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The automatic sky camera on the roof of the Ladd Observatory captures a meteor in motion.

2012 Arthur O. Williams Lecture
Monday, February 6, 2012
Guest speaker: Stewart Prager
BH 166, 4:00 p.m.
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.

Prof. Savvas Koushiappas' proposal, "Novel statistical techniques in astro-particle physics," has been selected to receive a 2012 Salomon Award. The Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Awards were established to support excellence in scholarly work by providing funding for selected faculty research projects deemed to be of exceptional merit.

BCS: 50 years written by Prof. Leon Cooper and Prof. Dima Feldman was named one of five books from 2011 to put on your holiday wish list by Physics Today. Read here.

In this New York Times article, Prof. Greg Landsberg comments on the exciting new data results which hint at the existence of the elusive particle known as the Higgs boson. Prof. Gerry Guralnik is also noted in the article for his ground-breaking contribution to this theory.

Prof. Anastasia Volovich is awarded funding for her grant, entitled Symbology and Scattering Amplitudes, by the Simons Fellows in Theoretical Physics program.

Brown University Physicists set strongest limit on mass of dark matter. Brown University physicists have set the strongest limit for the mass of dark matter, the mysterious particles believed to make up nearly a quarter of the universe. Read full article here.

David Schuster ’01 is the recipient of the 2011 William L. McMillan award by the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois. David received his Sc.B in mathematics-physics from Brown in 2001, and earned his Ph.D. in physics from Yale in 2007. He is currently an assistant professor of physics at the University of Chicago. The McMillan award is presented annually to an outstanding young researcher in condensed matter physics, and consists of a monetary prize, a plaque, and an invitation to present the annual McMillan Award Lecture at the University of Illinois.
Learn about David's research at http://schusterlab.uchicago.edu/research and read more about the award at http://physics.illinois.edu/about/mcmillan/

Graduate student Florian Sabou's work highlighted on NSF page.

Research

Prof. Sean Ling reports an advance with a DNA sequencing technique by hybridization.

Awards

Prof. Gerry Guralnik is awarded the 2010 APS J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics.
Read more... Read the interview by Prof. Jay Tang
The 2010 Sakurai prize talks in Washington, D.C.

News

Prof. Richard Gaitskell and his research group are featured in a new documentary series called "Physics for the 21st Century", created by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics with funding from Annenberg Media. In the Dark Matter program, Prof. Gaitskell and two of his graduate students,Carlos Hernandez Faham and Jeremy Chapman, explain the group's world-class experimental efforts to detect the elusive dark matter particle, as part of the new LUX experiment.

Student Opportunities

Undergraduate Research
The Galkin Foundation Fellowship
Graduate Research - New Funding for Interdisciplinary Research Projects in the Physical and Life Sciences .

Outreach

Brown GK-12: Physical Processes in the Environment .

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