolan.html .

The 2008 Doc Morris Public Lecture is on Thursday 8th May at 7pm in GMCS 333. Prof. George Fuller from the University of California, San Diego will regale us with "Neutrinos: Stealthy Agents of Destruction and Creation in the Cosmos". This is a public lecture, aimed at a general audience. Brought to you by the SDSU Dept. of Physics

Free Parking, Directions and info

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/docmorris/2008/fuller.html

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Guillermo Miranda, Universidad Central de Venezuela, who will talk on "Light and Gravity: A theory of vector gravitational waves independent of Einstein's General Theory, developing earlier ideas of Lorentz, Compton and Wheeler, and introducing the new cosmogonic concept of trio-holes". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008a/miranda.html .

Some photos from Physics events are now posted: firstly, the SPS with Dr. Ellen Ochoa at the Explore SDSU: Open House, and secondly, from the SDSU Student Research Symposium. Permalink

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/03_007.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Jeffrey E. McClintock, Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who will talk on "Measuring Black Hole Spin: Progress, Problems and Promise". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008a/mcclintock.html .

Physics is involved in 3 events at the Explore SDSU: Open House from 10am - 2pm this Saturday 15th March 2008. 11am - 12pm in P-148: Prof. Fridolin Weber presents a lecture 'From atoms to stars: a journey through the wonders of physics'. 11am - 12pm in AH-2108: Astronaut Dr. Ellen Ochoa, will give a special public lecture. 12.30pm - 1pm in P-148: Dr. Ochoa will say hello to the Society of Physics Students. Maps/Links

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/03_006.html .

Former SDSU Physics major and Astronaut, Dr. Ellen Ochoa, will be a special guest of the Alumni Association at the Explore SDSU: Open House, in the Family Village from 10am - 2pm this Saturday 15th March 2008. Go along and say hello! Permalink

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/03_005.html .

Congratulations to Jason (Hau-Jian) Liu, a Physics Undergraduate Research Student, who won a (College of Science) Dean's Award at the (first!) annual SDSU Student Research Symposium for his talk on 'Magnetic Field Comparison Between Helmholtz Coils and a Simulated Three-coil Array'. Some photos are now posted up. Permalink

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/03_004.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. William Welsh, SDSU Dept. of Astronomy, who will talk on "Using the Rossiter Effect to Detect Earth-size Planets". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008a/welsh.html .

Friday's CSRC Colloquia is presented at 3.30pm in GMCS 214 by Prof. Usha Sinha, Chair, Department of Physics, San Diego State University, who will talk on "Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging and imaging informatics: from data to knowledge". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/03_003.html .

Congratulations to two Physics Research Students won President's Awards at the (first!) annual SDSU Student Research Symposium. Rodrigo Negreiros won for his talk on 'Structure and Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars' (PhD in Comp.Sci. with Weber), while Martin Kandes won for his talk on 'Multimode Interferometry of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Circular Waveguide' (Masters Physics / PhD in Comp.Sci. with Bromley). They can now represent SDSU at the CSU-wide competition in May. Permalink

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/03_002.html .

Congratulations to Rita Philavanh, a Physics Major, who has been selected for a NIW (New Interdisciplinary Workforce) fellowship from the NIH, administered through the CSRC. She will be working with Prof. Baljon and study computationally the mechanical properties of temporary crosslinked networks. These studies will be compared with experimental data on the behavior of the F-actin cytoskeleton networks in cells. Permalink.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/03_001.html

Our Computational Physics students are presenting their research on Monday March 3rd in Montezuma Hall (Aztec Center) at 3pm at a poster session as part of the 5th Computational Sciences ACSESS forum. Registration for the event is recommended. Read more Here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/02_003.html

The (first!) annual SDSU Student Research Symposium is on this Friday and Saturday (29th Feb/1st March). The opening ceremony is at 8.00 AM. The Physics and Computational Sciences Session begins on Friday at 8.45 AM in the 'Quetzalcoatl B' Room in the Aztec Center. More info and Schedule

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/02_001.html .

