William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute

Check out this research from Physics Professor Lindsay Glesener and her group.

Launching sounding rockets to study solar flares Researchers in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering, including Physics and Astronomy Professor Lindsay Glesener, are part NASA’s fi...

Join the School of Physics and Astronomy for "Towards Artificial Life with DNA Nanotechnology," presented by Paul Chaikin (Silver Professor, New York University). Self-replication and evolution under selective pressure are inherent phenomena in life, but few artificial systems exhibit these phenomena. Professor Chaikin's research group designed a process and a system of DNA origami tiles that exponentially replicate a seed pattern, doubling (or more) the copies in each diurnal-like cycle of temperature and UV illumination, producing more than 7 million copies in 24 cycles. They demonstrate environmental selection in growing populations by incorporating pH sensitive binding in two sub-populations and also use DNA origami to self-assemble complex arrangements of microspheres and emulsion droplets.
https://click.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=9a1700f2a7f790cdc8f59784b547857bd182e78619c27d7b1bf01afe1071e9f68fd184b75503603a4a57a595093f2bf0983a7a191dfb0361

Interested in science communication? Register for Speaking Science 2024!

The 7th annual Black, Indigenous Women, & Women of Color (BIWWOC) networking event will be held on Tuesday, April 16, from 4:30pm-7pm in the McNamara Alumni Center, Johnson Great Room. Heavy appetizers and parking vouchers will be provided.

This event will connect underrepresented undergraduate women with professional black, indigenous women & women of color in STEM fields, and introduce them to various career options.

If you can make it, please let us know by filling out the Google form by Friday, March 26, 2024. https://forms.gle/HbUcthTLwf1wtoti6

Miss out on attending the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis?
Check out FTPI's March Meeting workshop on YouTube.

FTPI March Meeting 2024 Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

Happy International Women's Day to all of the incredible women students, faculty, researchers, staff, and alumni of CSE!

Jacob Haqq-Misra (B.S. ’05), astrobiologist at Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, has a few thoughts about UFOs. From the Winter '24 issue of Minnesota Alumni.

📸: Jacob Haqq Misra

College of Liberal Arts | University of Minnesota

https://www.minnesotaalumni.org/stories/the-truth-is-out-there

Two University of Minnesota professors elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 Six alumni also elected to receive the highest professional honor awarded to an engineerMINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (02/07/2024)—University of Minnesota-Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering Professors Catherine French and Timothy Lodge have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering ...

The Spring 2024 Career Fair is coming up on February 6 at 3M Arena at Mariucci! The deadline for employers to register is THIS WEDNESDAY, January 10!

This is a great opportunity to connect with talented students and recent alumni from 20 majors! 📝Learn more at https://cse.umn.edu/college/career/career-fair-information-employers

The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute is proud to host the 16th Annual Misel Family Lecture. This lecture is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

"ICECUBE: Opening a Neutrino Window on the Universe from the South Pole"

Professor Francis Halzen
Vilas and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
7:00 p.m. in the McNamara Alumni Center, Memorial Hall

Please register through the UMN Events Calendar (registration is encouraged but not required):

2023 Misel Family Lecture The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute is proud to host the 16th Annual Misel Family Lecture. This lecture is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLI...

SPA Football/Soccer Game

Check out these stellar scientists...

Congratulations to Physics & Astronomy Associate Professor Vlad Pribiag and his team on getting this.
College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

UMN-led team receives $1.4M Keck Foundation grant to study possible breakthrough in quantum computing A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities Associate Professor Vlad Pribiag has received an award from the W. M. Keck Foundation to study a new process that could lead to a breakthrough in quantum computing.

U of M professor reflects on stunning new images from NASA telescope The James Webb Space Telescope will offer astronomers the sharpest images of the early universe ever captured — and a University of Minnesota professor is part of a program that has secured observation time.

Interested in black holes? Check out this Public Lecture on May 10th hosted by the Seven Pines Symposium and the
Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of the Shadow: Imaging a Supermassive Black Hole
Peter Galison, Harvard University

Tuesday May 10, 2022 7pm CDT
Online webinar
Register: z.umn.edu/SevenPines

In thousands of atlases depicting the working objects of inquiry—from bodies, clouds, plants, to crystals and insects—physicians and natural philosophers worked out what counted as scientific objectivity. This long-term history, with its various takes on what a reliable scientific image should be, converged in the years-long struggle of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to produce a picture of a black hole robust enough to make public. On April 10, 2019, the team released the first image leased of a black hole, an image viewed within a very few days by more than a billion people. This talk is about how the EHT team of some 200 scientists came to judge the glowing, crescent-like ring as objective.

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Seven PInes 2022. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Peter Galison Philosophy of the Shadow: Imaging a Supermassive Black Hole In thousands of atlases depicting the working objects of inquiry— from bodies, clouds, plants, to crystals and insects—physicians and natural philosophers worked out what counted as scientific objectivity. This long-term h...

