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Aug 25
New faculty members
The Department has been joined in the Fall by John Stupak and John Tobin as new assistant professors. Stupak is a new member of the...
Aug 14
Department will be housed in new physics complex
OU President David Boren announced on March 9 two lead gifts that will provide resources to construct a new academic building and research laboratory on...
Aug 02
OU permanent member of Apache Point Observatory
Following several years of effort and negotiation, OU is now a permanent member of the Apache Point Observatory (APO). Managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium,...
Apr 08
HLD Faculty Patents Recognized
Profs. Michael Santos and Matthew Johnson were recognized at the recent tribute to faculty for their two patents on thermophotovoltaic devices. This work was...
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Faculty Research Seminar
Sep 28, 2016 6:00 pm
Nielsen Hall 303 - Profs. Marino & SchwettmannCMP Journal Club
Sep 29, 2016 12:30 pm
Nielsen Hall 103 - Alex KerrColloquium
Sep 29, 2016 4:00 pm
Nielsen Hall 170 - Xinyu DaiAn Extragalactic Journey with Active Galactic Nuclei, Gravitational Lenses, and Galaxy Clusters
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Sep 30, 2016 12:00 pm
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Featured Research: Negative Quantum Vacuum Entropy is Puzzling
It has recently been discovered that nearby objects, such as conducting spheres, atoms, or nanoparticles, interacting through the quantum vacuum, exhibit regions where the entropy of the system goes negative. This occurs when the temperature times the separation distance (in natural units) is of order one. The physical significance of this surprising result is still under investigation, and was the subject of two recent papers of Kim Milton with prominent German and French theorists.
Whether the negative entropy discovered has anything to…
