Physics Journal Club is open to all GU community members, meeting weekly to discuss recent developments in physics and related fields. This semester, we will meet every Friday at 4 PM in Herak 318, starting on January 19. Donuts will be provided.
Even if you have no background knowledge in physics aside from a desire to talk about it with your fellow students and faculty, you are welcomed to attend! While some papers can be rather detailed, the discussion is intended to be very broad and open to all audiences. Recommendations for topics of discussion are always appreciated!
Please sign up for the weekly reminder email for Physics Journal Club!
Photo caption: As we discussed in a paper during PJC on September 1, 2017, the image above shows the three-pronged corona of the sun during the total solar eclipse, with the star Regulus slightly below and to the left from the sun. Photo courtesy Ricardo Garza-Grande, taken in Oregon.
Upcoming Paper of the Week
Archive (Links open in separate window)
Even if you have no background knowledge in physics aside from a desire to talk about it with your fellow students and faculty, you are welcomed to attend! While some papers can be rather detailed, the discussion is intended to be very broad and open to all audiences. Recommendations for topics of discussion are always appreciated!
Please sign up for the weekly reminder email for Physics Journal Club!
Photo caption: As we discussed in a paper during PJC on September 1, 2017, the image above shows the three-pronged corona of the sun during the total solar eclipse, with the star Regulus slightly below and to the left from the sun. Photo courtesy Ricardo Garza-Grande, taken in Oregon.
Upcoming Paper of the Week
Archive (Links open in separate window)
- Five New Isotopes Is Just the Beginning (March 22, 2024)
- There May Be a 'Dark Mirror' Universe within Ours Where Atoms Failed to Form, New Study Suggests (March 8, 2024)
- Discussion on Career Paths for Physics and Environmental Science Students, Dan Vimont '96 (March 1, 2024)
- The Skinny on Detecting Life with the JWST (February 23, 2024)
- Scientists Have Found a New Kind of Magnetic Material (February 16, 2024)
- Brilliant Idea or Big Headache? (February 9, 2024)
- Antimatter Feels Gravity Just like Matter (February 2, 2024)
- A New Way to Predict Ship-Killing Rogue Waves (January 26, 2024)
- Might There Be No Quantum Gravity After All? (January 19, 2024)
- A Quantum Engine in the BEC–BCS Crossover (December 8, 2023)
- Uranus's Hidden Polar Cyclone, Revealed (December 1, 2023)
- Highest-Order Electromagnetic Transition Observed (November 17, 2023)
- How Scientists Are Using Artificial Intelligence (November 10, 2023)
- Giant 'Gravity Hole' in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea (November 3, 2023)
- Physics Colloquium: Guy UVOIR In: The Mystery of Galaxy Formation, Dr. Guy Worthey, Washington State University (October 27, 2023)
- Mismatch with Standard-Model Predictions Reaches 5 Sigma (October 20, 2023)
- Chemistry Nobel Prize 2023: Quantum Dots - They Added Color to Nanotechnology (October 13, 2023)
Scientific Paper: Quantum Dots - Seeds of Nanoscience - Nobel Prize 2023: Electrons in Pulses of Light (October 6, 2023)
Scientific Paper: For Experimental Methods that Generate Attosecond Pulses of Light for the Study of Electron Dynamics in Matter - Illuminating Wildfire Risk (September 29, 2023)
- Bringing Interferometric Imaging into the X-Ray Regime (September 22, 2023)
- Wearable Scanner Measures Brain Function in People on the Move (September 15, 2023)
- Fusion’s Direct Drive (September 8, 2023)
- Why a Floating Speck of Metal Sent Scientists' Hearts Racing (September 1, 2023)
- Fusion Power is Coming Back into Fashion (May 5, 2023)
- Physics Colloquium: Quantum Computing - An Overview of the State of the Art, Dr. David Rodríguez Pérez, GU 2015, Quantum Engineer at Atom Computing (April 28, 2023)
- Physics Colloquium: Measuring Far Away While Close to Home - Analyzing Interstellar Pickup Ions with Near-Earth Plasma Instruments, Dr. Roman Gomez, Southwest Research Institute (April 21, 2023)
- Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist Makes His Biggest Claim Yet (April 14, 2023)
- Designer Proteins Drive the Growth of Quantum Dots (March 31, 2023)
- Enhanced Emission for Improved Electron Spectroscopy (March 24, 2023)
- Dark Energy from Supermassive Black Holes? Physicists Spar over Radical Idea (March 10, 2023)
- Searching for New Physics with the Electron's Magnetic Moment (March 3, 2023)
