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Professor Mikhail Shifman, recent Pomeranchuk prize winner, says that particle physicists are experiencing a crucial time. And he ought to know. Shifman has written several books on the history of elementary particle physics. "We are at a crossroads, we will go to the left or to the right or nowhere" Shifman says, referring to the fact that supersymmetry, the theory that states that there are superpartners for every known particle, has not yet been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider. |
NewsShklovskii awarded 2019 Buckley Prize
Professor Boris Shklovskii of the School of Physics and Astronomy and William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute was jointly awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics. The prize recognizes his "pioneering research in the physics Chubukov Awarded Bardeen Prize
Professor Andrey Chubukov was a winner of the 2018 John Bardeen Prize given by the organizers of the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity for his "seminal contributions to the theory of unconventional superconductivity, including applications to the iron-based superconductors." More » Solar probe to provide closest-ever observations of a star
The Parker Solar Probe launched on August 12, 2018 will travel closer to the surface of the Sun than any previous spacecraft. Space physicist from the School contributed to the design and build of instruments on the probe. More » Bagley wins STAR Prize
Graduate Student Micaela Bagley received the Euclid Special Talent And Recognition (STAR) Prize. The award is a recognition of a valuable contribution to the Euclid mission. Bagley's advisor is Associate Professor Claudia Scarlata. More » Glesener receives NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Lindsay Glesener received a 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Recipients will receive up to $500,000 from NSF for their projects. Her project “Focused Hard X-ray Study of Energy Releases on the Sun and Stellar Objects” is intended to form an important link between the high-energy solar and astrophysics communities, and offers an opportunity to study flares on the Sun and other stars. More » |
CalendarTuesday, September 18th
1:25 pm: Space Physics Seminar
in Tate 301-20 Orbital Mirrors for Terraforming Mars — Benjamin Frigo Vaz , Bionanotechnology Lab, UMn 4:00 pm: Party for Steve Monson
in 285 Tate Wednesday, September 19th
1:25 pm: Condensed Matter Seminar
in 110 PAN Visualizing quantum Hall liquids and their boundary modes — Ali Yazdani, Princeton University Thursday, September 20th
10:10 am: Biophysics Seminar
in 120 PAN Determining the precision of networks in the living brain with multi-photon microscopy — Prakash Kara, Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota 12:05 pm: MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club
in Tate 301-20 To be announced — Trevor Knuth & Liliya Williams 3:35 pm: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in B50 Tate Spotting the elusive Majorana under the microscope — Ali Yazdani, Princeton University Refreshments in atrium after the Colloquium. Friday, September 21st
12:20 pm: Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in Tate 301-20 Simulating Crystal Growth in an Optical Floating Zone Furnace — Scott Dossa 
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