• News:  SDSU Physics Welcomes New Faculty

    News: SDSU Physics Welcomes New Faculty

    The Physics Department is very happy to welcome Dr. Lyube Kuznetsova as our newest faculty member. Lyuba was chosen from a pool of extremely competitive list of over 90 applicants. Lyuba comes with an impeccable pedigree: her PhD is from Cornell University and she has competed post-doctoral training at Harvard and Brown Universities. Lyuba is…

  • News:  Professor Stephen Roeder wins Monty Award

    News: Professor Stephen Roeder wins Monty Award

    The San Diego State University Alumni Association recently announced the Awards for Outstanding Faculty Contributions to the university, more commonly known as the Montys. Professor Steve Roeder has had a distinguished career at San Diego State University since he joined as an Assistant Professor in Physics in 1968. He has the distinction of being a…

  • High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Morphological variability of human tibia from high resolution magnetic resonance imaging data from 10 subjects. Potential applications are in detection of deviations from normal anatomy and the creation of bone models for knee replacement surgeries.

  • Ultrafast Lasers

    Ultrafast Lasers

    Colored rings of light are generated with a femtosecond supercontinuum source and an axicon, then captured with a long exposure digital image.  In this photo, a supercontinuum source (lower right) emits a bright beam which traverses to the left. It passes through an axicon (lower left), which generates the circular beam pattern. The beam then…

  • News:  Professor Matt Anderson creates and directs an original movie about Quantum Physics.

    News: Professor Matt Anderson creates and directs an original movie about Quantum Physics.

    Movie – Prof. Matt Anderson created and directed a movie with the Oxford crew while on sabbatical. It’s called “The DiVincenzo Code” and it is a cross between The DaVinci Code, The Matrix, and Spinal Tap. It’s all about quantum physics.  To see this picture contact Professor Matt Anderson at manderson@mail.sdsu.edu.