- Quantum Tunneling to Boost Memory Consolidation in AI (February 24, 2023)
- Quasicrystal with a "Flashy" Origin (February 17, 2023)
- How Quantum Levitation Works (February 10, 2023)
- Probing the Limits of Nuclear Existence (February 3, 2023)
- Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of Optical Computing (January 27, 2023)
- The Webb Telescope Is Just Getting Started (January 20, 2023)
- Paving the Way for Satellite Quantum Communications (December 6, 2022)
- Aerodynamics in the Beautiful Game (November 29, 2022)
- Birds of a Feather Hunt Differently (November 22, 2022)
- How Neurons in a Dish Learned to Play "Pong" (November 15, 2022)
- Rare Isotopes for the Choosing (November 8, 2022)
- Twisted Trilayer Graphene Could Help Make High-Temperature Superconductors (November 1, 2022)
- Surprising Colors with Scotch Tape (October 25, 2022)
- Physics Colloquium: Plasma, Fusion, and PPPL, Dr. Arturo Dominguez, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (October 21, 2022)
- Physics and Math Colloquium: A Career in Physics, Gonzaga University Provost Sacha Kopp (October 20, 2022)
- NASA hit an asteroid in case Earth really needs to knock one away later (October 18, 2022)
- Nobel Prize 2022: How Entanglement Has Become a Powerful Tool (October 11, 2022)
Scientific Paper: For Experiments with Entangled Photons, Establishing the Violation of Bell Inequalities and Pioneering Quantum Information Science - High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last (October 4, 2022)
- Bending under Big G (September 27, 2022)
- What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain? (September 20, 2022)
- Friction Is Key in Domino Physics (September 13, 2022)
- Ten years on from the Higgs boson, what is next for physics? (September 6, 2022)
- The Webb telescope is astonishing. But the universe is even more so. (August 30, 2022)
Additional Video: Special Webb Update: The Webb's First Four (actually 7) Images Explained - MIT-Designed Project Achieves Major Advance Toward Fusion Energy (April 11, 2022)
- A New Search for Magnetic Monopoles (April 4, 2022)
- What Is Spacetime Really Made Of? (March 28, 2022)
- A Lizard’s Scales Switch Colors According to the Same Rules as Spin Flips (March 21, 2022)
- How Life Came to Earth – Quantum Mechanical Tunneling Effect Might Play a Role (February 28, 2022)
- Researchers Observe Stationary Hawking Radiation in an Analog Black Hole (February 14, 2022)
- Scientists Just Killed the EmDrive (February 7, 2022)
- Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real (January 31, 2022)
- Muon's Escalating Challenge to the Standard Model (January 24, 2022)
- A New Look at the Cosmos (December 6, 2021)
- Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness (November 29, 2021)
- The Future of Planetary Defense Begins with DART (November 15, 2021)
- Rising Above the Quantum Noise (November 8, 2021)
- Lawrence Livermore Claims a Milestone in Laser Fusion (November 1, 2021)
- The 'Weirdest' Matter, Made of Partial Particles, Defies Description (October 18, 2021)
- Nobel Prize 2021: Hidden Patterns in the Climate and Other Complex Phenomena (October 11, 2021)
Scientific Paper: For Groundbreaking Contributions to Our Understanding of Complex Physical Systems - A superconducting circuit is a cooling teleporter (October 4, 2021)
- Who is allowed to have wild ideas in physics? (September 27, 2021)
- Physics Seeks the Future (September 20, 2021)
- This Physicist Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox (September 13, 2021)
- Fission Chain Reaction May Trigger Supernovae (April 30, 2021)
- Signs of PeVatrons in Gamma-Ray Haze (April 23, 2021)
- Muon g - 2 'Last Hope' Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles (April 16, 2021)
- New Kind of Space Explosion Reveals the Birth of a Black Hole (April 9, 2021)
- Psychedelic View of Fluid in Porous Materials (March 26, 2021)
- Physics Colloquium: Could the Nuclear Weak Interaction Influence the Origins of Biomolecular Chirality? Dr. Mike Famiano, Western Michigan University (March 19, 2021)
- NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet (February 26, 2021)
- Capturing the Path of a Light Pulse (February 19, 2021)
- Starquake Observations Near Their Teenage Years (February 12, 2021)
- Cosmic Ringtones in Pulsar Data? (February 5, 2021)
- Physics Colloquium: Utilizing X-ray Spectroscopies for High-Throughput Analysis of Energy Materials, Dr. Evan Jahrman '14, NIST (January 29, 2021)
- The Year in Physics (January 22, 2021)
- Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math (December 11, 2020)
- Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light (December 4, 2020)
- Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time (November 20, 2020)
- Ticking Toward a Nuclear Clock (November 13, 2020)
- Scientists Take on Poetry (November 6, 2020)
- Sustainable Plastics Inspired by Nature (October 30, 2020)
- Physics Colloquium: The Astrophysical Production of the Heaviest Elements, Dr. Erika Holmbeck, RIT (October 23, 2020)
- A Blast from the Past (October 16, 2020)
- Nobel Prize 2020: Black Holes and the Milky Way’s Darkest Secret (October 9, 2020)
Scientific Paper: Theoretical Foundation for Black Holes and the Supermassive Compact Object at the Galactic Center - New Limit on the Neutron's Internal Charge Asymmetry (October 2, 2020)
- A New Spin on Thermometers for Extremely Low Temperatures (September 25, 2020)
- A Lopsided Merger (September 18, 2020)
- Physics Colloquium: Detecting Phase Transitions in Granular Materials with Machine Learning, Dr. Danielle McDermott, Pacific University (September 10, 2020)
- Harvesting Energy from Falling Droplets (September 4, 2020)
- The Era of Anomalies (June 5, 2020)
- CP Violations Newly Observed in Beauty Meson Decays (May 1, 2020)
- A Unifying Framework for Describing Rogue Waves (April 24, 2020)
- A Forbidden Transition Allowed for Stars (April 17, 2020)
- Folded Solar Panel Opens Without Power Source (April 10, 2020)
- Wonder Material Grows on Trees and More is Different (April 3, 2020)
- “Tweezer Clock” Offers New Possibilities in Timekeeping (March 27, 2020)
- Squeezing More from Gravitational-Wave Detectors (March 20, 2020)
- New Spaceship Sail Self-Centers (March 6, 2020)
- Homing in on the Neutrino Mass (February 21, 2020)
- Ion Clock Busts into New Precision Regime (February 14, 2020)
- Using Quantum Tricks to Scan the Brain (February 7, 2020)
- Fluxonium Steps up to the Plate (January 31, 2020)
- Highest Energy Astrophysical Photons Detected (January 24, 2020)
- Just a Fainting Spell? Or Is Betelgeuse About to Blow? (January 17, 2020)
- Wave Trick May Lead to Wireless Charging at a Distance (December 6, 2019)
- A Rapidly Cooling Neutron Star (November 22, 2019)
- Optical Tomography for Supernovae (November 15, 2019)
- Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters (November 8, 2019)
- Spacecraft Separation Measured to the Nanometer (November 1, 2019)
- Science in Comic Books (October 25, 2019)
- Polarons Get the Full Treatment (October 18, 2019)
- Physical Cosmology and an Exoplanet Orbiting a Solar-Type Star, Nobel Prize (October 11, 2019)
- Biological Attacks Have Lessons for Image Recognition (October 4, 2019)
- Atomic Force Microscope Images Molecules in 3D (September 27, 2019)
- Sound Waves Carry Mass (September 20, 2019)
- How to Guide Each Ion in a Beam (September 13, 2019)
- Coming Soon: Cold Atoms Impersonate Superconductors (September 6, 2019)
- Physics from the Moon (August 30, 2019)
- Life is Physics (May 3, 2019)
- More Voltage from Bending Silicone Rubber (April 26, 2019)
- Black Hole as Extreme Particle Accelerator (April 12, 2019)
- Computing with Wi-Fi Waves (April 5, 2019)
- Dissecting the Mass of the Proton (March 29, 2019)
- Intense Laser Sheds Light on Radiation Reaction (March 22, 2019)
- Cosmologists Can’t Agree on the Hubble Constant (March 8, 2019)
- Universal Quantum Phenomenon Found in Strange Metals (March 1, 2019)
- Black Hole Evolution Traced Out with Loop Quantum Gravity (February 22, 2019)
- Award-Winning Fluid Videos (February 15, 2019)
- The Plot Thickens for a Fourth Neutrino (February 8, 2019)
- Arts & Culture: A Journal for the Polymath (February 1, 2019)
- The International Space Station Turns 20 (January 25, 2019)
- A Turning Point for Humanity: Redefining the World’s Measurement System (January 18, 2019)
- Making Waves in a “Glass” Full of Atoms (November 30, 2018)
- The Physics of the Everyday (November 16, 2018)
- Counting the Quanta of Sound (November 9, 2018)
- Fast-Forwarding the Search for New Particles (November 2, 2018)
- Higgs Decay into Bottom Quarks Seen at Last (October 26, 2018)
- Optical Tweezers and Ultra-Short Optical Pulses, Nobel Prize (October 19, 2018)
- Crystals with Defects May Be Good for Spintronics (October 12, 2018)
- Physicists, the Brain is Calling You (October 5, 2018)
- More Energy from Ocean Waves (September 28, 2018)
- Plastics Preservation (September 21, 2018)
- Electrons Film Phonon Dynamics in Full (September 14, 2018)
- The Fastest Spinners (September 7, 2018)
- The War Over Supercooled Water (August 31, 2018)
