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 | Former JHU Physics and Astronomy graduate student Dr. Guangyong XU is the 2012 NSSA Science prize winner for his work on relaxor ferroelectrics. Dr. Xu was awarded his Ph.D. in Physics from JHU in 1999. Click here for more information |
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 | JHU Astrophysicist Miguel Angel Aragon's computer illustration "The Cosmic Web" was awarded first place in the Informational Posters & Graphics category of the 2011 NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Click here to read the JHU Press Release |
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 | Alexander Szalay of Johns Hopkins University wins Microsoft's Jim Gray eScience Award Click here for more information Click here for JHU News Release |
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 | Congratulations to our own Adam Riess, awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences! Click here for NobelPrize.org Click here for the JHU Press Release Please join us in watching the presentation of the Nobel award being presented to Adam Riess!!! Click here to see a clip of the awards ceremony. |
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 | Newly elected American Physical Society Fellows include Dan Reich, Adam Reiss, Kirill Melnikov and Zlatko Tesanovic. APS Fellowships are a distinct honor given after extensive review by the Fellowship committee of the appropriate APS division, topical group or forum and by the APS Fellowship Committee. |
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 | The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland at College Park a $1.2 million grant to upgrade the internet pipeline in Maryland. This award will increase JHU's network capacity to 100 gigabit per second. JHU physicist Alex Szalay stated "This bandwidth upgrade will now allow enormous scientific data sets to be moved to JHU from Google, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the San Diego Supercomputer Center" To see the press release, click here |
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| Physics and Astronomy Research Professor Joseph Silk has just been named one of the 2011 Balzan Prize winners for his work on the early Universe. Click here for more information |
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 | Prof. Brice Ménard has been awarded the 2011 Henri Chrétien research grant by the American Astronomical Society for his research on the large-scale distribution of dust particles in the Universe. This international award is in honor of the memory of Henri Chrétien, Professor of Optics and co-originator of the Ritchey-Chrétien telescope design, used in most modern telescopes. |
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 | Two of our own named among JHU's first Gilman Scholars. Charles Bennett and Adam Riess were among the first group of Gilman Scholars comprised of 17 men and women from across the University. Among them are Nobel laureates, award-winning teachers and world-renowned researchers and scholars. Click here for the JHU Gazette article and here for more information |
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 | Graduate student Katy Tolfree has been awarded a 3-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She will be conducting astrophysics research with Prof. Rosie Wyse on the topic of Radial Migration and the Formation of Galactic Disks. |
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 | Graduate student Danru Qu has been named the 2011 William Gardner Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Ms. Qu will use the support provided by the Gardner Fellowship to begin research with Prof. Chia-Ling Chien applying nanoelectronics to study problems in biological physics. |
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 | Adam Riess, together with Saul Perlmutter of UC Berkeley, has been awarded the "Einstein Medal 2011" for "discovering the acceleration of the Universe via the observation of high-z supernovae". Click here for more information on the Einstein Medal Click here for a listing of Einstein Medal Laureates |
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 | What does dark energy and auto racing have in common? Just ask JHU advanced physics student Dillon Brout who uses his knowledge of dark energy to help the Dyson racing team analyze data generated by the team cars. Click here for the Hopkins article Click here for the New York Times article |
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 | New Scientist is featuring a video from The Department of Physics and Astronomy. A demo by graduate student Gary Lee Johns shows some of the the interesting sculptures that can be generated when ferrofluid is placed in a magnetic field.
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 | On March 2, 2011, the 16th anniversary of the Astro-2 shuttle mission that launched the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope into space, HUT principal investigator Arthur F. Davidsen was commemorated with the dedication of a new educational display system in the lobby of the Bloomberg Center. Click here for more information |
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New Faculty | |
 | New faculty: Professor Marc Kamionkowski, considered one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists for his work in large-scale structures and the early history of the universe, will join the faculty in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences on July 1. An endowed professor at California Institute of Technology, Kamionkowski has spent much of his career researching astrophysics, cosmology and elementary particle theory. Click here for more information |
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 | New Faculty: Assistant Professor Nadia Zakamska is a theorist and observational astronomer who combines mining of large data sets with investigations using major telescopes on Earth and in space. She is pursuing novel studies in a wide range of subfields in astrophysics, from planetary dynamics to galaxy formation. Click here for Dr. Zakamska's page |
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| New Faculty: Assistant Professor Brice Ménard is a theorist who is interested in extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology. He mines large data sets to gain insight into the universe and has made major discoveries about the relationship between stars, dark matter, and the presence of tiny grains of dust around galaxies. Click here for Dr. Ménard's page |
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 | Timothy M. Heckman appointed as the inaugural Dr. A. Hermann Pfund Professor. Dedication will be held on Tuesday, May 10th at 4pm in the Schafler Auditorium of the Bloomber Center for Physics and Astronomy. Click here for more information |
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 | Prof. Chia-Ling Chien was just elected a fellow of the AAAS in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the fields of condensed matter physics and materials research. Click here for more information from JHU Click here for more information from AAAS |
