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Let's celebrate and remember the life of Carolyn B. Parker MS '51, considered the first African-American to earn a postgraduate degree in physics, as well as the first African-American to earn a postgraduate degree in physics at MIT. #BlackHistoryMonth blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/caroly

Carolyn B. Parker MS '51

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Meet Prof. Erin Kara, one of AAS241’s Keynote Speakers is being honored with the 2022 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy for her innovative and sustained contributions to high-energy astrophysics. physics.mit.edu/news/meet-prof

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Note that we are not accepting Physics GRE or General GRE scores for applications received by the December 15, 2021 deadline for the academic year starting in 2022! (12/12)

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MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations news.mit.edu/2020/mit-and-h #YouAreWelcomeHere

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New quantum magnet unleashes electronics potential physics.mit.edu/?p=16043

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School of Science appoints Erin Kara to named professorship physics.mit.edu/?p=14079

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Physicists discover a “family” of robust, superconducting graphene structures physics.mit.edu/?p=12755

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Congratulations to Andrea Ghez!

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An international team of scientists led by MIT Professor of Physics Liang Fu discovers a beam of zero-energy quasiparticles created by a supercurrent flow on the surface of a superconductor, confirming a 50-year-old prediction.

@ScienceMagazine

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A schematic image representing a moving condensate of electron pairs in a current-carrying superconductor. Courtesy of Margarita Davydova.

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Quantum fluctuations can jiggle objects on the human scale news.mit.edu/2020/quantum-f

#NergisMavalvala #astrophysics

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3 Questions: Ibrahim Cissé on using physics to decipher biology news.mit.edu/2020/3-questio

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Quantum sensor can detect electromagnetic signals of any frequency physics.mit.edu/?p=12681

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Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time physics.mit.edu/?p=9491

#research #postdoc

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(1/9) 🚨🚨The Physics PhD program at MIT is inviting applications for the academic year 2023-2024! We encourage all students to apply to our doctoral program 📚📖📝

@MITGradStudents

#PhD #phdchat #diversityinSTEM #diversifySTEM #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

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Physicists find direct evidence of strong electron correlation in a 2D material for the first time physics.mit.edu/?p=12005

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Ushering in the next phase of exoplanet discovery news.mit.edu/2018/ushering-

@ProfSaraSeager

#astrophysics #exoplanets #TESS

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Physicists detect a hybrid particle held together by uniquely intense “glue” physics.mit.edu/?p=11206

#CMX #NuhGedik #SenthilTodadri #photonics

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Physicists detect a hybrid particle held together by uniquely intense “glue”

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MIT turns "magic" material into versatile electronic devices physics.mit.edu/?p=8981

@Jarillo_Herrero

#graphene #MATBG #DanielRodanLegrain #superconductivity

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Physicists measure a short-lived radioactive molecule for first time news.mit.edu/2020/physicist

#RonaldFernandoGarciaRuiz #AlexBrinson

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LIGO detects merging black holes for third time news.mit.edu/2017/ligo-dete

#physics #astrophysics #research #blackholes

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‘Physicists Have Always Been Philosophers’: In Conversation With Frank Wilczek physics.mit.edu/?p=12556

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Could gravitational waves reveal how fast our universe is expanding? news.mit.edu/2018/gravitati

#research #SalvatoreVitale #blackholes #gravitationalwaves #LIGO

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Meet the college dropout who invented the gravitational wave detector sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/m

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The Most Surprising Discoveries in Physics physics.mit.edu/?p=16074

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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2023-24 physics.mit.edu/?p=15845

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In Memoriam: Roman Jackiw, Jerrold Zacharias Professor of Physics Emeritus (1939-2023) physics.mit.edu/?p=15717

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Congratulations

for winning the 2019 Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching #awards

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For first time, researchers see individual atoms keep away from each other or bunch up as pairs news.mit.edu/2016/atomic-in

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Peter Shor wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics physics.mit.edu/?p=13438

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Vibrations and Waves: Adapting a residential MIT physics course for online learners by Alex Shvonski, MITx Digital Learning Fellow, Physics physics.mit.edu/?p=12104

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Move over, coders — physicists will soon rule Silicon Valley wired.com/2017/01/move-c

#physics #Alumni

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Taming the data deluge -- A National Science Foundation-funded team will use artificial intelligence to speed up discoveries in physics, astronomy, and neuroscience. physics.mit.edu/?p=10663

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Taming the data deluge

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Note that we are not accepting Physics GRE or General GRE scores for applications received by the December 15, 2020 deadline for the academic year starting in 2021! (9/9)

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Our own Phiala Shanahan was named to

’ 2020 list of young scientists to watch! Congratulations Phiala! #SN10 [sciencenews.org/article/sn-10-]

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Astroparticle Physicist Lina Necib PhD '17 Wins 2023 Valley Prize for Work on Dark Matter physics.mit.edu/?p=13637

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Simple superconducting device could dramatically cut energy use in computing, other applications physics.mit.edu/?p=16236

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Deepto Chakrabarty named head of the Department of Physics physics.mit.edu/?p=13102

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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero receives Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award physics.mit.edu/?p=10494

@maxplanckpress

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Liang Fu and Patrick Lee receive Larkin Awards in Theoretical Physics physics.mit.edu/?p=13797

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Liang Fu and Patrick Lee receive Larkin Awards in Theoretical Physics

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Vibrating atoms make robust qubits, physicists find physics.mit.edu/?p=11359

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#ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownStem #Strike4BlackLives The MIT Department of Physics is joining with other STEM departments on June 10, 2020 for a day away from our normal activities to reflect and educate ourselves. #NotOneMore

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You should check out our amazing alum Shirley Ann Jackson SB '68 PhD '73 #BlackHistoryMonth

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Did you know that Shirley Ann Jackson was the first African American women to earn a PhD from @MIT and the second to earn a PhD in physics at any school? She is alive today and has a resume that is out of this world. Look her up. #BlackHistoryMonth

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Celebrating #BlackinPhysicsWeek by reposting some of this year's news profiles on our amazing students and alumni. First up, Sylvester James Gates Jr. '73, PhD '77 and 2021 Compton Lecturer.

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Nergis Mavalvala named School of Science dean news.mit.edu/2020/nergis-ma Deepto Chakrabarty will be our new Associate Head of Physics

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Documentary featuring Professor Sara Seager wins Emmy Award physics.mit.edu/?p=13533

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A team led by Physics grad student Sylvia Biscoveanu has developed a method to tease out the very faint signals of primordial ripples from gravitational-wave data.

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Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s prediction news.mit.edu/2016/gravitati

#gravitationalwaves

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Watch This: Nuclear Physics Rap! RESONANCE by Physics graduate student Alex Brinson physics.mit.edu/?p=12262

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Scientists map gusty winds in a far-off neutron star system physics.mit.edu/?p=15174

@NatureAstronomy

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The Physics PhD program at MIT is inviting applications for the academic year 2021-2022! All students are welcome to apply to our doctoral program! (1/9)

@MITGradStudents

#PhD #phdchat #diversityinSTEM #diversifySTEM #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

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Scientists boost quantum signals while reducing noise physics.mit.edu/?p=14673

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Center for Theoretical Physics celebrates 50 years news.mit.edu/2018/mit-cente

#physics #CTP50

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What is a time crystal? physics.mit.edu/?p=16147

What is a time crystal? - ABC listen

Time crystals are states of matter whose patterns repeat at set intervals of time rather than space.

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Structures considered key to gene expression are surprisingly fleeting physics.mit.edu/?p=12216

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Jarillo-Herrero and Milner win 2020 APS honors news.mit.edu/2019/aps-honor

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For second time, LIGO detects gravitational waves news.mit.edu/2016/second-ti

#physics #graviationalwaves #blackholes

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If you'd like to learn more about the magic of moiré quantum matter, you can now watch the 2022 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture with Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT youtu.be/iTrUlC4DbdE via

@Jarillo_Herrero

2022 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered the 2022 Dresselhaus Lecture on t...

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Pablo Jarillo-Herrera elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2022 physics.mit.edu/?p=12445

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Thomas Searles is collaborating with our faculty, including Joseph Checkelsky, on quantum materials as an MIT MLK Scholar. news.mit.edu/2020/thomas-se

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Congratulations

for winning the 2019 Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising #awards

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Quantum Complexity Shows How to Escape Hawking's Black Hole Paradox physics.mit.edu/?p=16111

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Garcia Ruiz and Kara named 2023 Sloan Research Fellows physics.mit.edu/?p=14735

@SloanFoundation

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Robert Cunningham ’23, a double-major in mathematics and physics, awarded grand prize for first-ever Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize. physics.mit.edu/?p=15677

