Sentences with phrase «from nuclear physics»

Their proposed research projects address scientific challenges central to Office of Science mission areas from nuclear physics to environmental systems.
«Our expectation is that the data from our nuclear physics experiments can be combined with the results from atomic trapping experiments measuring EDMs to make the most stringent tests of the Standard Model, the best theory we have for understanding the nature of the building blocks of the universe,» Butler said.
Every year, IAEA hires 15 to 30 nuclear inspectors, typically in their 30s, many with backgrounds far removed from nuclear physics.
And the same is going to be true now as public interest shifts from nuclear physics to molecular biology, from the splitting of atoms to the splicing of genes.

Not exact matches

Richard Milvenan graduated from the United States Military Academy on May 26, 2012, with degrees in physics and nuclear engineering.
What we do know: (from the fields of astrophysics, nuclear physics, geology and the history of religion)
To pick an example from the cosmology chapter, if the strong nuclear force, one of the four fundamental forces recognised by modern physics, and which controls amongst other things the burning of the Sun, were slightly larger or slightly smaller, we could not exist.
What we do know: (from the fields of astrophysics, biology, biochemistry, archeology, nuclear physics, geology and the history of religion)
In the more difficult areas of physics, such as theoretical nuclear physics or the quantum physics involved in cosmology, the procedure may be deemed a success if there is some convergence between the results obtained from the model and the existing data.
Britain's list of Nobel Prize winners owes much to those who came to these shores as foreigners, Dennis Gabor, inventor of the holograph, born in Hungary, Maurice Wilkins of DNA fame, born in New Zealand, and Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics, also from New Zealand.
After earning an undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut, Chang Díaz enrolled as a graduate student in applied plasma physics at MIT, where he began research in nuclear fusion.
In fact, the article had been taken from a popular science series (New Scientist?s Inside Science)-- if the questioner had ever seen a real textbook on nuclear physics, he would have had a heart attack!
The government also recognizes that nuclear technology has had profound indirect scientific and technological benefits in fields ranging from solid - state physics to biomedical science and will probably continue to do so.
Two of the key negotiators, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Atomic Energy Organization of Iran head Ali Akbar Salehi, had earned doctorates in theoretical physics and nuclear engineering, respectively, from top U.S. universities and were able to talk directly with each other about the technical details of the agreement.
Smirnov from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.
The discovery was made by a team of scientists from the Italian Universita» degli Studi di Milano (UniMi), the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Cracow, the Romanian National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN - HH), the Japanese University of Tokyo and the Belgian University of Brussels.
Inspectors come with a range of expertise, from physics, engineering, and chemistry to computer science and even biology; samples from plants and animals often play a role in detecting unreported nuclear materials.
«This research illustrates a deep connection between two seemingly unrelated fields, and required contributions from an interdisciplinary team of condensed matter and nuclear physicists,» said James Misewich, the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Science at Brookhaven Lab and a professor of physics at Stony Brook University, who played the central role of introducing the members of this research team to one another.
This, the authors believe, should stimulate further nuclear physics interpretation of results from other physics disciplines.
Conversely, they also need to rise to the challenge of using new insights and techniques from other disciplines to question the validity of their own theories and make nuclear physics research more powerful.
A much better way to prevent a nuclear or dirty - bomb terrorist attack is to keep radioactive ingredients from getting inside the nation's borders in the first place, and here physics is on our side.
The research team, which included Natalya Pugach from the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, studied the interactions between superconductivity and magnetization in order to understand how to control electron spins (electron magnetic moments) and to create the new generation of electronics.
Russian scientist Natalya Pugach from the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered this yet to be explained effect with her British colleagues, whose theory group headed by Professor Matthias Eschrig.
Applying insights from the Nevada Source Physics Experiments to the DPRK declared nuclear test seismic signals.
To build the accelerator, the government said that it will provide $ 250 million with additional funding from Italy's Institute of Technology and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), which is coordinating the project.
Similar sentiments were expressed in a 9 March note to government officials and parliamentarians from the presidents of several of the Italian research institutions that make regular use of air guns, including the National Research Council, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
In collaboration with Russia's Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok, they upgraded the particle beam system, increasing its power from 2 megawatts to 10 megawatts and angling the beams to make better use of their power.
«Wherever we look, we see nothing — that is, we see no deviations from the Standard Model,» says Giacomo Polesello of Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Pavia.
