Max Planck-NYC Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Max Planck-NYC Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena offers high profile, two-year postdoctoral positions for outstanding young scientists with research interests in the nonequilibrium aspects of experimental and theoretical quantum physics and the desire to closely collaborate with research groups at our partner institutions: Flatiron Institute in NY, Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics in Hamburg and Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. The positions may be sponsored by any Columbia faculty member with appropriate…
The figure shows the loss of magnetic flux by a spinning black hole surrounded by plasma, in agreement with in agreement with the "No-hair theorem" of general relativity. The flux is emitted in the form of plasmoids, which may lead to observable astrophysical signatures. Read the article here
The scientific goal of Ana Asenjo-Garcia's career development plan is the theoretical discovery and development of novel methods for controlling quantum optical phenomena in ordered atomic arrays, and the advancement of their potential as light-matter interfaces. Alongside these scientific goals, Ana will develop a comprehensive educational and outreach plan, including a joint Columbia-IBM Quantum summer school and an outreach program at a nearby Harlem high school. Congratulations, Ana! Very well done!
The XENON/DARWIN and LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaborations have now joined forces to work together on the design, construction, and operation of a new, single, multi-tonne scale xenon observatory to explore dark matter. The detector will be highly sensitive to a wide range of proposed dark matter particles and their interactions with visible matter. Over the last 20+ years, experiments using liquefied xenon targets have delivered world-leading results in the global quest for direct dark matter detection. This next-generation detector aims to continue the pursuit.
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Steven Weinberg who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for his theoretical contributions to the Standard Model of particle physics, died on 23 July aged 88. After earning PhD at Princeton in 1957, Steven Weinberg has held an appointment at Columbia for two years before moving on to Berkeley and then to Harvard. While at Columbia he wrote a seminal article on 'Charge Symmetry of Weak Interactions' followed by his paper a decade later where he described how the electromagnetic force and the weak force can be treated as a single electroweak force.
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Brian Greene is professor of Physics and Mathematics @ Columbia and is a co-founder of World Science Festival. His latest book release, Until the End of Time, can be found here.
The "Enrico Fermi" Prize 2021 of the Italian Physical Society has been awarded ex-aequoto two distinguished scientists: Elena Aprile, of the Columbia University of New York, and Patrizia Caraveo, of the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics, "for their remarkable contributions to the study of the Universe with different observables and techniques”. Enrico Fermi served as a professor at Columbia Physics department between 1939-1945.
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To celebrate National Immigrant Heritage Month, Columbia remembers Michael Pupin, or Mihajlo Idvorsky Pupin, Columbia College Class of 1883, member of the Columbia physics faculty from 1890 until his death in 1935, and inventor of coils to facilitate long-distance telephone calls.
Raquel Queiroz at Weizmann Institute has accepted an assistant professor position with Columbia Physics and will start her appointment in January 2022.