The automatic sky camera on the roof of the Ladd Observatory captures a meteor in motion.

Monday, February 6, 2012
Guest speaker: Stewart Prager
BH 166, 4:00 p.m.

BCS: 50 years written by Prof. Leon Cooper and Prof. Dima Feldman was named one of five books from 2011 to put on your holiday wish list by Physics Today. Read here.

In this New York Times article, Prof. Greg Landsberg comments on the exciting new data results which hint at the existence of the elusive particle known as the Higgs boson. Prof. Gerry Guralnik is also noted in the article for his ground-breaking contribution to this theory.

Prof. Anastasia Volovich is awarded funding for her grant, entitled Symbology and Scattering Amplitudes, by the Simons Fellows in Theoretical Physics program.

Brown University Physicists set strongest limit on mass of dark matter. Brown University physicists have set the strongest limit for the mass of dark matter, the mysterious particles believed to make up nearly a quarter of the universe. Read full article here.

David Schuster ’01 is the recipient of the 2011 William L. McMillan award by the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois. David received his Sc.B in mathematics-physics from Brown in 2001, and earned his Ph.D. in physics from Yale in 2007. He is currently an assistant professor of physics at the University of Chicago.

Graduate student Florian Sabou's work is highlighted on NSF page.

Prof. Richard Gaitskell has been re-elected by members of the LUX Collaboration as co-spokesperson (along with Thomas Shutt). The LUX Experiment is searching directly for particle dark matter signals at the Sanford Lab, South Dakota, using a 350 kg Xe target. His role as spokesperson will continue through July 2013.