On Friday, 10/31st the department put on a modest mid-day Halloween party. The winner of the costume contest was post-doctoral researcher Wren Vetens, dressed in her witch costume. The lucky winner chose the 10lb McMaster-Carr catalogue over a tote of swag—and got to keep both!

Please join us this Thursday in welcoming David Grier, professor of physics at New York University, for his talk titled, "Thunder and Lightning—A Revolution in Wave-Matter Interactions." See you there!

Please join us in welcoming Ahmed Diallo, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) , for his talk titled, "Spin-Polarized Fuel for Enhanced Tritium Self-Sufficiency and Electric Power Output!"

On 10/04/2025, Professor Emeritus Dr. Allen Miller met with Central New York high school physics teachers. This meeting was a discussion of the changes in the physics high school curriculum mandated this year by the State Education Department.

The Physics main office staff celebrated Boss Day by gifting department chair Mitch Soderberg a brand new mug!

Congratulations to Jennifer Ross, @syracusephysics professor and associate dean for creativity, scholarship and research in A&S, as she takes on a new role as interim dean for @EngineeringSU ⬇️

Please join us in welcoming Karen Daniels, distinguished professor of physics at North Carolina State University, for her talk titled, "Granular Flow and Rigidity: From the Lab to the Solar System." We hope to see you there!

Please join us in welcoming Vesna Mitrovic, chair of physics at Brown University, for her talk titled, "Novel Glimpse into Ground States of Quantum Matter." Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to the new Dr. Krishnan for a successful defense of her dissertation titled, “Cargo Transport and Material Properties in Microtubule Networks through the Roles of Mesh Size, Crosslinking, and Dynamics.” 🎉 #suphysics

Please join us in welcoming Yanbei Chen, professor of physics at CalTech, for his talk titled, "Towards Experimentally Testing the Quantum Nature of Gravity." #suphysics

Please join us in welcoming Parameswaran Nair, distinguished professor of physics at City College of New York, for his talk titled, "A.P. Balachandran: Living in Physics." Hope to see you there!

Please join us in welcoming Yanbei Chen, professor of physics at CalTech, for his talk titled, "Towards Experimentally Testing the Quantum Nature of Gravity." Hope to see you there! #SUPHYSICS

Congratulations to the new Dr. Paustian, for a successful defense of his dissertation titled, "Developing best practice fabrication for niobium superconducting devices." 🎉 #suphysics

Congratulations to the new Dr. Lang for a successful defense of his dissertation titled, "|Vcb| Measurement from the Decay Lb to Lc mu nu.” 🎉 #suphysics

Congratulations to the new Dr. Pham for a successful defense of her dissertation titled, “Charmed baryon spectroscopy with \Lambda^0_b semileptonic decays.”. 🎉 #suphysics

Please join us in welcoming Jason Nordhaus, associate professor of physics at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology, for his talk titled, "What Happens When A Star Plunges Into Another Star?" #SUPHYSICS

Proud to have Scott Collier, Caleb Fink, Steven Penn, and Ruslan Podviianiuk join our department!

This weekend marked the 10-year anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves. @syracusephysics researchers played a pivotal role in this historic achievement, helping to open a new window into the Universe 🌌 Learn about their work ➡️ https://t.co/RtB8Bx7DSY

A team of @syracusephysics and @SUBiology researchers has discovered that physical forces—not just genes—help shape developing organs. This insight could pave the way for new treatments for birth defects, cancer and other health conditions.

Please join us in welcoming Neill Warrington, a postdoctoral researcher at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, for his talk titled, "Lattice Field Theory for Superconducting Circuits." #SUPHYSICS