2015 Physics Slam - University of Oregon


Contestant Bios

We are pleased to have six outstanding UO faculty to offer entertaining presentations on their research interests at the second UO Physics Slam. We look forward to seeing you on campus, Wednesday, April 8.

Jim Brau

Soft materials physics

Eric Corwin completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2007 and has been on the physics faculty at UO since 2010. He specializes in soft condensed matter. One of his interests is "jamming." How can you best fill space with simple geometric objects? Eric is an expert on this everyday question which has surprising applications!

 

 

Astrophysics

Scott Fisher is Astronomy instructor and Outreach Coordinator at UO. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 2001 and has been a member of the UO physics faculty since 2012. Scott participates in UO's Science Literacy Program.

 

 

High energy particle theory

Graham Kribs joined the UO physics faculty in 2005. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1998. His research interests involve applying theoretical particle physics to outstanding problems in the standard model of fundamental particles, particle astrophysics, and the early universe of the Big Bang.

 








 

High energy particle experiment

Stephanie Majewski has been a member of the UO physics faculty since 2012. She completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2007 and came to UO after working as a research associate with the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. During her time with Brookhaven she spent much of her time in residence at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland; she continues to be active working on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. She is looking for evidence of new particles, known as superpartners to standard particles, in the ATLAS data.

 

Quantum physics experiments

Ben McMorran joined the UO physics faculty in 2011 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 2009. His field of research interest involves developing and applying advanced techniques in electron microscopy, coherent optics, and nanofabrication to gain fundamental insights into the properties and quantum behavior of matter. His UO lab has pioneered the use of nanofabricated diffractive optical elements to sculpt electron matter waves with picoscale feature sizes. What's picoscale? Come to the slam to find out!

 

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Biophysics

Holding a 2002 Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Raghuveer Parthasarathy has been a Physics professor at the University of Oregon since 2006. His research interests involve biophysics, especially the physical properties of lipid membranes and the assembly of multicellular structures like developing embryos, both of which his group explores using new sorts of optical microscopy. His teaching interests mostly involve courses for non-science majors including, for example, a recently developed "biophysics for non-scientists" class (The Physics of Life).