GE CLAS Core: Natural Sciences

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News and Announcements

UI Still Operating Voyager Plasma Wave Instrument

Friday, November 8, 2024
Voyager spacecraft paved the way for our understanding of our solar system, but they are now over 15 billion miles away from Earth. It takes light and radio signals about 23 hours to reach it one way, and it is still changing our understanding of the cosmos. The instruments still onboard and operational were built, and are still operated by, the University of Iowa's Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Undergrads Present Posters at FURF

Thursday, November 7, 2024
Thirteen Physics and Astronomy students presented posters at the Fall Undergraduate Research Festival (FURF) on Nov. 6 at the University Capitol Centre. The Office of Undergraduate Research hosts FURF, held in celebration and recognition of undergraduate researchers' contributions to research, scholarly, and creative work at the University of Iowa.

Iowa students help develop NASA satellites

Monday, November 4, 2024
This story from the University of Iowa Graduate College tells how graduate students Connor Feltman (now a postdoctoral research fellow/scholar) and Allison Flores contribute to the TRACERS mission, which seeks to answer long-standing questions about space weather.

Upcoming Events

Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar - Nicholas Harshman; University of Iowa promotional image

Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar - Nicholas Harshman; University of Iowa

Monday, November 11, 2024 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Anomalies in the Matter Measure
Plasma Physics Seminar - Professor Gregory G. Howes; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa promotional image

Plasma Physics Seminar - Professor Gregory G. Howes; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa

Monday, November 11, 2024 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Exploring Plasma Heating and Particle Acceleration at Quasiperpendicular Collisionless Shocks Using the Field-Particle Correlation Technique
Operator Theory Seminar - Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor Changying Ding; Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles promotional image

Operator Theory Seminar - Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor Changying Ding; Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Van Allen Hall
On Cartan subalgebras of ${\rm II}_1$ factors arising from Bernoulli actions of weakly amenable groups
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$ 26 m

In annual research expenditures (averaged over FY18-22)

Top Fifth

of Global Universities in Physics
(U.S. News and World Report 2022)

Very High

Research 1: Doctoral Universities
Research Activity
(Carnegie Classification)

24

Full-time Faculty

3100

Students taught in introductory courses per year (2017-2022)

124

Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Majors
(2023-24)

72

Graduate Students
(2023-24)