News and Events
Departmental Picnic
May 17, 2008
The department convened its (first in a long time) annual potluck picnic at Mill River. Thanks to all those who helped organize the event and arranged for the perfect weather.
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Student Awards 2008
May 14, 2008
The department hosted its annual awards luncheon for graduate students and physics majors today. This year's honorees include
seated (L to R):
James Schneeloch (Hasbrouck Scholarship Award),
Karthik Prakhya (Chang Freshman Award),
John Barrett (21st Century Leaders Award),
Jamie Hutchison (Dandamudi Rao Scholarship),
Yitzhak Calm (Cook Scholarship),
Shaina Rogstad (Chang Transfer Student Award),
David Ouellette (Hasbrouck Scholarship Award);
standing (L to R):
Kathleen MCNamara (Quinton Teaching Assistant Award),
Thomas Brown (Kandula Book Award),
Patrick Rogan (Chang Freshman Award),
Preema Pais (Quinton TA Award),
German Colon (AAPT TA Prize),
Colin Lally (Kandula Book Award),
Andrew O'Donnell ((Kandula Book Award),
Peter Mistark (Kandula Book Award),
Keith Landry (Hasbrouck Scholarship & Youngren Award).
Congratulations to all!
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Heavy Z's and Black Holes
Mar. 6, 2008
Research by UMass Profs. Stephane Willocq and Carlo Dallapiccola is featured in this week's "In the Loop"
newsletter.
The experiment they work on, the Atlas Experiment at CERN, is expected to answer a number of fundamental questions about the nature of matter, in particular how particles acquire mass. Atlas, set to begin data taking this year, is located at the 27-kilometer LHC storage ring in Geneva where billions of protons will travel close to the speed of light and generate one billion collisions per second. Prof. Willocq proposes to use the Atlas data to search for
evidence of heavy Z bosons, while Prof. Dallapiccola hopes to search for
evidence of microscopic black holes.
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