Physics
Mailing Address
Cleveland State University
Department of Physics
2121 Euclid Avenue, PHY
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
Campus Location
Science Building (SI)
2399 Euclid Avenue, Rm. 112
Contact Us
Phone: 216.687.2425
Fax: 216.523.7268
physics.dept@csuohio.edu
SPS Schedule of Events
Presented by the Society of Physics Students
2025 - 2026
| Date | Place | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | SR 151 | James Taton, CSU Physics | Research experience at NASA Glenn EMI Lab |
| Tuesday, September 2, 2025 | SR 151 | Welcome Meeting | Learn about SPS and physics programs |
2024 - 2025
| Date | Place | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 | SR 151 | Niksa Praljak, University of Chicago | Molecular dialogues: guiding protein design using natural language prompts" |
| Friday, April 25th, 2025 | Mather Mansion | Sigma Pi Sigma Induction Ceremony | Induction of Sigma Pi Sigma new members |
| Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 | SR 151 | Physics Jeopardy | Join the SPS for a Jeopardy battle! |
| Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 | SR 151 | PhysCon Info Session | Learn about the PhysCon 2025 Conference |
| Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Presentations | Dr. B. Davis (Mechanical Engineering), Dr. K. Streletzky (Physics) |
| Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 | SR 151 | Dr. Krista Freeman, University of Pittsburgh | Seeing is believing: zooming on bacteriophages with cryo-electron microscopy |
| Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Presentations | Dr. S. Ryan (Math and Statistics), Dr. C. Kothapalli (Chemical and Biomedical Engineering), Dr. J. Jenkins (Civil and Environmnetal Engineering) |
| Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 | SR 151 | Kiril Streletzky, CSU Physics | How To find REU positions |
| Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 | SR 151 | Welcome Back Meeting | Learn about SPS, physics programs and meet physics faculty and students. Find out what Physics Students do after graduation |
| Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024 | SR 151 | LN2 Ice Cream Party | Join us for our end of the semester ice cream party and find out who won the XIII Physics Olympics! |
| Tuesday, November 26th, 2024 | SR 151 | Jacob Adamczyk '20 (BS Honors Physics, BS Math) PhD Candidate, University of Massachusetts, Boston | "Machine Learning from the Perspective of Physics" |
| Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Projects done with Undergraduates. Part 2 | Dr. A. Hoover (Math & Statistics), "Modeling Locomotion and Fluid Transport using CFD with the Ohio Supercomputer Center" Dr. J. Gatica (Chemical & Biomedical Eng), "Chemical Reaction Engineering for Sustainable Living Environments" Dr. M. Rahmati (Electrical & Computer Eng), "Next-Gen IoT: Revolutionizing Water Quality Sensing and Monitoring" |
| Tuesday, November 4th, 2024 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Projects done with Undergraduates. Part 1 | Dr. Andrew Resnick (Physics), "Modeling Locomotion and Fluid Transport using CFD with the Ohio Supercomputer Center" |
| Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 | SR 151 | XIII Physics Olympics | Join SPS for the annual competition! |
| Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 | SR 151 | Grace Miller, physics honors and math honors major (2025) | "My Summer REU at CERN" |
| Tuesday, September 17th, 2024 | SR 151 | Undergraduate Research Presentations by physics 2024 USRA students | “Analyzing Polymer-Grafted Gold Nanorods using Depolarized Dynamic Light Scattering (DDLS)”, Patrick Barrett “Effects of Windshear on TKE Distributions Around Cumulus Clouds”, Jacob Forester |
| Tuesday, September 3rd 2024 | SR 151 | Welcome Meeting! | Learn about SPS, physics programs and meet physics faculty and students |
| Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 | SR 151 | LN2 Ice Cream Party | Join us for our end of the semester ice cream party! |
| Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024 | SR 151 | Justin Flaherty | The Search for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos at the South Pole Using the Askaryan Radio Array |
| Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 | SR 151 | Physics Jeopardy | Join SPS for an exciting battle of smarts and wits! |
| Tuesday, April 9th, 2024 | SR 151 | Joseph Glaser, NANOGrav, West Virginia University | NANOGrav - Discovering the Gravitational Hum of the Universe |
| Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 | SR 151 | Timothy Dolch, Hillsdale College | Student-Driven Radio Observations of the Sun and the Ionosphere During the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse |
| Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 | SR 151 | Andrew Resnick | Eclipse Photography (presentation, video)) |
| Thursday, February 29th, 2024 | BH 202 | Adam Sonstegard | Eclipse Seminar Series: "How a Graphic Novelist Almost Eclipsed Mark Twain" |
| Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Projects done with Undergraduates Pt3 | Dr. E. Schearer (Mechanical Engineering), "Robot-Assisted Feeding for People with Paralyzed Arms" Dr. Alex Hoover (Mathematics and Statistics), "Life in Moving Fluids: Computational Modeling of Fluids and Elasticity" Dr. T. Heus (Physics), "Physics of Clouds" |
| Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Projects done with Undergraduates Pt2 | Dr. J. Bickel (Physics), "Looking at atoms: Imaging the nanoscale" Dr. G. Ao (Chemical/Biomedical Eng), "Fluorescent Quantum Defects in Carbon Nanotubes" Dr. F. Galetto (Mathematics and Statistics), "Jets of graphs" |
| Tuesday, February 6th, 2024 | SR 151 | The Eclipse and Film | Eclipse Seminar Series: "The Eclipse and Film", Ygal Kaufman |
| Tuesday, January 23rd 2024 | SR 151 | Welcome Meeting! | Learn about SPS and Upcoming Events as well as Summer Internships and research opportunities! |
2022 - 2024
| Date | Place | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 | SR 152 | LN2 Ice Cream Party | Join us for our end of the semester ice cream party! |
| Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 | SR 152 | Faculty Research Projects done with Undergraduates pt1 | Gr. G Ayo (Chemical/Biomedical Eng), "Fluorescent Quantum Defects in Carbon Nanotubes" Dr. S. Ryan (Mathematics and Statistics), "Mathematics Provides Insight into Biology" Dr. S. Sensale Rodriguez (Physics), "Dynamic DNA Nanotechnology" |
| Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 | SR 152 | Dr. Kiril Streletzky | HowToREU: Applying to REU's in STEM Fields |
| Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | SR 152 | PHYSICS OLYMPICS | Work together in teams, competing in 3 physics-themed events (no experience necessary!). Prizes will be awarded to the top team! |
| Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | SR 152 | James Pitchford (CSU Alumni 2011) | "A Discussion of Science Fiction" |
| Tuesday, September 19, 2023 | SR 152 | Undergraduate Research Presentations | "Characterizing Pentacene Think Film Growth on HOPG" - Grace Miller "Performing Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) on Polystyrene Probes and Polysaccharide Microgrels" - Patrick Herron "Study of Micromixing Systems using Extensional Flows" - James Taton "Analysis of Marine Stratocumulus Clouds with and Without a Diurnal Cycle Using Large Eddy Simulations" - Jeremiah Greene "Developing SAXS Methodology for Solution of Polystyrene Spheres" - Collin Douglas TBA, Jordan Miller |
| Tuesday, September 5, 2023 | SR 152 | Welcome Meeting! | Learn about the SPS, and exciting Summer Internships and Research Opportunities! |
| Tuesday, May 2, 2023 | SR 151 | LN2 Ice Cream Party | Celebrate the end of the semester with LN2 ice cream, Physics Jeopardy Winners, and New SPS Officers! |
| Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | SR 151 | Mario Alberto, Chemical Engineering Senior, CSU | "Electrofermentation with Recombinant S. Cerevisiae for Increasing Fermentation Yields AKA: California Dreaming: Industrial Biotechnology in the Heart of Silicon Valley" |
| Tuesday, April 18, 2023 | SR 151 | Physics Jeopardy | Join SPS for an exciting battle of smarts and wits! |
| Thursday, March 30, 2023 | SR 151 | SPS/COF event Alumni Speaker | Dr. Prasenjit Bose "Industry R&D - Different from Academia, yet quite fulfilling" |
| Tuesday, February 28, 2023 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Projects Done with Undergraduates (Part 4) | Dr. J. Jenkins (Civil & Environmental Engineering), "I'm Watching You" Dr. J. Gatica (Chemical and Biomedical Engineering), "Process Engineering for Sustainable Living Environments" Dr. T. Heus (Physics), "The Physics of Clouds and Climate" |
| Tuesday, February 14, 2023 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Projects done with Undergraduates (Part 3) | Dr. Q. Lin (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), Dr. C. Kothapalli (Chemical and Biomedical Engineering), "Atomic Force Microscopy as a tool to measure cell mechanics" Dr. J. Bickel (Physics), "The Physics of Surfaces, Looking at the Nanoscale" |
| Tuesday, January 31, 2023 | SR 151 | Welcome Meeting! | Learn about the SPS, and exciting Summer Internships and Research Opportunities! |
| Thursday, January 19, 2023 | Zoom | Dr. Streletzky, and Dr. Conrad | HowToREU: Applying to REU's in Physics, Astronomy, and other fields |
| Tuesday, December 6, 2022 | SR 151 | Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Party | Join us for our end of Semester Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Party! |
| Tuesday, November 22, 2022 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Projects with Undergraduates Part 2 | Dr. H. Lopez (Math), "Matrices help to correct errors" Dr. E. Schearer (Mechanical Engineering), "Robot-Assisted Feeding" Dr. A. Resnick (Physics), "Characterizing biological flow sensors with an optical trap" |
| Tuesday, November 8, 2022 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Projects with Undergraduates Part 1 | Dr. G Ao (Chemical/Biomedical Eng), "Nano-materials: Surface Chemistry and Application" Dr. S. Sensale Rodriguez (Physics) "Dynamic DNA Nanotechnology" Dr. S. Ryan (Math), "Mathematics Provides Insight into Biology" |
| Tuesday, November 1, 2022 | SR 151 | Physics Olympics | Compete in a number of Physics Related competitions to win prizes! |
| Tuesday, September 27, 2022 | SR 151 | Prof. Siu-Tung Yau, Electrical Engineering CSU | A culture-free diagnostic platform for bacterial infections |
| Tuesday, Septemeber 20, 2022 | SR 151 | Undergraduate Summer Research Presentations | USRA participants will present their experiences and findings |
| Tuesday, August 30, 2022 | SR 151 | Welcome SPS Meeting & PhysCon 22 Introduction |
2021 – 2022
| Date | Place | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, May 3, 2022 | SR 151 | LN2 End-of-the-Year Party | |
| Tuesday, April 26, 2022 | SR 151 | SPS Physics Jeopardy | |
| Tuesday, April 12, 2022 | SR 151 | CSU Faculty Research Presentation Pt. 2 | |
| Tuesday, March 8, 2022 | SR 151 | Research Presentations | Undergraduate Research Presentations |
| Tuesday, March 1, 2022 | SR 151 | PhysCon 2022 | PhysCon 2022 Informational Meeting |
| Tuesday, February 15, 2022 | SR 151 | Dr. Hunter King, University of Akron | Talk by Dr. Hunter King, Prof of Polymer Science, Biology, and Physics University of Akron |
| Tuesday, February 1, 2022 | Zoom | Dr. Conrad (SPS Director) & Dr. Streletzky (SPS President) | #HowToREU: Applying to REU's in Physics, Astronomy, and other fields |
| Tuesday, November 30, 2021 | SR 151 | SPS Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Party | Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Party, and Sigma Pi Sigma 100th Birthday Party! |
| Tuesday, November 23, 2021 | SR 151 | Professor Kevin Cavicchi, University of Akron | Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering Graduate Programs at the University of Akron |
| Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | SR 151 | Faculty Research Presentations | Faculty Research |
| Tuesday, October 26, 2021 | SR 151 | Physics Olympics | 2021 Physics Olympics |
| Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | SR 151 | Dr. James Lock, CSU | Leonardo's cross: a mathematical analysis & physical explanation of a long-forgotten observation of an optical caustic by Leonardo da Vinci |
| Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | SR 151 | Alexis Merk, Angela Noreck | Student Research Presentations |
