| The 2009 Brickwedde Lecture in Physics and Astronomy - "The World as a Hologram", will be held at 4pm on Tuesday, Dec. 8, in the Schafler Auditorium of the Bloomberg Center. The speaker is Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch Professor of Physics, Stanford University.
Following the Brickwedde tradition, Prof. Susskind will also be department colloquium speaker on Thursday, Dec. 10. Click here to download the flyer |
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| On Friday, November 20 the Department of Physics & Astronomy will host the 5th Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop. The Workshop will bring together researchers working on the science of soft matter, such as polymers, complex fluids, and biomaterials, for an informal meeting to exchange ideas and foster collaborations. Click here for more information |
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| Professor Tim Heckman's 1980 paper "An Optical and Radio Survey of the Nuclei of Bright Galaxies: Activity in Normal Galactic Nuclei", published in Astronomy and Astrophysics has been chosen as one of the 40 most significant papers in the 40 year history of that journal. Click here for more information |
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Congratulations to this year’s Prize and Award winners: Shekeab Jauhar (Donald E. Kerr Award), Daniel Scolnic (EJ Rhee Teaching Award), Robert Damadeo (Rowland Prize), and Matthew McEvoy (Rowland Prize). Click here for more information |
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| Johns Hopkins University Astrophysist Adam Riess has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Click here for more information |
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| The 33rd Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory: Maximal Supersymmetry
August 20 - August 22, 2009 Click here for more information |
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| Physics and Astronomy researchers are collaborating with the Maryland Science Center to develop new exhibits on physics, astrophysics, and nanotechnology. Click here for more information |
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| The Department of Physics and Astronomy is hosting their 6th Annual Physics Fair to be held on Saturday, April 25th from 11:00 am to 5:30 pm. Click here for more information |
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| Professor Emeritus Brian Judd’s famous 1962 paper “Optical Absorption Intensities of Rare-Earth Ions” (Phys. Rev. 127, 750 (1962)) has just passed the 3,000 citation mark on the ISI Web of Science. Back in the day, Prof. Judd literally wrote the book on the f-shell . Still highly relevant 47 years later in fields ranging from solid-state lasers to nanoscience, this paper is currently being referenced at a rate of over 200 citations per year. |
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| Professor Charles L. Bennett has been chosen by the National Academy of Sciences as the winner of the 2009 Comstock Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in cosmology. As the leader of the NASA Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission, Bennett and his team made a precise determination of the age, composition and curvature of the universe. Click here for more information Click here for more information about the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) |
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| Jonathan Bagger's recent papers on multiple M2 branes have been cited by Thompson-Reuters as December's "emerging research front" in the field of physics. Click here for more information |
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| A team from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has won the Storage Challenge at Supercomputing '08, the annual meeting of the high-performance computing industry, held in Austin, Texas. The team, led by Alumni Centennial Professor Alex Szalay, built a computer cluster called Graywulf that could search through Terabytes of scientific data, running a search that previously took days in just 9 minutes. Click here to go to Alex's site. |
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| A new study measuring scientific impact places Johns Hopkins University in the top three among US institutions granting Ph.D.s in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Click here for more information |
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| David Neufeld is one of three astronomers selected by NASA to participate in the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). Neufeld will study the chemistry of warm interstellar gas using the instrument, which is a highly modified Boeing 747SP aircraft carrying a 98-inch diameter airborne infrared telescope. Click here for more information |
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| Astrophysist Adam Riess has been awarded a 2008 MacArthur Fellowship. Click here for more information |
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| Seamus Riley, a third year astronomy graduate student, was awarded the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Graduate Medal for his poster at the Summer AAS meeting. His poster was titled "A Study of Dwarf Galaxies in Five Rich Clusters." Click here for more information about the award |
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| Janice Wynn Guikema has been named one of the three winners of the American Physical Society's 2008 M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship for Women in Physics. Dr. Guikema is a postdoc at JHU working in experimental condensed matter physics. Click here for more information |
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| A JHU research team led by Chia-Ling Chien is at the forefront of the exciting new field of iron-based high temperature superconductivity. These new materials are different from the well-known copper-oxide-based superconductors and offer a possible new pathway to high temperature superconducting applications. Click here for the paper by Chen et al. in the journal Nature. Click here for more information |
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| Congratulations to this year’s Prize and Award winners: Joshua Cogan (Donald E. Kerr Award), Daniel Scolnic (Rowland Prize), Shawn Smout (EJ Rhee Teaching Award), and Gregory Caravelli (Rowland Prize). Click here for more information |
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| The Department of Physics and Astronomy is among the leading departments nationwide in the recent rankings by Academic Analytics, with Hopkins placing well within the top ten in both the physics and the astronomy - astrophysics rankings. JHU as a whole is also ranked in the top ten. For the list of the top fifty research universities, click here. |
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| Six of the top nine physics and astrophysics articles most cited in 2005 were authored by researchers now in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, according to the SPIRES database of Stanford University.
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| Johns Hopkins University alumnus Dr. Seunghun Lee is the recipient of the 2008 Science Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America "for his innovative and insightful neutron scattering studies of frustrated magnetic systems." Click here for more information |
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| The 2007 Brickwedde Lecture in Physics and Astronomy - "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics", will be held at 4pm on Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the Schafler Auditorium of the Bloomberg Center. The speaker is Prof. David J. Gross, Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and Frederick W. Gluck Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics. Following the Brickwedde tradition, Prof. Gross will also be department colloquium speaker on Thursday, Dec. 6. Click here for more information |
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| On October 18, 2007, Hopkins astronomers terminated on-orbit operations of the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite after eight years. FUSE was operated for NASA from a control room in Bloomberg by a team of 25 scientists and engineers, led by Prof. Warren Moos. FUSE obtained more then 130 million seconds of science data before succumbing to pointing system failures in July 2007. Click here for more information |
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| The Department of Physics and Astronomy is hosting the Galaxy Zoo website, where people classify galaxies by shape. More than 70,000 people have made almost 7 million classifications; their work will help us understand how galaxies evolve. The site was featured on BBC News. Click here for more information |
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| Hopkins alumna Meg Urry has been named Chair of the Physics Department at Yale. She was the first female tenured faculty member in the Yale Physics Department; she is now the first woman chair in the physical sciences at Yale. Click here for more information |
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| The Maryland Association of Higher Education is honoring Bruce Barnett with its 2007 Outstanding Faculty Award. He will receive the honor on March 9 at the MAHE conference at the University of Maryland University College. Click here for more information |
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| Goddard astrophysicist Ann Hornschemeier, former JHU Chandra Fellow and member of JHU's adjunct faculty, won the 2007 Annie Jump Cannon Award of the American Astronomical Society. Click here for more information |
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