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The 1999 CCNY Physics Open House Party
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On November 16, 1999, the Physics
Department held its second annual Open House Party. More
than 75 people
(up from 50 a year earlier) tried to pack
into the physics majors' clubhouse (see
photos),
which features a lounge,
a dedicated internet connection and a computer lab.
After Physics Department Chairman Michael Lubell spoke about the exciting developments in physics (see photo), Semat Professor of Physics Michio Kaku underscored how job recruiters are impressed by students who major in physics (see photo). People then had a chance to see the Physics Department's telescope, an eight inch Celestron reflector (see photo). Next keynote speaker Anthony Johnson described some of the exciting developments in ultrafast lasers, photonics and nonlinear optics and showed a wonderfully informative video in the physics department's colloquium room (see photo). Dr. Johnson, who earned in Ph.D. in physics from City College in 1981, is a distinguished professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and vice president of the Optical Society of America. Visitors were then given the opportunity to tour some of the Physics Department's experimental laboratories. Professor Vladimir Petricevic spoke about laser crystals (see photos), Dr. Sergey Vitkalov gave a tour of the low temperature physics laboratory of Distinguished Professor Myriam Sarachik (see photo), Graduate Student Mohammed Alrubaiee provided a tour of the Photonics Laboratory of Distinguished Professor Robert Alfano (see photos), and Professor Fred Smith explained how the diamond film manufacturing equipment in his lab works (see photo). |
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