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Physics makes reaction-diffusion waves in Physica A
Professors and students collaborate on physics publication John Lindner, the Moore Professor of Astronomy at The College of Wooster, and Niklas Manz, assistant professor of physics, recently published an article with two Wooster undergraduates, Fish Yu ’21 and Margaret McGuire ’20, and alumnus Chase Fuller ’19, that was a result of their research in the…
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Physics grads help win Indy 500
Wooster graduates play significant role in Indy 500 What did the top three finishers of this year’s Indianapolis 500 have in common? They had two Wooster alumni working hard to get them on the podium. Danielle Shepherd ’14 and Collin Hendershot ’18 applied skills they learned during their four years at Wooster to their current occupations in auto racing. Shepherd, a simulation engineer for Chip Ganassi Racing Teams, and Hendershot, a…
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Meeting 100+ years of experience in nonlinear dynamics
I met two scientists for my BZ-history project with a combined age of 177 years. It was a great pleasure and honor to talk to them. Meeting with Horst-Dieter Försterling Meeting with Hermann Haken.
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Hiking to conference
Last weekend, I attended a conference in Germany. I used the opportunity during my sabbatical to return to this conference series, which I attended the last time in 2002. The conference takes place in a small village in the Harz, a Mittelgebirge (I didn’t know that this is an English word!) in Northern Germany. Because I had…
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Senior Abigail Ambrose becomes SPS Associate Zone Councilor
Senior Abigail Ambrose becomes SPS Associate Zone Councilor Abigail Ambrose is a senior physics major at the College of Wooster. From Fall 2018 to Spring 2020 Abigail is serving as the president of the Wooster SPS chapter as well as the Astronomy Club. She is very active in outreach, including writing new demonstrations at her school,…
