Sentences with phrase «physics lab for»

Kruskal, now 70, founded and chaired Princeton's applied mathematics program and worked in the Princeton plasma physics lab for years before moving to Rutgers.

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That lab complements the Institute for Quantum Computing and the more - than - decade - old Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, both founded with more than $ 250 million of Lazaridis's own money and additional funds he helped raise.

Ever since an experiment in the high school physics lab went awry, Riverdale has become a magnet for the stuff of which «B - Movies» are made.

Buffalo Grove High School will receive about $ 1.8 million for repairs, including completion of athletic and physical education locker room renovations and creation of a chemistry - physics lab from two classrooms.

The 2009 Nobel Prize in physics goes to Charles Kao of Standard Communications Labs in England and the Chinese University of Hong Kong for the invention of practical optical fiber communication, and George Smith and Willard Boyle of Bell Labs in New Jersey, for inventing the charge - coupled device, the CCD, making digital cameras possible.

At Bell Labs, Chu carried out research on laser cooling and atom trapping, work that would earn him — along with Claude Cohen - Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips — the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997.

These beams were then delivered into one of the lab's three experimental areas, called halls, where they were directed into the nuclei of target materials for nuclear physics experiments.

After 3 years at Nottingham studying physics, I'd come to the conclusion that, though the general gist of my course amazed and fascinated me, the nitty gritty of the mathematics and the hours sitting in a lab twiddling dials were really not for me.

The eight - year - old accelerator has at least 10 years of research ahead of it, says Steven Vigdor, Brookhaven's associate lab director for nuclear and particle physics.

«The results from BOSS provide a solid foundation for even more precise future BAO measurements, such as those we expect from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI),» says Natalie Roe, Physics Division director at Berkeley Lab.

«Cassini data,» says team member Ralph Lorenz of the Applied Physics Lab, «is going to keep us busy for decades.»

Young scientists «might spend much of graduate school optimizing computer code for a large physics experiment, or extracting samples in a biology lab, or doing the statistical analyses on other people's data,» Walsh and Lee write in their email.

«We have found an implementation of the system that allows us to go in the lab and actually test the predictions of the Dicke model, and some extensions of it as well, in a system that is not nearly as complicated as people always thought it has to be for the Dicke physics,» Engels said.

One outside speaker, Arthur Bienenstock, a physics professor emeritus and special assistant to the president of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, for federal research policy, cited a proposal to change how universities are reimbursed for the cost of supporting federally funded research that would have resulted in scientists spending less time in the lab.

«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.

But the scientists gathered at the Applied Physics Lab had not come for closure.

The force coefficients generated by the wing are «about two to three times greater than a static airfoil wing used for large airplanes,» said Kamal Viswanath, a co-author who was a graduate research assistant working with Tafti when the work was performed and is now a research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics.

«If you want to make a device that's of use for particle physics, of use for medical applications, of use for light source applications, you need repetition rate,» explains Wim Leemans, physicist at Berkeley Lab.

The institution has long been regarded highly for its studies in physics, computer sciences and chemistry, though years of underfunding had left the university short of lab and classroom space.

For example, «Iran will convert its sensitive Fordow uranium enrichment facility into an international «nuclear, physics, and technology centre,» allowing it to remain open as a research lab.

The researchers, working on an experiment called OPERA, beamed neutrinos through the earth's crust, from CERN, the laboratory for particle physics near Geneva, to Gran Sasso National Laboratory in L'Aquila, Italy, an underground physics lab.

Despite extensive efforts to develop practical applications for graphene and explore the exotic physics at work in its two dimensions, obtaining a usable sample is still more art than science, as Scientific American learned one slushy winter afternoon in the Columbia University lab of Philip Kim, one of our co-authors and a leader in the field.

Scientists in Brookhaven Lab's Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department and Center for Functional Nanomaterials specialize in similar one - of - a-kind atomic architectures.

«This measurement is allowing us to use the early universe as a lab for new physics in energy ranges that are otherwise inaccessible to us,» Kamionkowski says.

Feng Wang, a condensed matter physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Physics Department, as well as an investigator for the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley, led a study in which photo - induced doping of GBN heterostructures was used to create p - n junctions and other useful doping profiles while preserving the material's remarkably high electron mobility.

A research group at CERN, the European lab for particle physics in Geneva, has managed for the first time to confine atoms of the stuff.

