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Ina Šarčević

Ina Šarčević is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ina Šarčević rather than just read about it. In short: Ina Šarčević (born March 18, 1959) is a Yugoslav-American theoretical astrophysicist who studies high-energy cosmic particles, especially neutrinos, and the implications of particle physics for dark matter and cosmology. She is a professor of physics and of astronomy at the University of Arizona.

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Reference excerpt

Ina Šarčević (born March 18, 1959) is a Yugoslav-American theoretical astrophysicist who studies high-energy cosmic particles, especially neutrinos, and the implications of particle physics for dark matter and cosmology. She is a professor of physics and of astronomy at the University of Arizona.

Education and career Šarčević graduated in 1981 from the University of Sarajevo, and completed her Ph.D. in physics in 1986 at the University of Minnesota. Her doctoral advisor was Bernice Durand. After postdoctoral research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, she joined the University of Arizona faculty as an assistant professor of physics in 1988. She became an associate professor in 1993 and full processor in 1999, adding a second affiliation as professor of astronomy in 2008.

Recognition Šarčević was named a Humboldt Fellow in 1989. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2006, after a nomination from the APS Division of Particles and Fields, "for outstanding contributions to physics of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays".

Personal life Šarčević was married to Zlatko Tesanovic, a condensed-matter physicist at Johns Hopkins University who died in 2012.

References

External links Home page Ina Šarčević publications indexed by Google Scholar

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Ina Šarčević

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ina Šarčević ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ina Šarčević

In research: Ina Šarčević appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ina Šarčević in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ina Šarčević is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1959 births, American astrophysicists, American women astrophysicists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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