Department News

June 10, 2008
News Item -
An article appeared in this week's issue of the ATLAS e-news about a meeting in Ankara, Turkey which UT Arlington high energy physics Research Assistant Professor Nurcan Ozturk and Professor Kaushik De both attended as invited speakers. The Ankara meeting took place was part of a Grid school from April 30th to May 2nd, 2008. With the upcoming ATLAS data taking this year, distributing the computing resources worldwide becomes important to enable any ATLAS physicists based at a remote location to extract physics results. ATLAS is adding more sites in its Grid computing system and is testing the distribution and analysis of data at remote sites. The meeting aimed at training ATLAS colleagues from Turkish national institutes to get prepared for this remote participation.
Read more about the article here.

June 6, 2008
News Release -
ARLINGTON—The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Physics has established a joint graduate degree program with the physics department of Changwon National University (CNU) in Korea. Students in this program will complete coursework and research in both Korea and UT Arlington and will receive master's degrees or doctorates from both institutions.
Read more about the joint graduate degree program launch.