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Columbia Professor Brian Metzger has been awarded the 2019 Rossi Prize by the High-Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society. He shares the prize with Daniel Kasen of Berkeley for “their theoretical predictions of electromagnetic emission from radioactive nuclei produced in neutron star mergers.”
The High-Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) awards the Rossi Prize annually for a significant contribution to high-energy astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work.
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Jennifer Barnes, a postdoctoral research fellow working with Brian Metzger at Columbia, was awarded the 2019 High-Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society Dissertation prize for her dissertation. Entitled “Radiation Transport Modeling of Kilonovae and Broad-Lined Ic Supernovae”, this work established the "radiative signatures of mergers between two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, as well as the radiative signatures of jet-driven supernovae produced by collapsing massive stars."
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The next generation in ground-based gamma-ray astronomical instrumentation took a major step forward with the inauguration on January 17, 2019, of a full-scale prototype 9.7m Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) as a pathfinder for the Medium Size Telescopes (MSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), studying gamma rays in the energy range from 100 GeV to 10 TeV via the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique. The SCT employs an aplanatic two-mirror optical system to simultaneously increase the field of view to 8 degrees and significantly improve the imaging resolution via reduction of the…
Professor Tanya Zelevinsky has received The American Physical Society 2019 Francis M. Pipkin Award.
Professor Brian Metzger was awarded the 2018 New Horizons Breakthrough Prize in Physics.
Arthur Ashkin (CC 1947) has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking research in laser physics.
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…