| A team from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has won the Storage Challenge at Supercomputing '08, the annual meeting of the high-performance computing industry, held in Austin, Texas. The team, led by Alumni Centennial Professor Alex Szalay, built a computer cluster called Graywulf that could search through Terabytes of scientific data, running a search that previously took days in just 9 minutes. Click here to go to Alex's site. |
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| A new study measuring scientific impact places Johns Hopkins University in the top three among US institutions granting Ph.D.s in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Click here for more information |
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| David Neufeld is one of three astronomers selected by NASA to participate in the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). Neufeld will study the chemistry of warm interstellar gas using the instrument, which is a highly modified Boeing 747SP aircraft carrying a 98-inch diameter airborne infrared telescope. Click here for more information |
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| Astrophysist Adam Riess has been awarded a 2008 MacArthur Fellowship. Click here for more information |
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| Seamus Riley, a third year astronomy graduate student, was awarded the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Graduate Medal for his poster at the Summer AAS meeting. His poster was titled "A Study of Dwarf Galaxies in Five Rich Clusters." Click here for more information about the award |
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| Janice Wynn Guikema has been named one of the three winners of the American Physical Society's 2008 M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship for Women in Physics. Dr. Guikema is a postdoc at JHU working in experimental condensed matter physics. Click here for more information |
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| A JHU research team led by Chia-Ling Chien is at the forefront of the exciting new field of iron-based high temperature superconductivity. These new materials are different from the well-known copper-oxide-based superconductors and offer a possible new pathway to high temperature superconducting applications. Click here for the paper by Chen et al. in the journal Nature. Click here for more information |
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| Congratulations to this year’s Prize and Award winners: Joshua Cogan (Donald E. Kerr Award), Daniel Scolnic (Rowland Prize), Shawn Smout (EJ Rhee Teaching Award), and Gregory Caravelli (Rowland Prize). Click here for more information |
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| The 32st Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory: Perspectives in String Theory
Seoul, Korea, May 27-31, 2008 Click here for more information |
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| The Department of Physics and Astronomy is among the leading departments nationwide in the recent rankings by Academic Analytics, with Hopkins placing well within the top ten in both the physics and the astronomy - astrophysics rankings. JHU as a whole is also ranked in the top ten. For the list of the top fifty research universities, click here. |
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| Six of the top nine physics and astrophysics articles most cited in 2005 were authored by researchers now in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, according to the SPIRES database of Stanford University.
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| Johns Hopkins University alumnus Dr. Seunghun Lee is the recipient of the 2008 Science Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America "for his innovative and insightful neutron scattering studies of frustrated magnetic systems." Click here for more information |
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| The 2007 Brickwedde Lecture in Physics and Astronomy - "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics", will be held at 4pm on Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the Schafler Auditorium of the Bloomberg Center. The speaker is Prof. David J. Gross, Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and Frederick W. Gluck Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics. Following the Brickwedde tradition, Prof. Gross will also be department colloquium speaker on Thursday, Dec. 6. Click here for more information |
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| On October 18, 2007, Hopkins astronomers terminated on-orbit operations of the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite after eight years. FUSE was operated for NASA from a control room in Bloomberg by a team of 25 scientists and engineers, led by Prof. Warren Moos. FUSE obtained more then 130 million seconds of science data before succumbing to pointing system failures in July 2007. Click here for more information |
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| The Department of Physics and Astronomy is hosting the Galaxy Zoo website, where people classify galaxies by shape. More than 70,000 people have made almost 7 million classifications; their work will help us understand how galaxies evolve. The site was featured on BBC News. Click here for more information |
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| Hopkins alumna Meg Urry has been named Chair of the Physics Department at Yale. She was the first female tenured faculty member in the Yale Physics Department; she is now the first woman chair in the physical sciences at Yale. Click here for more information |
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| The Maryland Association of Higher Education is honoring Bruce Barnett with its 2007 Outstanding Faculty Award. He will receive the honor on March 9 at the MAHE conference at the University of Maryland University College. Click here for more information |
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| Goddard astrophysicist Ann Hornschemeier, former JHU Chandra Fellow and member of JHU's adjunct faculty, won the 2007 Annie Jump Cannon Award of the American Astronomical Society. Click here for more information |
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