| Tuesday, September 14, 2021 11:30am – 12:30pm | SR 151 | Andrew Scherer | Observations of cross-shelf nitrate fluxes on the Oregon continental shelf: an REU experience |
| Tuesday, September 7, 2021 11:30am – 12:30pm | SR 151 | Welcome Meeting Fall Semester 2021 | Welcome Meeting for Fall 2021 Semester |
Past Events
| DATE / PLACE | SPEAKER | TITLE | NOTES | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, April 20, 2021 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Society of Physics Students & Choose Ohio First | Final Meeting of the Semester | Presented by the Society of Physics Students & Choose Ohio First | |
| Tuesday, April 6, 2021 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Samantha Tietjen, Garrett Witzke, and Talia Minisall | Graduate Students and COF Physics Project Presentations | Presented by the Society of Physics Students & Choose Ohio First | |
| Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Michael Georgalis | Careers in Physics: Identification and Mitigation of Vibration, Magnetic Field and Acoustic Effects for Nanotechnology and Ultra Precision Applications | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Dr. Kaufman, Dr. Schearer, and Dr. Kothapalli | Faculty Research Projects Done with Undergraduates (Part III) | Presented by the Society of Physics Students & Choose Ohio First | |
| Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Welcome Meeting Spring Semester 2021 | Welcome Meeting for Spring Semester 2021 | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Final Meeting of the Fall Semester | Final Meeting for Fall Semester 2020 | Presented by the Society of Physics Students and Choose Ohio First | |
| Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Justin Flaherty | The Askaryan Radio Array: Searching for Astrophysical Neutrinos in the Antarctic Ice | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Dr. P. Fodor, Dr. E. Schearer, Dr. A. Resnick, Dr. S. Kumar, and Dr. J. Gatica | Faculty Research Projects done with Undergraduates (Part II) | Presented by the Society of Physics Students & Choose Ohio First | |
| Tuesday, Oct 27, 2020 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Dr. J. Bickel, Dr. T. Heus, Dr. G. Ao and Dr. S. Ryan | Faculty Research Projects done with Undergraduates (Part I) | Presented by the Society of Physics Students & Choose Ohio First | |
| Tuesday, Oct 6, 2020 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Andrew Scherer and Richard Sent |
| Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Tuesday, Sept 15, 2020 "Virtual Seminar" Zoom - 11:30am | Theresa Lincheck | Quantifying the Stable Boundary Layer Depth in the Arctic Region of Northern Finland: A Remote REU Experience | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020 SR 151 11:30am | Niksa Praljak, Theresa Lincheck, Andrew Scherer, Samantha Tietjen | Student Research Presentations | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Tuesday, Feb 18, 2020 SR 151 11:30am | Dr. Schearer, Dr. Kaufman, Dr. Ryan, Dr. Gao, Dr. Ao | Faculty Research Projects with Undergraduates (part 3) | Presented by the Society of Physics Students & Choose Ohio First | |
| Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020 SR 151 11:30am | Jacob Adamczyk | SQUIDs and Magnets in France | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Tuesday, Jan 21, 2020 SR 151 11:30am | Society of Physics Students | Welcome Meeting | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Dec 5, 2019 SR 151 11:30am | Society of Physics Students | Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Party | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Nov 21 2019 SR 151 11:30am | Dr. Philip Bos | The Application of Liquid Crystals to Optical Beam Steering and Tunable Lenses | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Nov 7, 2019 SR 151 11:30am | Mario Alberto, Jacob Martin, Andrew Scherer, Justin Thompson, Samantha Tietjen | Student Research Presentations | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Nov 1, 2019 Washkewicz Hall 405, See Flyer for times and RSVP Info | Dr. Daniel Raible | Communication with Light: A New Dawn in the Information Age | IEEE Control Systems Society, HKN Epsilon Alpha Chapter, and Society of Physics Students | |
