Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Student Kassandra Weber Physics & Astronomy
Presented HSU gravitational physics research at the American Physical Society Far West Section Meeting on 10/19 at CSU Fullerton.
http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/FWS18/Session/B03.5
Submitted: November 21, 2018Student Michael Ross ('15), Holly Leopardi ('14), Jeremy Johnson ('18), Ian Guerrero ('17), and Dr. C.D. Hoyle Physics & Astronomy
Physics & Astronomy alumni published a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Excellence entitled "Experimental Progress Towards Testing the Behavior of Gravity at the 20-micron Distance Scale." The work, whose primary author is Michael Ross ('15), focuses on research activities carried out in the HSU Gravitational Physics Laboratory primarily during the 2014-16 time frame. The article can be found here:
http://www.jurpress.org/s/J733FA17_Final_v4.pdf
Student Jeremy S. Johnson, Noah K. Dunkley, Gabriela D. Martinez, Anthony E. Sanchez, and C.D. Hoyle Physics & Astronomy
Congratulations to these student and faculty authors for the successful publication of an article titled "Novel Tests of Gravity Below Fifty Microns" in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of The National Conferences On Undergraduate Research (NCUR), 2017. Jeremy Johnson also presented this work at the conference itself, which was held in Memphis, TN in April, 2017.
Submitted: April 30, 2018Student Nicholas Hernandez Physics & Astronomy
Nicholas Hernandez presented a poster providing a research update on work being done in the HSU Gravitational Physics Laboratory at the 2018 April Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), which was held in Columbus, OH April 13-17.
Submitted: April 30, 2018Faculty C.D. Hoyle Physics & Astronomy
Prof. C.D. Hoyle was awarded $55,000 as part of a larger $600,000 collaborative National Science Foundation grant in conjunction with Syracuse University and IUPUI. The project will establish a new experiment that will measure the gravitational constant, G, with unprecedented precision and will attempt to resolve the discrepancies between recent measurements. The funds will mainly support HSU students who will do research during the summer at IUPUI and play a substantial role in establishing the new experiment. More information can be found here: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1708024
Submitted: April 6, 2017Student Sean Haas Physics & Astronomy
Physics student Sean Haas recently had his first peer reviewed article published in National Conference on Undergraduate Research Proceedings. Haas' paper is titled, "Searching for a Connection Between Radio Emission and UV/Optical Absorption in Quasars," the abstract for which can be viewed online here: http://www.ncurproceedings.org/ojs/index.php/NCUR2016/article/view/2028.
Submitted: March 2, 2017Student Charlotte Olsen Physics & Astronomy
HSU Physics & Astronomy senior Charlotte Olsen presented a poster of her work on tidally triggered star formation at the American Astronomical Society's 229th meeting in Grapevine, TX. The poster, titled "A Search for Triggered Star Formation in the Compact Group of Galaxies NGC 5851, NGC 5852 and CGCG 077-007," represents a joint research collaboration between the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center X-Ray Galaxies Group and HSU. Charlotte's travel to the meeting was supported by the John Mather Nobel Scholarship, which she was awarded for work she accomplished during a summer 2016 NASA internship.
Submitted: January 19, 2017Student Charlotte Olsen Physics & Astronomy
Physics/Astronomy major Charlotte Olsen has been selected for a NASA CRESST internship this summer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center close to Washington DC. She will be working with X-ray data to understand how star formation is triggered in close pairs of galaxies under the supervision of Dr. Basu-Zych. Congrats Charlotte!
Submitted: August 19, 2016Faculty C.D. Hoyle Physics & Astronomy
Dr. C.D. Hoyle published a book chapter entitled "Laboratory-Based Gravity Measurement" in Volume 3 of Wiley's "Handbook of Measurement in Science and Engineering." The peer-reviewed reference series is edited by Myer Kutz.
