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October 17, 2018
Stanford research scientist Aron Wall has been awarded a 2019 Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for fundamental insights about quantum
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October 8, 2018
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September 26, 2018
Douglas Stanford's work as a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., has already revealed new insights,…
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September 10, 2018
As physicists have delved deeper and deeper into nature’s mysteries, they have been forced to accept the unsettling fact that our universe is…
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August 24, 2018
The John Bardeen Prize was awarded to SITP Professor Sebastian Doniach for “theoretical work that has provided significant insights on the…
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July 12, 2018
Xiaoliang's recent work focuses on the role of quantum entanglement in quantum many-body physics and quantum gravity.
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June 26, 2018
It took nearly a century of trial and error for human scientists to organize the periodic table of elements, arguably one of the greatest…
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June 5, 2018
Inside a neutron star—the city-size, hyperdense cinder left after a supernova—modern physics plunges off the edge of the map.
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April 18, 2018
Congratulations to Renata Kallosh on her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Renata's election recognizes her
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December 3, 2017
Douglas Stanford has won the 2018 Breakthrough New Horizons Prize in Physics for work that uses chaos to better understand the links between quantum…
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July 7, 2017
SITP Professor Eva Silverstein tries to address questions about the Big Bang, dark energy or gravity using string theory — physicists’
March 3, 2017
This conference is dedicated to the recent progress in theoretical and observational cosmology, with an emphasis on inflationary cosmology, including…