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September 1, 2020
UW News has posted a story about a $3 million grant to the UW to establish a NSF Research Traineeship at the University of Washington for graduate students in quantum information science and technology. The new traineeship — known as Accelerating Quantum-Enabled Technologies, or AQET — will make the UW one of just “a handful” of universities with a formal, interdisciplinary curriculum in this field. AQET students can come from doctoral programs in the Department of Chemistry, the Department of... Read more
July 16, 2020
Emeritus Professor Lillian C. McDermott passed away on July 8, 2020.
Lillian was a pioneer in the field of physics education research. A graduate of Vassar College and Columbia University, she joined the University of Washington in 1967 and retired in 2019. She was a fellow of the APS, AAAS, and AAPT, recipient of the AAPT Oersted medal, and the ICPE Medal presented by the International Commission on Education of IUPAP. She was the lead author of Physics by Inquiry and Tutorials in... Read more
July 10, 2020
Matthew Yankowitz, an assistant professor in the departments of MSE and physics, has received the Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from the Army Research Office, an element of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory. The objective of YIP is to encourage and support young university faculty in research areas relevant to the Army. YIP awards are one of the most prestigious honors bestowed by the Army to outstanding scientists beginning their... Read more
July 9, 2020
In this and a companion paper, Larry McLerran and Raju Venugopalan proposed a classical model for the scattering of large nuclei at high energies. They argued that the color charges of the... Read more
June 17, 2020
When Zakkir Rahman arrived at the UW as a freshman, he discovered that undergraduates must fulfill general education requirements, including courses in the visual, literary & performing arts (VLPA). As a STEM student set on studying astronomy, he was annoyed. What did the arts have to do with him?Everything, as it turns out. This month Rahman graduates with majors in astronomy and physics — and dance.
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June 11, 2020
Today, stars fill the night sky. But when the universe was in its infancy, it contained no stars at all. And an international team of scientists is closer than ever to detecting, measuring and studying a signal from this era that has been traveling through the cosmos ever since that starless era ended some 13 billion years ago.
That team — led by researchers at the University of Washington, the University of Melbourne, Curtin University and Brown University —... Read more
June 11, 2020
Please join us on Saturday, June 13 at 10am for the Physics Department Virtual Graduation Ceremony.
https://phys.washington.edu/events/2020-06-13/physics-virtual-graduation-ceremony
April 6, 2020
The force due to gravity reduces with the square of the distance. If you double the distance, the force is not halved but reduced to a quarter of its original value. This law, called an inverse-square law, is based purely on geometry: we live in three spatial dimensions, and therefore the inverse-square law holds. However, if the universe has more than three spatial dimensions, the inverse-square law would break.
UW physicists J. G. Lee, E. G. Adelberger, T. S. Cook, S. M. Fleischer, and B. R.... Read more
January 23, 2020
Axions are one of the leading dark matter candidates and of great interest to the theoretical and experimental communities. This workshop aims to explore the current state of the axion field, including reviewing recent theoretical developments, astrophysical observations, laboratory-based experiments and novel ideas which could lead to the discovery of the QCD dark-matter axion. The workshop will report on the current state of the field and the direction of this research going forwards... Read more