- Modeling Imperfections Boosts Microscope Precision (May 4, 2018)
- Active-Matter Thermodynamics Under Pressure (April 27, 2018)
- Going Big with Butterfly Wings (April 20, 2018)
- Interferometer for Lighter Atoms (April 13, 2018)
- Language Boundaries Driven by Surface Tension (April 6, 2018)
- Doubly Magic Nickel (March 23, 2018)
- Bacteria Form Waveguides (March 9, 2018)
- Neutron-Star Implosions as Heavy- Element Sources (February 16, 2018)
- Scattering Atoms Catch the d Wave (February 9, 2018)
- Scattering Experiments Tease Out the Strong Force (January 19, 2018)
- The Great Nutrient Collapse (December 8, 2017)
- Discovery of a big void in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons (November 17, 2017)
- “Gas Marbles” Store Air in Strong Spheres (November 10, 2017)
- Physical Model of Skull Growth (November 3, 2017)
- Neutron Star Merger Seen and Heard (October 20, 2017)
- October 19, 1955: Discovery of the Antiproton Announced (October 13, 2017)
- Cosmic Chirps, Nobel Prize in Physics (October 6, 2017)
- Watching the Hoyle State Fall Apart (September 29, 2017)
- Self-Interacting Dark Matter Scores Again (September 22, 2017)
- Dark Matter Still at Large (September 15, 2017)
- An Astronomer Has a Plan to Use The Sun's Gravity to Channel Video From The Stars (September 8, 2017)
- Ten Surprises For Scientists And Skywatchers During The Total Solar Eclipse (September 1, 2017)
- Has lithium-battery genius John Goodenough done it again? Colleagues are skeptical (May 5, 2017)
- Antarctic Ice Reveals Earth’s Accelerating Plant Growth (April 28, 2017)
- Scientists find clues to the mystery of what causes lightning (April 21, 2017)
- March 16, 1699: William Chaloner, Counterfeiter, Hanged (April 7, 2017)
- Why is space three-dimensional? (March 31, 2017)
- Leibniz' and Newton's Concepts of Space and Time, discussion led by Dr. Kincanon (March 24, 2017)
- NASA telescope reveals largest batch of Earth-size, habitable-zone planets around single star (March 3, 2017)
- Arts & Culture: Becoming One of the Team (February 24, 2017)
- From Quarks to Red Giants: the Far Reaching Effects of Studying Exotic Nuclei, a seminar by Dr. Jenna Smith, Reed College (February 17, 2017)
- Gold Mystery Solved (February 10, 2017)
- Light Pushes and Pulls (February 3, 2017)
- Cat Tongues Are the Ultimate Detanglers (January 27, 2017)
- Nobel laureates offer new interpretations of quantum mysteries and Maybe classical clockwork can explain quantum weirdness (January 20, 2017)
- Hans Bethe and Quantum Electrodynamics (December 2, 2016)
- An all-nanocrystal transistor emerges from solution (November 18, 2016)
- Exotic particles with four or more quarks (November 11, 2016)
- Designing and Building a Cryogenic System for the Single Turn Project, a seminar by Emily Follansbee (November 4, 2016)
- Oliver Heaviside: A first-rate oddity (October 28, 2016)
- Is Big G a Constant?, a seminar by Dr. Christopher Pilot (October 21, 2016)
- Physicists net fractal butterfly (October 14, 2016)
- Strange phenomena in matter's flatlands, Nobel Prize in Physics and Topological Phase Transitions and Topological Phases of Matter (October 7, 2016)
- Israel: A water innovator (September 30, 2016)
- Bubble blowing by the numbers (September 23, 2016)
- John Wheeler, relativity, and quantum information (September 16, 2016)
- A Century of Light (September 9, 2016)
- Hypervelocity stars in the Milky Way (September 2, 2016)
- Physics in 100 years (April 29, 2016)
- The difficult birth of NASA’s Pluto mission (April 22, 2016)
- Cosmic Cauldrons: Neutron Stars and Nuclear Pasta, a seminar by Matthew Caplan, Indiana University (April 15, 2016)
- What did ancient people eat? (April 8, 2016)
- Direct Evidence of Octupole Deformation in Neutron-Rich 144Ba (April 1, 2016)
- The Nature of the Electron (March 18, 2016)
- The bicentennial of Francis Ronalds’s electric telegraph (February 26, 2016)
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger (February 19, 2016)
- Focus: Gamma-Ray Bursts Determine Potential Locations for Life (February 3, 2016)
- Focus: Bumblebees In Turbulence (January 27, 2016)
- Not All Gravitational Waves Are Created Equal (January 20, 2016)
- 76 Years Ago Lise Meitner First Described Nuclear Fission (December 1, 2015)
- Princeton celebrates 100 years of Einstein's theory of general relativity (November 17, 2015)
- Little cup of helium, big science (November 10, 2015)
- Kepler’s Third Law and NASA’s Kepler Mission (November 3, 2015)
- Neutron stars’ hidden nuclear pasta (October 20, 2015)