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3 Questions: Marking the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery

Christoph Paus, the MIT physicist who co-led the effort to detect the particle, looks ahead to the next 10 years.

July 5, 2022
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus

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Photo showing MIT senior Shaun Datta, at center performing with his fellow MIT Logarhythms.

Quantum physics student leaving MIT on a high note

June 5, 2018
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, Quantum Information Science
Illustration shows a thin-film material composed of layers of gallium-arsenide and indium-gallium-arsenide, overlaid with a layer of graphene.

Researchers devise new way to make light interact with matter

June 4, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
Newly tenured physics professors: Matthew Evans, Anna Frebel, and Aram Harrow

Meet the School of Science’s tenured professors for 2018

June 4, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
Cloaking grenade used, hiding troop operations.

AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles

June 1, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Theory
Illustration shows calculation of metal, heat and magnetic fields equals energy.

Turning up the heat on thermoelectrics

May 25, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
Caitlin Fischer and Luke Weisenbach

Two physics seniors receive 2018 Fulbright awards

May 18, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM
Test image from TESS shows over 200,000 stars in swath of southern sky.

TESS takes initial test image

May 18, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Jeff Gore

Jeff Gore: A physicist exploring population dynamics of microbes

May 14, 2018
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Biophysics
QTor magnetic spectrometer.

Understanding the proton’s weak side

May 10, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
An artist concept depicts TESS in front of a lava planet orbiting its host star.

Ushering in the next phase of exoplanet discovery

May 3, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Sydney Miller, Graduate Programs Administrator

Physics Graduate Programs Administrator Sydney Miller wins 2018 Infinite Mile Award

April 3, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Admin Staff
CTP Professors Hong Liu, Jesse Thaler, William Detmold, Daniel Harlow, Tracy Slatyer, and Aram Harrow share a moment during a panel discussion on the future of theoretical physics.

Center for Theoretical Physics celebrates 50 years

March 28, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Labs & Centers, Events, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, WiSTEM, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, Quantum Information Science, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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