Sentences with phrase «physics labs in»

«This is a pretty secure detection,» says Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md..

A team of metrologists scanned the plasma containment chamber, or stellarator (as in, «this thing works like a star»), that uses magnetic fields to confine the super-hot plasma within the reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in sections, then stitched more than 20 of them together in a seamless mosaic.

Another theory by James Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md., suggests a large impact could have shut down the dynamo by heating the outermost core, which would have kept it from sinking.

But now scientists have spotted evidence of photons bouncing off other photons at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European particle physics lab in Geneva.

«To understand all the processes on the sun we look at as many different particles coming from the sun as we can — photons, electrons, protons, neutrons, gamma rays - to gather different kinds of information,» said David Lawrence, first author of the paper at The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland.

Astronomy writer Christopher Crockett wrote several updates from mission control at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md., from July 12 - 15, and reviewed some of the mission's major milestones from the last several months.

Researchers at CERN, the joint European physics lab in Geneva, have created the first significant quantity of antimatter atoms.

Sheltzer was astonished when a friend at Princeton University told him she was the first female graduate student at her PI's physics lab in his 20 - plus years as an academic.

Mission control at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, will begin sharing photographs with the rest of us soon after.

Last month, scientists at CERN, the prestigious high - energy physics lab in Switzerland, reported that neutrinos might — repeat, might — travel faster than the speed of light.

Not exact matches

Shortly after launching the company, Roos, who has a Ph.D. in laser physics, began work on a hand - held laser device to help police officers find meth labs.

It can not be done in a lab with everything we know about chemistry and physics and yet it supposedly occurred randomly in nature without even the slightest directed intelligence.

In the days immediately following the tragedy, officials at Columbia and Fordham insisted that their Saturday Division I - AA football game in the Bronx would be played: Football at their level is part of the educational process, they said, and the game will go on, just as, say, physics labs and literature seminars went oIn the days immediately following the tragedy, officials at Columbia and Fordham insisted that their Saturday Division I - AA football game in the Bronx would be played: Football at their level is part of the educational process, they said, and the game will go on, just as, say, physics labs and literature seminars went oin the Bronx would be played: Football at their level is part of the educational process, they said, and the game will go on, just as, say, physics labs and literature seminars went on.

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.

So I said look, let every school have its science resource centres, each of the new schools we are building has a Chemistry Lab, Biology Lab, they have a Physics Lab, they have a General Science Lab, they have an ICT / Computer Lab, they have their own Library, they have their own Guidance and Counselling Centre, everything that you need in a top secondary school is made available.

Working in a Harvard Physics Department lab, a team of researchers led by Harvard Professors Mikhail Lukin and Markus Greiner and MIT Professor Vladan Vuletic has developed a special type of quantum computer, known as a quantum simulator, which is programmed by capturing super-cooled rubidium atoms with lasers and arranging them in a specific order, then allowing quantum mechanics to do the necessary calculations.

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.

From 1987 until he launched his 1998 congressional campaign, Holt was assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a Department of Energy national lab, which is the largest research facility of Princeton University and one of the largest alternative energy research facilities in the country.

«The goal is to study fundamental physics in the most extreme conditions in terms of density of matter, magnetic fields and gravity that you can not reproduce in labs,» Santangelo says.

And it relies on three conceptually simple measurements, explained Dario Autiero of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Lyon: the distance between the labs, the time the neutrinos left Switzerland, and the time they arrived in Italy.

After finishing a postdoc in Barabási's lab this year, González, a statistical physicist, got four job offers, only one of which came from a physics department.

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.

A team in the lab of Puru Jena, Ph.D., a distinguished professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Humanities and Sciences, has created the most stable tri-anion particle currently known to science.

It can be difficult to test these theories in terrestrial labs, so our work provides a window into an otherwise inaccessible area of physics.»

One indication that more work needs to be done is that the junctions routinely broke down after being switched more than about 10 times, says Jonathan Green, a physics and chemistry Ph.D. candidate in Heath's lab and first author of the report published online January 24 in Nature.

After seeing these features in the lab, Schultz worked with David Crawford of the Sandia National Laboratories to generate computer models showing that the same kind of physics would also happen at the colossal scales of a lunar impact.

Purdue physics professor Yulia Pushkar (left) and postdoctoral researcher Lifen Yan work in Pushkar's laser lab.

To study how Amazonian trees responded to drought, Santiago's team plucked branches from the tops of trees in French Guiana's Paracou Research Station and studied them in a lab to determine how readily they develop hydraulic failure, which is a function of their physics, including the dimensions of their plumbing and the pressure their vessels can withstand.

Recent work at the Large Hadron Collider, located at the particle physics lab CERN in Geneva, has reinvigorated the search.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

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.

If it goes to plan, scientific work can begin in their remote physics lab.

Published in Physical Review Letters, the study «provides the most precise estimate of the mass of the Higgs boson yet known and is the result of collaboration between two teams that operate detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Europe's particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland.»

One way neuroscientists can hone their technical edge is to take off - major courses in physics or engineering (if they are still in graduate school) or postdoc in a lab that can teach them new techniques.

In a recent paper in Nature Physics, Kevin Fischer, a graduate student in the Vuckovic lab, describes how the laser - electron processes can be exploited within such a quantum dot to control the input and output of lighIn a recent paper in Nature Physics, Kevin Fischer, a graduate student in the Vuckovic lab, describes how the laser - electron processes can be exploited within such a quantum dot to control the input and output of lighin Nature Physics, Kevin Fischer, a graduate student in the Vuckovic lab, describes how the laser - electron processes can be exploited within such a quantum dot to control the input and output of lighin the Vuckovic lab, describes how the laser - electron processes can be exploited within such a quantum dot to control the input and output of light.

Ohio premed student claims same - sex groupings in physics lab violated federal gender equity law

«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.

The study was performed mainly at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and was led by postdoctoral researcher Junfeng He and graduate student Thomas Mion, researchers in the lab of BC Assistant Professor of Physics Rui - Hua He, a lead author of the paper.

Because a laser works by forcing electrons to jump between energy states, better confinement translates to a more efficient laser — one that fits in your living room instead of a physics lab.

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.

It would collide protons at energies around 100 teraelectronvolts (TeV), compared with the planned 14 TeV of the LHC at CERN, Europe's particle - physics lab near Geneva in Switzerland.

Researchers mainly have a background in biology or physics, and may carry out both on - field and in - the - lab experiments.

An interdisciplinary team with researchers from fields of psychology, biological statistics and computational biology, medicine, and physics included the study's co-first authors, Paul Shamble, a former graduate student in Hoy's lab who specializes in spiders and is a distinguished science fellow at Harvard University, and Gil Menda, a postdoctoral researcher in Hoy's lab.

the European particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, shut down in February 2013, and since then scientists have been upgrading and repairing it and its particle detectors.

I was enrolled in the physics graduate program, taking a full course load, and I was teaching lab courses.

The particle accelerator, located at CERN, the European particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, shut down in February 2013, and since then scientists have been upgrading and repairing it and its particle detectors.

There is a grade associated with this course entitled «Lab and Classroom Practices in Physics,» says Stewart, which she believes motivates students to excel.

Masaaki Yamada of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey, who leads a lab - based effort to understand reconnection, says «We are so happy and also so surprised that they found it so easily.»

The Mirror Lab's Roger Angel, who had come to Columbia in 1967 to work in physics but then followed his adviser into astronomy, wanted a more elegant solution: a mirror that was thin and rigid.