Home // News // physics@mit Journal: Fall 2023 Edition physics@mit Journal: Fall 2023 Edition Featured Stories Seeing further into our past, and future, with the James Webb Space Telescope The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon Deep Learning + Deep Thinking = Deeper Understanding Past Issues 2023 Full Edition Seeing further into our past, and future, with the James Webb Space Telescope by Robert Simcoe The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon by Netta Engelhardt Deep Learning + Deep Thinking = Deeper Understanding by Mike Williams and Jesse Thaler Feature article // Physics Academic Administrator Cathy Modica retires after 24 years of service to the Institute Student Profile // Kaley Brauer PhD ’23 2022 Full Edition The Quantum Pendulum Qubit by Martin Zwierlein Bizarre Black Holes and the Observers Who Love Them by Erin Kara Giant "LEAPS": Innovative science career guidance program for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars by Sandi Miller Student Profile // Sangbaek Lee, PhD Candidate, Experimental Nuclear Physics (Milner Group) Giving to Physics // Art '56, SM '58, PhD '60 and Fran Peskoff Support the Physics Department 2021 "Keeping Better Time through Entanglement" by Vladan Vuletić, Simone Colombo and Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel "From Quarks to Nuclei: The Building Blocks of Matter" by Phiala Shanahan "Remotely Educational: Teaching Physics in the Age of Zoom" by Sandi Miller Honors and Awards // Student Honors & Awards with Graduate Degree Recipients Student Profile // Cedric Wilson, PhD Candidate, Experimental Atomic Physics (Zwierlein Group) 2020 "The 21st-Century Electron Microscope for the Study of the Fundamental Structure of Matter" by Richard G. Milner "Capturing Our Genome in Action" by Ibrahim Cissé "Particles for Justice: Strike for Black Lives" by Sandi Miller In Remembrance // Emeritus Professors Aron Bernstein, Thomas Dupree, and Ulrich Becker Giving to Physics // Profile on alum Ken La Gattuta '69 2019 "Listening for Dark Matter from the Basement of Building 24" by Lindley Winslow and Jesse Thaler "Magic Angle Graphene: A New Twist on Quantum Materials" by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Senthil Todadri "Virtual Reality in Physics Education and Research" by Scott W. Greenwald, John Belcher, and Joseph Checkelsky In Remembrance // Professor Emeritus Bernard Burke, astrophysics pioneer, dies at 90 Also in this issue // Student Profile: Tony Zhang, a double major in physics and mathematics 2018 "Electrons Go Viscous—and Zippy by Leonid Levitov "We're made from star stuff. And neutron star merger stuff." by Anna Frebel "Center for Theoretical Physics Celebrates 50 Years" by Scott Morley and Carol Breen Giving to Physics // Rainer Weiss, Professor of Physics Emeritus and 2017 Nobel Laureate In Remembrance // Emeritus Professors Eric R. Cosman '63, PhD '66 and Stanislaw Olbert 2017 "The Secret Life of Quarks" by William Detmold "Jetting Through the Quark Soup" by Yen-Jie Lee "Gravitational Waves: Opening Einstein's Ears" by Scott Hughes and Elizabeth Thomson In Remembrance // Emerti Professors Kerson Huang, Ali Javan, Anthony French, Mildred Dresselhaus, and Arthur Kerman Giving to Physics // Profile on Jim ('53, PhD '57) and Sylvia Earl 2016 "Life Out of Equilibrium" by Nikta Fakhri "Neutrinos in the Spotlight" by Joseph Formaggio "A Transformative Teaching Experience in Atomic Physics at MIT" by Isaac Chuang and Wolfgang Ketterle In Remembrance // Laboratory for Nuclear Science physicist, Frederic John Eppling Giving to Physics // Paul Swartz '73, PhD '79 2015 "Gravitational Waves and Black Holes" by Matthew Evans "Graphene and Topological Insulators" by Ray Ashoori, Nuh Gedik and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero "2016 Oersted Medal Winner John Belcher" by Department of Physics In Remembrance // Emeritus Professors Benjamin Lax and Malcolm W.P. Strandberg Giving to Physics // Profile on Robert Lourie '82, PhD '86 2014 "The Dark Side of the Galaxy: A First Signal in Gamma Rays?" by Tracy Slatyer "Small Accelerators for Big Questions" by Janet Conrad "Astrophysics and the Single Mother" by Sara Seager In Remembrance // Emeritus Professor John King and Alan Lazarus Giving to Physics // Profile on Carol and Jose