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Karl Young is a graduate student in Shaul Hanany’s observational cosmology group, working on EBEX. EBEX is a planned balloon-borne telescope designed to observe polarization patterns in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The CMB is a remnant from the Big Bang. Physicists are searching the CMB for evidence of “B Modes”, a theorized polarization pattern imprinted in the CMB by the gravitational waves produced by the expansion of the universe during the Big Bang. Gravitational waves were theorized by Einstein and are a wave caused by the movement of a very large body in space. |
NewsPhysics Force announces winter shows
Physics Force will perform a week of shows for elementary schools at Northrop on the University's campus January 9-13, 2017. Tickets are free but reservations are required. The Physics Force will also perform a public show on Thursday, January 12 at 7 PM ; it is free. More » Shifman and Vainshtein win Dirac Medal
Professors Mikahil Shifman and Arkady Vainshtein were awarded the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) 2016 Dirac Medal and Prize in Theoretical Physics. They were cited for their "contributions to a better understanding of field theories in the non-perturbative regime and in particular for exact results in supersymmetric field theories." More » NOvA finds unexpected neutrino behavior
Scientists from the NOvA collaboration have announced an exciting new result that could improve our understanding of the behavior of neutrinos. More » Valls made member of APS Executive Committee
The American Physical Society has appointed Professor Oriol T. Valls as ex officio member of the Executive Committee of the Forum on Physics and Society and as Editor of “Physics and Society," the Forum’s newsletter. More » Kakalios wins award for cultural contributions to physics
Professor James Kakalios won the 2016 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Gemant Award. Kakalios was recognized for his contributions to the popular understanding of physics. He is the author of books such as the "The Physics of Superheroes" and "The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics." More » |
CalendarWednesday, September 28th
2:30 pm: Condensed Matter Seminar
in Physics 110 PAN Miracle of topological phases of quantum matter: From Schrödinger to Einstein — Arun Bansil, Northeastern University, Boston Thursday, September 29th
11:15 am: Biophysics Seminar
in 120 PAN T Computing with Crappy Clocks (C^3): A New Paradigm for Molecular Computing — Prof. Marc Riedel University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Please note change of time from previous announcement. The seminar will be held at 11:15 for the remainder of the semester. 3:35 pm: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Keller 3-210 Looking at the weird building blocks of the universe with the NOvA detectors — Greg Pawloski Refreshments to be served outside Keller 3-210 after the colloquium. Friday, September 30th
10:10 am: Nuclear Physics Seminar
in PAN 120 Event-by-event fluctuations and their consequence for Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometry — Christopher Plumberg, University of Minnesota 12:20 pm: Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in 110 PAN Transport Properties of Exchange Biased Mesoscale Wires — James Delles, University of Minnesota 12:30 pm: High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in 142 WBOB Leptogenesis via the Relaxation of Higgs and other Scalar Fields — Louis Yang (UCLA) 2:30 pm: MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Smith 331 HETDEX and Star-Forming Galaxies of the z ~ 2 Universe — Caryl Gronwall, Penn State University 
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