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PHYSICS AND EARTH SCIENCES Faculty Ali A. Antar (Chair, Copernicus 509), Charles Baskerville, Marsha Bednarski, Sandra Burns, Charles Dimmick, Kristine Larsen, Peter LeMaire, Steven B. Newman, Nimmi Parikh, Nanjundiah Sadanand, Luisito Tongson (Dept. phone: 832-2930) Department Overview Located in Copernicus Hall, the facilities of the Physics and Earth Sciences Department include numerous introductory and intermediate/advanced laboratories as well as two teaching laboratories, an observatory containing a 16-inch telescope, a 100-seat planetarium, and a 400-kv Van de Graaff linear accelerator. The fully equipped weather center includes a National Weather Service Facsimile System, Internet capability, two rooftop satellite data retrieval systems and a fully operational color Doppler weather radar monitoring system. In addition to teaching, the faculty pursue many areas of interest including atomic collisions; solid state; general relativity, astrophysics; ground water pollution; public planetarium productions; lunar, planetary and deep sky observing; weather forecasting and analysis, and climatology of thunderstorm and hurricane activity in Connecticut; science education, particle physics, applied holography, and general relativity. Wherever possible, students enrolled in programs are encouraged to join with the faculty in their ongoing studies in these and other areas. The Department offers a Master of Science in Natural Sciences. For details of the program, click here. |
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