Prof. Streit Lecture Notes on Probability, White Noise Analysis and Infinite Particle Systems
Lecture notes of Prof. Streit during lecture series last January 5-28, 2009 can be downloaded here.
Filipino scholar has found new source of coherent light - DOST
MANILA, Philippines — A Filipino scientist currently studying in the United States has found a new source of coherent light, like lasers, which only potentially needs lower power to operate, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said on Wednesday.
In a press statement, the DOST's Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) said Ryan Balili (OSL Faculty, MSU-IIT Physics Department), together with his adviser David Snoke of University of Pittsburgh, were able to demonstrate that the transition of particles into waves could be done at higher temperature which would require lesser power to generate.
The phenomenon is called Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC), named after Indian physicist Satyendranath Bose who worked on the statistics of monoatomic ideal gases and Albert Einstein who speculated this macroscopic coherent state
“Einstein proposed that at very low temperatures a certain type of identical particles, now called bosons, would’collapse,’ or condense, into a single quantum mechanical wave.
“However, in Balili’s work, he was able to demonstrate the same phenomenon at higher temperatures using polaritons, an energy particle which exists only in a medium that can be polarized by an electromagnetic wave," the statement explained.
It quoted Balili as saying that the main challenge was making the polariton transition into a BEC even if polaritons exist only for very short times, approximately a few picoseconds.
SPVM 2008 Announcement and Call For Papers
The Samahang Pisika ng Visayas at Mindanao (SPVM) announces the 10th SPVM National Physics Conference and Workshop to be held on October 16 - 18, 2008 at the St. Louis University, Baguio City, Philippines. This is an annual activity of the SPVM to showcase advances in physics research and education as well as enhance collaboration among physicists, physics educators and students in the Philippines, contributing to the development of the Philippine nation. The theme of this year's conference is "SPVM@Luzon: Expanding Physics Frontiers for Filipinos".
Visit the SPVM Website for additional Information at http://physics.msuiit.edu.ph/spvm
Hiring Announcement
The Department of Physics is hiring GTA’s and New Faculty Members whose terms will start on June of Academic Year 2008-09. Please note/comply the following requirements for application:
(a) Result of Personality Test at the Institute Guidance Office of MSU-IIT
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Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-04-17 08:16.Physics Faculty Members Attend International Workshop
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2005-01-07 18:34.1/7/2005 - Jagna, Bohol - Six faculty members from the Physics Department attended the 4th Jagna International Workshop on Methods and Application of Infinite Dimensional Analysis which was held on January 2-7, 2005 at Jagna, Bohol. This workshop was organized and spearheaded by Dr. Christopher C. Bernido and Maria Victoria-Carpio Bernido of the Research Center for Theoretical Physics (RCTP).