News & Announcements Archive

Danielle Speller’s Nature Publication Applies Novel Quantum Squeezing to Search for Dark Matter

Danielle Speller’s Nature Publication Applies Novel Quantum Squeezing to Search for Dark Matter

The HAYSTAC team, including Assistant Professor Danielle Speller, have published a paper in Nature reporting on the use of novel new technology they have developed to increase our power to search for […]

Space@Hopkins Virtual Symposium – Video Now Available

Space@Hopkins Virtual Symposium – Video Now Available

Space@Hopkins, led by Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Chuck Bennett, connects the array of Johns Hopkins University divisions, departments, and collaborative institutions in their common pursuit of civilian space research. The 2020 […]

Women in Physics & Astronomy Spotlight – Video Now Available

Women in Physics & Astronomy Spotlight – Video Now Available

JHU Physics and Astronomy Advisory Council welcomed three of the department’s cutting-edge scientists to share their research via Zoom. This video allows viewers to learn first-hand about the exciting research […]

Jared Kaplan’s Research Selected for Best Paper Award by Neural Information Processing Systems

Jared Kaplan’s Research Selected for Best Paper Award by Neural Information Processing Systems

A paper on research by Jared Kaplan and colleagues has been selected by the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) for a Best Paper Award.  This is one of the most prestigious awards […]

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Astro-1

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Astro-1

December 2-10, 2020, marks the 30th anniversary of the Astro-1 space shuttle mission (STS-35) aboard the orbiter Columbia. This mission carried the Astro Observatory into space for a dedicated ultraviolet astronomy […]

Tim Heckman Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Tim Heckman Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Tim Heckman, chair of the Department and the inaugural Dr. A. Hermann Pfund Professoris, is among 489 distinguished scholars recognized this year as fellows of the American Association for the […]

Junjia Zhang Receives Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award

Junjia Zhang Receives Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award

Physics major Junjia Zhang has been selected to receive the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award for the current academic year. Junjia is working with Assistant Professor Yi Li in theoretical condensed matter […]

KSAS Field Notes: Lucie Afko in the Sky with Software

KSAS Field Notes: Lucie Afko in the Sky with Software

Lucie Afko, a sophomore physics major, is featured in the “Field Notes” section of the fall 2020 edition of Arts & Sciences Magazine. The article details Lucie’s hands-on experience working […]

Women in Physics & Astronomy Spotlight – December 1, 2020, 12:30 – REGISTRATION OPEN

Women in Physics & Astronomy Spotlight – December 1, 2020, 12:30 – REGISTRATION OPEN

Tuesday, December 1, 2020, Start Time: 12:30pm, End Time: 2:00pmRegistration now open Chaired by Dr. Tim Heckman, the JHU Physics and Astronomy Advisory Council is pleased to invite select alumni […]

Brice Ménard and Yi-Kuan Chiang Measure the Global Warming of Galaxies

Brice Ménard and Yi-Kuan Chiang Measure the Global Warming of Galaxies

Associate Professor Brice Ménard and former postdoctoral fellow in the department, Yi-Kuan Chiang, have published research in Astrophysical Journal that demonstrates how the temperature of galaxy clusters today, on average, […]