Five physics graduates participated in IUSB Commencement exercises on Tuesday, May 7. Four of them are pictured here with Prof. Emeritus Jerry Hinnefeld — Phillip Derrickson, Zach Groshans, Joy Thompson, and Michael Wujcik. The fifth, Emilee Edmonds, processed with the Platform Party as this year’s student speaker. Here she is giving her speech and receiving… Read more »
Meet the “Stars” Event
Details: The IUSB Observatory will be open, weather permitting, from 7:00-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 15. Two of the best object for visual observing, Saturn and Jupiter, are in the evening sky these days, and we’ll be slewing the telescope back and forth between them, with maybe a short detour to Uranus, during this event…. Read more »
MTS Event: Wednesday, April 12th (Venus, Mars, and Stars!)
CURRENT STATUS: Conditions for the 12th are looking good! Details: The IUSB Observatory will be open, weather permitting, from 8:30-10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12th. Venus will still be high enough to view with the telescope at 8:30. Then we’ll have a look at Mars, and then a variety of star clusters and maybe a… Read more »
Green Comet
I braved the cold Tuesday night (11F when I finished at 10 pm) to get a few photos of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) from the IUSB Observatory, using our color CCD camera and the 90 mm aperture refractor. The field of view is too small to see the tail — about a quarter of a… Read more »
Orion Nebula
I had hoped to capture an image of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) during the brief break in the clouds on Jan. 23, but it was too low in the sky — barely 10 deg above the horizon. Instead, I took a few photos of the Orion Nebula. The photo below was taken with our Atik… Read more »
M57 photo
The main event last Thursday in the IUSB Observatory was an attempted exoplanet detection with students Emilee Edmonds, Phillip Derrickson, and Liz Turpin — data still to be analyzed. But I stuck around afterward for a while and took this photo of M57, the Ring Nebula. It’s a 120-second exposure with active guiding, after adjusting… Read more »
I happened to notice this plaque…
…the other day as I was leaving Notre Dame’s Nuclear Science Lab. I was not aware that Luis Morales (IUSB Physics BS ’14) was a co-recipient of this award in 2020. The award is named for a grad school friend of mine, who returned to serve as the director of accelerator operations for the lab… Read more »
Unfortunate timing…
I had to choose between Luis Morales‘s (IUSB Physics BS ’14) contributed talk and Dr. Andrew Ratkiewicz‘s (IUSB Physics BS ’06) invited talk at 3:00 p.m. EDT Saturday at the (virtual) Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP). My solution was to listen to Luis’s talk and then join Andrew’s 1/3 of… Read more »
Field Museum 2003
Learn about the IUSB Physics 50/200 Celebration In 2003 the physics department organized an excursion to Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. Maybe you can find yourself in this group photo from that day… If you have photos from your time at IUSB, we’d be happy to share them here! Send them to jhinnefe@iusb.edu or… Read more »
NCUR trips
Learn about the IUSB Physics 50/200 Celebration IUSB physics students have presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) on at least three occasions. Here’s a photo of Jerry Hinnefeld, Nana Boateng, and Savan Kharel at NCUR 2008 at Salisbury University in Maryland… …and here are IUSB student presenters at the famous Moosewood restaurant… Read more »