Gordon Drake

Gordon Drake, Aaron BondyPhysics professor emeritus Gordon Drake and his PhD student Aaron Bondy are part of an international team exploring the precise wavelength at which atoms become invisible to laser light.

International research team probing for invisible atoms

UWindsor physics researchers are part of an international team exploring the precise wavelength at which atoms become invisible to laser light.
Ghazal Lotfi and Sabrina GismondiCanterbury College residents Ghazal Lotfi and Sabrina Gismondi received Exam Survival Kits during Wednesday dinner.

Canterbury College offers exam survival help to residents

Kits distributed to residents of Canterbury College during its communal dinner Wednesday offered small items to help them get through the pending stresses of exams. Friends of Canterbury College, largely drawn from the local Anglican congregation, placed paper bags on a table filled with study supplies and convenience foods.

“They wanted to do something special for us,” says Sabrina Gismondi, who heads the college’s student council. “Administration knows we are going into a stressful time.”

Gordon DrakeGordon Drake is part of a team of physicists who determined the exact critical charge for two-electron atoms that form elements like helium.

Physicists settle great debate over two-electron atoms

Going back to the days of Sir Isaac Newton, there have always been certain problems of physics and mathematics that seem all-but unsolvable.

Many of those persist today, and the list is a lengthy one. What is dark matter made of? What causes a supernova to explode? Is there a grand unification theory, or a ‘theory of everything,’ which explains all fundamental physical constants?