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Five MIT students named 2020 Rhodes Scholars
...advanced degree in research science engineering. Daher’s Rhodes Scholarship was announced Nov. 15 Claire Halloran Hailing from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Claire Halloran is a senior majoring in materials science and engineering...
Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material
...soft X-rays produced by this machine are a tool for the most advanced characterization of materials. “But still, this X-ray beam is not nanoscopic,” Comin says. “So we adopted a...
Seven MIT educators honored for digital learning innovation
...to work by writing Wikipedia articles, where they used advanced editing techniques and wrote mathematical expressions in LaTEX. They also used Google Docs during class to edit articles in small...
Daniel Freedman wins Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
...in 1980, first as professor of applied mathematics and later with a joint appointment in the Center for Theoretical Physics. He regularly taught an advanced graduate course on supersymmetry and...
Center for Theoretical Physics celebrates 50 years
...directions in theoretical physics. “In its 50 years, the CTP has seen its faculty, postdocs, and students make discoveries that have advanced our theoretical understanding of how the universe works,”...
MIT physicist Rainer Weiss shares Nobel Prize in physics
...Collaboration. Related links: MIT press conference webcast Rainer Weiss Video: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves LIGO Advanced LIGO Instrument MIT LIGO MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Department of...
Ultra-Quantum Matter research gets $8 million boost
...interdisciplinary approach. Directed by Professor Ashvin Vishwanath at Harvard University, the collaboration comprises researchers at MIT, Harvard, Caltech, the Institute for Advanced Study, Stanford University, University of California at Santa...
Anna Frebel
Research Interests Professor Frebel’s research interests broadly cover observational stellar astrophysics. She is best known for her discoveries and spectroscopic analyses of the oldest, most metal-poor stars in the Milky...
Salvatore Vitale
Research Interests Gravitational waves have been detected in the Fall of 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), nearly one hundred years after Einstein had predicted their existence. This...
Martin Zwierlein
Research Interests Martin Zwierlein studies strongly interacting Fermi gases of atoms and molecules. These gases host novel states of matter and serve as pristine model systems for other Fermi systems,...