
University of Miami Department of Physics
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http://physics.as.miami.edu 12-02-2022 03:37:03
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We are pleased to have Dr. Haocun Yu from the University of Vienna give our Physics Colloquium talk tomorrow (Monday) from 4-5 pm! ๐ Dr. Yu received her PhD in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she worked with LIGO group on quantum optical techniques for gravitational-wave detectors





Please RT!! The Physics Department is organizing "PHYSICS FUN!!" -- our Annual Public Outreach event on Saturday, March 1, 2025 !! ๐ Kids and adults will have hands-on activities to play and have fun with physics!! ๐ญ ๐ ๐ช ๐ซ ๐ช ๐ก ๐ Please rsvp here: events.miami.edu/event/physicsfโฆ



Our Department Astronomers are helping to organize this nice public โStar Partyโ event tomorrow (Saturday) at the Everglades NP: nps.gov/ever/planyourvโฆ It should be great fun!! go to Everglades for a nice Saturday Star Party!! ๐ ๐ญ ๐ University of Miami



Congrats to Physics Prof. Sheyum Syed and colleagues!! Their new paper on high-resolution and high-throughput methods for analysis of geotactic behavior in Drosophila just got published in the Journal of Experimental Biology !! ๐ฅณ ๐ link to paper: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22โฆ


MUSIC from SCIENCE: "Sonic explorations of coral larvae swimming data" ๐ ๐ต ๐ชธ (Please RT) Come join a musical recital event on Tue April 29 at 7 pm by my postdoc Melissa Ruszczyk & Indigo Knecht and colleagues at St. Bede Episcopal Chapelย at University of Miami Coral Gables campus!!


CONGRATULATIONS to my first PhD student Bikram Shrestha for successfully defending his thesis!! ๐ฅณ ๐ This marks a major milestone for Bikram, me, and our lab!! University of Miami University of Miami Department of Physics


Space debrisโtens of thousands of pieces of the stuffโremains a problem, posing a threat to working satellites! UM Physics Department Astrophysicist and Chair Prof. Massimiliano Galeazzi explains the risks and whatโs being done to address the issue: news.miami.edu/stories/2025/0โฆ

Congratulations to the 2025 UM Physics Department Annual Student Award Winners!! ๐ ๐ Graduate Student Award winner: Shubham Sinha ๐ Undergraduate Student Award winner: Pedro Beron-Vera ๐ (Hirschberg award for graduating physics majors) University of Miami


#UMiami researchers study how coral larvae swim to unlock the secrets of coral survival. bit.ly/3H6jrWf University of Miami Rosenstiel School Frost School of Music at the University of Miami UM Arts&Sciences

Excited to share this "Music from Science" project led my postdoc Melissa! Watch the video (with sound)! These are original music compositions created from research data on corals from our lab! ๐๐ชธ๐ผ Here is a news article with more details: news.miami.edu/sto.../2025/05โฆ University of Miami

"From astrophysics ๐ to AI ๐ค " ๐ University of Miami PhD in Physics alumnus Dominic Sicilian is employing the artificial intelligence skills he mastered as a physics student in the financial sector. Follow his fascinating journey in this article below! ๐ news.miami.edu/as/stories/202โฆ

Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. Chaoming Song !! His latest paper was published in American Physical Society flagship journal -- Physical Review Letters! ๐ "Zero Curvature Condition for Quantum Criticality" University of Miami journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1โฆ