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    Yeast in Motion

    Video by former postdoc Séverine Atis co-wins APS Division of Fluid Dynamics annual video contest

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    Physics Department loses a center of gravity

    Dedicated and beloved staffer Carol Davis retires after 50 years

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    Harvard Physics Newsletter 2020 is here!

  • BICEP telescope

    Hunting Season for Primordial Gravitational Waves

    The BICEP Array radio telescope has started an observing run that will break new ground in detection sensitivity.

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    The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads

    Cora Dvorkin discovered new possibilities for what dark matter could be. Now she’s devising unorthodox ways to identify it.

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Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research: Topology and other tools in condensed matter physics

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The NEXT-White detector

Guenette Awarded a 2020 Synergy Grant by European Research Council

Thursday, November 5, 2020
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Monday Colloquium: Xiaoxing Xi (Temple University) "Scientific espionage, open exchange, and American competitiveness"

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2021 Feb 22

Monday Colloquium: Isaac Chuang (MIT)

4:30pm

2021 Mar 08

Monday Colloquium: Chanda Pescod-Weinstein (University of New Hampshire)

4:30pm

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