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Department of Physics and Astronomy

Texas Christian University
Joined August 2014
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Minions have invaded our Halloween party!! Join us in SWR357
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Halloween crew at the SPS party in SWR 357!!!
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Halloween party is raging right now in SWR 357!!! Come join us! The liquid nitrogen ice cream is almost ready!!!
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Ming-Hsun Lee from Texas State University is visiting us today to talk about Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces in Ultra Wide Bandgap Oxides, which is important for energy usage efficiency. Seminar going on now in SWR 357.
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Join us tomorrow to learn about “Exploring Space Weather from Antarctica: Observations, Experiments, and Discoveries from the Polar Regions” by Dr. Zhonghua Xu during our seminar on Friday, October 23 at 2:00 PM in SWR 357.
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Join us Oct 30th at 3pm in SWR 357 to celebrate Halloween!
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Join us this upcoming Friday at 2pm in SWR 357 where Dr. Jose Perez will discuss the properties of graphene when explored using atomic force microscopy.
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We are having a come and go lunch on Sept. 16 from 11 am - 1 pm in RJH 333. This is a chance to meet other people in the department, including faculty, graduate students, & postdocs. Stop by even if you only have a few minutes!
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Join us right now in SWR 357, where Dr. Hilgemann is taking about how life processes are revealed by science based on a personal account. He will discuss endocytosis without adaptors.
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Join us tomorrow when Dr. Hilgemann discusses "Endocytosis without adapters: Ordered Membrane Domain Endocytosis and its Roles in Physiology and Pathology" at 1pm in SWR 357.
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Join us TONIGHT to learn how science has helped us to understand physiological processes from Dr. Hilgemann during our annual Morgan Lecture. His talk will be at the SWR building in Lecture Hall 1 at 5pm. Come early to enjoy refreshments at 4pm.
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The labs for the intro Astronomy course on Earth and Planets will begin the week of August 31st. Your lab will be on the 3rd floor of SWR. This is a confusing building, so plan on giving your self more time to find your way.
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Welcome back students!!! Just a reminder that there are no Intro Physics labs this week.
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April Horton’s PhD defense is starting now in SWR 357
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My graduate student April Horton is defending her PhD thesis in 20 mins. Join us in SWR 357 to learn about the gas flows of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, where she used @HubbleTelescope ULLYSES and GASKAP observations.
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Dr. Alan Farhan from @Baylor is visiting us today to talk about his research on Designer Ferromics from Artificial Spin Ice to Oxide Thin Films. Seminar right now in SWR 357.
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Dr. Fabian Pena from Baylor University is visiting us today to discuss his work on Atomic Scale Growth in Semiconductor Materials with Multimodal Characteristics. SWR 357 right now for this seminar.
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Please join us for a department lunch on Feb. 6 in SWR 358. This is a come and go event, so it's fine if you can't stay the whole two hours. Stop by and meet the faculty and fellow students. I look forward to seeing you all there.
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CSE undergrad and grad students, the Student Research Symposium will be on April 17th this year. Abstracts are due March 6, 2026, but they have workshops as early as Feb. 6, 2026 to help you out.
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Join us next week when Dr. Chetraj Pandey will be talking to us about space weather! Seminar on Friday, January 30th at 2pm in SWR 357.
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