With the launch of each academic year, the Department publishes physics@mit, its annual journal for members and friends of the MIT physics community. Each issue features articles by several of our renowned faculty—written especially for our audience—on their cutting-edge research, teaching initiatives, or personal perspectives on lives spent in physics. Other regular features include new faculty profiles, student and faculty honors and awards, highlights from the year's news and events in physics, alumni/ae notes, and special profiles of our generous supporters.
Print copies of the journal are distributed each September to all MIT physics alumni/ae, as well as other MIT and Boston-area physics community members. In addition, electronic copies of each journal section are available, in PDF, by following the links to each issue below. We hope you enjoy being informed and involved in the life of physics at MIT.
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| Research features by John Joannopolous (Molding the Flow of Light), Wolfgang Ketterle (The Magic of Matter Waves) and Krishna Rajagopal (Free the Quarks) Education feature on TEAL (Technology Enhanced Active Learning) Initiative by John Belcher Faculty profile of MIT Institute Professor Emeritus Francis E. Low by physics historian David Kaiser |
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| Research features by Alan Guth (Inflation and the New Era of High-Precision Cosmology) and Alexander van Oudenaarden (Noisy Genes) An insider's perspective on the discovery of BEC by David E. Pritchard (Bose-Einstein Condensation: a Double Pot of Gold) Giving to Physics profile of William M. Layson (PhD '63) and the Presidential Fellowships in Physics |
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| Research features by Paul Schechter (Einstein's Mirages) and Frank Wilczek (The Origin of Mass) Education feature by Associate Department Head for Education Thomas Greytak (An Educational Initiative: VIII-B in Review) Giving to Physics Profiles of George Elbaum (AA '59) and the Whiteman Fellowships and Jim (SB '53, PhD '57) and Sylvia Earl |
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Research features by Isaac Chuang (Quantum Information: Joining the Foundations of Physics and Computer Science) and Barton Zwiebach (From Vibrating Strings to a Unified Theory of All Interactions) |
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| Research features by Robert Simcoe (Cosmic Dawn: Hunting for the First Stars in the Universe) and Vladan Vuletic (Generating Single Photons on Demand) Education feature by Anthony P. French (Physics Education at MIT: From Bell's Phonautograph to Technology Enhanced Active Learning) Giving to Physics profiles on Jane and Otto Morningstar ('39) and the Patrons of Physics Fellows George Elbaum (AA '59, SM AA, NU '63, PhD NU '67) and Morton E. Goulder ('42) |
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Research features by Marin Soljacic (Photonic Crystal Enhancement of Optical Non-linearities) and Gabriella Sciolla (The Mystery of CP Violation) A profile of MIT physics legend Herman Feshbach by Nobel Laureate Professor Frank Wilczek (Resonating with Feshbach) |
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Fall 2007 |
Research features by Edmund Bertschinger (Southern Skies and Cosmic Questions) and David Kaiser (Viki Weisskopf: Searching for Simplicity in a Complicated World) In Remembrance of former Provost and Institute Professor Emeritus Francis E. Low Giving to Physics profiles on Jane and A. Neil (EE '64) Pappalardo and Howard (SB '73) and Colleen Messing |