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Insulator or superconductor? Physicists, led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, find graphene is both news.mit.edu/2018/graphene-

#physics #graphene #PabloJarilloHerrero

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Researchers devise new way to make light interact with matter news.mit.edu/2018/researche

#research #JohnJoannopoulos #MarinSoljacic #light #energy #photonics

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MIT welcomes 2023 Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow and 2023-2026 Pappalardo Fellow Juliana García-Mejía physics.mit.edu/?p=15120

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Congratulations to our senior Ghadah Alshalan!!! news.mit.edu/2020/two-mit-s

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Physicists see electron whirlpools for the first time physics.mit.edu/?p=12747

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Particle hunter news.mit.edu/2017/faculty-p

#physics #faculty #MarkusKlute #Higgs

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Canceling noise to improve quantum devices physics.mit.edu/?p=16368

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New study again proves Einstein right news.mit.edu/2018/new-study

#research #neutrinos #JanetConrad #GabrielCollin

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MIT Physics ranked #1 again. news.mit.edu/2021/qs-world-

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William Barletta, Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Katelin Schutz, and Phiala Shanahan honored for contributions to physics.

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Learn about the dark matter mystery with Professor Kerstin Perez youtu.be/UO9EJNs9-og #astrophysics

The dark matter mystery

Dark matter is composed of particles that do not absorb, reflect, or emit light, so dark matter is material that cannot be observed directly. We know that da...

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“This is the type of life that I want” physics.mit.edu/?p=14505

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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero delivers 2022 Dresselhaus Lecture on the magic of moiré quantum matter physics.mit.edu/?p=14281&wpwau

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LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars news.mit.edu/2017/ligo-virg @MIT@ScienceMIT

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So glad to have students back in person in our Junior Lab!

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MITPhysics JuniorLab

356 days later, students are back in Junior Lab.

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Harnessing the Void: MIT Controls Quantum Randomness For the First Time physics.mit.edu/?p=16483

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Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star news.mit.edu/2018/scientist

#Kavli #DheerajPasham #blackholes

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Physicists calculate proton’s pressure distribution for first time news.mit.edu/2019/physicist

#PhialaShanahan #WilliamDetmold

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"A Physicist’s Farewell to Stephen Hawking" by David Kaiser newyorker.com/tech/elements/

#physics #StephenHawking #DavidKaiser

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MIT physicists, including study author Martin Zwierlein, generate the first snapshots of fermion pairs physics.mit.edu/?p=15874

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Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20170

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Mikhail Ivanov wins 2024 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize physics.mit.edu/?p=16503

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Quantum machine learning phy.so/424597322 via

#physics #research #SethLloyd #quantumcomputers

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Physicists harness quantum “time reversal” to measure vibrating atoms physics.mit.edu/?p=12830

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Gene Dresselhaus, influential research scientist in solid-state physics, dies at 91 physics.mit.edu/?p=10802

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Giant black hole formed puzzlingly fast at dawn of cosmos physics.mit.edu/?p=16294

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Sensor based on quantum physics could detect SARS-CoV-2 virus physics.mit.edu/?p=11122

#PaolaCappellaro

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New system allows optical “deep learning” news.mit.edu/2017/new-syste

#physics #research #nanotechnology #energy

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Physicists discover new quantum electronic material news.mit.edu/2018/physicist

#physics #JosephCheckelsky #RiccardoComin #LiangFu #LindaYe #MinGuKang #kagomemetal

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Team, including Moodera, Lee, and Fu, creates simple superconducting device that could dramatically cut energy use in computing, among other important applications physics.mit.edu/?p=16084

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Team creates simple superconducting device that could dramatically cut energy use in computing,...

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Exotic physics phenomenon is observed for first time news.mit.edu/2019/aharonov-

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MIT engineers, including John Joannopoulos, produce the world’s longest flexible fiber battery physics.mit.edu/?p=11129

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Physicists create new form of light news.mit.edu/2018/physicist

#VladanVuletic #photons

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Congratulations! Physics junior Carina Letong Hong named a 2022 Rhodes Scholar for China physics.mit.edu/?p=10869

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Graduate Students Andrea Sylvia Biscoveanu and Calvin Leung, and Pappalardo Fellow Nicholas Kern awarded 2023 NASA Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships physics.mit.edu/?p=15164

@SpaceTelescope

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Physics World feature: Rainer Weiss: 50 years of LIGO and gravitational waves physics.mit.edu/?p=13549

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