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1. Physics 879J: Special Topics in General Relativity--String Theory Reading Group
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2017 Semester Instructor Syllabus www Spring Jacobson, Ted            
2. Physics 879U: Special Topics in General Relativity; Introduction to Holographic Duality
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2019 Semester Instructor Syllabus www Spring Jacobson, Ted             
3. Next Gen Retroreflectors Launch to the Moon
(Department News)
... core and of general relativity. Currie’s proposal was accepted as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) project, utilizing partnerships with private industry to facilitate space launches. ...
4. Buonanno to Receive Oskar Klein Medal
(Department News)
... of General Relativity and Gravitation and a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and the Richard A. Ferrell Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. Buonanno, Charlie Misner, Peter Shawhan ...
5. Sasha Philippov Investigates Plasma Around Black Holes and Neutron Stars
(Department News)
... rotating black holes. “This sort of thing had never been modeled before, because you need to take into account the effects of general relativity, how the electromagnetic fields are modified by the spinning ...
6. Buonanno Elected to Italian National Academy of Sciences
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... Frans Pretorius, and Saul Teukolsky) and the Balzan Prize (with Damour). She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation and a ...
7. Charles W. Misner, 1932 - 2023
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... in 2017. Earlier this year, the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG) celebrated the book’s 50th anniversary with an online forum; the milestone was also marked in Physics ...
8. Bilayer Graphene Inspires Two-Universe Cosmological Model
(Research News)
... included in Einstein’s field equations of general relativity(link is external). In the equations, the constant influences whether the universe—outside of gravitational influences—tends to expand or contract. ...
9. Buonanno Receives Balzan Prize
(Department News)
... Faculty Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation. In 2018, she received the Leibniz Prize, Germany's prestigious research ...
10. Buonanno Receives Dirac Medal
(Department News)
... Richard A. Ferrell Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation. In 2018, she received the Leibniz ...
11. Buonanno Elected to National Academy of Sciences
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... Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation. In 2018, she received the Leibniz Prize, Germany' ...
12. Buonanno Receives Galileo Galilei Medal
(Department News)
... Society and the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation. In 2018, she received the Leibniz Prize, Germany's prestigious research award.  In discussing the work that led to the Galilei ...
13. Mind and Space Bending Physics on a Convenient Chip
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... an unfamiliar landscape governed by new rules. But studying how physics plays out in a curved space is challenging: Just like in real estate, location is everything. “We know from general relativity ...
14. Heaviest Black Hole Merger is Among Three Recent Gravitational Wave Discoveries
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... we were able to match the signal to one expected of black-hole mergers, as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and we realized we had witnessed, for the first time, the birth of an intermediate-mass ...
15. Currie to Send Next Gen Retroreflectors to Moon
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... significantly boost scientists’ ability to use the network to conduct important science, such as new tests of general relativity and other theories of gravity. Such studies may help us understand the nature ...
16. Charles W. Misner Endowed Lectureship in Gravitational Physics
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... his Ph.D. at Princeton University under John Archibald Wheeler, and was recruited to the University of Maryland by John. S. Toll in 1963. He enjoyed a distinguished career in general relativity, devising ...
17. UMD Alumnus Wins Breakthrough New Horizons Prize
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... Philippe Meyer Prize in Theoretical Physics and the Young Scientist Prize for the International Commission on General Relativity & Gravitation. Wall’s UMD dissertation was awarded the Bergmann-Wheeler ...
18. Peter Shawhan Awarded 2018 Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize
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...  Gravitational waves—which Albert Einstein predicted in 1916 as part of the theory of general relativity—are ripples in the fabric of spacetime. In 2015, the LIGO detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, ...
19. Quantum Physics and Gravity Meet in New Assistant Professor's Researc
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Two landmark achievements of 20th century physics remain stubbornly isolated, despite decades of attempts by scientists to bring them together. On their own, they’ve been wildly successful. General ...
20. Charles Misner Reflects on 50-Year Career
(Department News)
A physicist and summer resident of South Bristol has watched the study of general relativity, the area he has devoted 50 years of his life to, become one of the most exciting fields of study in physics. ...
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