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School of Physics and Astronomy
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May 16, 2019
Laser for sound promises to measure extremely tiny phenomena
Guest essay co-written by
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May 6, 2019
Physics student Elyse Rood poised for career doing problem-solving engineering for medical software
Before Elyse Rood started working on her senior physics capstone project, she didn’t envision herself working for a software company. But after the commencement ceremony on May 10, she is moving to Madison, Wis., to start a career as a technical solutions engineer at a healthcare software company called Epic Systems.
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May 2, 2019
A “Laser for Sound” from a Levitated Nanoparticle
Optics and Photonics News features work by Mishkat Bhattacharya, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
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April 23, 2019
RIT researchers help conduct experiment to study how the first stars and galaxies formed
While many people flock to warm destinations for spring break, two RIT experimental cosmologists spent theirs 6,800 feet high on snow-covered Kitt Peak at the Arizona Radio Observatory. They were deploying an instrument to a 12-meter telescope for a project called the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME), which aims to study the universe’s first stars and galaxies.
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April 16, 2019
Rochester community invited to learn about star constellations at RIT Observatory April 22
The Rochester Institute of Technology Observatory is hosting an open house to teach members of the Rochester community how to identify constellations, the patterns of stars in the sky that mark the figures of heroes, monsters, and characters from ancient myths.
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April 15, 2019
Researchers Develop New Form of Laser for Sound
R&D Magazine talks to Mishkat Bhattacharya, associate professor of physics, about his research to create a laser for sound.
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April 12, 2019
RIT researcher collaborates with UR to develop new form of laser for sound
The optical laser has grown to a $10 billion global technology market since it was invented in 1960, and has led to Nobel prizes for Art Ashkin for developing optical tweezing and Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland for work with pulsed lasers. Now an RIT researcher has teamed up with experts at the University of Rochester to create a different kind of laser – a laser for sound, using the optical tweezer technique invented by Ashkin.
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March 26, 2019
RIT researchers set to help LIGO resume hunt for ripples in space and time
The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for gravitational waves— ripples in space and time—is about to begin the longest and most sensitive observational run to date. And several RIT researchers are preparing to pore over the new data to help uncover some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.
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March 26, 2019
RIT faculty earns federal award to study how to help more students become scientists and engineers
Assistant Professor Ben Zwickl has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to explore how lab-based, project-based and work-based learning environments can teach sophisticated problem-solving skills not attainable in lecture courses.
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February 14, 2019
Faculty appointed leader of the Cosmic Evolution Survey
Assistant Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe is assuming leadership of a team of more than 200 scientists worldwide collaborating to study how galaxies are influenced by both their fundamental physical properties and the environment that surrounds them.
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February 13, 2019
RIT faculty part of NASA’s $242M SPHEREx mission
Assistant Professor Michael Zemcov is part of a small team of scientists contributing to NASA’s new mission to explore the origins of the universe by performing the first near-infrared all-sky spectral survey.
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January 22, 2019
RIT to collaborate with Argentine institute
RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation and Insituto Argentino de Radioastronomía are beginning new systematic pulsar timing studies. RIT is helping IAR upgrade its two radio telescopes to get them operational again after decades without use.