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Shaul Hanany’s observational cosmology group is flying balloon-borne instruments to search for signatures of the Big Bang. Cosmologists posit that as early as 10 -35 seconds after the Bang, the Universe underwent a period of immense inflation during which its size inflated many trillions fold. |
NewsKnauber wins Ovshinsky Award![]() Brenda Knauber, a physics Ph.D. candidate in Professor James Kakalios’s research group, has been selected for an Ovshinsky Student Travel Award to present her research at the 2019 March American Physical Society’s (APS) Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. More » Minnesota physicists receive grant to develop quantum computing![]() Professors Vlad Pribiag and Paul Crowell from the School of Physics and Astronomy are part of a group that will receive a $2.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop materials and device knowledge for creating quantum computing. More » Skillman elected as APS Fellow![]() Professor Evan Skillman was elected a 2018 Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was cited for his contributions to "observational constraints on the primordial helium abundance and significant contributions to understanding the chemical evolution of galaxies." More » Shklovskii awarded 2019 Buckley Prize![]() Professor Boris Shklovskii of the School of Physics and Astronomy and William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute was jointly awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics. The prize recognizes his "pioneering research in the physics Chubukov Awarded Bardeen Prize![]() FTPI Professor Andrey Chubukov was a winner of the 2018 John Bardeen Prize for his "seminal contributions to the theory of unconventional superconductivity, including applications to the iron-based superconductors." The prize was given at the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity. More » |
CalendarMonday, February 18th
3:35 pm: Elementary Particle Physics Seminar
in Physics Neutrinos in High Definition — David Caratelli (FNAL) Tuesday, February 19th
1:25 pm: Space Physics Seminar
in Tate 301-20 Wave generation by relativistic electron beams in a plasma: Initial results fromLAPD run — Cynthia Cattell and Chris Colpitts 4:00 pm: There will be no seminar this week. Wednesday, February 20th
1:25 pm: Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN Magneto-transport phenomena related to the chiral anomaly in Weyl and Dirac semimetals — Boris Spivak, University of Washington 3:30 pm: Elementary Particle Physics Seminar
in Physics Taking aim at New Physics — Nadja Strobbe (FNAL) Thursday, February 21st
10:10 am: Biophysics Seminar
in 120 PAN Development of large-scale networks in visual cortex. — Gordon Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UMN 12:10 pm: MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club
in Physics Tate 301-20 Grantland Hall and Pat Kelly 3:30 pm: Special Public Lecture
in Best Buy Theater, Northrop, University of Minnesota Why Go to the Moon? Apollo, the Space Race, and the Many Faces of Lunar Exploration — Roger Launius, Chief Historian for NASA and Senior Curator of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (retired) Consider attending - invite students! Get more details at http://www.northrop.umn.edu/events/why-go-moon-apollo-space-race-and-many-faces-lunar-exploration 3:35 pm: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics Tate B50 Lifting the lid on DUNE, the new international mega-science project in the US — Flavio Cavanna, Yale ![]() |