Open to all students, faculty and staff, Physics and Astro Tea is the perfect opportunity to connect with fellow physics aficionados in a relaxed and informal setting.
Three students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy shared their work at the Physics and Astro Tea, a weekly department gathering.
Jaylem Cheek ’27 spent the summer at the Boulder Solar Alliance in Boulder, Colorado. After discussing the process of applying to many highly competitive summer research programs, Cheek shared his work studying the total electron count in the ionosphere above North America from data taken in 2018.
Morgan Micharski ’26 spent the summer at the New Jersey State Museum. Micharski worked in the planetarium and did demonstrations for visitors, like show gas discharge tubes and convection currents. They developed a new demonstration on the curvature of spacetime, which is currently being built by the museum workshop.
Muhammed Tahiru ’27 stayed at Elon this summer to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program. He worked with Associate Professor of Physics Martin Kamela to study the behavior of a traveling quantum system as it encounters a small attractive potential well, specifically contrasting it with the behavior of a classical system.
Hosted weekly by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Physics & Astro Tea promises engaging discussions, thought-provoking ideas and a delightful spread of refreshments. Open to all students, faculty and staff, this gathering is the perfect opportunity to connect with fellow physics aficionados in a relaxed and informal setting. Meetings take place in the third-floor lounge of Innovation Hall at 3:20 p.m. on Wednesdays.