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This Week's Colloquium

Marjorie Senechal, Smith College, Quasicrystals: from board games to complexity > more info

4:10 pm Friday, November 20, 2009 in PHY130 (Social with refreshments starts at 3:40 pm)

Position Announcements

The Department of Physics invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in August 2010, contingent upon final administrative approval.  The position will be in the area of Photonic Materials including optical, optoelectronic and nano-photonic materials, preferably involving experimental research.>read more 

Recent searches successfully concluded with two new faculty members joining our department:
Dr. Donald T. Haynie, Associate Professor; Dr. Haynie brings a vast array of expertise in academic research and entrepreneurial experience in the area of nanomedicine and biomaterials.
Dr. Denis Karaiskaj, Assistant Professor; He will be establishing an ultrafast laser facility and an active research program in materials, particularly for energy applications.

Other Headlines

SPS (Society of Physics Students) Expo Crew wins the "Best Show" Award in Engineering Expo 2009, again!!!
Video clip from WUSF University Beat

Physics is now a part of the new School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (SNSM)

Computational Scholarship Available for Undergraduates. Apply for up to $40,000 over four years. > more info

Professors Hari Srikanth and Lilia Woods will be invited speakers in focus sessions on magnetic oxides and thermoelectrics, respectively, at the upcoming 2010 APS March Meeting in Portland, Oregon

Matthew Beekman (Major Professor: G. Nolas) has been awarded 2008-2009 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Graduate School.

Prof. Hari Srikanth is co-organizing a symposium on functional oxide nanostructures and heterostructures at the 2010 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting to be held in San Francisco from April 5 – 9, 2010. Abstract deadline is November 2, 2009.

Applied Physics graduate student Nicholas Bingham from Prof. Srikanth’s Functional Materials Laboratory has been selected with full financial support by the IEEE Magnetics Society to attend the 2009 Summer School in Magnetics to be held from Sept. 20 – 25, 2009 at Nanjing University in Nanjing, China.

Work from Prof. Nolas's lab is published in the Journal of American Chemical Society > read more

Profs. Lilia Woods and George Nolas awarded NSF grant " Granular Nanocomposites for Improved Thermoelectric Performance: Theory and Experiment" > read more

Prof. Oleynik receives a new three-year grant from the Office of Naval Research > read more

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