Physics SIUC

08/11/2026

https://news.siu.edu/2026/08/081126-siu-carbondale-faculty-students-to-livestream-eclipse-in-spain-on-wednesday.php

Southern Illinois University Carbondale students, faculty and researchers are in Spain for research and live streaming of the total solar eclipse on Wednesday, Aug. 12.

07/28/2026

https://www.wsiu.org/siu/2026-07-23/siu-students-and-staff-prepare-to-livestream-eclipse-in-spain

Students, faculty and staff from SIU Physics, Media Arts and the STEM Education Research Center prepare for the upcoming trip to Spain to observe the 12 August 2026 total solar eclipse.

An SIU team travels to Spain to livestream the Aug. 12 solar eclipse for NASA, giving students hands-on experience in science and media production.

07/15/2026

06/12/2026

06/11/2026

The Space Science Group hosted a solar observation yesterday for some visitors to campus

06/11/2026

SIU Physics graduate student, Lance Griswold presents his MS Thesis defense: Investigations into the structure-property relationships of magnetic Fe2MnSn and gradient CoPt thin films for next-generation magnetic technologies.

June 12, 11 am in Neckers Rm 456. Seating for the presentation is limited.

05/15/2026

We really enjoyed the enthusiasm and curiosity of those fantastic third graders. Also thanks to our partners from Civil Eng. and Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, at SIUC as well as from JALC.

04/09/2026

Congratulations to the SIU Physics students who participated in today's Creative Activities and Research Presentations. Two physics students were recognized for being in the top 10 presentations of the research forum. In addition, undergraduate physics student, Richard Danley was individually recognized with the Sigma Xi Outstanding Undergraduate Research Poster of 2026 award. Richard was recognized for his work in leading the SIU Astrophotography Team that was part of the Emmy Award winning NASA Eclipse 2024 live coverage, providing telescope feeds for the programming from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The team continues to provide telescope feeds for special events that include the annual NASA Solar STEAM National Star Party, and plan to stream imagery during upcoming eclipses from campus and abroad.

04/01/2026

This feed will provide continuous coverage of Artemis II mission activities with live commentary, beginning with tanking of the SLS (Space Launch System) roc...

03/23/2026

SIU Physics M.S. Thesis Defense

Title: Hyperbolic Angular Momentum
Speaker: Jackson Lewis

Date: March 24 (Tuesday), 2026
Time: 11:00 am
Place: Neckers 410

Abstract:
In this work we investigate the structure of angular momentum through the oscillator realization introduced by Schwinger, in which the generators of the su(2) algebra arise from pairs of harmonic oscillator ladder operators. Within this framework an additional set of operators appears naturally which satisfies the su(1,1) algebra, a structure which Schwinger refers to as hyperbolic angular momentum. We first present a graphical visualization of the Schwinger oscillator basis that clarifies and illustrates the action of both the standard angular momentum ladder operators and the hyperbolic operators. In this picture the usual su(2) ladder operators move within a fixed irreducible representation of angular momentum, while the su(1,1) ladder operators move between these irreducible representations of angular momentum and within a fixed irreducible representation of hyperbolic angular momentum. As an application of this structure, we present Schwinger's algebraic derivation of the allowed values of the total angular momentum in the coupling of two spin systems, obtaining the bounds without appealing to the usual dimension-counting argument.