Third place went to “Drone-based Quantum Communication,” a team that included students from FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Alexandra DeCesare, Daniel Carvalho, and Robert Snyder. Read More.
Undergraduate Student Researchers in the Quantum OWLS Lab launches Company QCSwarm, Inc. Read More.
Undergraduate students in the Quantum Information Science class led by Warner Miller, Ph.D., are in drone flight school, training to conduct quantum experiments. View photos.
Afrouz Ataei, Maryam Ghonchehnaz, and Panagiota Galanakou won awards at the FL Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine! Read more.
SPS National Office recognizes FAU student chapter. Read more.
Professor of Medical Physics elected 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Read more.
The Physics Department is dedicated to cutting-edge research and teaching immersed within a multidisciplinary science environment. At the undergraduate level, we offer BS and BA degrees. Our graduate program leads to MS and Ph.D. degrees, the Professional MS in Medical Physics, and Medical Physics Certificate for PhD holders.
Our active research areas include Classical and Quantum Gravity, Astrophysics, Physics of Materials and Biological Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Neuroscience, Nonlinear Systems, and Medical Physics.
Ananya Adhikari, M.S. '18, is working toward his second Florida Atlantic degree as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics. His dissertation spans the topics of computational general relativity, gravitational wave physics, and multimessenger astrophysics. Read more.
Qiaoyin Pan, Ph.D., gave a seminar at Beijing Normal University on Aug. 2 about the quantum gravity research she is currently conducting as a Schmidt College of Science Jumpstart Postdoctoral Program member. Read more.
When Rob Gross stands at the front of an Introduction to Physics class, nobody in the sea of faces asks questions. That is, until he starts showing the photos he has taken with a 60mm telescope and his Explore Scientific GoTo tracker mount. Read more.
Carlo Rovelli, Ph.D., enthralled a captive audience during his “White Holes: Inside the Horizon” lecture on May 9. The free event, hosted by the Department of Physics, attracted about 300 guests who were brought on an extraordinary journey surrounding the mysterious depths of a black hole and ending with the birth of a white hole. Read more.
Well over 1,000 people gathered to watch a rare partial solar eclipse on Florida Atlantic’s Boca Raton campus on April 8, hosted by the Schmidt College of Science’s Department of Physics and FAU Observatory. Read more.
Thursday, May 9, 2024 | 7:00-9:00 p.m. | Friedberg Auditorium, Osher Lifelong Learning, FAU Boca Raton Campus
Come hear New York Times bestselling author and theoretical physicist, Carlo Rovelli, Ph.D., as he guides us in exploring the exotic nature of black holes, their fate, and the science behind it. Learn more and register.
We expect to witness the 1st reaction, in that, T Corona Borealis will go Nova soon. Estimated this year, between March and Septemer, of 2024, with a greater chance occuring in April and/or May. There are patterns to T CrB's brightness, from its last flare up in 1946, that are being repeated again now. Hence, we expect it soon. Learn more.
A total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States and Canada, on Monday, April 8. The last solar eclipse took place on Aug. 21, 2017, and this astronomical event will not happen again until Aug. 12, 2045. Learn more.
What’s more romantic than stargazing? Spend a night under the stars with your sweetheart at FAU’s Astronomical Observatory on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. Don’t miss what promises to be a stellar evening!
The Observatory is located in the FAU Science Building, SE-434, on the Boca Raton campus. This event is free to all members of the public and the FAU community. No advance registration is required. For directions and event details. Read more.
Congratulations to Ata Sarajedini, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Bjorn Lamborn Endowed Chair in Astrophysics, was named a 2024 American Astronomical Society (AAS) Fellow. Read more.
BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — Science departments from Florida Atlantic University dropped pumpkins off a building Friday morning. Read more.
WPBF Channel 25 reports on the FAU Annual FAU Pumpkin Drop 2023. Watch now.
Florida Atlantic University’s Astronomical Observatory hosted a “Sidewalk Astronomy” event to view this fall’s solar eclipse, known as the “ring of fire” on Oct. 14. Read more.
Professor and Chair of Physics, Luc Wille, Ph.D., discusses the intensity of the pressure and stresses on the Titan submersible with USA Today. Read more.
The Schmidt College of Science’s Professional Science Master in Medical Physics (PSMMP) degree program provides students with a strong foundation in radiological and applied physics training within the medical physics profession so that graduates can go on to create the cutting-edge medical technologies of tomorrow. See more.
United States Rep. Cory Mills ( R-Fla.) visited Florida Atlantic University today to tour FAU’s quantum physics laboratory in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. Warner A. Miller, Ph.D., a professor of physics who spearheads the laboratory, provided an overview and demonstration of the nation’s first drone-based, mobile quantum network housed at FAU. Read more.
“Any field recognized with a Nobel Prize has the recognition of the world as being at the forefront of important science, and quantum just got this boost,” said Charles E. Schmidt College of Science professor of physics Warner Miller, Ph.D. Read more.
