Title: "Quanta Image Sensor: Every Photon Counts" (Video)
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Robyn Millan's redesign of Physics 13 changes the way the fundamental laws of physics are taught at Dartmouth.
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Six Dartmouth College undergraduates are competing in the International Physicists’ Tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden from April 8 – 13, 2017.
[more]Title: "Colliding Cosmologies: Cultural Conflicts and the Future of Astronomy on Mauna Kea" (Video)
[more]In a cataclysmic binary, a more-or-less normal star orbits a white dwarf so closely that matter spills from the normal star onto the white dwarf. A rich variety of behaviors results -- nova explosions, dwarf nova outbursts, accretion disk precession, magnetic channeling of the accretion flows, and much more. The light grasp and instrumentation at MDM Observatory are well-suited to studies of these objects.
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