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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.

Physics and Astronomy End-of-Year BBQ, Thursday, June 3, 2010 11:30 am until 1 pm, the lawn outside building 8 PHYSICS and ASTRONOMY SEMINAR: PHYSICS and ASTRONOMY SEMINARS: Seminars are currently held on select Thursdays, 11 am, at 8-241 (unless indicated otherwise). Please check schedule of seminars for titles, speaker information, and abstracts of the upcoming talks.

Dr. Alex Rudolph receives $1.24 Million NSF Grant to Advance Astronomy Education, Research, in collaboration with University of Arizona. The 5-year project is titled: The California-Arizona Minority Partnership for Astronomy Research and Education (CAMPARE). Read more about the news featured at PolyCentric...

Prof. Kai S. Lam's new book titled Non-relativistic Quantum Theory: Dynamics, Symmetry, and Geometry (August 2009) has just been published. This textbook is mainly for physics students at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate levels, especially those with a theoretical inclination.

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”

Physics and Astronomy News Archive

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

 


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