The tradition of reunion of the CSU Physics students, faculty, and alumni at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meetings continued in Minneapolis, MN in March of 2024. This year CSU physics has been represented by one undergraduate, two graduate students, two CSU physics alumni, and three CSU physics faculty who gave in total two talks and five posters.

Physics major James Taton presented poster “Study of mixing enhancement in microfluidic channels through extensional flows” on his summer research supported by the CSU’s USRA program and advised by Dr. Fodor and Dr. Kothapalli. A CSU 4+1 BS/MS physics student Collin Douglas gave a talk “Combining Light Scattering and Small Angle X-ray Scattering for Particle Characterization” on a research project he completed with Dr. Streletzky. An MS Physics student Mathew Ogieva presented a poster on his project “DNA Origami Motifs for Fast Localized Communication” advised by Dr. Sensale.

Alumni Dr. Phil Dee’ 13, currently a physics postdoctoral associate at the University of Florida, and Jacob Adamczyk’ 20, currently PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, delivered their oral presentations and attended every CSU student poster presentation, providing each student with detailed feedback and academic career advice. The CSU students and CSU Alumni then joined Drs. Bickel, Sensale, and Streletzky for a reunion lunch. Later CSU students together with Jacob Adamczyk and Dr. Streletzky explored the “City of Lakes” a bit by walking down Mississippi River.

We hope to continue this great tradition of physics students, faculty, and alumni getting together at the annual APS March Meetings. The reunion of 2024 was at least 7th reunion of CSU students, faculty and alumni at a March Meeting. In fact, since 2018 CSU had a similar reunion at every in-person APS March Meeting (March meeting was cancelled in 2020 and was fully virtual in 2021). This statistic shows the strength of CSU physics program and perseverance of its alumni in physics!

* The APS March Meeting is the largest physics scientific community meeting with 10,000+ contributed and invited presentations by physicists from around the world.