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The last Physics Table!
Welcome to week 10! It will only be about 40 and windy at noon tomorrow, so, let’s plan to meet down in the Ground State to have lunch together! If you are off board, (or it’s your first Physics Table ever) see Trenne for a lunch voucher and the department will treat you. We’d love to have folks join us to decompress for a little while.
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U of MN Women in Astro/Phys Research Talk
Tuesday, November 16
Physics Research Talk: WAPhl (Women in Astronomy and Physics Lecture Series) Research talk on flow behavior in granular materials featuring Dr. Cacey Bester, Swarthmore College
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The SIParCS Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research is aimed at university students who are interested in pursuing a career in such areas as Application Optimization, Data Science, Machine Learning, Numerical Methods, Software Engineering, Supercomputing Systems Operations, and Visualization.
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Saint Paul has an ambitious goal to make our municipal facilities carbon neutral by 2030, and so we need to create a greenhouse gas inventory of the City’s operations across our buildings, transportation, and other activities that generate GHGs. The intern would work with City staff to collect the activity data necessary, and then to calculate the emissions resulting from those activities using an Excel spreadsheet.
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Join the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s faculty and students to discuss our top-ranked graduate program, explore research opportunities and learn the application process.
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APS Physics news
This Week in Physics Magazine — November 15, 2021
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Viewpoint A Third Way to Explain Fine Tuning
Francesco Riva – November 15, 2021
A theoretical proposal offers a new way to relate the Higgs boson mass and the cosmological constant to each other and explain why these quantities appear to be implausibly tuned to values much smaller than expected.
synopsis How CRISPR/Cas9 Finds Genetic Targets
November 10, 2021
A model of facilitated diffusion and the theory of Anderson localization help explain how the Cas9 protein explores DNA in search of its targets.
Research News A Humming Lattice of Cold Atoms
November 15, 2021
Researchers have produced an optical lattice of atoms that can generate sound, a previously unachieved feat.
Video Bouncing Droplets Reveal New Leidenfrost Effect
November 12, 2021
Droplets floating on vapor cushions can bounce off each other when they are composed of different liquids.
synopsis 1D Random-Field Ising Model Experimentally Realized
November 11, 2021
Researchers accurately replicate the predictions of the 1D random-field Ising model in an artificial spin ice.
synopsis Observing Iron Under Pressure
November 9, 2021
Femtosecond-resolved x-ray diffraction images of iron’s crystals as they deform under an extreme load show that the material’s elastic-plastic transition comes after a surprisingly long elastic phase.
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