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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. |
NewsShklovskii 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 » Solar probe to provide closest-ever observations of a star
The Parker Solar Probe launched on August 12, 2018 will travel closer to the surface of the Sun than any previous spacecraft. Space physicist from the School contributed to the design and build of instruments on the probe. More » Bagley wins STAR Prize
Graduate Student Micaela Bagley received the Euclid Special Talent And Recognition (STAR) Prize. The award is a recognition of a valuable contribution to the Euclid mission. Bagley's advisor is Associate Professor Claudia Scarlata. More » Glesener receives NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Lindsay Glesener received a 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Recipients will receive up to $500,000 from NSF for their projects. Her project “Focused Hard X-ray Study of Energy Releases on the Sun and Stellar Objects” is intended to form an important link between the high-energy solar and astrophysics communities, and offers an opportunity to study flares on the Sun and other stars. More » |
CalendarMonday, September 24th
12:15 pm: Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 201 Tate Probing Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey — Joshua A. Frieman, Fermilab 3:35 pm: Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 110 PAN The pursuit of Majorana fermions in Kitaev materials — Natalia Perkins, University of Minnesota Refreshments in atrium after the Colloquium. Tuesday, September 25th
11:15 am: Nuclear Physics Seminar
in Tate 301-20 Primordial Black Hole formation in Inflation models — Rafid Mahbub, University of Minnesota Wednesday, September 26th
1:25 pm: Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN ARPES studies of the model cuprate HgBa2CuO4+d (Hg1201) — Inna Vishik, UC Davis Thursday, September 27th
10:10 am: Biophysics Seminar
in 120 PAN A cell-free FRET-based assay for profiling the intrinsic efficacy of GPCR ligands — Keehun Kim, graduate student in Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan’s lab, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota 3:35 pm: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics Tate B50 Pressure as a Probe for Atoms, Molecules and Planets — Raymond Jeanloz, UC Berkeley Refreshments in atrium after the Colloquium Friday, September 28th
12:20 pm: Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in Tate 301-20 Elastic transmission of a Helium beam through a slab of superfluid Helium — Shuhui Luo 2:30 pm: MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium
in Tate 301-20 No Colloquium. Physics Colloquium speaker is a planetary physicist. 
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