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| The 4th Annual JHU Physics Fair was Saturday, April 14th from noon until 5pm. Click here for more information |
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| Bruce Barnett and Hyun Youk are the winners of the 2006 undergraduate Teaching Awards. Click here for more information |
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| The 30th Johns Hopkins Workshop, "Where do we go from the Standard Model?", will be held at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics in Arcetri, Florence, Italy. The workshop will be held from June 6th through the 8th, 2006. Click here for more information |
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| WMAP has produced a new, more detailed picture of the infant universe. The new WMAP observations help to pinpoint when the first stars formed and provide new clues about the events that transpired in the first trillionth of a second of the universe. Click here for more information |
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| Roeland van der Marel won the Top Prize of the Pirelli Awards for creating the web site "Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull". The Prize was presented by University Professor Riccard Giacconi during a ceremony in Rome. Click here for more information |
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| Chia-Ling Chien has been appointed to the JHU Departmane of Materials Science and Engineering, strengthening ties between departments. |
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| Microsoft eScience Workshop at The Johns Hopkins University.
October 13-15, 2006
Bloomberg Center
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland Click here for more information |
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| The 3rd Annual JHU Physics Fair!
April 22, 2006 Click here for more information |
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| Ethan Vishniac has been appointed Editor of the Astrophysical Journal, the most important and influential international journal in astronomy. Click here for more information |
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| Chia-Ling Chien, Frank Zhu, and collaborators are proposing "nanorings" -- tiny, irregularly shaped cobalt or nickel rings -- to serve as fast, reliable and inexpensive magnetic memory cells for computer applications. Click here for more information |
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| Using the FUSE satellite, astronomers have glimpsed the time when the first bright objects in the universe formed, ending the dark ages that followed the birth of the universe. Click here for more information |
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| The RAVE team, with JHU members Rosemary Wyse and Greg Ruchti, has confirmed that dark matter dominates the mass of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Click here for more information |
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| Nina Markovic was named a winner of a 2006 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. Click here for more information |
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| Five of the top eight physics and astrophysics articles most cited in 2004 were authored or co-authored by members of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Click here for more information |
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| December 2, 2005, marked the 15th anniversary of the launch of ASTRO-1 on the space shuttle Columbia. Click here for more information
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| Holland Ford, James Jee and Richard White have used the HST Advanced Camera to map the location of dark matter in unprecedented detail. Click here for more information |
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| Graduate student Jami Valentine was featured in an extensive profile published by the AAAS. Click here for more information |
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| Adam Riess was honored at the Amazing Light Symposium for his paper, "Determining the Nature of Dark Energy Now with HST and Sne Ia at Z>1." Click here for more information |
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| Peter Armitage has been awarded the 2005 William L. McMillan Award "for his crucial contributions to the field of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies of electron-doped superconductors." the McMillan Award is presented annually to a young condensed matter physicist for distinguished accomplishments. To read more, including a list of past winners, click for more information below. Click here for more information |
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| Physics and Astronomy Professor Charles L. Bennett was among 72 of the nation's top scientists elected May 3 to membership in the National Academy of Sciences at the organization's 142nd annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Click here for more information |
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| Dr. Robert Resnick ('43, Ph.D. '49) spoke on "The Perils of Writing 'Physics'" at the May meeting of the Society of Physics Students. He signed textbooks and visited with students of all ages. Dr. Resnick received the University's Distinguished Alumnus Award during the 2005 JHU reunion. Click here for more information |
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| Elizabeth Freeland (Ph.D. 1996) has been awarded an American Fellowship by the American Association of University Women to work with theorists in the lattice QCD group at Fermilab. She will be on leave from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Click here for more information |
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 | John Wagner presented the Department with a bust of Nikola Tesla, engineer and scientist, whose inventions laid the foundation for our modern system of electric current distribution. Click here for more information |
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| American Institute of Physics Biography University of Houston Article |
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| This year marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's "Miraculous Year" in which he published four papers that have since influenced all of modern physics. Johns Hopkins celebrates the occation with two events that recall Einstein and his historic contributions. Click here for the main Einstein Celebration page. Einstein and His Legacy, a symposium on the impact of Einstein and his ideas, 3:30pm Thursday November 10 in Shafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. Click here for more. Superstrings: Einstein and His Violin, a lecture and concert by Brian Foster and Jack Liebeck, 7:00 pm Saturday November 12 at the Interfaith Center. Click here for more. |