The GRE Physics Study Group will meet Mondays, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, PA216. First session is Monday, Feb 25. Hosted by Dr. Anderson and Dr. Dolan. . Permalink

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2008/02_002.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Ionel Stetcu, Los Alamos National Lab, who will talk on "From nuclei to cold atoms and (eventually) back". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008a/stetcu.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Richard J Drachman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, who will talk on "Antimatter in space". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008a/drachman.html .

The spring Colloquia series kicks off with two 511 keV bangs via two lectures on antimatter. Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Jim Mitroy, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia, who will talk on "Bound state approaches to matter-antimatter scattering". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2008a/mitroy.html .

(and next week's lecture will be on "Antimatter in space")

The Spring 2008 Physics info is online: Calendar, Physics Schedule, Natural Sciences Schedule, and even the Final exam timetable. Highlights this semester include the Science in Science Fiction elective. Permalink Here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/12_003.html .

There will be a Celebration of Life Service for John Ferguson, Friday, December 28, 2007 from 2:00-4:00 PM in the Faculty Staff Center. Free Parking has been arranged. If you do not have a faculty/staff permit, you may park in Parking Structure 1 on levels 5 or 6 without fear of a ticket. Permalink Here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/12_002.html .

Defense - Thursday December 20th at 10:00am in P-149 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Jawad Mohammad Ahmad who will talk about "A Dosimetric Comparison of Non-Linked and Linked LDR Brachytherapy of the Prostate" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/07ahmad.html .

John B. Ferguson passed away on December 11 2007. Health problems forced John to retire in the middle of the Spring 2007 semester. Gordon has written an obituary, to which Doc Morris and Don Cottrell have added some recollections. The Department is establishing the The John B. Ferguson Memorial Fund to provides grants to upper division Physics majors to pay for their textbooks. The John B. Ferguson Fund will provide a lasting memory of John while helping our students. Read more Here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/12_001.html .

Defense - Thursday December 13th at 2:00pm in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Lee Harding who will talk about "A Dosimetric Comparison of Non-Linked and Linked LDR Brachytherapy of the Prostate" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/07harding.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by the Physics Undergraduates: Daniel Flynn, Oliver Hamil, Joseph Hellmers and Omair Zubairi who will give their 498A/B thesis reports. Read their Abstracts here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/07fall.html

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Al Sweedler, Dept. of Physics, Center for Energy Studies, Environmental Sciences Program, SDSU who will talk on "Energy, security and the environment: from global to local to global". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007b/sweedler.html . Note that the location has been moved to the North Education 60 building.

For the second year in a row SDSU has been rated the #1 small research university in the nation (offering fewer than 15 PhD programs). Two of our programs have been named in the top 10 in the nation, the PhD in Computational Science was ranked #9, while the Math and Science Education was #2 in the Mathematics Education category. Read more here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/11_003.html .

Congratulations to two of our Physics students in the PhD in Computational Science Program who have been awarded ARCS scholarships for 2007/2008. Ms. Hai Ah Nam is the Martins, Williams, Peabody Scholar. Mr. Martin Kandes is the Cymer Incorporated Scholar. Read more here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/11_002.html .

The San Diego Fires resulted in mass mandatory evacuations of some of our faculty and students, but we can happily report that no-one lost their property. The Witch and Harris fires posed no threat to SDSU, but classes were cancelled for 4 days. Read the story here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/11_001.html .

ALL classes at SDSU are now cancelled for the rest of the week. See the main SDSU webpages for the latest updates.

http://www.sdsu.edu/ .

all Monday classes at SDSU are now cancelled. See the main SDSU webpages for the latest updates.

http://www.sdsu.edu/ .

Many of our faculty are affected by the fires either due to Evacuations or Road Closures. The classes that have been cancelled today (Monday) can be seen here Read the constantly updated

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/10_002.html .

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Elizabeth Barton, University of California, Irvine who will talk on "Galaxy Evolution in the Lowest-Density Environments". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007b/barton.html .

The lead story in the current issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine is by our very own Professor Calvin W. Johnson of the SDSU Department of Physics. Professor Johnson will be teaching a course on Science and Science Fiction (Natural Science 310) in Spring 2008. For more information (and where to buy Analog!) go here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/10_001.html .

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Mark A.E. Williams, Communication Studies Dept., California State University, Sacramento who will talk on "Looking Through the Aether: Science, Rhetoric, Magic and Clear Thinking in the Mediaeval and Modern Mind". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007b/williams.html .

