Faculty of Physics

an open door to the future !

Our history

Prof. AUGUSTIN MAIOR

(1882-1963)one of the telephony pioneers

Prof. FARKAS GYULA

(1847-1930) the most cited scientist of the

University

Hermann Julius Oberth(1894-1989)

physicist and engineerWho defended at our university his

thesis entitled The Rocket into Planetary Space, published in 1924

by Oldenbourg Press in Germany and considered the headstone of

astronautics

Our present

Our graduate students

Phd. Mihai Vidrighin, Imperial College London

Alexandru Biris: Assistant Professor University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Mihai Halaciuga: Research and Development Director, Engineered Powders Division, Technic Inc., Woonsocket, RI

Raluca Marcu: researcher, European Institute of Oncology, Milano

Georgeta Salvan: Junior Professor TU Chemnitz

Dr. Janko Boldizsar, Professor of Physics, Director, Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Notre Dame, USA

Liliana Pop: General Manager Vodafone Romania

The present• Faculty of Physics offers licence studies according to Bologna declaration

- a 3 years curricula in Physics and Environmental Science domains

- a 4 years one in Applied Engineering Sciences domain

The present • Physics studies can be completed through the following Master of Science programmes (2 years):

- Solid State Physics (in English), - Biophysics and Medical Physics (Romanian and English), - Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (in English), - Computational Physics and Theoretical Physics (in English ) - Biomaterials (in English )

and a Didactical Master programme (2 years)

The present• The Faculty of Physics organizes Ph. D. programs in the following fields:

- Atomic and Molecular Physics, - Physics of Condensed Matter, - Theoretical Physics, - Optical Spectroscopy, - Biophysics

• As part of Babes-Bolyai University, one of the strategic aims regarding the scientific research, is to become an active factor in the national and European science, through valuable scientific and cultural outputs.

• We are the faculty with the bigger scientific production (ISI factor) from BBU

• The employment degrees of our graduate students are 83.3%, 98.2% for master graduates and 100% for phd. studens.

Univ. Joseph Fourier Grenoble, TU Chemnitz, Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon, TU Aachen, TU Vienna,Univ. Bruxelles, Univ. Amsterdam, Univ. Zaragoza, Univ. Gent, Univ. Osnabruck,Univ. Salzburg,Univ. SheffieldUniv. Eotvos Lorand, BudapestUniv. Kossuth Lajos, Debrecen

We have international collaborations with

We care about the

future

and we are involved in various scientific areas:

• fundamental research • asrophysics• computational physics,• engineering,• modern materials,• nanotechnologies, • nanostructures,• environment protection• alternative energy• meteorology

• electronic and medical equipment,

• biomecanic, biomateriales,• oncological radiotherapy • medical imaging, • nuclear reactors

We have enthusiastic students

Working in didactic labs:

Bio-Nano Sciences Institute

”Ioan Ursu” Physics Institute

In ours scientific labs and institutes:

National NMR Center

Solid State Center

Raman Ultrasensitive Spectroscopy Laboratory

NANOSIM Laboratory

Astrophysics and space research Laboratory

Team description

The general researches interest is in magnetohydrodynamics waves in solar and space plasmas and the areas he is particularly interested in are: 1. Waves and oscillations in solar atmosphere,2. Magneto-seismology, 3. Satellite data acquisitions, 4. Simulations (SOHO, TRACE, HINODE),5. Theoretical and observational studies on Algol Y Leonis system, 6. Refinement of reconnection models based on stochastic behaviour of magnetic fields and to application to astrophysical events

dr. ALEXANDRU MARCU. Vicedean of the Faculty of Physics

dr. GABRIELA MOCANU Is a young researcher who has obtained her PhD title in July 2013. She has a six years background in Magnetohydrodynamics and a three year experience in stochastic physics and stochastic simulations. Her research focuses on:1. Waves and oscillations in solar atmosphere,2. Magneto-seismology, 3. The effects of magnetic fields (deterministic and stochastic) on the behavior of astrophysical plasma systems and the resulting signature in the electromagnetic radiation of these systems

dr.ORZA BENIAMINHe obtained PhD title in Oct. 2013, currently under the supervision of dr. I. Ballaiat the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on:1.The analytical/numerical side of dynamics over short length scales as well as the diagnostic possibilities related to the P1/P2 period ratio.2. Propagation modes in a Thick Magnetic Flux Tube3. Transverse kink oscillations of expanding coronal loops4. Standing waves in a solar periodic structures5. The problem of phase mixed shear Alfvén waves in the solar corona6. Solar Dynamical phenomena

ANABELLE PARDIIs PhD student an outstanding theoretical physicist, very thorough with theoreticmodels, mathematical methods and results interpretation.Graduated at BBU, currently under the supervision of dr.Spruit at The InternationalMax Planck Research School on Astrophysics at the Ludwig Maximilians UniversityMunich.Her research focuses on:1. Sausage mode propagation in in a thik magnetic flux tubes2. The effect of cooling on oscillation modes in expanding coronal loops3. ExoplanetsMAGYAR NORBERTHis work consist in studying the wave propagation equations and specific plasma oscillations in solar magnetic structures consistent with observational data. Now is in Leuven working on simulation of cooling effect in expanding coronal loops1. Effect of structuring and shape on coronal loop oscillations2. Dynamical and physical processes in celestial bodies-an astrophysical insight3. How cooling of the coronal plasma influences the oscillation properties (amplitude and oscillation period) of impulsively generated kink MHD waves in coronal loops (numerical analysis).4. Magnetohydrodynamic waves simulations and the dynamics of magnetic flux tubes using the FLASH code

