LSU Graduate Student Shania Nichols Research at LIGO Livingston Contributes to GW230529 Discovery

The LSU Council on Research has named Professor Catherine Deibel as a 2024 Rainmaker Mid-Career Scholar in the category of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The "Rainmakers" honor is given to professors who stand out for their ability to secure external research funding, publish in prominent journals and for gaining national as well as international recognition for their work.

LSU's Medical Physics and Health Physics Program has announced Richard Lesieur as the 2023 recipient of the prestigious Kenneth R. Hogstrom Superior Graduate Student Scholarship. Established in honor of Professor Emeritus Kenneth R. Hogstrom's outstanding research, scholarship, and mentorship of graduate students, the scholarship supports medical physics graduate students participating in clinical research on radiation oncology at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center.

The American Physical Society has named 2013 PhD alumna Azadeh Keivani as the recipient of the FIAP Career Lectureship Award, which recognizes physicists in industrial and other non-academic careers for their significant contributions to the advancement of physics of a technical, industrial, or entrepreneurial nature and for their demonstrated ability to give interesting and engaging lectures to both experts and non-experts.

A new study using data from the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) instrument on the International Space Station has found evidence for nearby, young sources of cosmic ray electrons, contributing to a greater understanding of how the galaxy functions as a whole.

Out of 80 awarded projects from the U.S. Department of Energy, LSU's Experimental Neutrino Physics Research with Liquid Argon TPCs has been recognized at the Intensity Frontier in High-Energy Physics.

LSU Astrophysicist Eric Burns Co-Leads the InterPlanetary Network to Detect Gamma Ray Bursts

Associate Professor Manos Chatzopoulos is using his skills in data analysis for something more down to earth — making it easier to find a place to park.

The fall semester brings many new beginnings from new students, faculty, and staff to new goals and a new academic year. This fall, the LSU College of Science welcomes new faculty members to the Department of Physics & Astronomy. Learn more about each new colleague below and make sure to give them a big LSU welcome when you see them.

Nathaniel came to LSU as an Astrophysics student, LSU Department of Physics and Astronomy, in the Fall of 2020. In the Spring of 2022, Nathaniel decided to pursue an additional dual degree in Mechanical Engineering, at the LSU Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.

LSU quantum researchers demonstrate the possibility of producing different forms of light through propagation in free space-- a manifestation of the quantum van Cittert-Zernike theorem.

We celebrate the accomplishments of students, faculty and staff who have gone above and beyond to advance their academic work, their research and the prestige of the Department.

Adrià Delhom I Latorre, a Postdoctoral Researcher at LSU, received an award for his PhD dissertation from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC). He was also a member of the research group UV-QG of the University of Valencia-CSIC.

Houston native Sydney Carr is an LSU graduate student participating in "Novel X-ray Interferometry Imaging of Plant Root Systems" research and focuses on testing a portable (and removable) low-dose MPG interferometry system. She completed her undergraduate degree in physics at Houston Baptist University. While there, she also played 4 years of Division-1 Women's Basketball for the Huskies.

LSU Assistant Professor Justin Wilson in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, with a joint appointment in LSU's Center for Computation and Technology, has received a five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, award to support his research on "Active Feedback to Control Dynamic Quantum Phases."

The LSU College of Science's Hall of Distinction recognizes individuals who have distinguished themselves in their endless pursuit of excellence and fervent dedication to scientific leadership. Through their extraordinary achievements, outstanding characters, and commitments to their communities, the college's honorees have established lasting legacies of excellence in their individual fields. On Friday, LSU recognized the exceptional accomplishments of E. Ward Plummer as a College of Science 2023 Hall of Distinction honoree.

Interdisciplinary project merges nuclear theory with quantum theoretical and experimental physics.

In a recent paper published by Optica, a high-impact scientific journal, Omar Magana-Loaiza, an assistant physics professor, details his research on quantum photonic technologies by measuring properties of telecom photon pairs formed by spontaneous parametric down-conversion -- when a single high-energy photon splits into a pair of photons with half the initial energy. This is a key resource for quantum photonic technologies such as quantum metrology and quantum optical information processing.