Physics Department News

Scholarship Opportunity for Masters and Doctoral students.

The Lawrence and Marie Shore Graduate Scholarship In the Life Sciences (Application and Information Attached) Deadline: April 20, 2012.

Albany physics is number 1!

According to 2011 data released by the National Research Council, the physics department at UAlbany was #1 amongst 161 physics programs nationally in the number of published articles per faculty member, #2 in the number of doctoral graduates per faculty member and #17 in the number of citations per faculty member.

Prof. MacDonald awarded four-year NIH $330k grant for "Design Studies and Optimization of Phase-Contrast Mammography

Prof. Carolyn MacDonald has been awarded a four-year (2010-2014) NIH grant worth $330k for a project entitled "Design Studies and Optimization of Phase-Contrast Mammography" with the Illinois Institute of Technology

Profs. Goyal and Knuth awarded $350k research grant from John Templeton Foundation.

Profs. Goyal and Knuth have been awarded a $350k three-year research grant for their project "Quantifying Relations as a Foundation for Physics" by the John Templeton Foundation under their "Sciences and the Big Questions" program.

Profs. Goyal and Knuth organize MaxEnt 2011

The 31st International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods was held in Waterloo, Canada on 10-15 July 2011, with many participants from U. Albany

Prof. MacDonald again program chair for SPIE Optics + Photonics 2011

Prof. Carolyn MacDonald is once again the X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Particle Technologies program chair for the large (3000+ presentations) SPIE Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego this August.