Boston University: Physics Department

Join the Physics department during BU Alumni Weekend 2023 for a Physics Alumni Reunion! We'll have a program of brief talks from our distinguished alums and there will be time to catch up with old friends. We hope to see you on Saturday, September 23rd from 1:30-3:30 in Room 113 in the Metcalf Science Building.

Today is BU Giving Day and we hope that you will help with Physics department with your donation. Your gift helps support student-centered clubs/programs like PRISM and Photon, our colloquium series, and social events for the Graduate Student Council. You can make your donation here: https://givingday.bu.edu/campaigns/physics-department

Help the Physics department reach its goal of 80 donors this year!

We recognize that we’re all in a challenging time. If you are able to give, that’s wonderful and donations large and small are all appreciated. If you’re not able to donate, you can also help out Physics by sharing our social media Giving Day posts.

We thank you again for your previous support and hope that you can help make Giving Day 2023 a big success for Physics!

Thomas Kelly is a Senior here in the BU Physics Department. While working with Professor Sulak he has been doing research into the effect that the Aurora Borealis has on GPS communications. We are so proud of all the work he has put in!

Last Friday undergraduate Raymond Kil spoke at the first student seminar. Raymond searches for soft unclustered energy patterns (SUEP) at CMS detector at CERN. SUEP is a promising candidate for dark matter, a key for understanding the birth and the behavior of the universe. We are very proud of his research and proud that he is a member of our physics department.

This week in BU physics!

We hope you’ve had a great first week back and are looking forwards to having a great semester! :)

P.S. Congrats to Paula for figuring out what a Fourier Transform is!

Congratulations to our class of 2022, who graduated this past weekend! The Physics Department thanks all of you for the hard work you have put in over the past four years, making the Boston University physics community the best it could be. We wish you good luck in your future careers as scientists!

Preethi Basani will be taking over the physics instagram for the final open house! Preethi is a senior physics major who will be attending the University of Illinois next fall for her Ph.D in Condensed Matter Physics. She is the president of Photon and the head of Prism, both physics undergraduate organizations.

Join us today as Preethi takes us through a day in the life of a Physics Senior.

But of course, we can’t end the day without the King Of Physics himself. Long live the one true King

The winners of the Hieu-Takeover Integration Bee! Richard (left) and Jared (right) stands here and represents for BU Physics! Thank you to all that participated, it was very fun (and a lot of you guys participated). I hope to expand this next year and have it be larger.

Today’s open house takeover will be done by Hieu Nguyen! is a sophomore physics major who is doing research in Condensed Matter Theory with Professor Sperka. Right now he is graphing the data received from conducting proton-proton collisions in order to find reconstructed muons!

Join us and follow the day in the life of Hieu!

The Boston University Physics Geneva Program is a fantastic way for students to conduct important research with CERN. .serafini , a Junior Astrophysics major, is one of those students. Join her instagram takeover today as we follow along with a day in the life of an undergraduate researcher at the Large Hadron Collider.