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Welcome to the UMKC Department of Physics and Astronomy

Degrees
Physics B.S. / Physics B.A.
Five-Year Physics and EE Dual B.S.
Physics Minor / Astronomy Minor
Physics Masters
Physics iPhD

Plans of Study
Physics B.S. with Pre-Med Focus

Physics and Astronomy Scholarships
UMKC
ASKC

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Department News & Events

May 16

Congratulations to Professor Riggs on receiving an Apple Polisher Award!

Mar 01

Physics Colloquium (Flarsheim 310, coffee at 3:15)
Dr. Kristopher Schumacher (MRIGlobal) "Can Magnetic Fields be used to Control Turbulence?"   (view abstract)

Feb 12

Professor Brodwin was nominated by NASA and selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to join the Euclid Consortium and participate in ESA's Euclid mission. Euclid is a major new space telescope that will measure the nature of the dark energy that is causing the expansion of the Universe to accelerate. For more information, please visit NASA's release.

Feb 01

Physics Colloquium (Flarsheim 310, coffee at 3:15)
Professor Mark Brodwin (UMKC Department of Physics and Astronomy) "The Euclid Mission"   (view abstract)

Dec 07

The UMKC Department of Physics and Astronomy will have their annual holiday luncheon in Room 247 at 12:00 PM. 

Nov 30

Physics Colloquium (Flarsheim 310, coffee at 3:15)
Professor Paul Rulis (UMKC Department of Physics and Astronomy) "A Neural Network Approach to Non Self Consistent Total Energy Calculations for Complex Materials"
  (view abstract)

Nov 16

Physics Colloquium (Flarsheim 310, coffee at 3:15)
Dr. Ridwan Sakidja (Dept. of MS&E, University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Design and Synthesis of Low-Temperature Processed Aluminide Coatings for Power-Generation Applications"
  (view abstract)

Nov 02

Physics Colloquium (Flarsheim 310, coffee at 3:15)
Professor Hume A. Feldman (Kansas University) "Sliding Down an Incline: Cosmic Flows"
  (view abstract)

Oct 26

Physics Graduate Student Society Seminar (Flarsheim Hall 310, Coffee at 3:30PM)
Professor McIntosh (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Kansas City) "Round-table discussion about transitioning from student to faculty"

Oct 12

Physics Graduate Student Society Seminar (Flarsheim Hall 310, Coffee at 3:30PM)
Xiachang Her (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Kansas City) "Searching for Interacting Elliptical Galaxies at Late Cosmic Times"

Sep 14

Physics Graduate Student Society Seminar (Flarsheim Hall 310, Coffee at 3:30PM)
Brad Nordell (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Kansas City) "The past through tomorrow of interconnect systems and low-k materials"

Aug 31

Physics Graduate Student Society Seminar (Flarsheim Hall 310, Coffee at 3:30PM)
Tim Haines (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Kansas City) "Computations of small-number statistics using the binomial and Poisson distributions"

Aug 27

From the support of the K.L. Cheng Lecture Series - The UMKC Department of Physics and Astronomy with the Department of Chemistry are please to present Professor Adrian Parsegian (Robert L. Gluckstern Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) who will be giving a talk titled, "Crowded Molecules Feel Peer Pressure".  The talk will be at 4:00 PM in Room #401 of the Student Union with Reception to follow at 5:00 PM.


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