Shi developed the paper with assistance from co-authors Nat Fisch, director of the Program in Plasma Physics and professor and associate chair of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, and Hong Qin, a physicist at PPPL and executive dean of the School of Nuclear Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China.
With the aid of nuclear industry promotional pamphlets and detailed advice he obtained from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (to which he misrepresented himself as a physics professor), Hahn removed radium from old clocks, extracted americium from smoke detectors, stole tritium from borrowed night - vision equipment, and even ordered a sample of uranium - bearing ore from a company in the Czech Renuclear industry promotional pamphlets and detailed advice he obtained from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (to which he misrepresented himself as a physics professor), Hahn removed radium from old clocks, extracted americium from smoke detectors, stole tritium from borrowed night - vision equipment, and even ordered a sample of uranium - bearing ore from a company in the Czech ReNuclear Regulatory Commission (to which he misrepresented himself as a physics professor), Hahn removed radium from old clocks, extracted americium from smoke detectors, stole tritium from borrowed night - vision equipment, and even ordered a sample of uranium - bearing ore from a company in the Czech Republic.
Advances in computing power and physics have helped him build sophisticated models, spun from hundreds of thousands of lines of computer code, that capture the nuances of the stars» shape while taking into account everything from stars» rotation and nuclear reactions to Einstein's theory of gravity.
«Physics: From the atomic to the nuclear clock.»
«One main goal of RHIC's energetic polarized - proton collisions is to increase the precision of our measurements so we can better tease out the contribution from the gluons» spin,» said Jamie Dunlop, Associate Chair for Nuclear Physics in Brookhaven's Physics Department.
Thanks to a new development in nuclear physics theory, scientists exploring expanding fireballs that mimic the early universe have new signs to look for as they map out the transition from primordial plasma to matter as we know it.
Their broad portfolio of research ranges from nuclear weapons science and basic physics to better batteries and renewable energy technologies.
This experiment was a qualitatively new test,» said Richard Lednický, a STAR scientist from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, and the Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.
«In the nuclear physics community, the holy grail is to see phase transitions in these high - energy interactions, and then determine the equation of state from the experimental data,» Wang said.
And it is a quirky material, this particular study of it taking Robert Charity and Lee Sobotka — research professor in chemistry and professor in both chemistry and physics in Arts & Sciences — from Duke's Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory to the Department of Energy's Los Alamos (N.M.) National Laboratory.
Due east along Guangdong's coastline, one of the region's most sophisticated technological projects, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughNuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughnuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed through space.
An international team of researchers from the University of Aarhus in Denmark and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, discovered an efficient and versatile way of braking the rotation of molecular ions.
Education: Current Ph.D. student at Michigan State University; M.S. in physics from Michigan State University; B.S. in nuclear engineering from UC Berkeley
The concepts of rotation and angular momentum play a crucial role in many areas of physics, ranging from nuclear spectroscopy to molecular collisions and precision measurements.
Connecting the Laboratoryâ $ ™ s expertise and research of its past to the expertise and research of its future, Aronson focuses on the Laboratoryâ $ ™ s work in nuclear and particle physics, condensed matter physics, life sciences, environmental sciences, and the chain of activities from discovery to deployment.
Kessel joined PPPL in 1987 after earning bachelor's degrees in physics and nuclear engineering from the University of California - Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in fusion engineering and applied plasma physics from UCLA.
This week - long program provides students and young professionals in reactor physics, nuclear engineering, nuclear instrumentation, and related disciplines with the opportunity to learn first - hand from experienced nuclear practitioners, including scientists and operators.
He has a B.S. in physics from the State University of New York at Albany, an M.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of Illinois, and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado.
Ryutov has a master's degree in experimental nuclear physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Ph.D. in plasma theory from the Kurchatov Institute in physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Ph.D. in plasma theory from the Kurchatov Institute in Physics and Technology and a Ph.D. in plasma theory from the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow.
Following the recent visit by Dr Catalin Matei from ELI - NP, we have now signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the «Horia Hulubei» National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering in Romania.
Rick Ryerson's interests and impact span a broad swath of geoscience, ranging from local and global tectonics to experimental petrology and geochemistry, and from mineral and rock physics to nuclear waste management, geologic CO2 storage and hydraulic stimulation of hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs.
Mr. Donelson holds a bachelor of science degree in physics from Hampden - Sydney College, a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Virginia, and a master of business administration degree from Queens University.
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