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John Joannopoulos receives 2024-2025 Killian Award

The MIT physicist is honored for pioneering work in photonics that helped to advance tools for telecommunications and biomedicine.

May 17, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory

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Liang Fu and Patrick Lee receive Larkin Awards in Theoretical Physics

October 31, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory

Mystery of dark matter — and search for WIMP

October 26, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

Seven with MIT ties receive awards from the American Physical Society

October 26, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Alumni, WiSTEM, Biophysics, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Astrophysics Theory

Q&A: David Kaiser on Freeman Dyson, the relentless freethinker

October 25, 2022
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory

Finding community in high-energy-density physics

October 21, 2022
Categories: Profile, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Many quarks and antiquarks seethe in a roiling particle “sea.”

Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine’

October 19, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Six from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2022

October 19, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory, Condensed Matter Experiment, Astrophysics Theory, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
3-D modeled illustration depicts the DART mission, and shows a boxy spacecraft with blue jets and solar panel wings approaching a bulky meteor.

Method for decoding asteroid interiors could help aim asteroid-deflecting missions

October 19, 2022
Categories: Research, Undergraduates, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Photo of students crossing the street at 77 Mass. Ave., in front of MIT's main entrance, which features steps, large columns, and glass windows.

Ad hoc committee releases report on remote teaching best practices for on-campus education

October 18, 2022
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus

Astroparticle Physicist Wins 2023 Valley Prize for Work on Dark Matter

October 13, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Theory
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Understanding Quantum Computing with Professor Peter Shor and Professor William Oliver

September 12, 2022
Categories: Quantum Information Science

Making quantum computers more accurate

October 13, 2022
Categories: Profile, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni, Alumni, Quantum Information Science
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