• Social Connectivity

    HEY! 

    Did you know that the Physics and Astronomy department has a Facebook page?  Or a Twitter feed?

    Check us out at either https://www.facebook.com/CarletonPhysicsAndAstronomy or https://twitter.com/CarletonPhysAst for department information and events, photos, and very cool science-related posts.

  • Women in Physics and Astronomy

    The Women in Physics and Astronomy (WiPA) group at the University of Minnesota is hosting “Physics after Undergrad”, an event for undergraduate women in physics and related fields.  We would like very much to invite female undergraduate students in your department to our 

    event

    . The basic information is as follows:

    Date: Monday October 6th, 2014
    Time: 6:15-9:15 PM
    Location: Physics and Nanotechnology Building, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, East Bank (specific room TBA)
    Who: All undergraduate women currently majoring in or interested in physics or related fields (astronomy, engineering, etc)
    RSVP:wipa@umn.edu  (preferably by Sept. 26, 2013)  (RSVP to Trenne also, so we can arrange transport!)
    Cost: FREE

  • Physics and Astronomy Speaker Joe Swiggum ’10

    Tuesday, September 30th, Phys/Astro alum Joe Swiggum ’10 will be on campus to give a talk.  He will present during common time (12:00-1:00 pm) in place of Physics Table for the week.  The talk will happen in Olin 04.  Please join us!  

     

    Abstract

    In the summer of 2007, the 100-m Green Bank Telescope (GBT) was undergoing track replacement and remained stationary for several months. The 350-MHz GBT Drift Scan survey took advantage of this down time, collecting data and searching for radio pulsars as the sky drifted overhead. About 20% of the 1,500 hours of data collected were allocated for the Pulsar Search Collaboratory (PSC) — an outreach program that aims to interest high school students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related career paths by involving students in cutting-edge pulsar research and data analysis. So far, the program has involved more than 2,500 students from 18 states, who have discovered 7 new pulsars and re-detected ~75. The discoveries include several interesting sources: a nearby millisecond pulsar, a disrupted recycled pulsar with a spin period of 33-ms, a 4.8-s pulsar that nulls 75% of the time and most recently, a 185-ms pulsar in the widest-known double neutron star system. Over 75 high school students have been included as co-authors on the first two publications describing their discoveries.

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