Texas A&M University physicist Rupak Mahapatra has been appointed as director of research engagement for The Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office (NLO). Shortly after the Texas A&M System became part of the team tasked with managing and operating Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 2018, Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp established the […]
On any given day, particularly during the peak hours of another busy fall semester, the 35,000-square-foot Shell Engineering Foundations Laboratory is a blur of activity, with machines humming and whirring over the din of student chatter as their mechanical arms chart patterns if not the career courses for thousands of future Aggie engineers and scientists. […]
GMTO Corporation, the organization managing the development of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) on behalf of its U.S. and international founders including Texas A&M University, has signed a contract with MT Mechatronics and Ingersoll Machine Tools to design, build and install the telescope’s precision steel structure. The GMT is a 24.5-meter (80-ft) diameter next-generation giant […]
It’s known as the thinnest material on Earth and one you can find in something as everyday as a pencil: graphene. In 2010, Manchester researchers Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov won a Nobel Prize in Physics with it just six years after they discovered how to isolate a single atomic layer of it quite unceremoniously – […]
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 […]
An international team of astronomers that includes Texas A&M University’s Benjamin Boizelle and Jonelle Walsh has obtained the clearest view to date of cold gas rotation around a supermassive black hole. Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) — a huge, highly sophisticated radio telescope array situated at an altitude of […]
The Texas A&M astronomy department is paving the way in space imaging. Professor Darren DePoy says the Aggies play a huge role in the world’s largest telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope. “Building instruments that will go on that telescope that will allow us to make the science observations to what the universe is like better.” […]
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 […]
A team of astronomers that includes Texas A&M University professor Lucas Macri and recent Texas A&M astronomy Ph.D. graduate Wenlong Yuan has used new data from the Hubble Space Telescope to make the best-ever measurement of the expansion rate of the universe, with a total uncertainty of only 1.9 percent. The team’s measurement, detailed in a recent […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University astronomer Jennifer Marshall has been selected as Project Scientist for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) project, an 11.25-meter telescope being planned in Hawaii that’s capable of studying up to 4,000 astronomical objects at once and positioned to lead the world in multi-object spectroscopy. MSE is a proposed upgrade to […]
PASADENA, Calif. — The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) — along with its international partners including Texas A&M University — today announced the start of hard rock excavation for the Giant Magellan Telescope’s massive concrete pier and the foundations for the telescope’s enclosure on its site at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The excavation […]
Recently, the CDF and DZero collaborations completed an intense effort to combine their asymmetry measurements, carefully taking into account the statistical relationships among them. In addition to producing more precise results, they were able to reconcile the differences among the measurements as well as with updated theoretical predictions. The final set of asymmetry results was […]
COLLEGE STATION — EDITOR’S NOTE: Texas A&M University’s Dr. Jennifer Marshall, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, will be presenting a colloquium Tuesday (Oct. 17) on this result from the perspective of both the Dark Energy Survey, in which Texas A&M is an institutional partner, and general astronomy. Marshall’s talk, which will be live streamed […]
COLLEGE STATION — For more than a decade, Texas A&M University high energy physicist Rupak Mahapatra has been making the devices that make detection of the particles believed to be behind dark matter and therefore nearly a quarter of the universe possible. Mahapatra has been instrumental in positioning the international Super Cryogenic Dark Matter […]
BATAVIA, ILLINOIS — Dark Energy Survey (DES) scientists, including astronomers at Texas A&M University, are celebrating the release of the most accurate measurement to date of the present large-scale structure of the universe. DES scientists unveiled their most recent findings in a presentation today (August 3) at the American Physical Society Division of Particles and […]
AUSTIN — EDITOR’S NOTE: Prior to coming to Texas A&M University in 2008, Darren DePoy spent 18 years at The Ohio State University, building both the astronomy program along with an international reputation for excellence in astronomical instrumentation. Together with fellow Texas A&M astronomer Jennifer Marshall, he built the first KELT system used in […]
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 […]
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