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School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Bob Pepin and colleagues has published a report in the current issue of Science Magazine that will help shed light on the early solar system. Pepin and his co-authors studied small amounts of of cometary matter from the Comet 81P/Wild-2, which was intercepted by the space probe Stardust in January 2004. |
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Orbach to deliver colloquium on energy security
Raymond L. Orbach will speak on Energy Security at the School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium on February 24, 2010. Dr. Orbach is the Director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and former under secretary for science at the Department of Energy. More »
First sketch of proposed Physics and Nanotechnology Building
The first preliminary sketch of a proposed new Physics and Nanotechnology Building is now available to view. The University of Minnesota is requesting $53.3 million in state funds from the 2010 Legislature to help build an $80 million physics and nanotechnology building. More »
Mandic wins McKnight Professorship
Professor Vuk Mandic was named a 2010-2012 McKnight Land-Grant Professors for his research "Searching for Gravitational Echoes of the Big Bang." Mandic was chosen one of ten winners from the University. More »
Cryogenic Dark Matter Search results
Recent analysis of data from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) located in the Soudan Underground Laboratory in Northern Minnesota, showed two events that may be the elusive Dark Matter "candidate" Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). More »
CMS observes First Collisions at LHC
After 15 years of design and construction, the first proton-proton collisions were produced in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) today. Collision observations were made in all four detectors located around the accelerator ring, including the CMS detector. The image attached to this article shows the flows of particles produced by one of the first collisions, as measured by CMS. More »
Outreach
Physics Force
The Physics Force is a troop of physics teachers who perform large scale entertaining physics demonstrations. More »
Recent Publications
Thermal Duality and Hagedorn Transition from p-adic Strings
by Tirthabir Biswas, Jose A. R. Cembranos, and Joseph I. Kapusta in Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 021601 (2010) More »
Heterospecies partition analysis reveals binding curve and stoichiometry of protein interactions in living cells
by Bin Wu, Yan Chen, and Joachim D. Müller. PNAS published online before print February 8, 2010,
doi:10.1073/pnas.0915161107 More »
Insights into the galactic cosmic-ray source from the TIGER experiment
by J.T. Link, L.M Barbier, W.R. Binns, E.R. Christian, J.R. Cummings,
S. Geier, M.H. Israel, K. Lodders, R.A. Mewaldt, J.W. Mitchell, G.A. de Nolfo, B.F. Rauch, S.M. Schindler, L.M. Scott, R.E. Streitmatter, E.C. Stone, C.J. Waddington, and M.E. Wiedenbeck More »
Identifying Galactic Cosmic Ray Origins with Super-TIGER
by G.A. deNolfo, W.R. Binns, M.H. Israel, E.R. Christian, J.W.Mitchell, T. Hams, J.T. Link, M. Sasaki, A.W. Labrador, R.A. Mewaldt, E.C. Stone C.J. Waddington, M.E. Wiedenbeck More »