Alonso 2013 "Triumph, Window, Clue, and Inspiration: The Higgs Particle in Context" by Frank Wilczek "The MIT Physics Department Experience with edX" by John W. Belcher "Quantum Cloning, Quantum Money, and Quantum Monogamy" by Edward Farhi and Aram Harrow In Remembrance // Professor Peter Demos Student Profile // Nirat Ray, PhD Candidate, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics 2012 "Strange New Worlds" by Joshua Winn "Life in Translation" by Jeremy L. England "Advancing Diversity and Excellence in Physics" by Ed Bertschinger Student Profile // Yonatan (Yoni) Kahn, PhD Candidate, High-Energy Theoretical Physics In Remembrance // Emeritus Professors Louis S. Osborne and George Koster 2011 "Many-body Physics Through a Gravitational Lens" by Hong Liu "A Little Big Bang" by Martin Zwierlein In Remembrance // EAPS and Physics Professor James Elliot Giving to Physics // Profile of Mark Mueller ('78) 2010 "Illuminating the High-Energy Frontier" by Markus Klute and Gunther Roland "Tackling Cancer Biology with Fundamental Physics" by Alexander van Oudenaarden "'So, what did you measure?' Henry W. Kendall and Physics Junior Lab" by Sean P. Robinson Also in this issue // The 10th Anniversary of the Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics In Remembrance // Professors Richard Yamamoto and Michael S. Feld 2009 "What is Space?" by Frank Wilczek "Winds of Change in the Hunt for Dark Matter" by Jocelyn Monroe and James Battat "Memories from a Life in Physics" by Mildred Dresselhaus In Remembrance // Professor Emeritus Laszlo Tisza Giving to Physics // Profile on Juan Carlos Torres (SM '79) 2008 "High Temperature Superconductivity, One Atom at a Time" by Eric Hudson "Exoplanet Mass, Radius, and the Search for Habitable Worlds" by Sara Seager "The Physics of Energy: Introducing 8.21" by Robert L. Jaffe and Washington Taylor In Remembrance // Professor Harald Enge and Emeritus Professor Robert I. Hulsizer, Jr. Giving to Physics // Profiles on Hale Bradt, Professor of Physics Emeritus and Serpil and Yalcin (EE ’73) Ayasli 2007 "Southern Skies and Cosmic Questions" by Ed Bertschinger "Viki Weisskopf: Searching for Simplicity in a Complicated World" by David Kaiser In Remembrance // Emeritus Professor Francis E. Low Giving to Physics // Profiles on Jane and A. Neil (EE '64) Pappalardo and Howard (’73) and Colleen Messing 2006 "Resonating with Feshbach" by Frank Wilczek "Photonic Crystal Enhancement of Optical Non-linearities" by Marin Soljačić "The Mystery of CP Violation" by Gabriella Sciolla Giving to Physics // Profiles on Mark Mueller ('78) and Mark Siegel ('90) and Suzanne Z. Deutsch Also in this issue // The Green Center for Physics 2005 "Cosmic Dawn: Hunting for the First Stars in the Universe" by Robert Simcoe "Generating Single Photons on Demand" by Vladan Vuletić "From Bell's Phonautograph to TEAL" by Anthony P. French In Remembrance // Institute Professor Philip Morrison Giving to Physics // Profiles on Jane & Otto Morningstar, George Elbaum and Morton E. Goulder 2004 "Emeritus in a Flash" by Daniel Kleppner "Quantum Information: Joining the Foundations of Physics and Computer Science" by Isaac Chuang "From Vibrating Strings to a Unified Theory of All Interactions" by Barton Zwiebach Giving to Physics // Profiles of John K. Castle (EC '63) and the Castle Fellowship and Virgil Elings (PhD '66) 2003 "The Origin of Mass" by Frank Wilczek "Einstein's Mirages" by Paul L. Schechter "An Educational Initiative: VIII-B in Review" by Thomas Greytak In Remembrance // Professor Martin Deutsch Giving to Physics // Profiles on George Elbaum (AA '59) and Jim ('53, PhD '57) and Sylvia Earl 2002 "Noisy Genes" by Alexander van Oudenaarden "Inflation and the New Era of High-Precision Cosmology" by Alan H. Guth "Bose-Einstein Condensation: A Double Pot of Gold" by David E. Pritchard In Remembrance // Professors Victor F. Weisskopf and Felix Villars Giving to Physics // Profile of William M. Layson (PhD '63) and the Presidential Fellowships in Physics 2001 "Molding the Flow of Light" by John D. Joannopoulos "The Magic of Matter Waves" by Wolfgang Ketterle "Free the Quarks" by Krishna Rajagopal Also in this issue // Studio Physics at MIT by John W. Belcher Faculty Profile // Francis E. Low: Coming of Age as a Physicist in Postwar America by David Kaiser
