Events

• Claudia De Grandi - Preliminary Oral Examination

  Tue, 05/13/08 10:00AM   
  Location: PRB 261
  

  Title: Adiabatic Nonlinear Probes of One-dimensional Bose Gases

  Examining Committee: Claudio Chamon, Raj Mohanty, Anatoli Polkovnikov, Claudio Rebbi

  Best wishes to Claudia!!

News

• Female physicists change topic from labs to life

  May 05, 2008

  

  Women in Physics is proving the power of the personal narrative. Through a series of biographical seminars held this spring, WIP has made good on its promise to showcase the accomplishments of female scientists and educate the physics community on relevant issues. The talks are by women about women – yet have attracted and engaged both men and women. And in an environment where only 8 percent of faculty and 13 percent of graduate students are female, that means WIP has turned up the volume on a voice that has been relatively quiet.

  Read the full story here.

• Slices of electromagnetism served up in class

  May 01, 2008

  As a delectable means to celebrate the end of the semester, students in Professor So-Young Pi’s Electromagnetic Field and Waves course brought in a special-edition cake, adorned with Maxwell’s Equations.

  The creation, designed by Rosie’s Bakery, was filled with strawberries and cream. Professor Pi said she found it delicious.

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• Professor Averitt receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

  March 20, 2008

  Professor Richard Averitt has received a DARPA Young Faculty Award for his proposal “Metamaterial Enhanced MEMS for Terahertz Technology”. The Young Faculty Award program is designed to seek out ideas from non-tenured faculty with an emphasis on ideas that are innovative, speculative, and high-risk. DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office sponsors the program. Read more about this award here.

• GIMS Travel Grant awarded to graduate student Utku Kemiktarak

  March 14, 2008

  Utku Kemiktarak, graduate student and recent author of a Nature-published paper, won a travel grant from the APS Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science.

  GIMS awarded travel grants of up to $800 each to students as the first author of contributed papers in sessions sponsored by GIMS at the March Meeting. Applicants were chosen on the basis of the quality of their work as evidenced by the abstract of the paper, a letter of support from their thesis advisor and the travel distances.

• Physics Today book review authored by Professor Stanley

  January 24, 2008

  Professor Gene Stanley reviewed “Random Processes in Physics and Finance” (M. Lax, W. Cai, M. Xu) in Physics Today:

  “The term ‘econophysics’ was introduced just 14 years ago, but the tradition of physicists being fascinated by random processes in finance has a history much older than that. In fact, both Nicolaus Copernicus and Isaac Newton invested considerable intellectual energy in attempting to understand the economic problems of their day.”

  To read the full review, click here.

• Alex Marin Memorial Site

  January 24, 2006

  Please visit our online memorial to Alexander Marin. If you have any materials you would like to share, please send them to Richard Laskey.

Junior Katie Jameson approaches physics with an eye to the cosmos.