Current News
6/23/08 - 70 years later, IU Cyclotron works to save lives - IU News Room
5/20/08 - IU Physicists to get their "glue-on" - IU News Room
4/23/08 - Physics (and exercise science) major Alexander Brunfeldt wins a Scholastic Achievement Award. Alex, who is a senior on the IU Mens Swimming and diving team, received this award from the IU athletic department for maintaining the highest GPA on the team.
4/3/08 - John Beggs receives one of the annual Student Choice Awards. Each year the Student Alumni Association presents the Student Choice Awards in honor of Indiana University's most outstanding faculty. All IU students are eligible to nominate their favorite professor and then invited to vote for candidates for this prestigious award. Only 4 - 5 faculty are chosen each year to receive this award. More information.
3/26/08 - The American Physical Society has awarded several faculty members in our Department as APS “Outstanding Referees”:
This is the first year of this very selective award, and only 534 out of 42,000 active referees have been chosen. The awardees chosen are truly exceptional in their contributions to the physics community by their hard work and careful attention to the peer review process.
The complete list of 534 awardees and other information about the award can be found at http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees. These awards are worldwide, and as can be seen from the above website, very few other institutes have as many recipients as IU (those with the same number being MIT, MSU, Princeton, Stony Brook, Illinois, Maryland, UT Austin, and Washington).
A press release is available
2/7/08 - Paul Sokol has received a $932,721 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to explore Advanced Neutron Radiography Concepts at IUCF...(more)
01/23/08 - Prof. Sima Setayeshgar received an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award to help support research in cellular biophysics (information-theoretic approaches to biochemical signal processing by a single cell).
01/22/08 - Renaissance Man and Indiana University Cyclotron Facility Interim Director Jim Musser combines a career of particle physics with his life-long love of playing piano and guitars he built by hand. (more)
01/13/08 - Software grant could speed medicinal regeneration technologies: Regenerative medicine -- as in re-growing human limbs -- sounds like the basis for a Hollywood action movie. But a research group at Indiana University Bloomington led by biophysicist James Glazier will soon provide the scientific community with a new tool to help bring futuristic medical technologies to real-world laboratories.
01/09/08 - Physics Grad Student Brian Page selected as "Lindau Laureate". Since 1951, Nobel Laureates in chemistry, physics, and physiology/medicine convene annually in Lindau, Germany, to have open and informal meetings with students and young researchers. The 2008 meeting will be will focus on physics.The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) are honored to have been invited to bring groups of top young researchers to the 2008 meeting. The DOE/NSF delegation consists of U.S. doctoral students whose current research at their universities is funded by one of the sponsoring agencies. These students will travel to Lindau to participate in discussions with the Nobel Laureates, as well as other graduate students and junior researchers from around the world. Graduate student Brian Page of the Dept. of Physics who does research with Dr. Sowinski at IUCF has been selected to receive a scholarship to attend the meeting as a "Lindau Laureate". See http://www.orau.org/lindau/about/overview.htm .
12/20/07 - American Institute of Physics ranks Ten Top Physics Stories for 2007.
- #6: The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab solves a neutrino mystery, apparently dismissing the possibility of a fourth species of neutrino (http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/split/820-1.html)
- #7: The Tevatron, in its quest to observe the Higgs boson, updated the top quark mass and observed several new types of collision events, such as those in which only a single top quark is made, and those in which a W and Z boson or two Z bosons are made simultaneously (http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/split/821-1.html)
12/19/07 - Rob de Ruyter has been appointed as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts & Science starting this Summer. We look forward to his serving this leadership role in the College as well as adding a familiar face over in Kirkwood.
9/29/07 - License agreement in hand, high-tech business will open in Bloomington. SpheroSense Technologies Inc. has entered into a licensing agreement with the Indiana University Research & Technology Corp. to develop market-ready biosensor technologies. "The technology SpheroSense is based on was developed at IU Bloomington by doctoral student Dragos Amarie, chemist Bogdan Dragnea, and me," said IUB physicist and SpheroSense co-founder James Glazier......(more)
9/29/07 - The annual Physics and Astronomy Open House will be held Saturday, September 29th
8/31/07 - The Physics Fall Picnic will be held Saturday, September 8th on the South Shore of Lake Lemon. A map and directions are available from Linda Langlois in SW 129. See pictures from last year's picnic.