| Oct 31, 2019 SR 151 11:30am | Society of Physics Students | Physics Olympics 2019 | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Oct 24, 2019 SR 151 11:30am | Dr. Gatica, Dr. Sun, Dr. Resnick, Dr. Margolius, Dr. Streletzky | Faculty Research Projects Done with Undergraduates (Part 2) | Joint Meeting of Choose Ohio First and Society of Physics Students | |
| Oct 17, 2019 SR 151 11:30am | James Pitchford | Serious Statistics: The Aliasing Adventure | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Oct. 3, 2019 SR 151 11:30am | Dr. Bickel, Dr. Holland, Dr. Fodor, Fr. Kothapalli, Dr. Heus | Faculty Research Projects Done with Undergraduates (Part 1) | Joint Meeting of Choose Ohio First and Society of Physics Students | |
| Sept 12, 19 SR 151 11:30am | Society of Physics Students | Welcome Meeting | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| May 2, 2019 SR 151 11:30am | Society of Physics Students | Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Party | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| April 25, 19 SR 151 11:30am | Dr. Michael Hinczewski, Case Western Reserve University | Evolution, Accelerated: Controlling Noisy Nanoscale Systems, from Quantum Bomputing to Cancer Therapy | Presented by the Society of Physics Student & Math Club | |
| April 18, 19 SR 151 11:30am | Physics Alumni Series: Phil Dee | Accelerating Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo with Artificial Neural Networks | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| April 11, 19 SR 151 11:30am | Physics Jeopardy | Physics Jeopardy | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| April 4, 19 SR 151 11:30am | Dr. James Lock | Imaging Through Cylinders: Virtual Caustics, Rainbow Glare Points and Image Fragmentation | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Feb. 28, 19 SR 151 11:30am | Aubrey Lokey, Jacob Adamczyk, Alberto Williams, Niksa Praljak, Sam Tietjen | Undergraduate Student Research Presentations | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Feb. 14, 19 SR 151 11:30am | Faculty Research Choose Ohio First | Faculty Research Projects Undergraduates | Presented by the Society of Physics Students and Choose Ohio First | |
| Jan. 24, 19 SR-151 11:30am | Society of Physics Students | SPS First Meeting of Spring 2019 | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Dec. 6, 18 SR-151 11:30am | Society of Physics Students | Semi-Annual Nitrogen Ice Cream Party | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Nov 28, 18 SR-151, 11:30am | Michael Centanni, PhD | A Great Career Choice: Combining Science or Engineering with Law | Presented by the Society of Physics Students and Choose Ohio First | |
| Nov 15, 18 SR-151, 11:30am | Faculty Research Choose Ohio First | Choose Ohio First Joint Meeting Undergraduate Research Projects | Presented by the Society of Physics Students and Choose Ohio First | |
| Nov 1, 18 SR-151, 11:30am | 2018 Physics Olympics | Physics Olympics | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Oct 25 2018 SR - 151 11:30am | Kaitlin Vandemark | Going From Academia to Industry | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Oct 18 2018 SR - 151, 11:30am | Faculty Research Choose Ohio First | Choose Ohio First Joint Meeting | Presented by the Society of Physics Students and Choose Ohio First | |
| Oct. 4, 2018 SR - 151, 11:30am | Physics, Chemical/Bio Medical Faculty | Research Projects for Undergrads | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Sept. 20, SR 151, 11:30am | Society of Physics Students | Welcome to CSU 2018 | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| May 3rd, SR - 151, 11:30am | Society of Physics Students | Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Party | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| April 26, SR - 151, 11:30am | Math Club & SPS | Convolutions are Smoothing Operators | Dr. Pratihba Ghatage, professor emeritus | |
| April 19, SR - 151, 11:30am | Society of Physics Students | Physics Jeopardy | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| April 12th, SR - 151, 11:30am | Nicholas Barron, William Calabrase, Anthony Dobrila,
