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Ana Dieguez Awarded Hogstrom Superior Graduate Student Scholarship
蘑菇tv's medical physics and health physics program has announced Ana Dieguez as the second recipient of the prestigious Kenneth R. Hogstrom Superior Graduate Student Scholarship.
蘑菇tv Physicists Develop and Demonstrate a Method to Eliminate Quantum Radiation Pressure Noise in Gravitational Wave Detectors
蘑菇tv Ph.D. physics alumnus Jonathan Cripe and his team of 蘑菇tv researchers have conducted a new experiment with scientists from Caltech and Thorlabs to explore a way to cancel this quantum backaction and improve detector sensitivity.
Global Physicist Gabriela Gonz谩lez Elected as APS General Councilor
蘑菇tv Boyd Professor of Physics Gabriela Gonz谩lez聽has been newly elected as a 2021 General Councilor of the American Physical Society.
Unveiling 'Island Worlds' with NASA's Roman Space Telescope
蘑菇tv Astronomer Investigates Rogue Planets to Understand Galaxy Evolution
蘑菇tv Physics Students Receive Louisiana Space Grant Research Awards
蘑菇tv Department of Physics & Astronomy graduate student Megan Chesal and undergraduate Haley Pellegrin have been granted Louisiana Space Grant student research awards.
Healing an Achilles鈥� Heel of Quantum Entanglement
蘑菇tv Associate Professor of Physics Mark M. Wilde and his collaborator have solved a 20-year-old problem in quantum information theory on how to calculate entanglement cost鈥攁 way to measure entanglement鈥攊n a manner that鈥檚 efficiently computable, useful, and broadly applicable in several quantum research areas.
蘑菇tv Mourns the Passing of Internationally Renowned Professor E. Ward Plummer
蘑菇tv Boyd Professor of Physics & Astronomy and National Academy of Science member, Ward Plummer, passed away on July 23, 2020. He was 79 years old.
蘑菇tv Astrophysicist Awarded DOE Early Career Research Grant
蘑菇tv theoretical and computational astrophysicist Manos Chatzopoulos was one of 76 scientists - including 26 from DOE's national laboratories and 50 from U.S. universities - to receive significant funding for research as part of the DOE Office of Science's Early Career Research Program.
蘑菇tv Physics PhD Candidate Presented Prominent DoD SMART Scholarship
蘑菇tv Department of Physics & Astronomy graduate student Bradley Munson has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense's Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation--Scholarship-for-Service, SMART, Scholarship.
蘑菇tv Mourns the Loss of World-Renowned Professor Jonathan P. Dowling
The 蘑菇tv community lost one of its world-renowned faculty members when Professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics Jonathan P. Dowling passed away on June 5th, 2020, after a brief illness. He was 65 years old.
蘑菇tv Medical Physics Graduate Student Stephanie Wang Awarded the First Hogstrom Scholarship
蘑菇tv Medical Physics Graduate Student Stephanie Wang Awarded the First Kenneth R. Hogstrom Superior Graduate Student Scholarship in Medical Physics.
蘑菇tv Theoretical Physicists Further Our Understanding on High-Frequency Light Generation in Crystals
Physics journal PRL features 蘑菇tv ultrafast AMO physics theoretical research.
蘑菇tv Physics Graduate Student Presented Prominent DoD SMART Scholarship
Margarite LaBorde has received a Department of Defense's Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation--Scholarship-for-Service, SMART, Scholarship. DoD's SMART Program is an opportunity for students pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in STEM disciplines to receive a full scholarship and guaranteed civilian employment with the DoD upon degree completion.
Distinguished Research Master Joseph Giaime
Giaime is a professor in the 蘑菇tv Department of Physics & Astronomy and the head of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in Livingston, Louisiana.
Was Betelgeuse Formed by Merging Stars?
We argue that the best scenario that can explain both the fast rotation of Betelgeuse and its observed large space velocity is one where a binary was dynamically ejected by its parent cluster a few million years ago and then subsequently merged.
蘑菇tv Physicists Identify Light Sources using Artificial Intelligence
A smart quantum technology for identification of light sources with fewer measurements.
Boyajian Honored with 2020 TAF/蘑菇tv Discover Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
Tabetha Boyajian was nominated by 蘑菇tv physics undergraduate researchers Ian Sager and Madison LeBlanc.
蘑菇tv Researchers Progress Our Knowledge on the Important Implications for Understanding the Physics of Nuclei
Physics journal PRL features 蘑菇tv nuclear physics research
蘑菇tv Researchers Advance Our Understanding on the Formation of the Universe
Scientific journal Nature cover features 蘑菇tv Physics & Astronomy research with Dr. Thomas Kutter
Three-Peat 蘑菇tv Students Receive Distinguished SPS Chapter Award
蘑菇tv Students Receive Distinguished SPS Chapter Award 蘑菇tv Physics students for the third year in a row earn national SPS honor.