The Physics Department at San Diego State University invites applications for a tenure-track position in experimental studies of the interaction of radiation with matter. Of particular interest are candidates whose research will support our medical physics program http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/research/mhp/ . The position begins the fall of 2008. You can click here for more information

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/jobs/2008faculty.html

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Fridolin Weber, Dept. of Physics, SDSU who will talk on "The Enigmatic Innards of Neutron Stars". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007b/weber.html .

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Calvin Johnson, Dept. of Physics, SDSU, who will talk on "How to Read the Universe: Science Fiction and Science". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007b/johnson.html .

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Werner Becker, Max-Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, who will talk on "Future optical and X-ray observatories for neutron star and pulsar studies". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007b/becker.html .

Defense - Thursday August 16th at 2:00pm in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Mary Ann Polityka who will talk about "Use of Small Field Dosimeters to Develop a Treatment Delivery Unit QA for Stereotactic Radiation Therapy on the Helical TomoTherapy System" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/07polityka.html .

Defense - Monday August 6th at 1:00pm in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Scott Young who will talk about "CI-Kohn Method of Positron-Atom Scattering" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/07young.html .

Defense - Tuesday July 31st at 1:00pm in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Brian Slovick who will talk about "Encoding Amplitude and Phase Information at the Nyquist Frequency Onto a Phase-Only Spatial Light Modulator" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/07slovick.html .

Defense - Wednesday May 9th 2:00pm in P-149 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Ivan Hromada who will talk about "Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars" Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/07hromada.html .

Defense - Monday 7th May at 11.15am in P-250 there will be a Masters Thesis Defense presented by Nicolas Cusnir who will talk about "Propagation of Femtosecond Optical Vortices in beta Barium Borate", Read the Abstract here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/07cusnir.html .

We offer summer classes for: PHYS 180A and 180B (Fundamentals of Physics), PHYS 182A and 182B (Physical Measurements), NSCI 412 (Processes and Inquiry in the Physical Sciences), Click on the above to links to see the summer schedules. You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/05_001.html .

Friday's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by a raft of our Physics undergraduates: Parker Burrola "Hyperons and Neutron Star Matter", Daniel Emmons "1-D Ultrafast Phase Only Pulse Shaping", Derek Padilla "Secular Behavior of Nuclear Energy Density", Kyle Rollin "Investigation of Helium using Configuration Interaction". All of our physics majors must undertake and present a senior research thesis under supervision by our Faculty. Read the Abstracts here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/thesisabstracts/07spring.html

Congratulations to Daniel Emmons II, a Physics undergrad, who won first prize for his oral presentation at SDSU's Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. His talk was on "1-D Ultrafast Phase Only Pulse Shaping", and covered his research in the Ultrafast Laser Lab. You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/04_007.html

Congratulations to Omair Zubairi, a Physics undergrad, who won second place for his poster at SDSU's Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. His poster was on "The Cosmological Constant and Compact Stars", and covered his research with Prof. Fridolin Weber. You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/04_006.html

"A New Puzzle" in nuclear physics has been published this week. The paper, by Professor Calvin Johnson and Computational Science PhD student Hai Ah Nam, appears in Physical Review C. You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/04_005.html

Three papers spanning a range of atomic physics research have been published this week by Dr. Michael Bromley on a new method of computing Quantum Mechanical scattering in Physical Review Letters, calculations demonstrating new anti-matter and matter bound states in Physical Review A, and the ultracold interactions between excited states of Lithium atoms in Physical Review A. You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/04_004.html

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Kailash Sahu, Space Telescope Science Institute, who will talk on "Worlds in Transit". Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007a/sahu.html .

News - Friday sees a number of presentations of our Physics students at the 2007 SDSU Undergraduate Research Symposium. 9:00 am - 10:15 am (in the Aztec Center, Quetzalcoatl room) Daniel Emmons will talk on "1-D Ultrafast Phase Only Pulse Shaping". 11:15 am - 1:00 pm has the poster session featuring: Parker Burrola "Hyperons and Neutron Star Matter", Danny Flynn "Mitochondrial Stereology from the Statistics of Sections" and Omair Zubairi "Compact Stars and the Cosmological Constant". Kristen Mecadon (our SPS president) has her poster in the biology section on "Shadow structures to standarize google ranks between disconnected components". You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/04_003.html

Prof. Al Sweedler appeared Tuesday morning on KPBS radio's special series "A Matter of Degrees: Climate Change in San Diego" You can listen online to an archive of the broadcast here

http://www.kpbs.org/news/local?id=8009

Or download the mp3.

