Event at MIT featured an array of national and international speakers including a Nobel laureate, leaders in industry, and in entertainment.
Two faculty, a graduate student, and 10 additional alumni receive top awards and prizes; four faculty, one senior researcher, and seven alumni named APS Fellows.
To understand how everything from atoms to neutron stars behave, he says, requires “abstracting away the details to see main principles that drive everything.”
In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose.
As part of his MIT doctoral studies in nuclear science and engineering, Eli Sanchez investigated whether hypersonic missiles threaten global security.
MIT professors Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright appointed to the 2024 class of “trail-blazing fellows.”
She says one question drives her work: “Which pillars of gravitational physics are just not true?”
Nine postdocs and research scientists honored for contributions to the Institute.
Fellows honored for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.
Assistant professor of physics honored for work on the development of laser spectroscopy techniques to investigate the properties of subatomic particles.
Cosmologist and MLK Scholar Morgane König uses gravitational waves to study the universe’s origins, inflation, and present trajectory.
Professor Wit Busza, Instructor Karol Bacik, postdocs Cari Cesarotti and Chao Li, and Pablo Gaston Debenedetti SM ’81, PhD ’85 honored for contributions to physics.
Bridging Talents and Opportunities event serves as an outreach initiative for the Latin community.
Inspired by physics, a new generative model PFGM++ outperforms diffusion models in image generation.
Sixteen professors join the departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics.