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Q&A: David Kaiser on Freeman Dyson, the relentless freethinker
...Dyson at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. By the end of the conversation, Dyson was handing over keys to his office, along with files, to help...
NASA Bets on an Asteroid Killer, a Venusian Balloon, and More New Tech
The agency’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program provides seed funding for ideas that sound like sci-fi—but just might work. https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-bets-on-an-asteroid-killer-a-venusian-balloon-and-more-new-tech/ Sara Seager, Venus, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, phosphine, NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts...
Julian Picard: Chopping microwaves, sharpening instincts
MIT graduate student slices microwave pulses to test advanced accelerators. “Looking through microscopes has never been my thing,” says Julian Picard. As a graduate student in the Department of Physics,...
Nuh Gedik
Research Interests Professor Gedik’s research centers on investigating quantum materials by using advanced optical and electron based spectroscopies. Quantum materials are systems in which strong correlations lead to fascinating emergent...
MIT to launch new Office of Research Computing and Data
...grow — both in their quantity and complexity — the Institute is launching a new effort to ensure that researchers have access to the advanced computing resources and data management...
Physicists record "lifetime" of graphene qubits
...coherence for these advanced qubits, so there’s no knowing if they’re feasible for practical quantum computing. In a paper published today in Nature Nanotechnology, the researchers demonstrate, for the first...
Jelena Vučković delivers 2021 Dresselhaus Lecture on inverse-designed photonics
Electrical engineer and Stanford University professor discusses how computer software can support advanced designs and new functionalities. As her topic for the 2021 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture, Stanford University professor...
Meet the School of Science's tenured professors for 2018
...on the Advanced the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, Evans explores the physical processes that set fundamental limits on the sensitivity of future gravitational wave detectors. Of particular interest...
The World According to Freeman
...Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. The sound insulation was good but not perfect: Ordinary conversations were inaudible, but when Freeman talked on the telephone he spoke louder, and I could...
Custom-made MIT tool probes materials at nanoscale
...material’s electrical or optical conductivity changes over exquisitely short distances, but also visualizing individual molecules, like proteins. “Modern materials research has greatly benefited from advanced experimental tools,” says Long Ju,...