Sabbatical trip to Europe
Blog entry about Niklas Manz' sabbatical trip to Europe this summer. Part 1: Lviv, UkrainePart 2: Zürich and conference in Les Diablerets, SwitzerlandPart 3: Tübingen, Germany (meeting with Otto Rössler)Part 4: Budapest and Hajdúszoboszló, Hungary (meeting with Vilmos Gáspár and visiting the 1989 conference site)
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Junior Independent Study
The junior physics majors are each working away on their "self-designed" projects. Each student develops a proposal for their own research question and spends the weeks after spring break developing a procedure, exploring their question, and then writing up their results. It's so much fun for me as the professor…
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Total Eclipse!
Projection with a colander Physics alumni from 1990 to 2021! Physics alum Amy Lytle with professor Susan Lehman Megan Nieberding and friend protect their eyes Lovely afternoon on the academic quad Sophomore Noah Hankin shows off the projected image of the sun. We love the eclipse! Eclipse nails by Megan…
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APS March Meeting – Student Perspectives
One of the more interesting parts of the trip was overhearing other physicists discussing their results and experiences. I heard an experimentalist say they felt like a human linear regression machine exploring parameter space in the lab, which I can unfortunately relate to! Gus Thomas, Wooster '25 Here's the platform…
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March Meeting 2024 – Minneapolis
The March Meeting in Minneapolis was an excellent conference — back to the pre-pandemic levels of energy and excitement. Early morning, ready for the first day of the March Meeting! It was great to get this perspective from one of the upper floors of the hotel, and I love the…
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Total Solar Eclipse Event
Come celebrate the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 with Wooster's Astronomy Club and the Physics Department! The partial eclipse starts at 1:58 pm and totality will be at 3:13 pm! For any questions, please contact Dr. Laura DeGroot at LDeGroot@wooster.edu.
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Fall 2023 EGLS Meeting
On October 20-21, eight Wooster students attended the Fall 2023 Meeting of the APS Eastern Great Lakes Section at Cleveland State University. Senior Abrar Khondker and the Juniors Aeralyn Flynn and Gus Thomas presented posters on results from their summer REU at Wooster. Juniors Eric Johnson and Lily Baker presented…
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Spring 2023 EGLS Meeting
On April 1st, two physics majors presented their Senior I.S. results at the Spring 2023 Meeting of the APS Eastern Great Lakes Section at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Daniel Cohen-Cobos presented “Simulating Reaction-Diffusion Waves as an Analog for Gravitational Lensing” and Michael Scarberry “Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction and its Metal Complex…
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March Meeting ’23 — Olivia’s Perspective
My favorite part of the March meeting was the poster session, where I got to meet physics students from all over and see the different research projects they were working on. I also really loved browsing the physics bookstore and sitting in on the ‘Physics of Superheroes’ talk. During the…
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Views on the Way to Vegas
I've always loved looking out the window of the plane during flights, and I almost always request window seats, even though aisle seats are convenient in a lot of ways. But seeing the Earth from the air still gives me a sense of wonder. I flew out of Cleveland with…
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March Meeting ’23 – Mahala’s Perspective
For those unable to enjoy the traditional Las Vegas activities, here is my take: fulfill your childhood dreams instead. Have dessert for breakfast. I’d be hard pressed to pick a favorite moment during my trip to the APS March Meeting in Las Vegas. I was there to experience as many…
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March Meeting ’23 – Student Perspective
My favorite part about the APS March Meeting was getting to talk to others during the poster sessions, since a lot of people had really interesting research topics. I also really liked the graduate school fair because it helped me learn about my options for grad school. Overall, the meeting…
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March Meeting 2023 – Vegas!
I recently traveled with four of our REU 2022 alumnae to the American Physical Society Meeting in Las Vegas! I arrived a day later than planned and running low on sleep, so I was rather overwhelmed by the whole atmosphere at the Flamingo casino and hotel where we were staying….
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2023 Dewald Recognition Celebration
On March 2, The College of Wooster held its 52nd annual Dewald Recognition Celebration honoring many of our amazing students. Several of our (prospective) physics majors received awards and prizes. Physics Department: Ann C. Mowery Endowed Scholarship: Olivia Green ‘23 Joseph Albertus Culler Prize in Physics: Karmellah Buttler ’25 and Taliah Lansing ‘25…
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Wooster Physics alums — Kent Displays Colloquium
Asad Khan '93, Clinton Braganza '03, and Nithya Venkataraman '04 enjoy the sunshine with Dr. Don Jacobs and Dr. Susan Lehman The Physics Department hosted three outstanding alumni for a colloquium on Thursday February 23. Asad Khan '93, Clinton Braganza '03, and Nithya Venkataraman '04 are all from Kent Displays, Inc,…
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Middle School Science Fair Judging
It was a great honor to come over to Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Wadsworth, Ohio on January 27! Physics club had a blast judging some awesome middle school science fair projects and getting to discuss science with 7th and 8th graders. As judges, we had a rigid set…
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CUWiP 2023 at Penn State
The Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) was an incredible experience! Ten Wooster students had the opportunity to go to the conference at Pennsylvania State University. We enjoyed learning about the wide range of professions we can pursue with a physics degree, hear about different research topics in various…
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Compton Generator
Recently, we became aware that Arthur Holly Compton built an experiment to demonstrate Earth’s spin, while an undergraduate student at the University of Wooster. John Lindner explained Compton's device in a blog post.
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Successful Fall 2022 EGLS meeting
Two students who participated in The College of Wooster’s 2022 Research Experience for Undergraduates summer program earned awards for their research at a recent regional meeting of the American Physical Society (APS). Read more on Wooster News.
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2022 Nobel Prize Colloquium
Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics, for conducting groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single entity. In an entangled pair, what happens to one of the particles determines what happens to the other particle, even if…
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