«If you look at this in a broad sense, about 5 percent of our total global energy consumption is spent on electronics,» said co-senior author Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Berkeley Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Technologies and a UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering and of physics.

«The krypton mixes uniformly in the liquid xenon and emits radiation with a known, specific energy, but then quickly decays away to a stable, non-radioactive form,» said Dan McKinsey, a UC Berkeley physics professor and co-spokesperson for LUX who is also an affiliate with Berkeley Lab.

The boat surfaced through three feet of Arctic ice 200 miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, where the University of Washington's Applied Physics Lab conducts underwater communications and sonar experiments for the Navy.

This new metamaterial was developed in the lab of Eric Mazur, the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Area Dean for Applied Physics at SEAS, and is described in the journal Nature Photonics.

«This material should be very useful for spintronics studies,» said Sung - Kwan Mo, a physicist and staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) who co-led the study, published in Nature Physics.

«This work is an important stepping stone toward utilizing NV centers in diamond as resources for quantum technologies, such as enhanced sensing, quantum simulation and potentially quantum information processing,» said Bar - Gill, an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Applied Physics and Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University, where he founded the Quantum Information, Simulation and Sensing lab.

The theoretical study detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and led by Rice postdoctoral researcher Qian Wang was a collaborative effort by the labs of three professors at Rice and one at the University of Houston, all working under the umbrella of Rice's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP).

Keen to avoid a similar debacle, CERN, the European particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, took the momentous decision to cram the LHC into an existing circular tunnel 100 metres underground, which had been built in the 1980s for the Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider.

For the past 20 years, Zlotnick's lab has conducted research to stop viral infections by studying the physics of viruses, focusing on how capsids are formed.

As the first of several national laboratories that China intends to launch in the coming years — others will be devoted to brain research, physics, and environmental science — the Qingdao lab will also be a bellwether for efforts to persuade scientists to accept greater government scrutiny and direction in exchange for ample resources.

Neaton is also the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences at Berkeley Lab, the director of Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, and a physics professor at UC Berkeley.

It connects more than 2,500 researchers around the world with the data generated by millions of particle collisions taking place each second at Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, a DOE Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research), and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.

«Charlie was a cornerstone of the Space Sciences Laboratory for almost 50 years,» said Stuart Bale, director of the lab and a UC Berkeley professor of physics.

Welcome to the Science Education Department at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), where we combine the lab's core research activities with science education programs to create a center of excellence for students, teachers and the general public.

Tom is with the Argon National Lab and is the physics coordinator for what's called the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.

Feng Wang, a condensed matter physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Physics Department, as well as an investigator for the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley, led a study in which photo - induced doping of GBN heterostructures was used to create p — n junctions and other useful doping profiles while preserving the material's remarkably high electron mobility.

Thomas LeCompte of Argonne National Lab was the physics coordinator for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

Berndt Mueller of Brookhaven Lab welcomed attendees and offered his outlook for the future of nuclear and particle physics.

Within the space of a very few years at the Lab, Daniel Haylett has become a leading member of the primary design community within the Weapons and Design Physics Program of WCI, most recently becoming the primary physics lead for the LLNL ICBM system, tPhysics Program of WCI, most recently becoming the primary physics lead for the LLNL ICBM system, tphysics lead for the LLNL ICBM system, the W87.

Joining the Lab in 2002, Nathan Meezan quickly established himself as one of LLNL's experts in hohlraum physics and design for laser - driven targets, and was chosen to be the lead designer for the very important first implosion campaign on the NIF laser.

Raised on the knee of science — her father taught her and her two brothers from a young age about geology, physics, and natural history — Alice Ting now stands firmly on her own two feet among the faculty at MIT's Chemistry Department, where her objective is to «simultaneously harness the power of genetics and the power of chemistry» using new technologies developed in her lab for imaging protein trafficking, protein - protein interactions, and enzymatic activity.

The idea for a spinoff medical technology company originated several years ago when Medlin and his adviser, Endre Takacs, were working in Clemson's Atomic and Medical Physics lab on an experiment with bioengineers to systematically study the effects of low - dose radiation on living cell cultures.

Co-author Pierre Neveu works in Kosik's lab, as well as UCSB's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

«There's a lot of work that's been done already, and Berkeley Lab has been a key developer for the vision of where things need to go,» said Wim Leemans, director of the BELLA Center and the Lab's Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division.