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An artist's conception of the shock breaking out of a red supergiant star. The shock is caused by the collapse of the core of the star and initiates a type II supernova explosion.
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Geneva, Switzerland: Lowering of a completed segment of the CMS detector into its underground cavern. The completed instrument is now recording collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Image credit: J.C. Howk, K. Rueff (Notre Dame), NASA/ESA, LBTO
Notre Dame astronomers are using images of the spiral galaxy NGC 4302 to study the impact that exploding stars have on gas and dust in spiral galaxies.
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High-temperature superconducting YBCO levitating above a magnetic track due to vortex pinning
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded 5 MV accelerator represents a major equipment upgrade for the nuclear research group.
News
- ND Physics PhD alum receives award for his doctoral dissertation -- for his second PhD
- April 23, 2021
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- Physics professors among the first to experiment via James Webb Space Telescope
- April 19, 2021
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- Miguel Correa selected as a KITP Graduate Fellow
- April 16, 2021
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Events
- Nuclear Physics Seminar: Mike Febbraro, ORNL
- Mon May 10, 2021 • 4:20PM - 5:20PM
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- Astrophysics Seminar: Michael Koss, Eureka Scientific
- Tue May 11, 2021 • 12:45AM - 1:45PM
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- 2021 College of Science Joint Annual Meeting (COS-JAM) - Live Session
- Wed May 12, 2021 • 2:00PM - 3:30PM
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Faculty Spotlight
Yi-Ting Hsu
Assistant Professor
Condensed matter physicist Yi-Ting Hsu is a theorist who enjoys discovering the microscopic reasons why different materials behave the way they do.
Hsu, who joined the Notre Dame faculty in the Department of Physics in the summer of 2020, enjoys working with experimental physicists to dig beneath their applications and discoveries, unearthing the science behind how to improve them.
Laura Fields
Associate Professor
Laura Fields, a new associate professor in the Department of Physics, is a former researcher at Fermilab National Laboratory and will continue many of her neutrino physics research projects while at the University of Notre Dame.
Zoltan Toroczkai
Professor
Zoltán Toroczkai, professor in the Department of Physics, will be working with NTT Research, Inc., to conduct joint research into the limits of continuous-time analog computing.
The five-year agreement between Notre Dame, other top universities, and NTT’s Physics and Informatics Lab will focus on improving the company’s Coherent Ising Machine (CIM), an optical device they have built that exhibits characteristics related to those of analog or quantum computers.
Michael Hildreth
Professor
Michael Hildreth has been appointed as Interim Deam of the College of Science. He will serve from January 1, 2021 until a permanent dean is appointed.
