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MS in Physics Start Fall 2009 A.G.
Petukhov, Physics Department, SDSMT
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Some History

• 1922 Ernest Lawrence (Inventor of a cyclotron)
  graduated from USD
• 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Raymond
  Davis (U Penn) for Solar Neutrino II Experiment
  at the Homestake Mine in Lead, SD

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• Scientific and Educational
• Opportunities
• Astrophysics and Cosmology
• Dark Matter Search
• Gravitational wave detection
• Neutrino Astrophysics
• Geoscience
• Planetary Physics
• Life Sciences

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MS Physics Management Plan

• MS in Physics will be offered by three
  collaborating institutions SDSU, SDSMT and USD
• Other participants BHSU, DSU
• Course sharing for BS in Physics started in 1996
• Synergy is already in place
• Annual reviews in Chamberlain, SD

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SD Physics Faculty Synergy

• Nuclear Physics
• Particle Physics
• Atomic Physics
• Laser Physics
• Statistical Mechanics
• Condensed Matter Physics
• Physics of Quantum information processing
• General Relativity

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Union of Quantum Mechanics