BU Physicists Celebrate 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to the scientists of the Large Hadron Collider experiments — ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb — recognizing their groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of fundamental particles and forces. The citation honors their achievements: “For detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation, the […]
Congratulations to Dr. Alp Akpinar for Receiving the Springer Theses Award!
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Alp Akpinar, advised by Prof. Zeynep Demiragli, has been awarded the Springer Theses award for his outstanding PhD research in the field of dark matter at the colliders. Dr. Akpinar’s thesis, conducted within the CMS experiment at CERN, explored interactions between the Higgs boson and dark matter. His […]
BU-Made Mirror Installed at the South Pole Telescope
Incoming assistant professor Kirit Karkare is co-PI of the South Pole Telescope Summertime Line Intensity Mapper (SPT-SLIM), an experiment at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station that uses new superconducting detector technology to detect galaxies from early in the universe’s history. BU was responsible for fabricating the mirror that directs light collected by the SPT primary mirror to […]
Dillon Brout’s Breakthrough in Dark Energy Featured as a Major Achievement in Physics
We are proud to share that the work of our own Dillon Brout on Dark Energy has been recognized as one of 2024’s most significant breakthroughs in physics by Quanta Magazine. This remarkable achievement has garnered attention from across the scientific community, and several friends and relatives have kindly forwarded me a compelling interview with […]
Congratulations Professor Brout for leading a Top Cited Paper!
Congratulations Professor Brout (Astronomy and Physics) for being recognized as having authored one of the top cited papers in all of astronomy and astrophysics in the last 4 years! This paper has helped us better understand the nature of dark energy, dark matter, and the expansion of the universe. Award: https://ioppublishing.org/north-america-top-cited-paper-award/ Paper: https://inspirehep.net/literature/2030314
Launching the BU-TU Dortmund Research Network
Boston University Physics was happy to host a Planning Workshop and Reception on Oct 11, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President of Research Thomas Bifano. Dr Sonja Kreibich, Consul-General of Germany to the New England States, was the guest of honor. Photograph caption (Left to right): Senior Vice President Ken Olliff (BU), Professor […]
Professors Martin Schmaltz and Anatoli Polkovnikov elected Fellows of the American Physical Society
Congratulations to Professor Anatoli Polknovnikov, 2024 recipient of the Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics Fellowship for significant contributions to the understanding of quantum many-body dynamics. Congratulations to Professor Martin Schmaltz, 2024 recipient of the Division of Particles and Fields Fellowship for contributions to theories for particle physics […]
Wanzheng Hu receives funding for DOE Early Career Award
Wanzheng Hu recently received a supplemental funding to her five-year DOE Early Career Award, bringing the total funding amount to $929,769. This project aims at ultrafast and bidirectional manipulation of ordered phases in quantum materials using laser excitation of optical phonons. The objectives include ferroelectrics and multiferroics, and light-induce synthetic states of matter in perovskite […]
Naomi Gonzalez named Clare Boothe Luce Scholar
Summer student Naomi Gonzalez has been named a Clare Boothe Luce Scholar for summer 2024. To see the Clare Boothe Luce Scholars from previous summers, visit the UROP website.
Dillon Brout appeared on radio show “Science Friday” on Friday, May 17th
Assistant Professor Dillon Brout appeared on the national show “Science Friday” on public radio on Friday, at 2:40 PM, May 17. In Boston, WBUR airs the show. If you did not catch the show live, here is the link to the PodCast https://www.sciencefriday.com/episodes/may-17-2024/ Great job, Dillon!