UROP Funding – Applications Due September 18, 2013
Just a note for those who are interested that funding for UROP that applications for the fall semester are due on September 13th. More information can be found at the UROP website here.
Author Archives: Preethi
MGH Proton Center Tour
Saturday, January 29th, Photon attended a tour of medical physics at Massachusetts General Hospital. This tour was hosted by Dr. George Chen. He showed Photon members the Proton Center and the linear accelerator the cyclotron.…
Student Research Talks
On November 5th, we listened to talks given by some of the members of Photon on their research. Trey Wenger : Proving the Existence of Cold Dark Matter Michael Dimitriyev: W-Wz Search at the CMS…
Talks 2009-2010
During this school year, we had many interesting research talks given my Boston University physics professors, graduate students and even undergrads. Here is a list of the talks that were given and their topic: Prof.…
Pumpkin Drop 2009
The Pumpkin drop is an even held every year by BU’s Physics department. The experiment collides pumpkins of varying size and content with the earth. Last year, they were looking for the Higgs Boson, this…
MIT Fusion Tour
Fusion technology has great potential for the energy generation. It also makes for a really fun physics tour. The tokamak reactor at MIT is one of the leading fusion test reactors in the world and Zach, our tour…
SPS Boston area Picnic
Last Saturday was the first annual SPS Boston area picnic! Northeastern hosted about 20 BU and UMass Lowell students along with another 20 NU students. The event was the first of hopefully many such group…
SPS Meeting Schedule
Hey all! We just posted the schedule of events and some biographies of our two featured speakers for our SPS Meeting. These, like previous documents are available in pdf form. If anyone is having trouble…
New Photos
Hey all! We now have an snazzy new photo gallery. Check it out on the Pictures page.
New Website
Hey all, we’ve done yet another overhaul of our website. This site now uses WordPress, a wonderful open source project that adds awesome new features. For example, you can now post comments on various parts…