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Ronald Walsworth, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who will talk on "Multidisciplinary Applications of State-Selected Atoms", Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007a/walsworth.html .

The SDSU Department of Physics has named it's annual public lecture the 'Doc Morris Public Lecture Series' in honor of it's most senior Faculty Member Prof. Richard H. Morris who joined the SDSU Physics faculty 50 years ago (in 1957). You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/04_002.html

The 2007 Doc Morris Public Lecture is on Thursday 12th April at 7pm in GMCS 333. Prof. Ronald Walsworth from the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will delight us with "The Story of Stopped Light". Brought to you by the APS Division of Laser Science's Distinguished Lecturer Program, and the SDSU Dept. of Physics.

Free on-campus parking available.

You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/public/walsworth.html

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Prof. Donald Rehfuss, Dept. of Physics, SDSU who will talk on "The Nature of 107 and of 333", Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007a/rehfuss.html .

Two papers have just been published by Professor Calvin Johnson, including one co-authored by one of the Department's most outstanding recent undergraduates, Van Nguyen, who is now working on a PhD in physics at Columbia University, supported by a full NSF fellowship. You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/04_001.html

Open position for Chair of the Department of Physics. Position closes April 13, 2007. You can click here for more information

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/jobs/2007chair.html

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. Michael Bromley, Dept. of Physics, SDSU who will talk on "Fun with quantum numbers, matter and antimatter", Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007a/bromley.html .

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Dr. J. F. Dolan, Dept. of Astronomy, SDSU and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center who will talk on "A Far UV Luminosity Component In SS433", Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007a/dolan.html .

Computational Science (and Computational Physics) students are presenting their research today in Montezuma Hall (Aztec Center) at 3pm at a poster session as part of the Computational Sciences ACSESS forum. Read more Here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/03_001.html

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by a candidate for the physics faculty position. Dr. Usha Sinha, Department of Radiology, UCLA will talk on "Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging and Imaging Informatics: From Data to Knowledge", Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007a/sinha.html .

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by a candidate for the physics faculty position. Dr. Mauro Tambasco, Department of Oncology, University of Calgary will talk on "Quantitative Assessment of Tumor Malignancy Using Fractal Analysis", Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007a/tambasco.html .

Prof. Fridolin Weber features in the latest issue of New Scientist. You can Read more Here.

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/02_004.html

Computational Sciences PhD student Rodrigo P. Negreiros received 2nd prize in the Charles Kittel Award for Best Theoretical Research for his presentation on "Charged Strange Stars" at the Fall 2006 meeting of the Calfifornia Section American Physical Society. You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/02_003.html

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by a candidate for the physics faculty position. Dr. Steven Goetsch, San Diego Gamma Knife Center will talk on "The Role of the Medical Physicist in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery of the Brain", Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007a/goetsch.html .

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by a candidate for the physics faculty position. Dr. Jacqueline A. Johnson, Argonne National Laboratory will talk on "Glass Ceramics and Imaging", Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007a/johnson.html .

Today's Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquia is presented by Professor Mike DeMarco of Buffalo State University. The talk is on "99Ru Mossbauer Spectroscopy: The Physicist Gamma Ray Microscope used to view the Coexistence of Superconductivity and Magnetism in GdSr2RuCu2O8", Read the Abstract here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/seminars/2007a/demarco.html .

Research demonstrating a new class of matter and antimatter bound states has just been published today by Dr. Michael Bromley in the journal Physical Review Letters. You can Read More Here

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/02_002.html

Less of a launch, more of a continental drift.

The Launch of the SDSU Physics RSS feed, that collates and announces the following Physics

• Grants
• Papers
• JAPC and other seminars
• all other news

For more info on RSS/XML newsfeeding see the bottom of the NewsPage

http://www.physics.sdsu.edu/news/2007/02_001.html