Newsletter 3.1 - August 23, 2024
Welcome to the new school year at Loyola. Best wishes to everyone for a great start to the fall semester. Please read through the first newsletter of the semester to mark your calendar for Department events, learn about a terrific research opportunity in the Chemistry Department, find out about an exciting addition to the TPAM program, and much more!!!
Summer Kudos
- Congratulations to Hope Elgart as the recipient of the Loyola Physics Scholarship for this year!!!
- Several physics students were awarded Loyola research fellowships: Sofija Brnovich (Tangarife, Mulcahy), Alex Culver (Cannon, Mulcahy), Hope Elgart (Tangarife, Mulcahy), Bennett Korotko (Tangarife, Mulcahy), Davide Mazzucco (Abbasi, Mulcahy), Jill Paulson (Abbasi, Mulcahy), and Katherine Summers (Cannon, Carbon)
- Dr. Walter Tangarife published a paper titled “The neutrino force in neutrino backgrounds: Spin dependence and parity-violating effects” in the Journal of High Energy Physics this summer.
Exciting Degree News
- Two accelerated MS options have been added to the TPAM-BS degree. Students admitted to the MS program by the Math Department will start their graduate courses in the spring of the 4th year and will complete the MS program in the 5th year. You can view the details of the TPAM-BS/ Applied Mathematics-MS and TPAM-BS/ Applied Statistics in the course catalog. These are exciting opportunities for students to earn a MS.
Upcoming Department Events
- All new students (freshmen and transfers) are invited to the Loyola Physics Welcome Pizza Party on Thursday, September 5 @ 2:30 in Cudahy 200. We look forward to meeting all of the new members of the program.
- All students and faculty are invited to the Loyola Physics BBQ on Friday, September 20 @ 4:00 – 6:00 in Cudahy 300. There will be lots of food and games.
- Columbia Engineering will be visiting on Thursday, October 25 to meet with Loyola Physics students interested in the 3 + 2 Engineering program. This is a great opportunity to explore what Columbia Engineering can offer.
Research Opportunity
- Dr. Christophe Renault in the Chemistry Department is looking for a Loyola Physics student to build a maskless photolithography system. In short, this is a technical project to build a projection system that initiates a patterned chemical reaction to create microelectrodes on quartz substrates. Please see the attachment for more details. Interested students should contact Dr. Renault (crenault@luc.edu) as soon as possible. Also, let me know so that we can enroll you in PHYS 391 for research credit.
Superfast (and Interesting) Science News
- A hypervelocity star is moving through our galaxy at one million miles per hour. The speeding star was initially discovered by a group of citizen scientists as part of a volunteer project searching through old NASA data from the WISE mission. How the star reached these velocities is unknown, and it could eventually leave our solar system.
Welcome to the new school year at Loyola. Best wishes to everyone for a great start to the fall semester. Please read through the first newsletter of the semester to mark your calendar for Department events, learn about a terrific research opportunity in the Chemistry Department, find out about an exciting addition to the TPAM program, and much more!!!
Summer Kudos
- Congratulations to Hope Elgart as the recipient of the Loyola Physics Scholarship for this year!!!
- Several physics students were awarded Loyola research fellowships: Sofija Brnovich (Tangarife, Mulcahy), Alex Culver (Cannon, Mulcahy), Hope Elgart (Tangarife, Mulcahy), Bennett Korotko (Tangarife, Mulcahy), Davide Mazzucco (Abbasi, Mulcahy), Jill Paulson (Abbasi, Mulcahy), and Katherine Summers (Cannon, Carbon)
- Dr. Walter Tangarife published a paper titled “The neutrino force in neutrino backgrounds: Spin dependence and parity-violating effects” in the Journal of High Energy Physics this summer.
Exciting Degree News
- Two accelerated MS options have been added to the TPAM-BS degree. Students admitted to the MS program by the Math Department will start their graduate courses in the spring of the 4th year and will complete the MS program in the 5th year. You can view the details of the TPAM-BS/ Applied Mathematics-MS and TPAM-BS/ Applied Statistics in the course catalog. These are exciting opportunities for students to earn a MS.
Upcoming Department Events
- All new students (freshmen and transfers) are invited to the Loyola Physics Welcome Pizza Party on Thursday, September 5 @ 2:30 in Cudahy 200. We look forward to meeting all of the new members of the program.
- All students and faculty are invited to the Loyola Physics BBQ on Friday, September 20 @ 4:00 – 6:00 in Cudahy 300. There will be lots of food and games.
- Columbia Engineering will be visiting on Thursday, October 25 to meet with Loyola Physics students interested in the 3 + 2 Engineering program. This is a great opportunity to explore what Columbia Engineering can offer.
Research Opportunity
- Dr. Christophe Renault in the Chemistry Department is looking for a Loyola Physics student to build a maskless photolithography system. In short, this is a technical project to build a projection system that initiates a patterned chemical reaction to create microelectrodes on quartz substrates. Please see the attachment for more details. Interested students should contact Dr. Renault (crenault@luc.edu) as soon as possible. Also, let me know so that we can enroll you in PHYS 391 for research credit.
Superfast (and Interesting) Science News
- A hypervelocity star is moving through our galaxy at one million miles per hour. The speeding star was initially discovered by a group of citizen scientists as part of a volunteer project searching through old NASA data from the WISE mission. How the star reached these velocities is unknown, and it could eventually leave our solar system.