The Department of Physics and Astronomy is pleased to announce that Dr. Rufus Boyack will join Dartmouth as an Assistant Professor this coming July. Dr. Boyack is a condensed-matter theorist exploring fundamental aspects of strongly correlated quantum systems. Welcome, Rufus!
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The 317 group (Lynch Rocket Lab) launched their 3rd successful rocket mission this year, March 5th from Poker Flat Alaska. The LAMP mission instruments were built by Dartmouth students Grace Kwon, Ted McManus, Caitlin Lynch, Magda Moses, Ruthie Nordhoff, Jules van Irsel; and staff Ralph Gibson, Alan Goldblatt, Jeff Renk, and Whitey Adams.
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"Every photon can be thought of as the sum of two distinct halves," says Vincent Flynn, Guarini '22, the lead author of the paper. "We were able to identify conditions for isolating these halves from one another." (Photo by Eli Burakian '00)
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Sounding rocket C-REX2 launched December 1st from Andoya Research Range, Norway. Grad student Magda Moses from the 317 lab, and UAF/GI grad student Matt Blandin, are in the field for this. First reports are excellent science conditions and instrument performance. The mission studies the Earth's auroral cusp.
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Hui Wang, Guarini '21, a postdoctoral researcher, and Miles Blencowe, the Eleanor and A. Kelvin Smith Distinguished Professor in Physics, have described an experiment that could allow researchers to produce and detect light in a vacuum. (Photo by Robert Gill)
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