Physics & Astronomy News

New App Uses Crowdsourcing to Share Open Parking Spots in Real Time

Manos Chatzopoulos, assistant professor of Physics & Astronomy, has developed a free smartphone app to assist drivers in locating available parking on LSU's campus.

Thomas Corbitt Named a 2022 LSU Rainmaker

Associate Professor Thomas Corbitt has been selected as a 2022 recipient of the LSU Rainmaker Award in the Mid-Career Scholar, Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics category.

New parking app wins investment prize at Baton Rouge pitch competition

An app that uses crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to help people find parking spots won the High-Stakes Pitch Competition during Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week, or BREW. ParkZen, co-founded by LSU Assistant Professor Manos Chatzopoulos, financier and CFO George Triarchou and LSU computer science junior Haron Temam, took home the $100,000 investment award from Innovation Catalyst, a Baton Rouge-based nonprofit that invests in local entrepreneurs, and its subsidiary, the Red Stick Angel Network.

American Institute of Physics Interviews Gabriela Gonzalez

Having our own medical avatar could transform cancer care and space travel

Merging Medicine and Art - LSU SPARTAN Lab

"Beam Me Up!" Talking Quantum Communication with Michelle Lollie

In this episode of 'On Par with the President', President William F. Tate IV speaks to LSU physics and astronomy doctoral student Michelle Lollie.

Event horizons are tunable factories of quantum entanglement

LSU physicists have leveraged quantum information theory techniques to reveal a mechanism for amplifying, or "stimulating," the production of entanglement in the Hawking effect in a controlled manner. Furthermore, these scientists propose a protocol for testing this idea in the laboratory using artificially produced event horizons.

Lila Ton Talks Scholarship & Quantum Optics Research

Alumna of LSU's University Laboratory School and Secretary, Society of Physics Students - LSU Chapter, Lila Ton talks about her undergraduate research experience.

LSU Mourns the Loss of World-Renowned Astronomer Arlo U. Landolt

The LSU community lost one of its internationally respected faculty members when Arlo Udell Landolt, Ball Family Professor Emeritus of Physics & Astronomy, passed away on Jan. 21, 2022. He was 86 years old.

Undergrad Sara Sayer Reveals Research Experience

LSU physics major Sara Sayer shares her undergraduate research experience.

LSU Students Conduct Research and Design for First Lunar-based Telescope

LSU astronomers are leading a collaborative scientific observing program that will provide new images and information from the far side of the moon. LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy Assistant Professors Tabetha Boyajian and Matthew Penny have recruited a team of students, who are working on the design of the first lunar-based camera, or L-CAM1, that aims to launch in 2024.

Discovery of Extreme Superflares On Recurrent Nova V2487 Oph

Startlingly, the Recurrent Nova V2487 Oph has been discovered to have extreme superflares, with the bursts more frequent and 100,000 times more powerful than any other known superflare star, in terms of energy per year.

Jeanne Garriz Shares LaSPACE Experience

LSU undergraduate student Jeanne Garriz shares her research experience.

BRBytes Program to Boost Computer Science in K-12 Schools Doubles in Capacity

Going from 14 parishes and 2,000 students to 22 parishes and 4,000 students in mere months, BRBytes team makes yet another commitment to reach an additional 3,000 elementary school students in East Baton Rouge by summer.

Space is Next for Senior Bri Robertson

President William F. Tate IV speaks with a top LSU student scholar, Bri Robertson. Bri is a senior in the Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College studying physics in the College of Science and computer engineering in the College of Engineering. In this episode she shares how she is focused on artificial intelligence in medical settings and outer space, and how her scholarship opportunities have allowed her to make sure “no door was left unopened” during her time at LSU.

GWTC-3 Catalog and O3b Bulk Strain Data

The largest catalog of gravitational wave events ever assembled has been released today, with dozens of ripples in space time captured by a global network of detectors. The catalog updates the list of all gravitational-wave events observed to date with events observed between November 2019 and March 2020, using three international detectors: The two Advanced LIGO detectors in Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA, and the Advanced Virgo Detector in Italy.

Meet SOARS Scholar Nathaniel Wrobel

Undergratduate student spotlight featuring Nathaniel Wrobel

Scaling up quantum metrology for higher multiphoton resolution

Efficient parametric down-conversion together with photon-number-resolving detection makes multiphoton quantum metrology robust and scalable.

Quantum Physics PhD Candidate Michelle Lollie

Michelle Lollie's area of research is High-Dimensional Quantum Communication which is important for many technologies where the secure delivery and receipt of information, unbiased in any way, is paramount.

LSU, Delaware to Develop Chemical Manufacturing Processes Using CO2 Feedstocks and Renewable Energy

Each day, many of the products we use, whether we know it or not, are produced from natural gas or crude oil using carbon- and energy-intensive processes. But what if we could make those same products using CO2, thereby drastically reducing or even eliminating our carbon footprint? That is the ultimate goal of a project being conducted by researchers from LSU and the University of Delaware, thanks to a four-year, $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or NSF EPSCOR, program.