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MIT faculty, alumni receive 2025-26 American Physical Society honors

Two faculty and six additional alumni win top APS awards and prizes; four faculty and 12 additional alumni named APS Fellows.

April 18, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Alumni, Biophysics, Condensed Matter Theory, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

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How sound is providing new clues about the Universe

October 10, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Complex 3d illustration of a clear cube denoting the outline of a molecule with reddish spheres as its atoms. Two pairs of screw-like objects appear connected by electricity amid various blue spheres and arrows. Waves of electromagnetic radiation appear to hit and bounce off the top of the cube.

Making more magnetism possible with topology

October 9, 2023
Categories: Research, Undergraduates, Students, Graduate Students, Alumni, Condensed Matter Theory
Graphic showing the quasicrystals discovered in this research.

Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals

September 27, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory

MIT welcomes nine MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2023-24

September 26, 2023
Categories: In The News, Visiting Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Theory
Conceptual image of an open box that has sparks flying out on a black background. The lid of the box resembles that of a laptop computer screen.

From physics to generative AI: An AI model for advanced pattern generation

September 26, 2023
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, Quantum Information Science
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Aram Harrow ’01, PhD ’05 and Leonid Mirny named 2023 Simons Investigators

September 25, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty

School of Science welcomes new faculty in 2023

September 24, 2023
Categories: Education, Faculty, WiSTEM
Superconducting qubit architecture resembling a cross, has blue “T” in center and four squares on longer ends.

New qubit circuit enables quantum operations with higher accuracy

September 24, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty, Alumni, Quantum Information Science
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Soonwon Choi wins 2024 Inchon Award

September 18, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Quantum Information Science

The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI

September 18, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students
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Mikhail Ivanov wins 2024 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize

September 17, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty
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Five MIT faculty members named 2023 Simons Investigators

September 13, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty
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