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West Lafayette, IN
47907-2036
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(765) 494-2970
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Department of Physics - Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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News
Purdue Press Releases
- Trustees approve department name change
- Patents by Prof. David Koltick and Prof. David Nolte recognized by Purdue Research Foundation
- Grad student Ran An wins top prize at Burton Morgan Business Plan Competition
- $1M Keck Foundation Grant awarded to team led by Prof. Michael Manfra
- Prof. David Nolte and Ian Shipsey elected AAAS Fellows
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Alumni in the News
- Dr. Kara Hoffman and Dr. John Monnier named Outstanding Alumni for 2013
- Rebecca Barfknecht and Dr. Mark Ramsbey Named Outstanding Alumni for 2012
- Dr. Roger Dixon Named Distinguished Alumni for 2013
- Dr. David Leckrone - Distinguished Alumnus 2012
- 2011 Outstanding Alumni: Charles Beetz & Penny Warren
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News from the Department
- Department to host RHIC/STAR Experiment Analysis Meeting
- Physics Outreach brings interactive experiments to the Scouts
- Prof. Albert Overhauser remembered in Physics Today
- Purdue physicists’ observation sparks debate on radioactive decay rates
- President France Córdova awarded honorary Doctorate
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Physics News
- Purdue Hosts 2013 Midwest Cold Atom Workshop (MCAW)
- Milky Way Gas Cloud Causes Multiple Images of Distant Quasar
- Prof. Melosh leads team that solves long-standing moon mystery
- Prof. David Miller explains Higgs boson on CBS radio
- Prof. Jay Melosh's Asteroid Research Highlighted in Press Release
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Purdue Physics in the News
- Prof. Chris Greene wins Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
- Purdue physicists part of discovery of rare particle decay predicted by the Standard Model
- Nano machine shop shapes nanowires, ultrathin films | R&D Mag
- Prof. Jay Melosh explains comet fly-by
- Radioactive decay rates may be more variable than once thought
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Open Positions
Faculty Positions
"Big Data" Faculty Position - Assistant Professor Level
Experimental Particle Physics - Associate or Full Professor level
Experimental AMO - Assistant Professor level
Theoretical Biological Physics - Assistant Professor level
All open positions
Upcoming Events
General Colloquium
Thursday March 13, 2014
Philip Anfinrud
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health Laboratory of Chemical Physics
"Picosecond Photobiology: Watching a Signaling Protein Function in Real Time via 150 Picosecond Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction and Solution Scattering"
4:00pm PHYS 203 (Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 242)
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Biophysical, Physical Bioinorganic & Bionanotechnology Seminar
Monday March 10, 2014
Ziya Kalay
Inst. for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto Univ.
Lateral diffusion in a fluid membrane containing immobile particles
3:30am Physics 242 (Coffee and cookies served at 3:15pm.)
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Condensed Matter Seminar
Today, Friday March 07, 2014
(APS March Meeting) NO SEMINAR
3:30pm