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Eric Adelberger Portrait
October 15, 2024
Congratulations to Eric Adelberger for winning the 2025 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society.   Emeritus Professor Adelberger has been awarded the 2025 Einstein Prize in Gravitational Physics for ”outstanding contributions to experimental gravity using precision torsion-balance measurements, which have profound implications for fundamental physics.https://www.... Read more
David Baker Photo
October 9, 2024
Congratulations to David Baker (Professor in Biochemistry and Adjunct Professor of Physics) for winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! Professor Baker shares the Chemistry Nobel Prize for protein design. From the Nobel Press release “The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about pro­teins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins.”  David will give the... Read more
Gupta Lab
September 24, 2024
We are currently searching for a tenure track Assistant Professor in experimental atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics. The successful candidate will expand our existing AMO research efforts with neutral atoms and trapped ions, and will be welcomed into a vibrant campus-wide quantum research community with a variety of synergistic opportunities for collaboration. For more information and/or to apply for the position, please visit ... Read more
Thouless and Dehmelt Portraits
September 11, 2024
Nominations are open for the University of Washington Dehmelt and Thouless Postdoctoral Fellowships for outstanding early career researchers. The nomination deadline for 2025 Fellows is September 22, 2024.  For more information, see: https://phys.washington.edu/postdoctoral-fellowship-programs
David Kaplan News APS
April 3, 2024
David Kaplan is on a quest to straighten out chirality, or “handedness,” in particle physics. A theorist at the University of Washington, Seattle, Kaplan has been wrestling with chirality conundrums for over 30 years. The main problem he has been working on is how to place chiral particles, such as left-handed electrons or right-handed antineutrinos, on a discrete space-time, or “lattice.” That may sound like a minor concern, but without a solution to this problem the weak interaction—and by... Read more
Donna Messina Summer Institute
January 11, 2024
After a hiatus of six years, 2023 saw the resumption of the Summer Institute in Physics and Physical Science for in-service high school teachers.  This four-week program, led by Associate Teaching Professor Donna Messina, features a semi-Socratic approach known as Physics by Inquiry and seeks to give teachers both improved understanding of physics and experience with inquiry-based instruction.  A generous gift from the family of Lillian McDermott enabled the resumption of this summer workshop.... Read more
November 1, 2023
Emeritus Professor Leslie J. Rosenberg has been awarded the 2024 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society.  This award recognizes Prof. Rosenberg “For leading the synthesis of precision microwave cavity techniques, superconducting quantum sensing, and cryogenic technology into the modern axion haloscope, and for the subsequent demonstration of experimental sensitivity to high-priority models of axions as dark matter." Read more at... Read more
Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy
October 17, 2023
UW News has just posted a story about Project 8, an international endeavor to try to determine the mass of the neutrino. In a paper published last month, the Project 8 team reports that its distinctive strategy shows real promise to be the first approach to measure the neutrino’s mass. Once fully scaled up, Project 8 could also reveal how neutrinos influenced the early evolution of the universe as we know it. Project 8’s first experiments took place on the UW campus, and many UW scientists are... Read more
IRIS-HEP Group Phto
September 26, 2023
The Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP) is an NSF-funded software institute, involving 22 different institutions, that aims to develop the state-of-the-art software cyberinfrastructure required to meet the challenges of data intensive research at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN, and other planned experimental particle physics experiments of the... Read more
Elise Novitski Freedman Picture
September 26, 2023
The 2023 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics has been awarded to Elise Noviski for the development and analysis of the Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy method and its application to the measurement of neutrino mass. You can view the official announcement at APS.org.

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