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Physics department is inviting all its members to celebrate the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students with a festive awards presentation on May 4, 2026, at 3:30pm in Jefferson 450 ! Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics Awarded to...

Giorgio Parisi Emeritus Professor, La Sapienza University of Roma 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics "Spin Glasses, Complexity and All That" Tuesday, April 21, 2026 @4:30PM Jefferson Lab, Room 250 17 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Abstract: I will recall the...

Congratulations to Professors Eslam Khalaf and Matteo Mitrano, who are among the 126 early-career researchers selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2026! Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor exceptional researchers at US and...

Andrea Ghez Professor of Physics & Astronomy; Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles; Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2020 October 6-9, 2025 "Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics...

Physics department celebrated the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students with awards presentation on April 29, 2025: Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics for graduating seniors with the highest GPA among concentration courses...

William D. Phillips Distinguished University and College Park Professor, University of Maryland Co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics all lectures will be held in Jefferson Lab 250 and streamed live through zoom (please see the link below)...

Congratulations to Professor Jordan Cotler, one of the recipients of the 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships! Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor exceptional researchers at US and Canadian educational institutions, whose creativity, innovation...

Steven Kivelson (Stanford University) Monday, February 3 @4:30PM: "Theory of superconductivity in the cuprate 'high temperature superconductors' − A progress report." The study of the cuprate high temperature superconductors has been one of the central...

Norman Yao is among awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers who received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in...

Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year has been awarded to Mikhail Lukin, Dolev Bluvstein and colleagues at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and QuEra Computing, and independently to Hartmut Neven and colleagues at Google...