UofU Wompa

10/28/2019

Congratulations to Wompa memeber Sarah Eftekharzadeh for her work leading to a successful launch of DESI!

A new instrument mounted atop a telescope in Arizona aimed its robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic “eyes” at the night sky to capture the first images showing its unique view of galaxy light. It was the first test of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, known as DESI, with its nearly complet...

10/26/2019

This is exciting!

10/12/2019

We had a great time a few weekends ago volunteering with Girl Scouts at their STEAM fair! Thank you to all the WomPA members that participated!

06/16/2019

Thank you to all the students and faculty that attended our Bystander Training last week and made it successful! And a big thanks for providing the training!

05/08/2019

Congratulations to Jessica Frew and Paul Bergeron for successfully defending! Good luck to both of you in the future!

05/02/2019

A huge thank you to Girl Scouts for letting us participate in their STEM education fair at the end of March! We would love to participate again, and we hope all the girls learned something about physics and astronomy!

04/28/2019

Had a great hike up Ensign Peak with our members and AWM! The views were amazing and the conversation was great. Happy spring and good luck on finals!

04/11/2019

Thanks to all the WomPA volunteers that participated in the prospective grad student visit last week and to those that visited, I hope we see you in the fall!

12/06/2017

Wishing Dr Teh and Dr Kavand the best! Congratulations!

02/18/2017

Congratulations to Megha Agarwal for her recent publication!

The effective spin exchange RKKY coupling between impurities (adatoms) on graphene mediated by conduction electrons is studied as a function of the strength of the potential part of the on-site energy $U$ of the electron-adatom interaction. With increasing $U$, the exchange coupling becomes long ran...

02/18/2017

01/07/2017

"Physics is really male-dominated, and that can be hard. Women drop out of STEM fields so often for multiple reasons. That’s why our department has Women in Physics and Astronomy (WomPA)."
–Payel Kar, doctoral candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and member of WomPA

Read more about Payel's story at bit.ly/HumansOfTheU_PayelKar