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Tracy Slatyer named 2024-25 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Harvard Radcliffe Institute today announced its historic 25th anniversary class of fellows, marking a quarter century of pathbreaking interdisciplinary study.

Three from MIT awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships

MIT professors Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright appointed to the 2024 class of “trail-blazing fellows.”

Twenty-three MIT faculty honored as "Committed to Caring" for 2023-25

The honor recognizes professors for their outstanding mentorship of graduate students.

Physicist Netta Engelhardt is searching black holes for universal truths

She says one question drives her work: “Which pillars of gravitational physics are just not true?”

Eight from MIT named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows

Fellows honored for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

Everything, everywhere all at once

Cosmologist and MLK Scholar Morgane König uses gravitational waves to study the universe’s origins, inflation, and present trajectory.

School of Science welcomes new faculty in 2023

Sixteen professors join the departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics.

Soonwon Choi wins 2024 Inchon Award

MIT assistant professor of physics receives Inchon award for advancements in the field of quantum science.

Mikhail Ivanov wins 2024 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize

MIT assistant professor of physics shares award for understanding the large-scale structure of the universe.

Professor Emeritus Roman Jackiw, “giant of theoretical physics,” dies at 83

Over more than 50 years at MIT, he made fundamental contributions to quantum field theory and discovered topological and geometric phenomena.

Life in a hologram

Physicist Daniel Harlow explores an alternate quantum reality in search of fundamental truths to our physical universe.

Netta Engelhardt is the 2023 recipient of the Gribov Medal from the EPS-HEPP

Phiala Shanahan is seeking fundamental answers about our physical world

With supercomputers and machine learning, the physicist aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter.

Can you trust your quantum simulator?

MIT physicists have developed a protocol to verify the accuracy of quantum experiments.

MIT researchers use quantum computing to observe entanglement

Researchers at the Center for Theoretical Physics lead work on testing quantum gravity on a quantum processor.

Dr. Frank Wilczek Receives 2022 Templeton Prize

Wilczek Joins Past Laureates Mother Teresa and Jane Goodall to Receive One of the World’s Largest Individual Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Engelhardt named 2022 Sloan Research Fellow

Early-career researchers honored for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

The problem-solver: Cosmic inflation

Just over 40 years ago, a new theory about the early universe provided a way to tackle multiple cosmological conundrums at once.

Four MIT faculty members receive 2021 US Department of Energy early career awards

Faculty from the departments of Physics and of Nuclear Science and Engineering faculty were selected for the Early Career Research Program.

New Frank Wilczek book looks at ten keys to reality

To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” the physicist writes in a new book.

Xiaojun Yao on Quantum Computer and the Subatomic Universe

CTP postdoc Xiaojun Yao is in an article about how physicists are exploring quantum computing as a valuable new tool in their quest to understand the subatomic universe.

Phiala Shanahan receives Kenneth G. Wilson Award for work in lattice field theory

Recognition honors research into nuclear structure and reactions.

Five MIT researchers receive awards from the American Physical Society

William Barletta, Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Katelin Schutz, and Phiala Shanahan honored for contributions to physics.

Netta Engelhardt and the Black Hole Information Paradox

The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End.

Daniel Harlow awarded Packard Foundation Fellowship

Physics professor receives one of the most prestigious nongovernmental awards for early-career scientists.

Phiala Shanahan wins APS Maria Goeppert Mayer Award

To recognize and enhance outstanding achievement by a woman physicist in the early years of her career, and to provide opportunities for her to present these achievements to others through public lectures in the spirit of Maria Goeppert Mayer.

Phiala Shanahan Named Science News Scientist to Watch

This year’s SN 10 scientists aim to solve some of science’s biggest challenges.

Provably exact artificial intelligence for nuclear and particle physics

MIT-led team uses AI and machine learning to explore fundamental forces.

Four from MIT awarded 2021 New Horizons in Physics and New Frontiers in Mathematics prizes

Physicists Tracy Slatyer and Netta Engelhardt and mathematicians Lisa Piccirillo and Nina Holden PhD ’18 are honored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.

National Science Foundation announces MIT-led Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions

IAIFI will advance physics knowledge — from the smallest building blocks of nature to the largest structures in the universe — and galvanize AI research innovation.

Can a quantum strategy help bring down the house?

Study finds quantum entanglement could, in principle, give a slight advantage in the game of blackjack.

Four MIT faculty members receive U.S. Department of Energy early career awards

Faculty from the departments of physics, chemical engineering, and mechanical engineering were selected for the 2020 Early Career Research Program.

Exploring the quantum field, from the sun’s core to the Big Bang

Theoretical physicist William Detmold unlocks the mysteries of quarks, gluons, and their “strong interactions” at the subatomic level.

Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way?

A new analysis puts dark matter back in the game as a possible source of energy excess at the galactic center.

Engelhardt honored with prestigious 2019 Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists

Winning postdoctoral scientists include a neuroscientist researching mosquito feeding habits, a theoretical physicist investigating the relationship between quantum gravity and black holes...

Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements

With help from next-generation particle accelerators, the approach may nail down the rate of oxygen production in the universe.

Data-mining for dark matter

Tracy Slatyer hunts through astrophysical data for clues to the invisible universe.

Daniel Freedman wins Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

MIT professor emeritus will share $3 million prize with Sergio Ferrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen for discovery of supergravity.

Seeking new physics, scientists borrow from social networks

Technique can spot anomalous particle smashups that may point to phenomena beyond the Standard Model.

Meet the 2019 tenured professors in the School of Science

Eight faculty members are granted tenure in five science departments.

Physicists calculate proton’s pressure distribution for first time

The particle’s core withstands pressures higher than those inside a neutron star, according to a new study.

Four from MIT named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows

Nikhil Agarwal, Daniel Harlow, Andrew Lawrie, and Yufei Zhao receive early-career fellowships.

2019 J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient

Nick Rodd becomes 3rd CTP student in 4 years to win APS Sakurai Dissertation Prize.