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Spring 2022 SAS Student Prizes and Awards
Herbert B. Callen Memorial Prize
Sean Ridout - "For his results providing a new theoretical approach to the connection between local structure and glassy dynamics, as well as the connection between such phenomena in low dimensions with exact mean field theories.”
Pondering the Bits That Build Space-Time and Brains
Vijay Balasubramanian investigates whether the fabric of the universe might be built from information, and what it means that physicists can even ask such a question.
Congratulations to Joshua Chen for receiving a Goldwater 2022 Scholarship!
Joshua Chen, an undergraduate in Marija Drndic's group, is among five Penn Juniors to be named 2022 Goldwater Scholars.
Decoding a material’s ‘memory’
A new study details the relationship between particle structure and flow in disordered materials, insights that can be used to understand systems ranging from mudslides to biofilms.
A ‘vibrant nexus’ for research and discovery in the physical sciences
With the construction of a new Physical Sciences Building and updates to the David Rittenhouse Laboratory, Penn will create a modernized physical sciences quadrant that integrates state-of-the-art research in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and engineering.
Congratulations to Bo Zhen and his team for their new DARPA contract to work on their “next generation of night vision eye glasses”!
Leveraging new tech, DARPA aims for night-vision goggles the size and weight of regular eyeglasses.
The Large Hadron Collider and the End of the World
In this episode, Evelyn Thomson looks back at the concerns that swirled around the launch of high-energy particle collision experiments like the Large Hadron Collider.