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Tracy Slatyer poses in front of chalkboard

Three from MIT awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships

MIT professors Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright appointed to the 2024 class of “trail-blazing fellows.”

April 29, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory

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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, Events, Labs & Centers, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, WiSTEM, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, Quantum Information Science, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Scott Hughes

3Q: Scott Hughes on cosmic distances and the future of gravitational wave astronomy

October 16, 2017
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Theory
Rainer Weiss at home early this morning, after learning that he has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics.

MIT physicist Rainer Weiss shares Nobel Prize in physics

October 3, 2017
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Faculty highlight: Senthil Todadri

February 6, 2017
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
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