8/7/07 - The Fourth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry will be held August 8-11. The meeting program includes around 50 talks, and it can be found at http://www.indiana.edu/~cpt07/program.html. In addition to discussions focusing on CPT and Lorentz symmetry, some presentations will also incorporate more general recent results in particle physics, gravitation, astrophysics, atomic physics, etc. The talks will be in Swain West 119.
6/14/07 - Chemistry of neutron stars modeled for first time: A new study by IUB physicist Charles Horowitz and others suggests neutron stars may form liquid and solid regions far from the star's center. Specifically, Horowitz envisions a solid, iron-heavy bottom layer and a liquid, oxygen-heavy top layer. This is not a particularly placid surface, however, especially if carbon is around. "The heavier stuff freezes, but the carbon doesn't like to go in the solid, it likes to stay in the liquid," Horowitz tells New Scientist's David Shiga. "That could explain how there was enough carbon in the ocean to explode." See New Scientist Space article.
4/26/07 - Dr. Hans-Otto Meyer has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award, which is given annually by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for lifetime achievement.
5/29/07 - IU’s involvement in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN began more than eight years ago. The LHC will go live soon. Read about our activities in these linked articles: IU major player in CERN’s collider project through ATLAS, and Culling, accessing and storing: When the Large Hadron Collider turns on for the first time this fall, its computer project goes into full swing to access data from ATLAS. 4/26/07 - Dr. Hans-Otto Meyer has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award, given annually by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for lifetime achievement.
4/12/07 - Rex Tayloe announces new results from the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermiliab. The MiniBooNE results resolve questions raised by observations of the LSND experiment in the 1990s that appeared to contradict findings of other neutrino experiments worldwide. MiniBooNE researchers showed conclusively that the LSND results could not be due to simple neutrino oscillation, a phenomenon in which one type of neutrino transforms into another type and back again.
These results were made possible by the fine work of the IUCF neutrino group including Hans-Otto Meyer, Chris Polly, Chris Cox, and Teppei Katori. See the news arrticle in the Herald Times, the Fermilab press release, or the Indiana University Press Release for more information.
3/8/07 -Sima Setayeshgar has been honored with a Career Award from the National Science Foundation. This prestigious award is given to faculty members early in their academic careers and is one of NSF's most competitive awards, placing emphasis on high-quality research and novel education initiatives.
3/2/07 - Graduate students Leah Welty-Rieger and Jason Rieger in in the January / February issue of Symmetry.
2/28/07 - Chen-Yu Liu has been selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. In her research Professor Liu exploits the special properties of condensed matter systems to address fundamental questions of physics in new ways. This prestigious award recognizes her position as among the very best scientists of her generation.
2/14/07 - Biosensors at the bedside : New hand-held testing device could revolutionize health care
2/7/06 - The Physics Department’s Society of Physics Students Chapter won a 2006-07 Undergraduate Research Award from the American Institute of Physics for its proposal “Studies of a Pyroelectric Crystal to Develop a Tabletop Neutron Source.” The proposal was submitted by Greg Pauley and Andrew Ferguson. Mike Snow is the faculty advisor for our SPS chapter.
1/17/07 - An article about the Large Hadron Collider was in the New York Times supplement this weekend, featuring photographs of the ATLAS detector and the pit area. Read it here.
- 1/22/07 - Related: New Chicago-Indiana computer network will handle dataflow from world’s largest scientific experiment
1/3/07 - Alan Kostelecky has been awarded the distinction of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. This year 449 members were awarded this honor by AAAS, announced in the Nov. 24 issue of Science. Kostelecky's groundbreaking theoretical studies on violations of space-time symmetries have had a major impact on a broad spectrum of physics - astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology, gravitation, nuclear physics and particle physics.
