School of Physics and Astronomy
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Three Minute Thesis Competition Challenges Students to Communicate Complex Ideas Quickly
It’s said that the average PhD thesis of 90,000 words would take nine hours to explain. Since 2008, a competition has challenged students to do it in just three minutes, using only a single static
Law Part of Team that Found Cosmic “Hamburger” has Ingredients of Giant Planet Formation
Assistant Professor Charles Law leads team that observed the earliest phases of planetary formation in Gomez’s Hamburger, an object 450 light years from Earth.
School Welcomes Professor Charles Law
Assistant Professor Charles Law is a new faculty member in the School of Physics and Astronomy and the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics. He arrives from the University of Virginia and has already
Woodward Named Co-Chair of Important Astronomy Review Study
Professor Charles "Chick" Woodward of the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics and the School of Physics and Astronomy was made Co-Chair of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Mid-Decadal
Pospelov named Solvay Chair in Physics
Professor Maxim Pospelov of the School of Physics and Astronomy and A.S. Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute has been named the 2027 Jacques and Mimi
University of Minnesota-led team helps explain what powers Jupiter’s brightest auroras
NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals how locally generated Alfvén waves accelerate particles and heat the planet’s upper atmosphere