The longest running experiment at McMurdo is leaving the station, but it’s not moving too far away, Antarctically speaking. The CosRay experiment, which has been recording changes in the stream of cosmic rays striking Earth since 1960, is relocating to the new South Korean station, Jang Bogo, about 230 miles away. It’s one of the closest stations to McMurdo, but because of Antarctica’s untamed nature, it’s a four-year project to move everything.
Jan. 20, 2016 - Unless you are already schooled in this field of science and technology, you may need an analogy to put the University of Delaware's new Nanofabrication Facility into perspective. The "Machine Shop of the 21st Century," as co-directors Matthew Doty and John Xiao call it, will enable work at the nanoscale, a scale so small you can't see it with your eyes or even a conventional microscope.
NORBERT MULDERS MEMORIAL DAY
Date: Sunday March 13, 2016
Location: Deerfield Golf and Tennis Club, Newark, Delaware, USA
507 Thompson Station Rd Newark, DE 19711-7504
P: (302) 368-6640 F: (302) 368-6642
http://www.deerfieldgolfclub.com
November 10, 2015 - Just a few hundred yards from the house where Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) lived in Arcetri for the last nine years of his life, the University of Delaware's William Matthaeus is working to further the world's understanding of the heliosphere - the big bubble of magnetism that holds the solar system together - and especially its turbulent nature. Matthaeus, professor of physics and astronomy who specializes in heliospheric plasma physics and turbulence theory, is steering the Arcetri 2015 Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics this week.
October 14, 2015 - Perturbation theory (PT) is an essential tool for the mathematical modeling of physical systems. It allows one to approximate the solution of a complex problem in terms of the solution of a much simpler unperturbed one. PT can be used to find approximations to almost anything and it is used across fields in the physical and engineering sciences: the deflection of a wing and the magnetic moment of nuclei furnish examples from an endless list of possible applications.
A hearty congratulations is extended to Professor Michael Shay who has just been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The citation, which will appear on his Fellowship Certificate, will read: “For pioneering contributions to understanding magnetic reconnection, including the nature of collisionless reconnection, and of plasma turbulence.” This is a great achievement - it is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership.