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Professor Mark Trodden at the Penn Science Café: Embracing the Dark Side: In Search of the Missing Pieces of the Cosmic Puzzle
WHO: Mark Trodden
Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of
Physics and Department Chair
Penn Researchers create better light-trapping devices
A new study shows how the performance of optical resonators can be improved using topological physics, which can lead to more efficient lasers, sensors, and telecommunication devices.
Penn physicists look to navigational ‘rhumb lines’ to study polymer’s unique spindle structure
Researchers show how polymer spheres contract to form unique spiral structures known as loxodromes, or rhumb lines, creating patterns that are ten times smaller than the width of a human hair.
Liang Wu has received the William L. McMillan Award, Forbes 30 Under 30
Liang Wu, assistant professor of physics and astronomy in the Penn School of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2019 William L. McMillan Award from the department of physics at the University of Illinois for his outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics. This award, which Dr. Wu will share with Barry Bradlyn of the University of Illinois, is presented annually to a condensed matter physicist for distinguished research performed within five years of receiving a PhD. Dr.
Penn physicist Doug Durian is chair of a new division of the American Physical Society, DSOFT
Penn has one of the strongest soft matter groups in the world, with many high-profile faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences, particularly Physics & Astronomy, as well as the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Assistant Professor in Experimental Soft Matter Physics
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania seeks applications from outstanding candidates for an appointment as Assistant Professor in experimental soft matter physics, broadly defined. The successful candidate will develop an innovative research program that attracts the participation of students and creates collaborative links with other Penn scientists and engineers. The candidate should have a Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Theoretical Quantum Condensed Matter Physics
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania seeks applications from outstanding candidates for an appointment as Assistant Professor in theoretical quantum condensed matter physics. The successful candidate will develop an innovative research program on quantum phenomena in condensed matter that attracts the participation of students and creates collaborative links with other Penn scientists and engineers. The candidate should have a Ph.D.
Penn-Columbia collaboration featured on the cover of ACS Nano
Single-stranded DNA recorded at 10 MHz bandwidth through nanopores in glass chips.
Can neutrinos help explain what’s the matter with antimatter?
Results of a new study will help physicists establish a cutting-edge neutrino research facility to study some of the most abundant yet least understood particles in the universe.
Congratulations to Prof. Vijay Balasubramanian, who has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, in the Division of Particles and Fields.
His citation reads: "For fundamental contributions clarifying the black hole information puzzle and black hole thermodynamics through work on the duality of quantum gravity and quantum field theory, and on black hole microscopics in theories of quantum gravity."
Congratulations Vijay!