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Welcome to the Physics Discipline Website at the University of Minnesota, Morris Front row (left to right): Jerry Kessler, Johanna Martin, Lewis Owen. Middle row: Will Setzer, Jeff Lind. Back row: Prof. Michael Korth, Prof. Sylke Boyd, Prof. Gordon McIntosh. Physics Senior Theses Nine seniors presented their Senior Thesis presentations during spring semester. Topics were: Extrasolar Planet Detection using the Transit Method by Johanna Martin The Oort Cloud and Its Effect on the Inner Solar System by William Newman Measuring Quantum Mechanical Tunneling Delay Time by Toby Simacek EBEX and the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization by Jeff Lind Electrical Spin Injection with Double Tunnel Junctions by David Sampers High-Temperature Superconductivity and the Pseudogap by Jerry Kessler The Rotational Dynamics of Supersolid Helium-4 by Lewis Owen Memristors and their Potential Use as Quantum Random Access Memory by Jake Carney-Ubl The Search for Dark Matter: WIMP Detection and the CDMSII by Will Setzer Physics Class Balloon Launch After a couple of months of planning and instrument building, Prof. McIntosh's experimental physics class sent a helium-filled balloon 90,000 feet up in the earth's atmosphere. More information about the launch and some photos can be seen on this web page. Visit to Army High-Performance Computing Research Center and the Twin Cities Campus On March 23, 2006, a group of 11 students and 2 faculty took a trip to the Twin Cities in order to visit several landmarks in computer modeling. More. Physics Weather Station at UMM Prof. Sylke Boyd manages a weather station on top of the science building that automatically downloads data to a web page. Prof. Boyd has taught a first-year seminar course on weather and has developed a new course on the physics of weather. Visit to Physics Research Labs at the U of M Twin Cities Campus On November 3, 2006, a group of students and faculty traveled to the Twin Cities in order to visit several research labs in the physics department. More. Visit to Army High-Performance Computing Research Center and the Twin Cities Campus On March 23, 2006, a group of 11 students and 2 faculty took a trip to the Twin Cities in order to visit several landmarks in computer modeling. More.