The waiting game
Professor Mikhail Shifman, a theoretical high energy physicist, began his career on the eve of a big developments in high energy physics, the discovery of the J/ψ particle (charmonium) in 1974. “It was such an exciting time, he recalls. People would not sleep. Every day, new papers were coming out, new advances being made.” Shifman said that it was a great time to be a young theorist. He is betting that he will be able to book-end his career with another great era in particle theory.
News
Kakalios receives Taylor Professorship
James Kakalios has been named one of four Institute of Technology Taylor Distinguished Professors. This is a three year appointment to work as a team of key advisors on matters related to improving undergraduate education within the college. More »
Anderson wins prize for presentation
Jon Anderson, PhysTEC Teacher in Residence, has won second prize from the 2008 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Teachers Conference for the best presentation by a secondary school teacher on the subject of Particle Physics in the Age of the Large Hadron Collider. More »
Courant featured in "Voices of the Manhattan Project"
Professor Hans Courant, veteran of the Manhattan Project, was featured in the New York Times, "Voices of the Manhattan Project" More »
Teaching Physics Matters
The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) was featured in Connect!, the alumni magazine of the College of education and Human Development. Read the story here.
LHC incident may cause two month delay
A faulty electrical connection between two superconducting magnets may be to blame for an incident that will delay the start of beam collisions at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland for at least two months. More »
Physics Force on Minnesota Live
See Professor Dan Dahlberg's segment on Minnesota Live. Dahlberg went on the program as part of Physics Force to promote the Institute of Technology's Math/Science Fun Fair. More »
Outreach
Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC)
PhysTEC is currently seeking paid Learning Assistants for Spring Semester 2009. More »
Recent Publications
Testing Lorentz Invariance and CPT Conservation with NuMI Neutrinos in the MINOS Near Detector
in Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 151601 (2008) by P. Adamson et. al. (See list below). More »
Measurement of Neutrino Oscillations with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Beam
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 131802 (2008) by P. Adamson et. al. (See list below). More »
Induced triplet pairing in s-wave superconductor/ferromagnet layered structures
by K. Halterman, O.T. Valls and P.H. Barsic in Phys. Rev. B77, 174511 (2008). More »
Bosonic super-WIMPs as keV-scale dark matter.
Maxim Pospelov (Victoria U. & Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.) , Adam Ritz (Victoria U.) , Mikhail B. Voloshin (Minnesota U) refereed and accepted by Physical Review D. More »