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Amherst College Science Center

Interview with Peter Klisiwecz ’25: Introducing the Senior Thesis and Reflecting on Amherst Life

Peter Klisiwecz ’25 was a physics major at Amherst who graduated last month. For his senior thesis with Professor Nick Holschuh in the geology department, he developed a method to infer glacial crystal orientation fabric from decades of existing radio data taken at different times and directions, instead of having to conduct another survey. Peter…

Dr. Claudia Avalos on Diamond Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers and a Future of Spin Polarization 

By Belaine Mamo At 4pm on Tuesday March 4th, the Physics and Astronomy Department welcomed Professor of Chemistry Claudia Avalos where she spoke about her research at New York University in a presentation entitled “Spin Exchange Interactions and Spin Polarization in Pentacene-Radical Dyads” for their weekly colloquium.  After completing her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at…

Working with the Wu Orr Lab Hello! My name is Carl Soderstrom, and I am a rising sophomore majoring in Biochemistry and French. This summer, I will be on campus working as a Greg Call intern for Professor Wu Orr. Our lab is interested in how bacteria utilize small proteins of about 50 amino acids…

Separating Black Holes from the Noise

Hi, everyone! I’m Cailin Plunkett, a rising junior majoring in physics and mathematics. This summer, I’m researching gravitational waves through the Caltech LIGO SURF program. Electromagnetic (EM) radiation—like infrared, visible light, UV, etc—is the type of data we are used to receiving from space. The first telescopes looked at stars and planets in the visible…