Sylvester James Gates Jr., an internationally recognized theoretical physicist and a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, will be Dartmouth’s third Roth Distinguished Scholar. He’ll be in residence for the 2015-16 academic year.
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Prof. Ryan Hickox, Thomas Whalen' 14, and their colleagues have now proven that a supermassive black hole exists in a place where it isn’t supposed to be. In doing so they have opened a new door to understanding what things were like as the universe evolved and grew in the depths of time.
[more]Title: Echoes of the Big Bang (Video)
[more]Title: Dynamical Connections between Meteorological and Space Weather (Video) Abstract: Recent investigations reveal an important and previously inconspicuous set of drivers of quiescent variability in the region of near geospace known as the thermosphere-ionosphere. These results confirm that the Earth’s atmosphere is a complex and coupled system, rather than a series of independent layers.
[more]Title: Progress in Understanding Earth’s Radiation Belts: Recent Results from the NASA Van Allen Probes and the NSF FIREBIRD Missions (Video)
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