News & Announcements Archive

C.L. Chien’s Team Report New Superconducting Material

C.L. Chien’s Team Report New Superconducting Material

Prof. C.L. Chien’s team of researchers have found a superconducting material that could someday power quantum computers. The material naturally exists between two states, a finding that could pave the […]

Tarini Konchady Named Media Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

Tarini Konchady Named Media Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

Tarini Konchady (B.S. 2017) has been named the new Media Fellow of the American Astronomical Society. She is currently studying Mira variables to help calibrate the extragalactic distance scale. Tarini […]

APS Physics Elects Andrei Gritsan, Michael Falk & Oleg Tchernyshyov as Fellows

APS Physics Elects Andrei Gritsan, Michael Falk & Oleg Tchernyshyov as Fellows

Professors Andrei Gritsan, Michael Falk (joint with Materials Science And Engineering), and Oleg Tchernyshyov have been elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society. No more than ½% of APS […]

Nhan Tran Receives Department of Energy Early Career Research Award

Nhan Tran Receives Department of Energy Early Career Research Award

Nhan Tran, who earned his Ph. D. in the department in 2011 (supervised by Prof. Andrei Gritsan), received the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award for deep-learning acceleration […]

Ulascan Sarica Receives Springer Award

Ulascan Sarica Receives Springer Award

Ulascan Sarica, who earned his Ph.D. in the department in October 2018, working on studies of the Higgs boson with Prof. Andrei Gritsan, has received the Springer Award for an outstanding […]

Brice Ménard to give the Hans Jensen Lecture at University of Heidelberg

Brice Ménard to give the Hans Jensen Lecture at University of Heidelberg

Prof. Brice Ménard has been invited to give the Hans Jensen Lecture at the University of Heidelberg as part of the doctoral program’s biannual “Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days.”  The lecture is […]

Liang Wu Receives McMillan Prize for Research in Condensed Matter Physics

Liang Wu Receives McMillan Prize for Research in Condensed Matter Physics

Liang Wu, who earned his Ph. D. in the department in 2015 (supervised by Peter Armitage), received the McMillan Prize “for novel terahertz and optical spectroscopy experiments on topological insulators […]

Tommi Tenkanen Publishes a New Explanation for Dark Matter

Tommi Tenkanen Publishes a New Explanation for Dark Matter

Postdoctoral Fellow Tommi Tenkanen recently had a paper published as editor’s suggestion in Physical Review Letters that provides a new explanation for dark matter and explains how it may have […]

CLASS Telescope Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered

CLASS Telescope Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered

In a segment titled “Telescope In Chile’s Mountains Looks For Signals To Explain How The Universe Began,” NPR Science Journalist Joe Palca interviews Associate Professor Toby Marriage and others to […]

Emanuele Berti Named Fellow and President Elect of ISGRG

Emanuele Berti Named Fellow and President Elect of ISGRG

At last week’s meeting of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG), Professor Emanuele Berti was named a Fellow, and was also voted as the new President Elect of the society. […]