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Bill Dorland to Give DST Lecture November 16

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Category: Department News
Published: Wednesday, July 21 2010 11:46

Professor Bill Dorland will give his Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture, The End of the Oil Economy, on November 16, 2010. The Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Program, established in 1978, honors a small number of faculty members each year who have demonstrated notable success in  both scholarship and teaching. By honoring the Distinguished-Scholar Teacher with this prestigious award, we reaffirm our commitment to excellence in teaching and scholarship.

The End of the Oil Economy
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
1412 Physics Building

JQI Wins Atomtronics MURI Award in FY 2010 Competition

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Category: Research News
Published: Tuesday, July 20 2010 00:00

Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) scientists have won a highly sought-after MURI award from the U.S. Department of Defense -- one of 32 projects selected for funding in the FY 2010 nationwide competition. The Pentagon will provide a total of $227 million over five years to awardees in the annual Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program, whose winners were chosen from 152 proposals evaluated by expert merit-review panels.Read More

 

 

Background Checking at LHC

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Category: Research News
Published: Tuesday, July 13 2010 09:19

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has begun 18 to 24 months of running at a 7-TeV center-of-mass energy—more than three times that achieved at the Fermilab collider. Before they can start to look for signals of new physics, however, the four LHC experiments, ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb, must understand the huge spectrum of background events.Read More

 

 

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