Department News
Time Projection Chamber Installed in sPHENIX
A state-of-art Time Projection Chamber (TPC) that will be the central tracking system
for the sPHENIX detector that was built at Stony Brook under the leadership of Prof.
Tom Hemmick has been installed today!
It involved many members of the experimental nuclear physics group and the machine shop. On Thursday January 19, the TPC was successfully installed in sPHENIX.
Congratulations to all involved!
The Chair, and the department as a whole, are incredibly proud that such a critical component was built right here at Stony Brook!
To see more photos of the occasion, please see here.
Stony Brook Physics Students Win National Recognition
The National Council of Society of Physics Students (SPS) has reviewed all chapter reports and has awarded the Stony Brook University SPS Chapter as a 2021-22 Outstanding Chapter.
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional association designed for students and membership is open to anyone interested in physics and related fields. SPS operates within the American Institute of Physics (AIP), an umbrella organization for professional physical science societies.
A group of SPS students visiting a laboratory during a field trip.
This is a great and well deserved recognition, given to less that 15% of SPS chapters each year.
Congratulations to the SPS leadership! We are very proud of our Stony Brook SPS Chapter.
To learn more about our university's SPS chapter, visit their link here.
Allen Pierre-Louis Wins the First Prize for Nuclear and Particle Physics Oral Presentations at 2022 NSBP Conference
At the 2022 National Society of Black Physicist (NSBP) Conference, Allen Pierre-Louis, a Master's student, won the first prize for nuclear and particle physics oral presentations with his talk "High Q2 electron-proton elastic scattering at the future Electron-Ion Collider." Allen is also the president of the SBU Chapter of the NSBP and is one of the student council members for NSBP nationally. The SBU Chapter was officially approved this fall as an official university club with about 12 members!
Allen Pierre-Louis (third from left) receiving his prize.
After attending Stony Brook for undergrad, Allen interned at BNL under Dr. Deshpande with whom he did research during undergrad. He eventually became a GEM fellow at BNL and published a paper with Dr. Deshpande and Barak Schmookler on the future electron ion collider. Dr. Mickey Chiu, Dr. Abram Ledbetter, and Noel Blackburn were instrumental in helping him while at BNL.
Allen was joined by Leonardo Pierre (SBU P&A undergrad) and Prof. Chang Kee Jung (the department chair) at the conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, representing Stony Brook.
Congratulations to Allen!
See more photos of the event here.