| Undergraduate Physics Research Project Presentations | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| March 30, Fenn Tower Ballroom 2:30 pm | Featuring: Tony Dobrila & Dr. Resnick | Generation & Modulation and Notes are Dumb: Physics of Drumming | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| March 22, 11:30am, SR - 151 | Prasenjit Bose | Mechanics of 3D Engineered Microtissues | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Feb. 22, 11:30am, SR - 151 | Aubrey Lokey | Interning at NASA | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Feb. 8, 11:30am, SR - 151 | SPS Meeting | Rock 'n' Roll | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Jan. 25, 11:30am, SR - 151 | SPS Meeting | SPS 1st Meeting of the Spring Semester | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Dec. 7, 11:30am, SR - 151 | Ice Cream Party | Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Party | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Nov. 21, 11:30am, SR - 151 | Vincenzo LaSalvia | Tabula Rasa Defect Engineering: Suppressing Oxygen Precipitates for Enhanced Photocarrier Lifetimes | SPS Presents: Physics Alumni Series Seminar | |
| Nov. 16, 11:30am, SR - 151 | Justin Flaherty | Shooting Lasers into the Sky: Measuring Atmospheric Turbulence Using Lidar | Presented by Society of Physics Students and Math Club | |
| Nov. 9, 11:30am, SR - 151 | Dr. Andrew Resnick | Cilium: Definition of an Interdisciplinary problem | Presented by Society of Physics Students | |
| Oct. 26, 11:30am, SR - 151 | Physics Olympics | 2017 Physics Olympics | Presented by Society of Physics Students | |
| Oct. 12, 11:30am, SR - 151 | Dr. Bickel, Dr. Heus, Dr. Kaufman, Dr. Zurcher, Dr. Streletzky | Available Research Project for Undergraduates | Projects are available with Physics Faculty | |
| Oct 4, 2:30pm-4:00pm, SR Atrium | SPS Students | SPS Poster Session | Society of Physics Students | |
| Sept 28, 17 11:30am, SR - 151 | Dr. Resnick, Dr. Fodor, Dr. Kothapalli, Dr. Wirth, Dr. Ao, Dr. Holland | Available Research Projects for Undergraduates | Projects are available with Physics and Chemical/Biomedical Engineering | |
| Sept 14, 17 11:30am, SR - 151 | Society of Physics Students | Welcome Back Party Fall 2017 | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| May 4, 2017 11:30am, SR-151 | SPS Students Ice Cream Party | End of the Year LN2 Ice Cream Party 2017 | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Apr. 27, 11:30am, SR-151 | Society of Physics Students | JEOPARDY Physics Edition | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Apr. 20, 11:30am, SR-151 | Physics Movie (Part 2) | Physics Movie (Part 2) | Presented by Society of Physics Students | |
| Apr. 4, 11:30am, SR-151 | Physics Movie | Physics Movie | Presented by Society of Physics Students | |
| Mar. 30, 11:30am, SR-151 | Marie Blatnik, PhD Physics Student | The Accelerator-based Science Life | Presented by the Physics Alumni Series Seminar | |
| Feb. 2, 2017 11:30am, SR-151 | Society of Physics Students Leadership | Welcome Back Party | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Dec. 8, 2016 11:30am, SR-152 | SPS Students Ice Cream Party | End of the Year LN2 Ice Cream Party 2016 | Presented by the Society of Physics Students | |
| Dec. 1, 2016 11:30am, SR-152 | Patrick Donaghue, CSU MATH Student | Introduction to Functional Iteration | Presented by CSU's Math Club | |
| Nov. 17, 11:30am, SR-152 | Dr. David Spelic | Medical Physics in Diagnostic Radiology | Presented by the Society of Physics Students (SPS) | |
| Oct. 27, 11:30am, SR-152 | Physics Olympics | Go for the Gold at this year's Annual Physics Olympics! Compete in a physics-inspired Relay Race Competition | Presented by the Society of Physics Students (SPS) | |
| Oct 13,. 11:30am, SR- 152 | Petru Fodor, Kiril Streletzky, and Ulrich Zurcher | October Short Research Presentation to Undergraduates by Physics Faculty | SPS Seminar (Invited by K. Streletzky) | |
| Sept 29. 11:30am, SR- 152 | Jessica Bickel, Thijs Heus, and Andy Resnick | Short Research Presentation to Undergraduates by Physics Faculty | SPS Seminar (Invited by K. Streletzky) | |
| Sept 15, 11:30am, SR- 152 | SPS Leadership | Welcome to CSU Party | Welcome new semester with Physics, Pizza, and info about the Physics Department and SPS | |
