UConn Physics showing strong at the 2023 APS March Meeting

This year, international conferences have begun to come back into their pre-pandemic form. For the American Physical Society’s annual March Meeting, it was bigger than ever with over 12,000 participants in the world’s largest meeting ever devoted to physics. UConn showed strong as graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, and faculty researchers attended the meeting […]

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The passing of Dr. Garry Bent

Gary Dean Bent, 82, a former assistant head of the Physics Department at the University of Connecticut for 23 years, passed away on Friday, March 3, 2023. He was born on October 9, 1940, in Battle Creek, Michigan. Growing up in Florida, he studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he earned Bachelor’s and […]

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Milky Way Lab at UHart Art Exhibit

The Milky Way Laboratory Contributes to Art Exhibit at the University of Hartford

Prof. Cara Battersby’s research group, the Milky Way Laboratory, was invited to collaborate with Genevieve de Leon, the 2022-23 Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Painting Department at the University of Hartford, for an exhibition focused on the intersection between the Maya calendrical cycles and scientific studies of the cosmos. From the Milky Way Laboratory, H […]

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Prof. Jonathan Trump interviewed by The Conversation about JWST Discoveries

The Conversation interviewed Prof. Jonathan Trump about his recent work with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), with an article and podcast interview available at this link. The interview includes discussion of Prof. Trump’s recent journal paper that used spectroscopic observations from JWST to understand the chemical enrichment of galaxies in the early Universe.

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Upcoming events

  1. Apr 5 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar2:00pm
  2. Apr 7 Agostino Marinelli, Stanford (UConn Physics Colloquium)3:30pm
  3. Apr 12 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar2:00pm
  4. Apr 17 PhD Dissertation Defense1:30pm
  5. Apr 17 Particle, Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Seminar2:00pm
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Recent Events

  1. Prof. Eleanor Close Texas State University, Prof. Eleanor Close, Texas State (Physics Colloquium) Prof. Eleanor Close Texas State University, Prof. Eleanor Close, Texas State (Physics Colloquium)3:30pm 3/31
  2. Prof. Alan Wuosmaa, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Prof. Alan Wuosmaa, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, " "Exotic Nuclei" - What are they, how do we study them and why we should care?", Graduate Student Seminar12:15pm 3/31
  3. Connor Occhialini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Connor Occhialini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Non-collinear magnetism and multiferroic order in atomically-thin van der Waals materials", Condensed Matter Physics Seminar2:00pm 3/29
  4. Zachary Harris, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Zachary Harris, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "Resurgence in QED: Probing the Schwinger effect in inhomogeneous fields", Particle, Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Seminar2:00pm 3/27
  5. Prof. Barrett Wells, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Prof. Barrett Wells, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, " Extreme Tuning of Quantum Materials", Graduate Student Seminar12:15pm 3/24
  6. Zachary Harris, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Zachary Harris, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, "Resurgence in QED: Probing the Schwinger effect in inhomogeneous fields", CANCELLED: Particle, Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Seminar2:00pm 3/20
  7. Dr. Norah Hoffmann, Columbia University, Dr. Norah Hoffmann, Columbia University, "Light-Matter Interactions: From Classical to Quantum ", Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar2:00pm 3/9
  8. Dr. Han Fu, University of Chicago, Dr. Han Fu, University of Chicago, "Nonequilibrium dynamics in ultracold atomic systems ", Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar2:00pm 3/6
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