Pat Richard to speak about ions, atoms today

The physics department is hosting a free public lecture at 3 p.m. today in the Tucker Technology Center's Professional Development Center.

Pat Richard, recipient of the 2002 Cecil and Ida Green Honors Professor in Physics, will speak on the “multiply excited states of ions and atoms.”

Richard is the director of the J.R. McDonald Laboratory at Kansas State University. The laboratory, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, is the premier center for atomic collision physics in the country. Richard also serves as the Cortelyou-Rust distinguished professor of physics at K-State.

— Joi Harris