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 physics. Provost Joseph Cooper (1991-1995) established the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award program in 1993 with a generous endowment by the Hodson Trust. The program was […]
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Awards, Undergraduate
Astrophysics, Undergraduate
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 with data from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) telescope over the summer.
Astrophysics, Condensed Matter, Graduate, Particle Physics
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 and friends to this virtual event featuring three of the department’s cutting-edge scientists. This event will allow attendees to learn first-hand about the exciting research […]
Astrophysics
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, is 10 times hotter than 10 billion years ago. “We have measured temperatures throughout the history of the universe,” said Ménard, “As time has gone […]
Astrophysics, Particle Physics
Jared Kaplan Creates Video Series with Scientific American
Associate Professor Jared Kaplan has created a new video series in conjunction with Scientific American that focuses on physics, cosmology, and quantum gravity. The three short, whimsical videos were funded by Kaplan’s National Science Foundation CAREER grant. Episode 1 is now available and is titled “Did the Universe have to the be the way it […]
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IDIES/MINDS to Hold Joint Annual Symposium on Oct. 23
IDIES and MINDS seek to promote interdisciplinary collaborations and invite researchers from across JHU, the government, industry, and local organizations who have an interest in data science and how to apply it in their own projects or future projects to attend the symposium on Friday, Oct. 23. The symposium will include: Keynote speaker Lauren Gardner, […]
Astrophysics
Space@Hopkins Virtual Symposium Slated for Oct. 22 @ 1 PM – Registration Now Open
Save the date: Space@Hopkins will be holding a virtual symposium on October 22 starting at 1:00 PM EDT! The event will highlight space research across JHU divisions. Featuring talks by: Dr. Jason Kalirai (Mission Area Executive for Civil Space, APL) Hopkins’ own ASTRONAUT! Baltimore native and JHU Alumnus Captain Reid Wiseman, JHU ‘06 (NASA, U.S. Navy) Groundbreaking JHU researchers, recipients of the […]
Astrophysics
New York Times Article About the Origin of Galactic Clusters Features Department Members’ Research
An article by Dennis Overbye in the New York Times today summarizes the exciting discovery that one of earliest supermassive black holes to form in the universe lives at the center of the progenitor of a massive cluster of galaxies. The international team that conducted this research includes departmental members Colin Norman (who is quoted […]
Astrophysics, Awards
Adam Riess Receives 2020 Chalonge-de Vega Medals from the International School of Astrophysics
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Adam Riess has received the 2020 Chalonge-de Vega Medals from the International School of Astrophysics in Paris. The citation for the award reads: “for his contribution to the discovery of dark energy, interpretation as a cosmological constant and for his continuous results on the Hubble constant.”
Astrophysics
K. D. Kuntz Participates in STORM, NASA’s New Mission to Study the Earth’s Magnetosheath
Research Scientist K. D. Kuntz will contribute to the Solar-Terrestrial Observer for the Response of the Magnetosphere (STORM) mission that has been selected by NASA for Phase-A study, in preparation for a possible launch in 2026. STORM would provide the first-ever global image of the size and shape of the Earth’s magnetosheath, the vast region […]