The honor recognizes professors for their outstanding mentorship of graduate students. In the halls of MIT, a distinctive thread of compassion weaves through the fabric of education. As students adjust to a postpandemic normal, many professors have played a pivotal role by helping them navigate the realities of hybrid learning and a rapidly changing postgraduation landscape.  The Committed to Caring (C2C) program at MIT is a student-driven initiative that celebrates faculty members who have served as exceptional mentors to graduate students. Twenty-three MIT professors have been selected ..read more

Senior Olivia Rosenstein balances cross-country competitions with research in quantum gasses and early-universe radio wave signals. Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The basic physics of running involves someone applying a force to the ground in the opposite direction of their sprint.  For senior Olivia Rosenstein, her cross-country participation provides momentum to her studies as an experimental physicist working with 2D materials, optics, and computational cosmology. An undergraduate researcher with Professor Richard Fle ..read more

Engelward, Oliver, Rothman, and Vuletić are recognized for their efforts to advance science. Four MIT faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The 2023 class of AAAS Fellows includes 502 scientists, engineers, and innovators across 24 scientific disciplines, who are being recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.   Bevin Engelward initiated her scientific journey at Yale University under the mentorship of Thomas Steitz; following this, she pursued her doctoral studies at the Harv ..read more

Graduate students Mason Ng and Silviu-Marian Udrescu and physics junior April Cheng are invited to attend the upcoming Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. The 73rd meeting will feature over 30 Nobel Laureates meeting more than 650 young scientists —  undergraduates, master students, PhD students, and postdocs – from more than 90 nations. Nobel Prize winners in attendance will include William Phillips ’76, George Smoot ’66, PhD ’71, and 1976 Nobel Laureate and Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics Samuel C.C. Ting. Mason Ng is finishing up his doctoral studies in astrophysics. He uses ..read more

Highlights include proton-proton smashups, first physics data for sPHENIX, new collisions “seen” by forward detectors at STAR, and more UPTON, N.Y. — Today marks the startup of the 24th run of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Physicists at RHIC’s two house-sized particle detectors, sPHENIX and STAR, are eagerly awaiting the first collisions in Run 24 of protons speeding in opposite directions around the accelerator’s tw ..read more

Among three MIT Professors honored this year. https://www.bostonglobe.com./2024/04/11/arts/11-greater-boston-residents-win-guggenheim-fellowships-this-year/ The post Tracy Slatyer awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship appeared first on MIT Physics ..read more

Five from MIT sign letter defending the telescope https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/11/nasa-telescope-budget-cuts-chandra-x-ray-observatory/73106444007/ Deepto Chakrabarty, Claude Canizares, Michael McDonald, Michael Calzadilla, Catherine Grant, Laurel White, Mason Ng, Kishalay De, Sarah Heine The post A NASA telescope unlocked the mysteries of black holes. Now it’s on the chopping block appeared first on MIT Physics ..read more

Michael Calzadilla grew up in Tampa, Florida. As a first-generation college student, he earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of South Florida in 2015. He subsequently crossed the pond to complete a master’s degree in astronomy as a Gates Cambridge scholar under the guidance of Professor Andrew Fabian at the University of Cambridge. Michael will complete his doctorate in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2024 with his advisor Professor Michael McDonald. Michael’s work focuses on multiwavelength observations of galaxy clusters to study the baryon ..read more

The Institute also ranks second in five subject areas. QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 11 subject areas for 2024, the organization announced today. The Institute received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas: Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; Computer Science and Information Systems; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Linguistics; Materials Science; Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Manufacturing Engineering; Mathematics; Physics and Astronomy; and Statistics and Operational Research ..read more

She says one question drives her work: “Which pillars of gravitational physics are just not true?” As Netta Engelhardt sees it, secrets never die. Not even in a black hole. Engelhardt is a theoretical physicist at MIT who is teasing out the convoluted physics in and around black holes, in search of the fundamental ingredients that shape our universe.  In the process, she’s upending popular ideas in the fields of quantum and gravitational physics. One of the biggest revelations from her work to date is the way in which information that falls into a black hole can avoid being lost forever ..read more