Submitted: August 19, 2016Faculty C.D. Hoyle Physics & Astronomy
National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for research in Dr. Hoyle's Gravitational Physics Laboratory has been extended for 3 more years in the amount of $156,000. The funds support student travel to conferences and summer research positions in addition to hardware and software necessary to perform the experiments. More information can be found here:
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1606988
Student Jeremy Johnson, Gabriela Martinez Physics & Astronomy
Physics majors Jeremy Johnson and Gabriela Martinez presented at the national April meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Salt Lake City, UT from April 15th-19th. The presentations concerning their work on tests of short-range gravity generated considerable interest from a broad range of physicists in attendance. Congratulations!
Submitted: April 21, 2016Student Ian Guerrero Physics & Astronomy
Physics & Astronomy major Ian Guerrero has been selected by the CSU Nuclear and Particle Physics Consortium (NUPAC) for one of 10 prestigious summer 2016 internships. Ian will be working with the ATLAS experiment collaboration which is part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Congratulations!
Submitted: January 21, 2016Student Crystal Cardenas, Andrew Harter, Michael Ross, and C.D. Hoyle Physics & Astronomy
Physics and Astronomy majors Crystal Cardenas, Andrew C. Harter ('14), and Michael P. Ross published a peer-reviewed paper titled "Experimental Progress on Tests of Gravity at 20 microns" in the Proceedings of the National Conference of Undergraduate Research 2014. The paper describes research done in the Gravitational Research Laboratory, led by Professor C.D. Hoyle.
Submitted: September 10, 2014Student Holly Leopardi Physics & Astronomy
Holly Leopardi ('14, Physics) recently took second place in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Division at the CSU Research Competition May 2 and 3 at CSU East Bay. Leopardi's project was titled "Tests of Gravity Below Fifty Microns." Her faculty advisor was C.D. Hoyle, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy.
Leopardi was recently named 2013-14 Outstanding Student of the Year for Outstanding Co-Curricular Contributions. She plans to enter the University of Colorado, Boulder's Ph.D. program in Physics this fall.
Submitted: May 5, 2014Student Holly Leopardi Physics & Astronomy
Senior Holly Leopardi was presented the award for "Exceptional Scholarly Achievement" in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. The annual award honors outstanding Physics & Astronomy Majors at the junior or senior level. The award includes a commemorative hardcover edition of "The Feynman Lectures on Physics."
Submitted: May 7, 2013Student Holly Leopardi and Crystal Cardenas Physics & Astronomy
Physics majors Holly Leopardi and Crystal Cardenas attended the 8th Annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at the California Institute of Technology January 18-20th. Leopardi presented a poster at the conference describing her ongoing research efforts in the HSU Gravitational Research Laboratory.
Submitted: February 4, 2013Faculty C.D. Hoyle Physics & Astronomy
Associate Professor C.D. Hoyle co-authored a paper in the journal "Classical and Quantum Gravity" with colleagues from the APOLLO collaboration:
"APOLLO: millimeter lunar laser ranging," T.W. Murphy, Jr., E.G. Adelberger, J.B.R. Battat, C.D. Hoyle, N.H. Johnson, R.J. McMillan, C.W. Stubbs and H.E. Swanson, Class. Quant. Grav. 29 (2012) 184005.
Faculty C.D. Hoyle Physics & Astronomy
Humboldt State’s Science on Tap series, organized by Physics Professor C.D. Hoyle, was recently recognized by the SPS Observer for “being an especially good example of what science cafés are great at: helping the public understand physics in a world where science is an integral part of life.”
Science Cafes are international programs held in informal settings designed to promote scientific discussion. The Observer is the national magazine for the Society of Physics Students.
Submitted: April 10, 2012Faculty C.D. Hoyle Physics & Astronomy
C.D. Hoyle, Associate Professor of Physics, has received a 2-year award from the National Science Foundation to support student research in the HSU Gravitational Research Laboratory. Experiments in the laboratory are designed to test Einstein's theory of General Relativity at unprecedented levels as well as search for possible evidence of quantum gravity and dark energy.
Submitted: July 29, 2011