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Seminars and Events

BSU Department of Physics Invites You to Join the First Friday Astronomy.

First Friday Astronomy is open to the public and happens every first Friday (even in the summer months).

Lectures start at 7:30 pm (MT) in the Liberal Arts Building (LART), room 106. Events are open to the public and donation-supported.

Please note: Our location has changed and will now be in the Liberal Arts Building, not the Education building.

You can donate at boi.st/astronomy and live-stream at boi.st/astrobroncoslive.

Summer 2024 Line Up:

List of presenters:

  1. May 3, 2024 – Tim Frazier, Professor Emeritus – Aurorae or I Took a Wrong Turn at the Airport
  2. June 7, 2024 – Coming Soon 
  3. July 5, 2024 – Dr. Elizabeth Macdonald, Space Physicist, NASA Goddard – What is the Aurora and How Can You Get Involved in Aurora Research?  
  4. August 2, 2024 – Dr. Jason Williams, Project Scientist for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab – NASA’s Cold Atom Lab: Six Years of Quantum Science on the International Space Station

To see Upcoming Event Details, head to Physics Events.

Physics Spring Colloquium Series:

You’re invited to the Physics Colloquium Series. Lectures start at 1:30 pm in Multi-Purpose Building, room 408, every Friday. April 12th’s lecture will be held in Multi-Purpose Building, room 101.

Contact physics@boisestate.edu for questions. If you would like to attend virtually, follow this link https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/99936584173.

List of presenters:

  1. January 19, 2024 – Zhangxian Deng,  Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Boise State Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering – Additive Manufacturing of Magnetically-responsive Smart Materials
  2. January 26, 2024 – Lan Li,  Ph.D, Associate Professor, Boise State Materials Science and Engineering – DNA-Templated Dye Aggregate Design for Quantum Information Applications Using Data-Driven Multi-scale Modeling Approaches
  3. February 2, 2024 – Elisabeth Adams, Ph.D, Senior Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute – Finding the Next Doomed Worlds
  4. February 9, 2024 – Micron Engineers – Micron Technology Information Session –
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     Micron is the 4th largest semiconductor company in the world, and the only memory manufacturer in the United States, and we are headquartered right here in Boise, Idaho. We are looking to grow the next generation of talented engineers
  5. February 16, 2024 – Shibani Basu, Ph.D, Research Scholar, Boise State Materials Science and Engineering – DNA-Controlled Dye Aggregation– A Path to Create Quantum Entanglement
  6. February 23, 2024 – Janine Andrys, Ph.D, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Boise State Geoscience – Creating Earth’s Continental Crust
  7. CANCELLED – March 1, 2024 – Lauren Mc Keown, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Plumes and Spiders in the Laboratory: Insights for Surface Processes on Mars and Europa
  8. March 8, 2024 – Todd Otanicar, Ph.D, Chair/Professor, Boise State Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering – High Temperature Solar Thermal Energy as a Pathway to Decarbonization
  9. March 15, 2024 – Jay Wright, Graduate Student, Boise State Materials Science and Engineering – Epitaxially Stabilized Hexagonal Scandium Ferrite Growth and Characterization
  10. March 29, 2024 – Erin Mannen, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Boise State Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering – The Biomechanics of Infant Product Safety
  11. April 5, 2024 – Preston Hazen, Ph.D. Student, Boise State Biomolecular Sciences – Analyzing the Interactions of Alpha- and Beta-Crystallin with the Eye Lens-Lipid Membrane
  12. April 12, 2024 – Shulei Cao, Ph.D, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Boise State Physics – Dark Energy: Cosmic Geometry and Growth of Structure
  13. April 19, 2024 – Aaron Sup, M.S, Special Lecturer, Boise State Physics – Hopping Excitons and Quantum Computing

To see Upcoming Event Details, head to Physics Events.

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