2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
The career of Joseph Rudman has been highlighted in the November 2009 issue of the CMU Piper. MORE
Rudman career highlighted in The Piper
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Recent work by Prof. Morningstar and collaborators has been highlighted in the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center's Projects in Scientific Computing. MORE
Prof. Morningstar's recent work highlighted by the PSC
Friday, October 30, 2009
Prof. Ira Rothstein of the Carnegie Mellon Physics Department has just been awarded a $563,000, 3-year grant from NASA to calculate possible gravity-wave signals from colliding black holes. MORE
Prof. Rothstein awarded NASA grant to study gravity waves
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington have been awarded a DOE grant to automate the discovery of astrophysical phenomena.
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DOE grant launches Carnegie Mellon Initiative to automate discovery of astrophysical phenomena
Monday, August 31, 2009
Prof. Di Matteo's recent work on black holes has been highlighted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. MORE
Prof. Di Matteo's work highlighted in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Bruce McWilliams (CMU PhD graduate 1980) has been featured in the July 1, 2009 issue of Physics World. MORE
Bruce McWilliams featured in Physics World, July 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The 112th commencement at Carnegie Mellon University took place May 16-17, 2009. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, delivered the keynote address. MORE
Degrees and awards presented at Commencement 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Luokkala (S'01), a Carnegie Mellon physics professor, has been teaching a popular mini-course 33120 for science majors called Science and Science Fiction since creating it 10 years ago. MORE
Barry Luokkala's 33120 Science and Science Fiction is a popular mini-course for science majors.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Prof. Ira Rothstein has been elected a 2008 Fellow of the American Physics Society for contributions to the development of modern effective field theories, and applications to flavor physics, quarkonia and gravitational waves.
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Prof. Ira Rothstein is elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
A paper by Yang, Baharand, and Widom entitled "Vibrational Dynamics of Icosahedrally Symmetric Biomolecular Assemblies Compared with Predictions Based on Continuum Elasticity" has been featured on the cover of the 3 June 2009 Volume 96, Issue 11 of the Biophysical Journal. MORE
Paper by Yang, Bahar, and Widom featured on the cover of Biophysical Journal
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Mary Placeway, business office coordinator in the department of physics, received an Outstanding Achievement Award. MORE
Business office coordinator, Mary Placeway, wins Outstanding Achievement Award
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Tristan Bereau wins Guy Berry Award, Benjamin Beppler wins Hugh Young Award
Tristan Bereau, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics, has won the Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award, which recognizes excellence in research by MCS graduate students. Benjamin Beppler, a graduate student in physics, received the Hugh D. Young Graduate Teaching Award, which recognizes effective teaching by graduate students.
Monday, May 4, 2009
On May 6, Prof. Manfred Paulini discusses science facts and fiction in "Angels and Demons," the mystery of the missing antimatter and how future particle physics experiments will explore some of the secrets of the universe. MORE
Prof. Paulini discusses science facts and fiction in "Angels and Demons"
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Renowned physicist Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb will deliver Carnegie Mellon University's annual Buhl Lecture, titled "Mysteries of the Dark Universe," at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday April 21 at the Mellon Institute Auditorium. MORE
Edward "Rocky" Kolb gives Buhl lecture on "Mysteries of the Dark Universe"
Friday, April 17, 2009
The official ground breaking for a $310,000,000 upgrade to the Jefferson Lab facility in Newport News Virginia took place on April 14, 2009.
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GlueX experiment takes big step forward with DOE ground breaking
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Prof. Leonard Kisslinger is the co-awardee of the first Mark Gelfand Service Award for Educational Outreach. MORE
Prof. Kisslinger is co-awardee of Gelfand Outreach Award
Friday, April 10, 2009
Alex Evilevitch joins Carnegie Mellon this summer as an Associate Professor in Physics. MORE
Alex Evilevitch joins the CMU Physics Department
Monday, March 16, 2009
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition.
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Prof. Widom confirms liquid-liquid phase transition in silicon
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Chip Hogg, a fourth year Physics doctoral student, has been awarded this year's McWilliams Fellowship.
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Chip Hogg receives McWilliams Fellowship
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Di Matteo presented an overview of her cosmological simulations as part of the "Big, Small, and Everything in Between: Simulating Our World Using Scientific Computing" session at the 2009 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Feb. 15 in Chicago. MORE
Tiziana Di Matteo Presents Cosmological Simulations at AAAS Meeting
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
CMU Physics graduate student and McWilliams Fellow, Kevin Bandura, is part of a team that traveled to Morocco last month to scout out a location for a proposed 500-1000 MHz radio telescope. MORE