Sokol Elected to DMP Executive Committee
Prof. Paul Sokol was elected to serve on the DMP Executive Committee of the American Physical Society. His 3 year term begins following the 2023 March Meeting in Los Vegas, NV.
IU Physics Wins Support for Neutron Quantum Sensing
IU won support for neutron research from the new DOE initiative: Quantum Horizons: QIS Research and Innovation for Nuclear Science. This award will help support the research activities of the IU physics entangled neutron group led by physics department professors David Baxter, Gerardo Ortiz, Roger Pynn, and Mike Snow.
"ExoHad" research awarded $1.8 million support by DOE
A research project called “ExoHad”, led by Prof. Adam Szczepaniak from the IU Physics Department, has been awarded $1.8 million by the U.S. Department of Energy to study exotic hadrons.
IU physicists awarded Translational Research grant for plastic neutron shielding
IU Physics professor Mike Snow and graduate student Jerald Balta have been awarded a Translational Research grant for their flexible neutron shield technology.
Former IUB physics undergraduate participates in the most sensitive search yet performed for the electric dipole moment of the electron
IU alum Noah Schlossberger and his colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder have carried out the most sensitive search for the electric dipole moment of the electron.
IU Physics Alum Leads Search for Quantum-Gravity Effects at IceCube with Unprecedented Sensitivity
IU alum Teppei Katori (PhD, 2008) and his colleagues at the IceCube neutrino telescope have determined the world’s most stringent limit on anomalous neutrino flavor conversions.
Dr. Michelle Lollie, an alumna of our Bridge program, featured by APS News
Dr. Michelle Lollie, a member of the second class in our department’s APS-sponsored Bridge program has just been featured in an APS News article highlighting her unconventional route to becoming the first African American women to complete a PhD in Physics from Louisiana State University.
IU Physics Alum Philip Dybvig named as Nobel Laureate in Economics
We are extremely proud that one of our most distinguished alumni, Prof. Philip Dybvig of the Economics Department at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named as one of this year’s winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in the Memory of Alfred Nobel (commonly known as the Nobel prize in Economics).
Department of Physics Fall Picnic 2022
The physics department fall picnic was held at the Bryan Park Woodlawn Shelter on Friday September 30th from 4:00 PM to 6:00PM.We had lots of food, games, and the traditional cornhole tournament! Thanks to everyone who volunteered to bring a dessert! Everyone was welcome students, staff, faculty, friends, and family - we were happy to see you all!
Conclusion to the Department of Physics annual Introductory Tea
On Wednesday, August 31st, 2022, the department held its annual "Introductory Tea" where we all come together to support one another and welcome any newcomers to the physics family. This year we had some outstanding milestones and we took the time to recognize a staff member who showed unrelenting dedication to the department and to IU as a whole.
3 research universities to collaborate with industry, government to develop quantum technologies
3 research universities to collaborate with industry, government to develop quantum technologies
IUB Physics Major Headed to Edwards Air Force Base on the DOD SMART Program
IUB Physics Major Headed to Edwards Air Force Base on the DOD SMART Program
IU Physicist Reveals a Fusion Mechanism for Particle Fractionalization
IU physicist and collegues reveal a fusion mechanism for particle fractionalization.
Physics Graduate Student Wins Award
Physics graduate student's poster wins Angela E. Grant, Ph.D. Best Modeling award.
Physics Researcher Wins Award
IU Bloomington Physics researcher has been selected as a 2022 recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards Program.
Former Student Wins National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Former IU major in Physics and Astronomy has won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Former IU Physics PhD Student Wins the DOE Early Career Award
Zhaowen Tang has won a DOE Early Career award to conduct an experiment in neutron beta decay to help resolve an existing discrepancy in the measurement of the neutron lifetime.
Physics Graduate Student Wins GEM Fellowship from the National GEM Consortium
IUB physics graduate student Magda Andrade has won a GEM fellowship from the National GEM Consortium. As part of her GEM program, Magda will have an internship this summer in the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National laboratory, where she will be involved in the development of cutting-edge instrumentation for time-resolved x-ray scattering and absorption experiments.
Physics Graduate Student Wins Year-Long Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
IUB physics graduate student Clayton Auton has won a year-long fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to conduct a part of his PhD thesis research in Japan. Clayton is conducting various measurements toward a test of time reversal invariance in polarized neutron optics and is preparing a polarized neutron beam at the LANSCE neutron facility at Los Alamos.
Physics Graduate Student Wins GEM Fellowship from the National GEM Consortium
IUB physics graduate student Gabe Otero has won a GEM fellowship from the National GEM Consortium. Gabe is conducting various measurements toward a test of time reversal invariance in polarized neutron optics and just returned from a successful measurement at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (JPARC) in Japan in polarized 139La, the target nucleus for this search.
Former Physics Undergraduate Will Become First to Complete New Quantum Information Science MS Degree Program
Former IU physics undergraduate Josh Apanavicius will soon become the first student to complete the new Indiana University MS degree program in Quantum Information Science. This degree program design was led by physics department professor W. M. Snow with help from many members of the IU Quantum Science and Engineering Center, was approved by the Indiana Commission of Higher Education in fall 2021, and started in fall 2022 with Josh as one of the first students.
James Peebles, the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics, to deliver first “Robert E. Pollock Distinguished Lecture”
James Peebles, the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics, will be delivering the first “Robert E. Pollock Distinguished Lecture” in Myers Hall 130 at 7:30 PM on April 5th. The title of his talk will be “Our Universe is Evolving”. Prof. Peebles will also be giving a Physics Colloquium on April 6th entitled “The Sociology and Practice of Physical Science” at 4:00 PM in Swain W. 119.
Two Physics Graduate Students receive Dissertation Year Fellowships from the College of Arts and Sciences
This year, for the first time in recent memory, two of our graduate students received prestigious dissertation year fellowships from the College. These fellowships are designed to provide support to students that will allow them to devote all of their time to research and writing (without, for instance, serving as an AI).
Jammel Brooks Wins Second Place in IUB Three Minute Thesis Competition
Jammel Brooks Wins Second Place in IUB Three Minute Thesis Competition.
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