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We are accepting applications!
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania will be accepting applications for the PhD program during the 2020-21 admissions cycle, de
Read MoreSeptember 21-25 is Climate Week at Penn!
The long list of events is listed here:
https://climateweek.provost.upenn.edu/
Read MoreWerner Teutsch Memorial Prize Winners
Established by the friends of Werner Teutsch, to memorialize his exuberant creativity during a tragically short career.
Read MoreStatement on the passing of Ward Plummer
The Department is sad to report the passing of Ward Plummer, former faculty member in our department.
Read MoreBhuvnesh Jain is organizing the “Summer 2020 data science hangout,” for Arts and Sciences undergraduate researchers
The summer 2020 hangout is intended for undergraduate students whose summer research involves quantitative analysis of datasets, including variants of machine learning.
Read MoreRobyn Sanderson's research on a "new stellar stream, born outside the Milky Way, discovered with machine learning"
Finding this new collection of stars, named after Nyx, the Greek goddess of night, was made possible using machine learning tools and simulations of data collected by the Gaia space observatory.
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