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Welcome to the Department of Physics at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. I invite you to explore our website where you can find information about our academic programs, courses, research activities, and faculty members. Physics has always been at the forefront of exploration. This is accomplished through cognitive enhancement by education transmitted through academic courses as well as carrying out research at the cutting-edge frontiers of human knowledge. The Physics department offer courses that are solidly based on the American system to meet international quality assurance requirements, which has placed the Department as a world-class regional center in a leading international institution. Our student body includes pure-physics students and double-major students, which reflects the interdisciplinary nature of our program. In addition, our research facilities span various fields of physics including condensed matter physics, lasers, materials research, magnetism and superconductivity, nuclear physics, and nonlinear and computational physics. Over the past five decades, our faculty members have conducted research using in-house facilities as well as collaborative research with national and international centers.

Mohammad Al-Kuhaili,
Professor & Chairman, Physics Department

Research and Academic activity statistics 2015 to 2021

3.1

Average Impact Factor Publications​

51

Patents

10042

Cumulative Citation Count​

452

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JOINT WEBINAR WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

 

The Solar-Terrestrial Interaction, the Ionosphere, and the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)


Speaker: 
Professor Abdelhaq M Hamza
University of New Brunswick, Canada
Date: Monday, 26 February 2024
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: https://kfupm.zoom.us/j/94933483923

 Abstract: 
In this seminar, we will describe quantitively how solar activity affects the Sun-Earth System and more specifically the ionosphere, how the ionosphere affects GNSS, and how these interactions can be understood by analysing data recorded by ground-based instruments. We will primarily focus on the impact of the turbulent ionosphere on radio wave propagation.


Biography:
Professor Abdelhaq M Hamza was born and raised in Algeria where he obtained his first university degree in theoretical physics from the USTHB. He moved to Cambridge, MA, USA, where he obtained an MSc and a PhD in theoretical plasma physics from MIT. He spent two years at Cornell University as a postdoctoral fellow before moving to Western University and the University of New Brunswick in Canada, respectively, where he holds the position of professor of physics.

All faculty, researchers and students are invited to attend.


    Location and Time
  • 26 Feb, 2024

  • 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM