For Physics Club events, please also check out the Physics Club page.
Some of our graduating physics major seniors have told us what they'll be doing next year. Anna Smith will be a student in the Physics PhD program at the University of Oregon. Stephanie Wright will be in Nashville pursuing a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Sean Rogers will be in sunny San Diego as a PhD student in Physics at UCSD. Lee Jefferis has been accepted into the Mathematics PhD program at the University of Wisconsin, where he will go after taking a year off. And Jason Ashbach is going to Penn State University to study for a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Other students will be accepting employment offers. This shows that you have a lot of choice when you get a physics undergraduate degree!
Congratulations to Seattle U physics majors Lee Jefferis, Sean Rogers, and Anna Smith for being inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma, the national physics honor society. This honor is based on academic achievement in courses.
The play "Life of Galileo" (written by Bertolt Brecht; translation by David Edgar; directed by Rosa Joshi) is on campus October 25-November 18 at the Lee Center for Performing Arts and put on as a joint production by the artists of Strawberry Theatre Workshop and Seattle University.
Thursday, October 25, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, in Bannan 102. "How can mathematics help us understand tsunamis, rogue waves, and other phenomena?" (A lecture in the Bannan Faculty Lecture Series on Big Questions in Science and Mathematics.) Dr. John Carter, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Seattle University.
Current physics and mathematics major Lee Jefferis has been named as a 2007 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. This prestigious national award is given to only about 300 of the best science, mathematics, and engineering students in the nation per year. Congratulations, Lee!
We are also very proud of our recent physics graduate Jock Bovington, who was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship for graduate study at Stanford University. 2007 physics graduate Martin Kearney received an Honorable Mention from the NSF and is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at the Ohio State University. With three SU physics grads at Ohio State and one at Michigan, our Big Ten connection is getting big!
Congratulations also to John Ulmen (class of 2006), who was a student doing research in the lab of Paul Fontana, for being awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to work on his PhD in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. John is working on control systems for the LIGO gravitational wave observatory in eastern Washington.
Two of our physics major 2005 graduates are into PhD program study in physics and related fields. Naydene Hays is studying and doing research in planetary science at the University of Arizona, and Justin Zimmerman is a graduate student in physics at Texas A&M University. Congratulations, Naydene and Justin, for your recent (and future) achievements! Previous SU Physics graduates Porscha McRobbie and Dustin Offerman are in physics PhD programs at the University of Michigan and at the Ohio State University, respectively.
Congratulations to physics majors Martin Kearney and Sean Rogers, who were inducted into the national physics honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma!
Thursday, April 19, 12 - 1 pm, in Bannan 403. "An astronomer looks at cancer: Modeling cancer screening strategies." Dr. Jeff Brown, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Physics, Seattle University.
Monday, March 26, 12 - 1 pm, in Bannan 102. "Control systems at the LIGO gravitational wave observatory." John Ulmen, SU 2006 graduate in ME and ECE, and current PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University.
Thursday, February 22, 12 - 1 pm, in Bannan 401. "The physics of guitars." Dr. John A. Decker, Jr., of RainSong Graphite Guitars and guitarmasterworks.
Thursday, November 30, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, in Wyckoff Auditorium (Engr 200). "What do exploding stars tell us about our universe and ourselves?" (Inaugural lecture in the Bannan Faculty Lecture Series on Big Questions in Science and Mathematics.) Dr. Joanne Hughes Clark, Assistant Professor of Physics, Seattle University.
Thursday, October 19, 12 noon - 1 pm, in Bannan 401. "Einstein's curved spacetime, an obvious way to describe gravity." Professor Richard Price, of the Physics Department and Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Texas at Brownsville.
The play "Louis Slotin Sonata" is on campus September 8-October 7 at the Lee Center for Performing Arts and put on by the Empty Space Theater Company. The play uses a nuclear physics lab accident at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1946 to look at how "tickling the dragon" affected the life of one person, with echoes of affect for the whole human species.
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