Physics and Astronomy Department Chair Hector Mireles died Sept. 16, after a 14-month battle with cancer. He was 56 years old. Mireles came to Cal Poly Pomona in 2002. In 2016, he stepped into the role of department chair. Like…
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Amid piles of papers, computer cords and 3-D molecule diagrams, Shane Stahlheber is absorbed in his summer research project. Using his laptop and a dual screen setup, the fourth-year physics student is simultaneously...
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The campus can appear almost deserted at times during the summer ¿ but looks are deceiving. Duck your head into one of the ubiquitous science or engineering labs, and you will most likely see students peering into microscopes, calibrating equipment,…
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The physics department at Cal Poly Pomona will host meeting of theoretical physicists from around the country on Dec. 10 & 11. Sponsored by the Anacapa Society, an organization of theoretical and computational physicists at undergraduate institutions, the two-day workshop…
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Forrest Hippensteel, an electrical engineering junior and physics minor, gave a presentation at the 54th Biophysical Society meeting in San Francisco on Feb. 20 . The presentation was titled “Optimizing Image Analysis for Subwavelength Fluorescence Microscopy with PALM and STORM.”…
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