Physics professors from colleges across the Americas are on campus for three days, August 2–5, for a workshop featuring Buffalo State faculty.

Michael DeMarco, chair and professor of physics, and Ram C. Rai (pictured), assistant professor of physics, will serve as mentors for a series of workshops called “laboratory immersions.” DeMarco and Rai join mentors David Van Baak, physics professor at Calvin College, and Jonathan F. Reichert, physics professor emeritus of SUNY at Buffalo and president and founder of Teachspin, Inc.


“Two professors will work with one mentor on each experiment,” said DeMarco. “The work will involve a lot of conversation, questions, and sharing of ideas.”
The 12 workshop participants come from universities across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Each professor will participate in a single, three-day-long experiment.
DeMarco, whose recent work has received more than $1 million in grants from the United States Department of Energy, will present Mossbauer Spectroscopy. Rai will present High Temperature Superconductivity. The other immersions are Pulsed NMR, Optical Pumping, and Modern Interferometry.
The next round of laboratory immersions takes place later this summer at Caltech.