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Spotlight... Space Physicist Mary Hudson, PhD UCLA 1974, is Professor of Physics and served for eight years as Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department. Hudson is currently a Co-principal investigators with the NSF-funded Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM), where researchers study the weather patterns that originate from a solar eruption, following the energy and mass transfer through the interplanetary medium, all the way to the earth’s ionosphere. Her current research interests include the evolution of the radiation belts; how the ionized particle outflow known as the solar wind and the magnetic field of the sun interact with the magnetic field of the earth and energize charged particles up to million electron-volt energies; and the access of solar cosmic rays to the polar regions. Professor Hudson also participates in NASA’s Living With a Star Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission, to be launched in 2012, to study the Earth’s space radiation environment. Along with her students and postdoctoral research staff, she is modeling sudden changes in relativistic electron fluxes at and inside the 24-hr orbital period of many communication and navigation satellites. She has served as chair of the NSF Geospace Environment Modeling program and is an Affiliate Scientist at the High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, CO. |
Welcome to the Department of Physics & Astronomy! From the Chairman,
Welcome to our Department of Physics and Astronomy! Through our graduate PhD and undergraduate
physics major programs, we provide a broad range of research opportunities for students in the
areas of astrophysics and cosmology, plasma and space physics, and quantum and condensed matter
physics. Cutting edge courses in these and other areas are offered from the beginning
undergraduate to the advanced graduate level. Our faculty are highly active in research, while at
the same time dedicated mentors. We are a small, accessible and friendly department that welcomes
you, whether you plan to study physics/astronomy with us or are just passing through.
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New - New faculty member. Chandrasekhar Ramanathan joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Physics. on August 1, 2010 Learn more... New BARREL 2009/2010 Antartic Balloon Campaign. Follow the project to launch through thisblog... New Position Open: Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Astronomy. Learn more... 
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