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South Africa Foreign Study Trip 2019

Department welcomes Assistant Professor Jedidah Isler

Department Welcomes Assistant Professor Elisabeth Newton

NASA Ride-Along

On Jan. 4, Professor James LaBelle and team sent a payload of sounding equipment into space on board a NASA rocket as part of an international project to study the formation of high-energy particles just outside the Earth.

Balloon Launch

The BARREL project (Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses), part of Professor Robyn Millan and Dartmouth space physics' ongoing research into Earth's radiation belts, has scored another recent victory in their successful 2018 launch from McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

The Coldest Spot in New Hampshire

It gets cold outside in the winter, but the coldest spot around is Prof. Wright's lab in the basement of Wilder where an array of lasers trap and cool lithium atoms almost to absolute zero temperature. The Fermi degenerate atom cloud is then used to study superfluidity and other exotic properties

Inviting applicants to Neukom Fellows program

 Inviting postdoctoral applicants to submit applications to Neukom Fellows program hosted by the Physics and Astronomy department. Apply at neukom.dartmouth.edu.

Professor Viola appointed to editorial board of PRL

Congratulation to Professor Lorenza Viola on her appointment as a Divisional Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters.

TEDx Dartmouth

Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar recently gave a TEDx Talk entitled Analog Supercomputers: From Quantum Atom to Living Body.