Three Physics students had presentations at the LaSPACE annual meeting on November 5, 2011:

• William Walker (Physics) and Whitney Radosti (Math., Physics minor) presented a poster on “Low Speed Gaseous Flow Effects on Nanoscale Metal Films”. Their experimental work utilized a laboratory-grade wind tunnel to investigate the effects of air flow on the transport properties of nanoscale metal films. Both students worked as research assistants in Prof. Patrick Garrity’s condensed matter lab over the summer of 2011.
• William Duhe (Physics) also presented a poster on “Cosmology with p-adic Strings”. He has been working with Prof. Biswas for the past one year on thermal fluctuations of excited gases of "strings" in the "Early Universe", and possible signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Backround Radiation that we are currently probing with satellites.