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The National Science Foundation has awarded an Adelphi University physics professor a grant to research the limits of image resolution.
The Physics Department at Adelphi University has had a productive year! There has been some exciting news that I am happy to share with you.
I am pleased to welcome Professor Bryanne McDonough, PhD. Professor McDonough is an expert at collisions between galaxies. First-year student Maylin Cage wrote this nice piece for the newsletter introducing her to the department.
I am also pleased to introduce our newest department member, Daniel Gysbers, PhD, who has been hired as the department’s lab coordinator.
The students have been busy. Four Adelphi physics students attended the Division of Laser Science physics meeting in Denver in October. During that conference, the students and Professor Sean Bentley, PhD, visited a quantum computing company in Colorado, which Adelphi alum Dr. Daniel Stack works for. Mitchell Pozovskiy tells us about the trip.
Four other students attended the Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Congress—which was also in October in Denver. Kylie Goldade, Class of 2026, former Physics Club president, was elected as the Associate Zone Counselor for New York and Eastern Canada for the Society of Physics Students. Current Physics Club President Carolina Guekjian drew this amazing mural in the department.
Professor Kevin Liang, PhD, received a large grant from the National Science Foundation to support his research with optical devices.
Cosmic Pathways, a new conference to encourage high school and college students to pursue physics degrees, took place at City College this year, led by me and an amazing team composed of Adelphi students and alums.
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The brainchild of physics department chair Matthew Wright, PhD, the inaugural Cosmic Pathways conference explored the many directions a physics degree can take students.
The conference was funded by a grant that our team received to encourage students to pursue careers in physics education.
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With support from a two-part PhysTEC grant, Matthew Wright, PhD, associate professor and chair of physics, is leading Adelphi’s partnership role in the inaugural Cosmic Pathways conference, held in March at The City College of New York for high school and college students, as well as guiding physics students to network with area high school teachers and students.
Recent Publications
- Naseri, A. M. Alshehri, A. Samarbakhsh, L. Ramunno and R. Bhardwaj, “Mechanism of laser induced void array formation in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)”, Laser Phys, 35, 076001 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1088/1555-6611/adebeb
- Naseri, A. Samarbakhsh, “Mechanism of laser-induced void array formation in fused silica”, SPIE proceedings, 135770D (2025). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3060488
- Naseri, A. Samarbakhsh, “Navigating Online Astronomy: A Guide to Success”, Accepted for publication in The Physics Teacher (2026).
- Nguyen, K. Liang, and N. Vamivakas. Shaping partially coherent light by the coherent mode decomposition. Opt. Express. 33. 11684-11692 (2025).
- Viteri-Pflucker, C. J. Ryan, Sethuraj K. R., K. Liang, D. Spiecker, S. A. Wadood, A. N. Jordan, and A. N. Vamivakas. Supergrowth in speckle patterns. Opt. Lett. 50, 137-140 (2025).
You can keep track of many of the day-to-day departmental happenings by checking out Matthew Wright’s blog. Please reach out to us at mwright@adelphi.edu. The faculty in the department love chatting with you all!
Location
Blodgett Hall 002A