- Gravity Research FoundationCongratulations to Professor John Swain's Honorable Mention in this year's Essays on Gravitation competition. This is the third year since being here in that Professor Swain has received an Honorable Mention. The theory paper is entitled, "Exotic Statistics for Ordinary Particles in Quantum Gravity." http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/announcements.html
- New York Times uses disease map from László Barabási's group.The May 6, 2008 issue of the New York Times carries on the front page of its science section an illustration by Professor László Barabási's group of a disease map, with an online multimedia interactive tool, allowing anybody to see the links between diseases.
- Brent Nelson awarded a 2008 RSDF grantCongratulations to Professor Brent Nelson who receives a 2008 RSDF Grant. His proposal is entitled "Solving the 'LHC Inverse' Problem." The Research Scholarship and Developement Fund Provost Grants were established in 1979 to stimulate new research and scholarship ventures.
- 2008 Lawrence AwardsThis year's Lawrence Awards will be held on Tuesday, April 15 at Northeastern University's Faculty Club. Contact our main office at (617)373-2902 for further information.
- NU Physics Professors Named APS Outstanding RefereesProfessors Jeffrey Sokoloff and Robert Markiewicz were honored by the APS as Outstanding Referees at the 2008 APS Meeting. Visit http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees for additional information.
- NU Alum Paoti Chang (PhD, 1994) reveals possible clue to the matter/anti-matter asymmetryNational Taiwan University Professor Paoti Chang (PhD, Physics, 1994), one of two Physics Analysis Coordinators for the Belle collaboration, suggests that recent B meson lifetime measurements are a clue to the antimatter mystery in a physicsworld.com article: http://physicsworld.com/cws/ article/news/33474. The Belle Collaboration findings were published in the March 20, 2008 issue of Nature: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature06827. Professor Chang's advisor while at Northeastern was Professor David Garelick.
- Alain Karma awarded 2008 Bruce Chalmers AwardCollege of Arts and Science Distinguished Professor Alain Karma was recently honored with the Bruce Chalmers Award by TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society). The award is the highest award in the field of solidification and one of the two highest awarded by TMS. TMS will be holding its annual award the week of March 10 in New Orleans this year. http://www.tms.org/Meetings/Annual-08/AnnMtg08Home.html
- Department hosts QuarknetOn March 15, 2008, local high school students and teachers participated in the 2008 QuarkNet Masterclass at Northeastern. As part of a program run by the outreach groups of 18 different high energy experiments, high school students and teachers had the opportunity to analyze simulated data. The class was held at the Physics Department at Northeastern University under the guidance of Professor George Alverson. This year's program concentrated on data expected to resemble data scheduled to arrive later this year from the Large Hadron Collider facility located near Geneva, Switzerland. Visit http://cosm.hamptonu.edu/vlhc/ doku.php?id=wiki:start:wkshp:mcwg for summaries on recently held QuarkNet Masterclasses. Images from this year's QuarkNet at Northeastern can be viewed at: http://www.physics.neu.edu/quarknet/quarknet_2008.php.
- Pran Nath and grad students quoted in USA TodayMatthews Distinguished Professor Pran Nath and graduate students Daniel Feldman and Zuowei Liu have proposed a new approach for the highly anticipated discovery of supersymmetic particles. The methodology was published in the December 21, 2007 issue of the Physical Review Letters. Read more about the subject in a recent USA Today article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-01-28-large-hadron-collider_N.htm
- Department Seeking an Assistant/Associate/Full ProfessorThe Department is seeking an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in the field of Theoretical Computational Condensed Matter Physics.
- Department seeking Associate/Full ProfessorThe Department is seeking an Associate/Full Professor in the field of Experimental Condensed Matter/Nanophysics.
- Pierre Auger Observatory sees correlation between Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and Active Galactic NucleiProfessors Stephen Reucroft and John Swain and Senior Research Scientist Thomas Paul are members of the collaboration at the Pierre Auger Observatory, which studies ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) recently posted a press release on new and important results from the Observatory which may solve a problem that has been puzzling high energy astro/physicists for some time—namely the origin of high energy particles. Article: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5852/896?rss=1
- Lev Perelman joins NU physics departmentProfessor Lev Perelman joined the department in January 2008. He will hold a joint appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Barabási elected as foreign member of Academia EuropaeaProfessor Albert-László Barabási has been elected into the Academia Europaea as a Foreign Member. Professor Barabási joined the department in September.
- Latika Menon mentee David Yin awarded commendation by Research Science InstituteUnder Professor Latika Menon, high school student David Yin of Singapore, was awarded on of the top ten commendations for research this summer by the Research Science Institute (RSI). The Research Science Institute Program is a program in which students are paired with research mentors. Students complete the program by submitting a summary of their research and providing a 10-minute oral presentation. For more information, visit the following website: http://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml
