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Dmitri Basov, Professor of Physics and Director of Columbia’s Energy Frontiers Research Center, will receive the 2019 Kenneth J Button award of the Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Society. The prize was awarded in recognition of Professor Basov’s ``seminal contributions in quantum materials physics through infrared spectroscopy and nano-optics”. The prize comes with a medal, a cash award and the invitation to deliver a plenary lecture at the 2019 meeting of the Society.
Professor Basov’s laboratory at Columbia develops and uses new nano-optical measurement technqiues…
Professors Abhay Pasupathy, Tanya Zelevinsky, and Tim Halpin-Healy were each elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council of Representatives. The number of APS Fellows elected each year is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership.
Pasupathy citation: "For the innovative use of scanning tunnelling spectroscopy to elucidate the physics of electronic order in quantum materials"
Nominated by: APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP)
Zelevinsky citation: "For pioneering…
The most recent paper of Angelo Esposito, Rafael Krichevsky, and Alberto Nicolis, "The mass of sound", was featured in New Scientist this August. In the paper, the colleagues calculated the interaction between sound and gravity, proving that sound waves carry gravitational mass.
The article can be found here
"The mass of sound" can be found here
The most recent paper of Angelo Esposito, Rafael Krichevsky, and Alberto Nicolis, "The mass of sound", was featured in New Scientist this August. In the paper, the colleagues calculated the interaction between sound and gravity, proving that sound waves carry gravitational mass.
The article can be found here
"The mass of sound" can be found here
Elena Aprile, a physics professor at Columbia who is leading the world’s most sensitive search yet for dark matter, will receive the American Astronomical Society’s 2019 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize Berkeley Prize. The award comes with $8,000 and an invitation to give the closing talk at AAS’s winter meeting in Seattle in January.
Aprile leads the XENON dark matter experiment, one of several efforts to detect the weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, thought to make up dark matter, an invisible substance believed to make up…