| Apr 28, 16, 11:30am, SR-151 | Justin Flaherty | Langevin Analysis of an Optically Trapped Primary Cilium | SPS Seminar (Invited by K. Streletzky) | |
| Apr 21, 2016, 11:30am, SR-151 | Physics and Math Movie Day | Top Secret Rosies: The Female 'Computers' of WWII | Presented by the Society of Physics Students with the CSU Math Club | |
| Apr. 7, 2016 11:30am, SR-151 | Joseph Graser, BS Physics Honor Alumnus | Straight-Forward Facts about Graduate School | SPS and Math Club Join Seminar (Invited by K. Streletzky) | |
| Mar. 10, 2016, 11:30am, SR-151 | Dr. James Lock, Professor Emeritus, Physics Department, CSU | From the elliptical trajectories of bound states of planets around the sun to elliptical trajectories of bound states of light inside a microparticle | SPS Seminar (Invited by K. Streletzky) | |
| Feb. 11, 2016, 11:30am, SR-151 | Dr. Angelo Licata, Cleveland Clinic | Astronauts, Engineers, and one endocrinologist - a chance meeting in time | SPS Seminar (Invited by A. Resnick and K. Streletzky) | |
| Feb. 4, 2016, 11:30am, SR-151 | SPS Leadership | Welcome Back Party - Spring 2016 | Welcome new semester with Physics, Pizza, and info about the Physics Department and SPS | |
| Dec. 3, 11:30am, SR-151 | SPS Students Ice Cream Party | LN2 Ice Cream Party | Join us for pizza, soda, and ice cream at the end of the Semester semi-annual Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Social | |
| Nov 19, 11:30am, SI-149 | Sixth Physics Olympics | VI Annual Physics Olympics | Compete in one or several basic Physics Olympics events for the great physics prizes or be a cheering spectator | |
| Nov 12, 11:30am, SR-151 | Krista Freeman, Carnegie Mellon University | Shining a Light on Viruses: A Physicist's Adventures in Biology | SPS Seminar by a CSU Physics Alumnus! (Invited by K. Streletzky) | |
| Oct 16 & 17 Main Classroom | Zone 7 SPS Event | SPS Zone 7 Event | ||
| Oct 17, 1:00pm MC201 | Stan Micklavzina, University of Oregon | Physics of Rock and Roll | SPS Zone 7 Event (Invited by K. Streletzky) | |
| Oct 17, 2:30pm MC201 | Jearl Walker | The Flying Circus of Physics | SPS Zone 7 Event (Invited by J. Flaherty and K. Streletzky) | |
| Sep 24, 15 11:30am SR 151 | Professor Dan Stinebring, Physics and Astronomy, Oberlin College | Searching for Gravitational Waves with Pulsars | SPS Seminar/Physics Seminar (invited by Jearl Walker) Sep 10, 15 11:30am SR-151 SPS Officers, Physics students Welcome to | |
| Sep 10, 15 11:30am SR-151 | SPS Officers, Physics students | Welcome to CSU 2015 Event | Come to learn about SPS activities and the Physics Dept. and of course help yourself to FREE pizza and raffle prizes | |
| Sep 3, 15 10am-2pm SC Atrium | Summer Student Research Poster Session | Join SPS at the Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Session | Come by to learn about summer research by CSU undergraduates! | |
| Aug 27, 15, 11:30am, S151 | Achille Nicoletti, EPFL and CERN | A new paradigm in robust trajectory control for particle accelerators | SPS Seminar by a CSU Physics Alumnus! (Invited by K. Streletzky) | |
| May 2, 15 (Saturday) noon Krenzler Field, CSU | 3rd CATAPULT Contest | 3rd Annual Catapult contest | Join us for the annual Catapult contest! We can pay to build your catapult and then you can win the Grand Prize | |
| Apr 30, 15 noon SI 117 | SPS Leadership | End of the Year - SPS Ice Cream and Awards Party | Get ready to the finals week with Physics Raffle prizes, Pizza, and Liquid N2 Ice-Cream and Physics Awards | |
| Apr 23, 15 11:30am SR 151 | SPS Leadership | Catapult Movie | In preparation to our Annual Catapult contest we will watch how catapults are made | |
| Mar 26, 15 11:30am SR 151 | Janna Mion, Justin Flaherty, Dr.S | Spring Medley Meeting | Come to learn about 2015 Catapult Contest and Summer Research opportunities at the Physics Dept | |
| Feb 26, 15 11:30am SR 151 | SPS Leadership | Physics Movie | Enjoy Physics Raffle prizes, Pizza, and a Movie | |
Mailing Address
Cleveland State University
Department of Physics
2121 Euclid Avenue, PHY
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
Campus Location
Science Building (SI)
2399 Euclid Avenue, Rm. 112
Contact Us
Phone: 216.687.2425
Fax: 216.523.7268
physics.dept@csuohio.edu