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Physicist Receives Major Award for Plasma Research
Philip Morrison, a professor of physics at UT Austin and a member of the Institute for Fusion Studies, is a 2023 recipient of the American Physical...Lang Work on PET Featured in Physics World
"A team headed up by Karol Lang at The University of Texas at Austin is investigating the use of positron emission tomography (PET) to help in the transition to clinical...Ippoliti Wins McMillan Award
Given by the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the William L. McMillan Award recognizes outstanding contributions by a young condensed matter physicist....Scientists Demote a Potential Wonder Quantum Material
Scientists are searching for ways to detect and stabilize an exotic phase of matter called an excitonic insulator that could pave the way towards superfluid energy...Theoretical Astroparticle and Cosmology Symposium Held
The inaugural annual meeting of the Theoretical Astroparticle and Cosmology Symposium (TACOS) in Texas was held, and researchers discussed the latest scientific advancements at the intersection...Stacked Layers of Atom-thin Material Reveal Complex Physical Phenomena
Physicists have long tried to study how groups of quantum particles interact in the hopes of better understanding elusive phenomena like high-temperature superconductivity and magnetism. Imagine...Saturday Physics Workshop, April 4th 2020
Saturday Workshop scheduled for April 4th has been CANCELLED in accordance with university guidelines regarding COVID-19. Please refer to https://www.utexas.edu/coronavirus for additional information regarding UT’s guidelines.Physicist Receives DOE Funding for Fusion Projects
University of Texas at Austin researcher Saeid Houshmandyar will collectively receive roughly $900,000 from the Department of Energy (DOE) over three years to fund fusion and...Emmett L. Hudspeth Centenniel Lectureship in Physics 2019: Prof. Nergis Mavalvala, MIT
Prof. Nergis Mavalvala is giving the 2019 Emmett L. Hudspeth Centinnial Lectureship in Physics on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. The title of her talk is "Gravitational...Saturday Physics Workshop, March 30th, 2019
The Saturday Physics Workshop is a free workshop designed for high school Physics teachers and students. The Department of Physics sponsors this workshop to provide...Remembering Jim Thompson
This month, the Department of Physics lost an esteemed member of its community, former professor James Chilton Thompson, who died July 16 at the age of...New Imaging Technique Could Speed Development of Sound-based Materials and Devices
Artistic rendering of acoustic wave interference in lithium niobate domains measured by scanning microwave impedance microscope. Image credit: Ella Maru Studio Thanks to a chance discovery,...Seminal Paper in the Standard Model of Particle Physics Turns 50
Fifty years ago this month, UT Austin theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Stephen Weinberg published a paper that laid out a unified theory of the electromagnetic...Tamura Symposium on Lepton and Baryon Symmetry
Monday and Tuesday of this week, the Department of Physics with Osaka University in Japan are jointly holding the 12th Tamura Symposium on Lepton and Baryon...Remembering A. Wilson Nolle
Physics professor emeritus Alfred Wilson Nolle passed away on February 11 at the age of 97 in Austin. Dr. Nolle was a UT Austin alum, who...Remembering Larry Shepley
Larry C. Shepley, Associate Professor Emeritus of Physics, died on December 30, 2016, after a long illness. Larry received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his...Fall 2016 Letter from the Chair
Dear Physics Community of Alumni, Parents and Friends, The Fall semester has been going well. We welcomed a new faculty member, Andrew Potter, who joined us...Phil Morrison's dynamics
Phil receiving the Carl Friedrich von Siemens-Forschungspreis der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin July 7, 2016. Philip Morrison first studied German as an undergraduate...Summer 2016 Newsletter
The Summer 2016 Physics Department Newsletter is now available. Check it out here: Summer 2016 Departmental Newsletter