Master's, year 2 -Computational Physics SERBAN ONTANU CRACIUNInterested area: 1. Study of some interior parameters on four neutron stars in the framework of three general-relativistic models. 2. Developing a molecular dynamics -based simulation program for studying the formation, evolution and collision of stellar clusters and galaxies. Program will be thoroughly optimized and will take into account relativistic and dark matter effects

Master's, year 1 -Computational Physics BOGDAN DANILAInterested area: 1. Cellular Automata (CA)2. Self Organized Criticality 3. Physics of magnetic reconnection4. Simulations of magnetic activity with CA

1.Mocanu, G., Magyar, N., Pardi, A., Marcu, A.Appearance of an accretion disc perturbed by fractional Brownian Motion density(2014) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439 (4), pp. 3790-3797. 2.Pardi, A., Ballai, I., Marcu, A., Orza, B.Sausage Mode Propagation in a Thick Magnetic Flux Tube(2014) Solar Physics, 289 (4), pp. 1203-1214.3.T. Harko, C. Leung, G. Mocanu, ”Generalized Langevin equation withcoloured noise description of the stochastic oscillations of accretion disks”,acceptat ˆın Journal of European Physics C, Ianuarie 2014;3. Pardi, A., Magyar, N., Mocanu, G.R., Marcu, A.The effect of cooling on sausage and kink oscillation modes in expanding coronal loops(2013) AIP Conference Proceedings, 1564, pp. 194-199.4. Pardi, A.-L., Marcu, A.Sausage mode frequency windows at the interface of the sun's atmospheric layers(2012) AIP Conference Proceedings, 1472, pp. 245-252. 5. T. Harko, G. Mocanu, ”Stochastic oscillations of general relativisticdiscs”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol 421, 4,pp. 3102-3110, 2012;6. T. Harko, G. Mocanu, ”Cosmological evolution of finite temperatureBose-Einstein condensate dark matter”, Physical Review D, vol. 85,8, id.084012, 2012;

7. G. Mocanu, D. Grumiller, ”Self-organized criticality in boson cloudsaround black holes”, Physical Review D, vol. 85, 10, id. 105022, 2012;8. L.P. Csernai, G. Mocanu, Z. N´eda, ”Fluctuations in hadronizing quarkgluon plasma”, Physical Review C, vol. 85, 6, id. 068201, 2012;9. G. Mocanu, B. Sandor, ”Rms-flux relation in the optical fast variabilitydata of BL Lacertae object S5 0716+714”, Astrophysics and Space Science,Vol 342, 1, pp.147-153, 2012;10. G. Mocanu, A. Marcu, Romanian Reports in Physics, ”New approachon the excitation and damping of transversal coronal loop oscillations”,vol. 62, nr. 4, 2010;10. Pop, A., Turcu, V., Marcu, A.The intriguing orbital period variability of Y Leonis(2011) Astrophysics and Space Science, 331 (2), pp. 17-28. Cited 1 time.11. Pop, A., Turcu, V., Marcu, A.The intriguing orbital period variability of Y Leonis(2011) Astrophysics and Space Science, 333 (1), pp. 17-28. Cited 2 times.12.Turcu, V., Pop, A., Marcu, A., Moldovan, D.Y Leonis: Light curve solution revised and search for photometric variations of the primary minima (2010) Astrophysics and Space Science, 331 (1), pp. 105-113. 12. Mocanu, G., Marcu, A.New approach on the excitation and damping of transversal coronal loop oscillations(2010) Romanian Reports in Physics, 62 (4), pp. 897-905.

13 .Marcu, A., Mocanu, G.Excitation and damping of transversal coronal loop oscillations(2010) AIP Conference Proceedings, 1262, pp. 39-44.

14. Ballai, I., Douglas, M., Marcu, A.Forced oscillations of coronal loops driven by EIT waves(2008) Astronomy and Astrophysics, 488 (3), pp. 1125-1132.

15. Marcu, A., Mocanu, G., Orza, B.Standing waves in a solar periodic structures(2008) AIP Conference Proceedings, 1043, pp. 314-317.

16. Pop, A., Turcu, V., Marcu, A.Y Leonis reloaded(2008) AIP Conference Proceedings, 1043, pp. 420-421.

17. Mocanu, G., Marcu, A., Ballai, I., Orza, B.The problem of phase mixed shear Alfvén waves in the solar corona revisited(2008) Astronomische Nachrichten, 329 (8), pp. 780-785.

18. Marcu, A., Ballai, I.Thermally damped waves in the solar corona(2007) AIP Conference Proceedings, 934, pp. 64-70.

19. Marcu, A., Ballai, I., Orza, B.Thermally damped linear compressional waves in a 2D solar coronal model(2007) Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 3 (S247), pp. 320-323.

20. Marcu, A.Negative energy waves in the coronal plume/interplume system(2007) AIP Conference Proceedings, 895, pp. 135-140.

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