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Physics Department Celebrates Shelley Palmer's Career and Retirement
The Department of Physics celebrated Shelley Palmer yesterday as she says thank-you and farewell to the OSU community after 23 years of service. Shelley has a long history with the Department of…
Physics Graduate Students Win Code 2019 Best Team Project
Hiran Wijesinghe and Dananjaya Liyanage from the physics PhD program were among the winning team of Erdős Institute’s Cőde 2019 bootcamp. They were awarded “Cőde 2019 Best Team Project” for their…
Nandini Trivedi and postdoc published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences
Professor Nandini Trivedi and her postdoc Niravkumar D. Patel have recently published "Magnetic field-induced intermediate quantum spin liquid with spinon Fermi surface" in the June 18, 2019 issue…
“Inside Super-Kamiokande 360-degree tour” Features Work of Professor John Beacom And His Collaborators
“’Welcome to my secret underground lair,’ he [Professor Mark Vagins] tells me as we get to his lab.” A new essay with spectacular photos shows the inside of the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector…
Director of the DOE Office of Science visits Scarlet Laser Lab and DiMauro Attosecond Lab
The Department of Physics was pleased to host a visit by Director of the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy, Dr. Christopher Fall, on Tuesday June 18. This visit was requested by…
2019 Price Prize Winners Announced
Carolyn Raithel (Arizona) and Shany Danieli (Yale) are the winners of the 2019 Prize Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics.
Read more about the winners at CCAPP.
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High School Students Learn Physics During ASPIRE Workshop
Today marks the last day of the ASPIRE summer workshop hosted by members of the Department of Physics. The ASPIRE workshop is for female high school students who are entering the 10th, 11th or…
Kelly Luo awarded Prestigious Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship
Our final-year Ph.D. student Kelly Yunqiu Luo was recently awarded the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship from Cornell University. This award will support Kelly’s salary and research expenses…
Quanta Magazine: The Sun is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined
Quanta Magazine, a leading source for science journalism, has profiled the work of an Ohio State group on the high-energy gamma-ray emission of the Sun. This group, led by faculty Annika…