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The Naval Postgraduate School Fall Quarter Graduation Ceremony is scheduled for Friday, December 20, 2019.

The graduation streaming video will be available on December 20 shortly before the start of the ceremony. Please visit NPS Graduation Ceremony page to watch live.

For dress uniform and more information, please visit NPS Student Graduation website.

 

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The Fall Quarter Awards ceremony will take place on Friday, December 20, 2019.

For additional Information, please visit Graduation Schedule site.

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Thanksgiving Day is a federal holiday celebrated on November 22. In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest. Many regard this event as the nation's first Thanksgiving.

To learn more about the history of Thanksgiving, please visit usa.gov.

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The November 15, 2019 Physics lecture is titled “Tunable SRF cavities for 3D optomchanics” with Prof. Jay E. Sharping, University of California, Merced, California, School of Natural Sciences. Event will be held in Spanagel 117 at 11:00 a.m.

Bio
Prof. Jay Sharping received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2003 under the direction of Professor Prem Kumar and served as a postdoctoral scientist at Cornell University in Professor Alexander Gaeta’s Quantum and Nonlinear Optics research group.

For more on this event, please visit Physics Department Colloquia.

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Veterans Day will be observed on Monday, November 12 to honor the men and woman who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.

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NPS Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) 20-1 is scheduled for November 4-8, 2019 in Camp Roberts, CA.

The Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) program exists to provide an opportunity for NPS faculty, students, private companies, and academia to demonstrate and evaluate new technologies related to the Department of the Navy and the Department of Defense research in an operational field environment, and also to provide the operational community the opportunity to experiment with these technologies to better understand the capabilities that they may represent.

• We provide a realistic field environment with airspace, buildings, tunnels, forests, open plains, etc.
• You provide an emerging technology to address challenges faced by the US Military Forces
• Together we collaborate and learn about challenges your technology may address!

Experiment Proposal Deadline: 20 Sept 2019

Visit www.nps.edu/fx to submit an experiment proposal!
 

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Marine Ball is scheduled for Friday, November 1, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Foyer and McNitt Ballroom.

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Discover NPS Day is scheduled for Friday, October 25, 2019 at the Naval Postgraduate School campus from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Event will be focused on STEM education outreach as well as expanded DV/VIP engagement with targeted venues and interactive activities.

For more on this event, please visit nps.edu/discover.

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The October 22, 2019 Physics lecture is titled “Shieldless Optical Magnetometer, EM Field Assisted Dipole-Dipole Interaction for Atomic Correlation” with Prof. Reuben Shuker, Physics, Ben Gurion University Israel. Event will be held in Spanagel 117 at 3:00 p.m.

Abstract
Shield-less Cs based optical magnetometer study will be described, including gradiometric mode experiments. Preliminary results indicate sensitivity on the order of 1 pT. Theoretical sensitivity limit of such device is on the order of 80 fT. Novel physics of quantum correlation of the active atoms in the magnetometer may be able to overcome this limit. The collective effect may result in sensitivity proportional to N^2 rather than linear dependence on N, the number of active atoms.
 
For more on this event, please visit Physics Department Colloquia.

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Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture (SGL) is scheduled for Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. in King Auditorium with Mr. Robert D. Cabana, Chairman, Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center.

Bio
Robert D. Cabana is a former NASA astronaut, currently serving as director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In his current role, Cabana manages all NASA facilities and activities at the spaceport, including the team of civil service and contractor employees who operate and support numerous space programs and projects. Read more on nasa.gov.
 

 

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The Navy Ball (244th Birthday of the United States Navy) is scheduled for Saturday, October 19, 2019 in the historic McNitt Ballroom at 6:00 p.m.

For more information and ticket pricing, please visit event site at https://navyball2019.thundertix.com/events/156323.

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The October 18, 2019 Physics lecture is titled “Fault-tolerant quantum computation in multiqubit blacks codes” with Dr. Todd Brun, University of Southern California. Event will be held in Spanagel 117 at 11:00 a.m.

Bio
Todd Brun is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science at the University of Southern California. Prof. Brun does research on quantum theory, especially on the problems of quantum computing and quantum information science. Prof. Brun received his Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech in 1994, and did postdoctoral work at the University of London (Queen Mary and Westfield College), the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, before starting at USC in 2003.

For more on this event, please visit Physics Department Colloquia.

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The 10th Hypervelocity Gun Weapon System Workshop will be held at Naval Postgraduate School from October 15th-17th, 2019. This workshop has previously been hosted at Johns Hopkins - Applied Physics Lab, but the Office of Naval Research decided to relocate the venue with the recent establishment of the NPS Railgun Lab and Electric Weapons research group.  The workshop is chaired by Ben McGlasson, Electric Weapons Advisor in the Department of Physics.  Background information is provided below and in the attachments.  Attendance is free (limited to US citizens with SECRET clearance), but registration is required by 20 September using the invitation code !!HGWS2019!! at the following website: https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/HGWSWorkshop/

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Join us for the National Hispanic Heritage Observance Ceremony! There will be cultural food samplings and an exhibit in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Ceremony will be held in Hermann Hall on Tuesday, October 15th, from 12-13:30. All are welcome! Please see the attached flyer.

 

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Columbus Day is a federal holiday observed on the second Monday in October.