Congratulations to Claudia Scarlata for being awarded the 2022 Distinguished McKnight University Professor Award!
Prof. Scarlata is part of the Minnesota Institute of Astrophysics (MIfA).

https://scholarswalk.umn.edu/faculty-awards/mcknight-awards/distinguished




School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Distinguished McKnight University Professors | Scholars Walk The Distinguished McKnight University Professorship program recognizes outstanding faculty members who have recently achieved full professor status. Recipients hold the title “Distinguished McKnight University Professor” for as long as they remain employed at the University of Minnesota. Instruc...

Come help us celebrate Pi Day and contribute to Starbase Minnesota!
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CSE Public Lecture | College | College of Science and Engineering Rising to the Moment Register now for the second installment in the College of Science and Engineering’s new public lecture series, "Rising to the Moment," featuring Dr. Jayshree Seth, a 3M corporate scientist and the company’s first chief science advocate. Dr. Seth will discuss her unique role ...

A.O.C. Nier Lecture: "The NASA Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal World"
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022
4-5 p.m. (Central)
Zoom


Register Now: https://click.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=25d4bedd3301f11deff0439f663bb633f92b07742ebe6435f7a3e83158f34ef55c8c5646e924a9f246959ff562e09855132cbadf2ca5e76b
Join the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and the School of Physics and Astronomy for "The NASA Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal World" with Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton.

The NASA Psyche Mission is a journey to a metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. What makes the asteroid Psyche unique is that it appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of our solar system. The spacecraft will launch in August 2022 and rendezvous with asteroid Psyche in 2026.

Elkins-Tanton is the Pysche Mission Principal Investigator and one of the world’s foremost authorities on asteroids. She will discuss what we know about Psyche, the many things we do not know, and the importance of asteroids to understanding the origins of planets.
College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Twin Cities NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

2022 A.O.C. Nier Lecture | Earth & Environmental Sciences | College of Science and Engineering The NASA Psyche Mission (https://psyche.asu.edu/) is a journey to a metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. What makes the asteroid Psyche unique is that it appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of our solar system. The spacecraft...

UMN Headlines: February 2022 Featuring selected highlights of the latest news from around the University of Minnesota System.Transcript:As we jump into 2022, we celebrate incredible rece...

Check out our new Dean!

Meet the Dean - Andrew G. Alleyne Hear about Andrew Alleyne's path from curious kid to the new Dean of the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering, his thoughts on leadersh...

College of Science and Engineering
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021
4-5:30 p.m. (Central)
Keller Hall, Room 3-180 and on Zoom

https://click.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=c36c9206f3ab86819bce891a77303f83e9dd34d3fef0e4601350080640a90eae4901f928cbdc017ea865b5784301b12fb40c929d67a25a10
College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Three Minute Thesis (3MT)
3M

2021 CSE 3MT Registration 2021 CSE 3MT Registration

Happy Fall everyone! Enjoy it while it lasts.

The CSE Mentor Program is open to all CSE sophomores, juniors, and seniors. There is a specialized actuarial science option for interested students. First-year students are asked to wait a year to gain academic experience and perspective.
https://cse.umn.edu/college/cse-mentor-program
Registration deadline is Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.

Returning mentee? If you’ve participated in the program before, you can simply retrieve, update, and resubmit your previous registration without starting from scratch. If you'd like to continue with your mentor from last year, please indicate that on the form.

2021-2022 CSE Mentor Program Timeline
Aug. 2 — Sept. 24 Mentor recruitment and registration
Sept. 7 — Sept. 24 Student recruitment and registration
Sept. 29 — Oct. 6 Students choose their mentor
Oct. 7 Mentors and students are notified of matches
Oct. 28 Meet Your Partner Event (optional, in-person)
College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

CSE Mentor Program | College | College of Science and Engineering Helping students build their professional network and career skills Each fall, more than 200 CSE students are matched with industry professionals who provide valuable career information, insights, and strategies. The CSE Mentor Program, which begins in October and ends in April every school year, is...

Come watch Physics Force at the Minnesota State Fair!

U of M Stage—Dan Patch Avenue and Underwood Street
Saturday, August 28th at 10 AM and 11 AM
Sunday, August 29th at 10 AM and 11 AM

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Minnesota State Fair

Register now to be a 2021-22 Mentor!
Registration deadline is Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.

https://cse.umn.edu/college/cse-mentor-program
College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

CSE Mentor Program | College | College of Science and Engineering Helping students build their professional network and career skills Each fall, more than 200 CSE students are matched with industry professionals who provide valuable career information, insights, and strategies. The CSE Mentor Program, which begins in October and ends in April every school year, is...

Are you starting on campus this fall? Skip the lines and upload your own photo.
https://ucard.umn.edu/umtc/photo-upload

Photo Upload Upload a Photo of Your Choice for Your U Card! Once you have submitted your photo, we will notify you via your U of M email that your photo has been accepted or if you will need to resubmit. 1st Year Students & Transfer Students - After you have initiated your student ID, go to www.mail.umn.edu to a...