Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Peter Muhoro, Project Manager for the Minority Bridge Program of the American Physical Society, will be visiting our Department on November 15th. He will give a colloquium on the APS Minority Bridge Program: Preparing Minority Students for Graduate School in Physics.
While physics grants a mere 9-10% of its bachelor degrees to underrepresented minorities, it does even worse for advanced degrees, with only 5-6% eventually earning a PhD. The talent is present, but forces conspire to divert students from this path, consequently losing both capable scientists, and potential mentors for future generations. Several programs have bucked this trend and increased the number of underrepresented students who are now receiving doctoral degrees in physics. This talk will describe the American Physical Society’s Minority Bridge Program, an expansion of these successful efforts to create a network of institutions that will help undergraduates successfully navigate the transition to doctoral studies. I will describe the program’s critical features, innovative ideas, and program elements that can help address the barriers that currently keep promising students from pursuing advanced study in physics.
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Join us for Peter’s talk at 4:00 P.M., Lewis Hall Auditorium, Tuesday November 15th, 2011.
The second Oxford Science Café will be on Tuesday November 15. Dr. Jocelyn Read will talk of “the Intense life of stars after death.” Lots of time for questions and conversations afterwards. Everyone is invited, and children are welcome! Lusa Pastry Café, 1120 North Lamar, Oxford MS 38655, 6pm - 7pm.
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Schedule of Oxford Science Cafes and more info at this link.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Please join us for the inaugural Oxford Science Café on Tuesday October 18, 2011! The University of Mississippi Department of Physics and Astronomy will present a series of short public talks at Lusa Pastry Café. October’s Science Café, by Dr. Josh Gladden, is on “Airplanes to Turbulence to Dark Energy: a 30 minute tour of some physics we know and some physics we don’t know.” There will be lots of time for questions and conversations afterwards. Everyone is invited, and children are welcome!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The University of Mississippi invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the area of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. The applicant must have a Ph.D. in Physics or Astrophysics by the time of appointment and a good track record in one or more of the following research areas: gravitational-wave source modeling, numerical relativity, post-Newtonian theory, alternative theories of gravity, perturbation theory of stars and black holes.
The Gravitational and High-Energy Theory Group at the University of Mississippi is active in various areas of theoretical and experimental gravity, and is part of the LIGO collaboration. Members of the group include Emanuele Berti, Luca Bombelli, Marco Cavaglia, Alakabha Datta and Tibor Torma, adjunct professors Vitor Cardoso and Ulrich Sperhake, postdocs Jocelyn Read and Alexander Dietz, and several graduate students. The University has excellent computing facilities, which include the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research and a departmental linux computer farm. The successful applicant is expected to engage in a collaborative research program involving several institutions, including Caltech and Princeton in the USA, Lisbon, Barcelona, Rome and Aveiro in Europe, and Para’ University in Brazil (among others).
Applicants must also arrange to have at least three recommendation letters to be sent to the following email address.
grpostdoc@phy.olemiss.edu
Please use the subject “Gravitational theory postdoc”.
The University requires all applicants to submit their application (including a CV and a statement of research interests) online at the following website: https://jobs.olemiss.edu/
Please click on “search jobs” on the left, then find the Postdoctoral Research Associate for Physics and Astronomy (insert position number here)and click on “view details”.
The University of Mississippi is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA employer.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
The newsletter of the College of Liberal Arts (The View from Ventress) published an article on Ole Miss faculty members who received a CAREER Award.