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March Meeting – Seeing Optics Everywhere
I spent only part of Day 4 at the meeting in Baltimore. After some sessions in the morning, I got to tour some of the Johns Hopkins engineering facilities and hear more about the research that Elliot Wainwright is doing there. Then I took the train down to Washington DC in the afternoon so that I…
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March Meeting 2016 – Day 1!
I’m at the March Meeting in Baltimore this week — Day 1 was today, which is so appropriate since it is both Einstein’s birthday and Pi Day! They were giving away pie at the APS booth in celebration. The March Meeting is the largest gathering of physicists in the world, so it’s always bursting with…
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Physics research is an astrobite-of-the-day
Chaos Among the Stars by Caroline Huang Title: Simple nonlinear models suggest variable star universality Authors: John F. Lindner et al.,
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Guest Blog – Nathan Johnson ’16
Over the past century or so humankind has achieved remarkable feats of science and engineering – at a cost. The impact that our innovations have on the environment has become exceedingly clear. As we progress toward better and faster ways to travel we need to be cognizant of the efficiency and impact of our modes…
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Guest Blog – Spencer Kirn ’16
This summer I have been working with Dr. Chris Crawford at the University of Kentucky. We have been trying to design a cosine theta coil, which is a magnetic coil that has a uniform magnetic field on the inside, but no field on the outside. Beyond this, we also wanted to create this magnet using…
