Xiangdong Ji was featured in a Science’s Career Magazine article, December 12, on China’s economic rise, subsequent advances in the sciences and recruiting scholars trained abroad.
Rabindra Mohapatra presented a plenary talk on "TeV scale lepton number violation and origin of matter" at the conference "Discrete 2014," King's College, London, UK, December 2-7. The meeting was a celebration of 150 years of Maxwell's equation and focused on the role of symmetries in particle physics.
Professor Emeritus Charles Misner, with collaborator Stanley Deser (Brandeis University), has been awarded the 2015 Einstein Medal by the Albert Einstein Society for “…important contributions to general relativity, in particular the development of the so-called ADM formalism.” In 1959 Richard Arnowitt, Deser and Misner found a way to recast Einstein's equations in a form that allowed hard-won mechanical and electromagnetic intuitions to be applied to gravity. This enabled a computational approach to become a major method for understanding black hole interactions.
Charles Misner was interviewed by Christian Science Monitor about the accuracy of the science in the movie “Interstellar” and Misner’s 1973 textbook “Gravitation,” co-authored with Kip Thorne. “Science provides a stepping stone into a universe that it would be exciting in which to live, and which we can enjoy as fiction.”
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Rm. 3140, Physical Sciences Complex
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