Society for Science today announced that Tracy Slatyer, Ph.D., a theoretical physics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has won the $1,000 Jon C. Graff, Ph.D. Prize for Excellence in Science Communication.
The School of Science appointed four Department of Physics faculty to named professorships. The faculty members selected for these positions receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.
Event at MIT featured an array of national and international speakers including a Nobel laureate, leaders in industry, and in entertainment.
Leaders from industry, government, and academia, including our own Jesse Thaler who is both a CTP and Physics professor and Director of IAIFI, discuss the potential impact of AI on physics—including neutrinos, exoplanets, term papers, outreach, and workforce gaps—and of physics on AI.
Physicists Rolf Ent from Jefferson Lab, and Richard Milner from MIT, together with animator James LaPlante from Sputnik Animation, have created a 10 minute video that includes new animations of the atomic nucleus.
We used precision laser spectroscopy to study independent nuclear observables of elusive, short-lived indium isotopes for the first time. Clear parabolic trends in the measured nuclear deviation from spherical shape showed minima at very specific nuclear configurations, also known as magic numbers. Our results were compared to state-of-the-art theoretical predictions to confirm the predicted enhanced stability of one of the critical isotopes in nuclear physics, 100Sn
