In a constant push for the smaller and faster computer memory devices, Dr. Artem G. Abanov and fellow researchers turned to the topologically nontrivial configurations of magnetization in magnetic films. Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.054430
Dr. Ralf Rapp discusses the origin of 98% of the visible mass in the universe in a recent article in Nature Physics. This mass was generated when a hot plasma of quarks and gluons condensed into hadrons in the early Universe. Calculations by Dr. Rapp and collaborators found that the mass of the rho-meson (a […]
Dr. Bhaskar Dutta, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University and director of the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, has been appointed as holder of the Mitchell-Heep Chair in High Energy Physics, effective May 1, 2019. The $1 million chair was established within the Mitchell Institute […]
Congratulations to Anton Shutov and Mariia Shutova, graduate students in Texas A&M Physics & Astronomy! The articles are detailed below, sourced from SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarships. ########## BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA – June 3, 2019 – Anton Shutov has been awarded a 2019 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for […]
BATAVIA, IL — Texas A&M University physicist Dr. David Toback has been elected to his third consecutive two-year term as co-spokesperson for the CDF collaboration at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), effective June 1, 2018. Toback, a high-energy physics expert and veteran researcher in several related international collaborations, joined the […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova, instructional associate professor of physics and astronomy, has been recognized with the 2017 Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence Award, the most prestigious faculty honor bestowed by Texas A&M University in recognition of classroom performance. Erukhimova joins Dr. Reuben A. Buford May, professor of sociology and Glasscock University Professor […]
COLLEGE STATION — One of the most heated debates in science surrounds the existence of supersymmetry, a theoretical model of physics predicting that each known particle in the universe has an undiscovered partner particle. It’s a theory with legs in no small part because of its alluring potential to explain dark matter and dark […]
COLLEGE STATION — Four Texas A&M University professors — Artem G. Abanov, Alexei V. Sokolov, David Toback and Vladislav V. Yakovlev — have been elected as 2015 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS), the world’s largest organization of physicists. No more than one-half of one percent of the organization’s current membership is selected […]
LEAD, S.D. — The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, operating nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota and involving roughly 100 international scientists — including Texas A&M University physicist Robert C. Webb — has already proven itself to be the most sensitive […]
COLLEGE STATION — As one of 11 international partners in the Giant Magellan Telescope, Texas A&M University is part of important astrophysical history set to go down today (Friday, Sept. 18) beneath a football stadium in Tucson — the casting of the telescope’s fourth primary mirror at the University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror […]
COLLEGE STATION — Astronomers from across Texas will be visiting the Texas A&M University campus next month for a weekend workshop focused on the growth of astronomy and related scientific collaborations throughout the Lone Star State. Building Astronomy in Texas is set for September 26-27 at the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for […]
GENEVA — Physicist Alexx Perloff, a graduate student at Texas A&M University working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, is using data from the first run of the Large Hadron Collider for his thesis, which he plans to complete this year. When all is said and done, it will have taken Perloff a year […]
COLLEGE STATION — Hans A. Schuessler, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been recognized as one of three faculty recipients of 2015 Bush Excellence Awards for international teaching, international research and public service. Schuessler, who was honored for his excellence in international research, received the prestigious award along with co-recipients Paul […]
BALTIMORE — Dark Energy Survey (DES) scientists, including astronomers at Texas A&M University, are celebrating the release of the first in a series of dark matter maps of the cosmos. The new map, released today (April 13) at the American Physical Society April 2015 Meeting in Baltimore, Md., was created using data captured by the […]
COLLEGE STATION — In celebration of Student Research Week (March 23-27) at Texas A&M University, the College of Science will be taking five with five different people involved in various aspects and stages of research at Texas A&M and beyond. Today’s kickoff segment features Ting Li, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics and […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University astronomers are among the hundreds of scientists worldwide celebrating the first fruits from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a five-year global effort to map the southern sky in unprecedented detail with the ultimate goal of explaining the universe’s accelerating expansion. Earlier today (March 10), the U.S. Department of Energy-funded […]
COLLEGE STATION — The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has authorized the execution of an amended and restated Founders’ Agreement and Commitment Agreement with the GMTO Corporation, reaffirming Texas A&M University’s support to assist in building the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and helping to pave the way for construction to begin in Chile […]
COLLEGE STATION — When it comes to sure signs that spring has arrived in Aggieland, there are budding Bradford pears, bluebonnets, Monarch butterflies and Texas A&M University’s annual Physics and Engineering Festival. Although the 2015 version of the free annual event (view promotional poster online) is still more than a month away, officials encourage the […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University has been selected for membership in the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. (AURA), the prestigious international organization dedicated to the advancement of astronomy and related sciences. Texas A&M has been admitted for a three-year term through June 30, 2017 as the 40th United States member of […]
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