Professor David Kaplan and Associate Professor Surjeet Rajendran are recipients of the 2024 Frontiers of Science Award in Theoretical Physics awarded by the International Congress of Basic Science. The award recognizes a publication that they co-authored with Peter W. Graham titled “Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale” as a breakthrough in its field of cosmological evolution.
Assistant research scientist Sam Grunblatt has published new research in The Astronomical Journal on a rare exoplanet that should have been stripped down to bare rock by its nearby host star’s intense radiation, but somehow grew a puffy atmosphere instead.
The European Space Agencey’s Euclid Space Telescope has unveiled its early release observations and the mission’s first scientific data. Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Chuck Bennett, Professor Brice Ménard, and Associate Research Scientist Graeme Addison are part of Euclid’s science team and have access to the telescope’s early results.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor David Sing is the lead author of a publication in Nature this week that employs the James Webb Space Telescope to make the first measurements of an exoplanet’s core mass.
Alex Sushkov, who begins his appointment at JHU in 2025, is the focus of a new Quanta Magazine article titled “He Seeks Mystery Magnetic Fields With His Quantum Compass”
Postdoctoral Researcher Louise Breuval has been selected by the European Space Agency to become one of twelve 2024 Research Fellow in Space Science. Early career postdoctoral scientists are offered the unique opportunity to carry out advanced research related to the space science areas covered by ESA Science missions for a period of up to three years.
Assistant Research Professor Floor Broekgaarden and Assistant Professor Kevin Schlaufman been selected as two of the 50 Fellows for the first meeting of a Scialog initiative to advance the foundational science needed to realize the full potential of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
Physics major Alexis Li has received the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) from the Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research in recognition of her outstanding undergraduate research titled “A JWST Mid-Infrared View on the Debris Disk around Eta Corvi: A New Insight on Time Variability.”
Physics major, Yu Fei Liu, who is also earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance at The Peabody Institute, will be directing a presentation on ideas of frustrated magnetism presented by ballet performance this Saturday, April 27th at 7:30 PM. The performance, which also includes original musical compositions, will be live-streamed on Peabody’s website.
Professor and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education within the Whiting School of Engineering, Michael Falk, has received the Five Sigma Physicist Award from APS. The award recognizes APS members who perform outstanding volunteer advocacy work to help advance APS’s science policy priorities. Recipients demonstrate impactful advocacy actions with APS Government Affairs throughout the year.