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Welcome to the Physics Department

The department offers the BS degree in Physics, and is one of the largest in the California State University system, serving about 70 Physics majors and a much larger number of other students through its service and general education courses.

The department currently has 17 tenure track faculty with interests in a variety of areas of Physics, but with special strength in the area of Physics Education.

Biological Physics Research and Teaching at Cal Poly Pomona Physics Department features in the April 2009 issue of The Biological Physicist Newsletter, which is published by the Division of Biological Physics of the American Physical Society.

Gregorio Villar III, a physics major at Cal Poly Pomona features in a video on the website of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The video is entitled “Student of the Stars”

Mark Massie, president of Nova Sensors and a Cal Poly Pomona Physics alumnus, presented a talk entitled "Night Vision Technology, Or What It’s Like To See The World Through Infrared Eyes." Pictures during and after the talk can be viewed here. Please check back later for pictures and videos taken by the thermal camera manufactured by Nova Sensors.

PHYSICS and ASTRONOMY RESEARCH OPEN HOUSE: Tuesday, May 12 and Wednesday, May 13. Learn about research projects and opportunities, and visit your professors at their offices and labs. Start your visit at room 3-2011 for refreshments and general information. Click here for available times, rooms, and research specialty of the participating professors, with links to professors' websites.

Dr. Alex Small receives prestigious Cotrell College Science Award from Research Corporation.

ATTENTION ALUMS: We are particularly interested in reestablishing and maintaining contact with you. Please visit the Alumni Guestbook and then use the link provided there to send us your news and contact information. THANKS!

Recent and Upcoming Department Events

Schedule of Department Seminars

Physics in the News

NEW! The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics
For the discovery of the mechanism and origin of broken symmetry
Past Nobels (from Wikipedia)

Physics News Updates (from AIP)

News and more from physlink


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Floor plans for new Physics area in Building 3

 


Last modified on May 20, 2009
 
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