News & Announcements Archive

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. […]

What Gives Animal Cells Their Agency? Yu Shi Measures Cytoskeletal Fluctuations

What Gives Animal Cells Their Agency? Yu Shi Measures Cytoskeletal Fluctuations

Graduate student Yu Shi is the lead author of a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that examines cellular dynamics using micropost arrays. The ability […]

Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) 20th Anniversary Reunion

Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) 20th Anniversary Reunion

Last Friday the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Astrophysical Sciences at JHU hosted a reunion of those who worked on the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) […]

Riccardo Giacconi Memorial Symposium Held at National Academy of Sciences

Riccardo Giacconi Memorial Symposium Held at National Academy of Sciences

The Space Telescope Science Institute, Center for Astrophysics (Harvard & Smithsonian), Johns Hopkins University, the European Southern Observatory, and Associated Universities, Inc. organized a memorial symposium in honor of Riccardo […]