SEC Announces 2012 Faculty Achievement Award Recipients Including UK's Steven W. Yates
Steven Yates is a professor of chemistry, physics and astronomy in the UK college of Arts and Sciences.
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Renowned Physicist to Deliver Van Winter Memorial Lecture
Paul Steinhardt's lecture will focus on natural quasicrystals. He is a professor of physics and astrophysical sciences at Princeton University.
UK Founders Day Ceremony to Celebrate Faculty Achievement
A&S professors to receive awards include professors John Anthony, Phillip Crowley, Francie R. Chassen-Lopez, Joseph Straley, and Irene Chico-Wyatt
Chellgren Center Names Three New Endowed A&S Professors
Janet Eldred, Michael Kovash, and Carl Lee are the three newest endowed professors at the Chellgren Center
A&S Wired: Measuring Science with an iPad
Mike Cavagnero, the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was one of the initial faculty members to teach a class in A&S Wired in Fall of 2011. His class was titled Measuring Science. This video showcases the students' final projects, in which they used their iPads as a tool to help in their research, data and analysis.
Kirill Shtengle - Non-Abelian Anyons
University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium. A presentation on Non-Abelian Anyons by Kirill Shtengle.
Students Tackle Physics With iPads
Mike Cavagnero's experimental A&S Wired research course on the science of measurement takes undergraduate physics to a whole new level.
The High Energy Theory Group: Particle Physics, String Theory, and the Big Bang with Sumit Das
In the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the High Energy Theory Group is a collection of faculty, students, and post-doctoral researchers, investigating the origin and nature of matter and forces. The six faculty members of the group are Sumit Das, Terrence Draper, Michael Eides, Bing-An Li, Keh-Fei Liu, and Alfred Shapere. In this interview, Sumit Das describes the diverse research goals of the group, talks about applying string theory to the origins of the universe, and tells young physicists to follow their hearts.
Kentucky SkyTalks with Tim Knauer
Tim Knauer is a professor for the department of Physics and Astronomy, and the director of the MacAdam Student Observatory. Each month, he hosts the Kentucky SkyTalks, an ongoing series of discussions on the science of life and the universe.
This podcast was produced by Stephen Gordinier.
A&S Forms Partnership With Israeli University
UK President Capilouto signed a memorandum of understanding with University of Haifa Rector (Provost) David Faraggi, which bodes well for increased campus collaboration in the future.