George B. Arfken Scholar-In-Residence Lecture George B. Arfken was a professor of physics from 1952 to 1983, and chair of the department from 1956 to 1972. Widely known for his college text, ...

As the premier space-based facility for near- and mid-infrared astronomy, the 6.5-meter space telescope includes four state-of-the-art instruments with imaging, spectroscopy, and coronagraphy ...

University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...

Andrea Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy and recipient of the “My Last Lecture Award,” is pictured left. Jamie Cheung, vice president of the Alumni Scholars Club, which hosted the event ...

This year the summer school contained seminar talks by eight invited lectures which covered the research areas of AMO physics ...

The 72nd series of these lectures will be held each Saturday through Dec. 11 (except for Nov. 27, Thanksgiving weekend; and Dec. 4, when the annual “Physics With A Bang” holiday lecture and open house ...

This spring’s free lectures series will be held 11 a.m. Saturday mornings at the Kersten Physics Teaching Center through June 2 (except for Memorial Day weekend). The series is named for pioneering ...

With the help of innovative large-scale simulations on various supercomputers, physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University ...

Oct. 17, Tuesday -- Our entire outlook is about to change as physicists put forward theories that our universe is just a tiny pocket in a stupendous landscape, says Leonard Susskind, professor of ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...