Professor Emanuele Berti has been selected to present the annual Buhl Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University this Spring. Each year, CMU’s Buhl Professor invites an internationally recognized scientist to give […]
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Colin Norman Becomes American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Prof. Colin Norman has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is lifetime distinction in honor of his invaluable contributions to science […]
Alex Szalay’s Big Data Cancer Research Featured on CBS News
On November 26, CBS aired an interview with IDIES member, Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee, and Director, Dr. Alex Szalay that discussed their research collaboration on pancreatic cancer and patients who had […]
Physicist Richard Zdanis, a Former Vice Provost at JHU, Dies at 83
Richard A. Zdanis, an alum went on to serve in the Johns Hopkins University administration and as professor in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Physics and […]
Sounding Rocket Mission to Observe Star-Forming Galaxy M33 a Success
JHU experimenters Brian Welch, Anna Carter, Russ Pelton, and Stephan McCandliss are pictured here before their launch of NASA/JHU sounding rocket 36.352 UG from White Sands Missile Range on October […]
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 […]
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, 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, 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
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 […]