The Astronomy FSP checks in from South Africa: Between astronomy lectures and labs, students tour the Cape Peninsula. Prof. Brian Chaboyer reports "perfect weather, lots of great scenery and beaches, along with many penguins."...
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January 16, 2015
Prof. Ryan Hickox and an international team of astrophysics colleagues report on an unusual phenomenon in a galaxy far, far away—more than 5 billion light-years away; and a long time ago—almost halfway back in space-time to the Big Bang.
January 15, 2015
In an interview with IOPscience, graduate student researcher Peter Johnson explains his latest work with Prof. Lorenza Viola.
January 13, 2015
Prof. Jim LaBelle, principal investigator of the CAPER mission to study the aurora borealis, reflects on the November delay of the NASA rocket launch from the Andoya Rocket Range, Norway.
December 16, 2014
Marcelo Gleiser writes about the most famous scientist alive today --- and a new movie.
December 16, 2014
Norwich, VT - Robert Bruno Alexander Naumann, 85.5 years old, succumbed to Parkinson’s Disease at Hanover (N.H.) Terrace on Wednesday morning, Dec. 10, 2014.
December 12, 2014
Prof. Lorenza Viola has been recognized by the American Physical Society for her seminal contributions at the interface between quantum information theory and quantum statistical mechanics.
November 29, 2014
Title: Liquid Helium and QCD: Feynman’s Last Problem 30+ Years Later (video) Abstract: In 1954, Feynman gave a beautiful analysis of...
November 29, 2014
Title: "Electron Spin Quantum Bits in Silicon" (video) Abstract: Many physical systems have been suggested as quantum bits (qubits) for...
November 29, 2014
Title: "Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Many-Body Systems" (video) Abstract: Quantum adiabatic processes -that keep constant the populations...