Presented by: Professor Orit Peleg, Department of Physics and Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder 2:30 p.m. Abstract: Imagine a world where communication doesn't depend on words, but on ...

Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...

University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...

The IceCube project at the geographic South Pole melted eighty-six holes over 1.5 miles deep in the Antarctic icecap to construct an enormous astronomical observatory. The experiment recently ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for ...

In modern physics, we have learned to formulate the laws for the behavior of matter, and for the large-scale organization of matter, in terms of standard models incorporating a very few parameters. We ...

Prof. Andrea Ghez, who shared this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, will deliver a virtual lecture Oct. 22 as part of the University of Chicago’s Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture series. Entitled “The ...

The event was part of the University’s on-going commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction. Nuclear physicist Barbara Jacak delivered a lecture entitled ...

You don’t need to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars or sit through hours of classes in order to understand the fundamental nature of the universe. In truth, the fabric of the cosmos is just a mouse ...

Purdue University students take part in activities at the newly-created physics labs in Indianapolis. Purdue University photo/Alisha Willett INDIANAPOLIS —Purdue University is expanding hands-on ...