Physics Department News

This site collects recent news items about the Physics Department.

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Late-Breaking News Stories

• Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology established (Post-Gazette, Tribune-Review).

• Joel Primack gives the Buhl lecture "A Brief History of Dark Matter" on April 22.

• Prof. Deserno develops computer model to study cell membrane dynamics.

• Prof. Fred Gilman appointed Dean of Mellon College of Science.

• Prof. Sara Majetich is elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.

• Prof. Curtis Meyer wins Ryan Teaching Award.

• Kevin Bandura receives Astrid and Bruce McWilliams Fellowship.

• Carnegie Science Center recognizes Prof. Di Matteo with Emerging Female Scientist Award.

• Carnegie Mellon joins Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project.

• Physics alumnus Ray Baughman (S'64) receives Alumni award.

• CERN Courier highlights work of Prof. Reinhard Schumacher and collaborators.

• Profs. Tristram-Nagle and Nagle find key HIV protein makes cell membranes bend more easily.

• Prof. Fred Gilman appointed Acting Dean of MCS.

• Prof. Di Matteo leads team carrying out detailed cosmological simulations.

• Degrees and awards presented at Commencement 2007.

• Prof. Deserno's research is cover story in May 24 issue of Nature.

• Prof. Fred Gilman co-organizes conference in Beijing, China.

• Rafael Porto wins the Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award.

• Physics alumnus Bruce McWilliams establishes MCS graduate fellowship.

• Physics major Jonathan Stahlman wins Goldwater Scholarship.

• Giant CMS magnet goes underground at CERN.

• Markus Deserno joins the CMU Physics Department.

• The 2007 Buhl lecture The Future of Physics will be given by Prof. David Gross on April 26.

• Prof. Ira Rothstein and collaborators develop test for string theory (CBC story).

• Prof. Hugh Young profiled in Carnegie Mellon Today.

• Prof. Kisslinger wins Henry Highland Garnet Award for educational empowerment.

• Prof. Tiziana DiMatteo featured on Oct. 31 NOVA special on PBS.

• Profs. Manfred Paulini and James Russ involved in discovery of exotic relatives of protons and neutrons.

• Lawrence Sulak (Carnegie Tech B.S. 1966) wins 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award from Alumni Association.

• Prof. Sara Majetich becomes Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society for 2007.

• Profs. Luokkala and Holman featured in FOCUS article on PA Governor's School for the Sciences.

• Prof. Ira Rothstein and colleague win Gravity Research Foundation prize.

• Prof. Curtis Meyer wins the 2006 Julius Ashkin Award for Excellence in Teaching.

• Mike William wins the 2006 Guy C. Berry Graduate Research Award.

• John Hall (Carnegie Tech PhD Graduate 1961, Nobel laureate 2005) receives honorary degree at Commencement 2006.

• Oosterhuis Memorial Fellowship in Physics established.

• Prof. Lincoln Wolfenstein wins the 2005 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize.

• Profs. Manfred Paulini and James Russ play active role in measuring Bs oscillations at Fermilab (press release).

• The Buhl lecture Brighter than a Quadrillion Suns will be given on April 10 by Keith Hodgson.

• Science News spotlights Berger-Slonczewski 1996 prediction.

• Physics Outreach Program teaches middle schoolers more than science

• Prof. Simeon Friedberg, Professor of Physics at CMU for 42 years, passes away (obituary, memorial).

• John Hall (Carnegie Tech PhD Graduate 1961) shares 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics

• Physics Department receives bequests of nearly $1 million.

• The South African Large Telescope (SALT) releases first images.

• Cosmic CAT scan with10⁴ antennas

• Mathias Lösche joins faculty in Biological Physics

• G0 collaboration finds strange quarks in proton

• Roy Briere elected CLEO co-spokesperson

• Curtis Meyer questions evidence for pentaquarks (article in nature)

• 2005 Buhl Lecture on impact of E=mc²

• Professor Ray Sorenson, former head of department, passes away at age 74, memorial May 10 (obituary, memorial)

• Curtis Meyer is elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (citation)

• Pake Graduate Fellowship in Physics established

• Outreach program students win first prizes in Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Sciences competition

• Computer simulation by Di Matteo shows how growing black holes regulate galaxy formation (press release)

• Randall Feenstra's work in Nanotechnology highlighted in recent Tribune-Review article

  

• Kavan Ratnatunga reports on tsunami damage in Sri Lanka

• Frank Lederman (Class of 1971) former VP and Chief Technical Officer of ALCOA appointed to Cray Board of Directors

• Paper on cosmic microwave background by Astrophysicist Jeff Peterson Is one of the most cited by scientists

• "What is it?" contest from the Physics Museum

• Retirement celebration for Professor Robert W. Kraemer on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 4PM

• Hugh Young will be honored on his retirement from CMU at Homecoming October 15, 2004

• Michael Widom computes stability of metallic glass alloys

• James Russ discovers heaviest meson yet at Fermilab accelerator

• CMU building prototype detector to search for glueballs

• DOE gives go-ahead for Jefferson Lab upgrade

• Chia-Ling Chien (PhD 1972, CMU Physics) receives David Adler Lectureship Award

• Adjunct Professor of Physics Robert M. White receives George E. Pake Prize

• Nobel Laureate Clifford Shull (B.S. 1946, CMU Physics) papers donated to CMU libraries.

• Prof. Feenstra receives Porous Semiconductor Grant

• Dr. Michael S. Turner is 2004 Buhl Lecturer on April 27, 2004

• Lincoln Wolfenstein Celebrates 80th Birthday!

• Prof. Meyer urges 12 GeV upgrade for Jefferson Lab to study quark confinement.

• X-ray telescope to measure dark energy proposed by Prof. Richard Griffiths

• Prof. Nagle speaks about statistical mechanics of ice and biomembranes at Lars Onsager 100th Birthday Symposium

• Anitsite defects in GaAs may enable long-range fiber-optic communication

• CMU organizes International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors, July 19-23, 2004

• Physics Department cosponsors talk by David Hafemeister on Nuclear Proliferation in the Post-Soviet World. Thursday, Oct. 2, at 4:30 in Wean Hall 7500

• Bob Nichol appears on Letterman show. Link

• CMU and Pitt astrophysicists test dark energy. Link1, Link2

• New D_s* particle discovered at CLEO.

• Pentaquarks discovered in Japan and at Jefferson Lab.

• CMU will host Beauty 2003 conference October 14-18, 2003