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The Physics Department is taking learning out of the lab and into the field. Physics 100/200 and Physics 190 classes have been experimenting with launching pressure rockets behind the campus athletic fields. Faculty members Kristen Burson, Viva Horowitz, and Seth Major, and Director of Laboratories/Head Technician Adam Lark are making the most of this outdoor lab to teach the concepts of pressure and distance.
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Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown sat down with Rebekah Fowler '21 to talk about her favorite course to teach, why she chose Hamilton, and how to succeed in her classes.
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Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz was interviewed in a recent episode of Physics World Weekly. The podcast is from Physics World magazine, which is published for members of the Institute of Physics.
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Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz presented “Life as a professor at a liberal arts college -- and how to get the job!” in the University of Oregon’s Physics Career Seminar Series: Putting your Physics Degree to Work.
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Professor of Physics Emeritus Philip Pearle was an invited participant at a philosophy workshop that took place recently at NYU.
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Jake Zappala ’12 earned a doctorate in atomic physics at the University of Chicago, but he’s stayed true to his other favorite academic subject. Zappala writes novels for fun.
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Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz recently presented “Luminscent colloids and beyond: From dynamic artificial cells to quantum emitters” at the weekly physics colloquium at Wesleyan University.
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Professor of Physics emeritus Philip Pearle and Daniel Bedingham of Royal Holloway, University of London, published a paper titled “Continuous-spontaneous-localization scalar-field relativistic collapse model.”
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After a successful weather balloon launch and retrieval in December, the Hamilton Society of Physics students gave it another try on Sept. 21.
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Alexei Smith ’19 has known what she’s wanted out of life since high school, and at the University of Colorado Boulder, she’s one step closer to achieving her dream.
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