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Scarlet Laser Facility to become part of LaserNetUS

A new research network called LaserNetUS is being funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.  The Scarlet Laser Facility in the Department of Physics at OSU will receive $1 million to fund its…

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Capacity crowd attends 56th Annual Smith Lecture on October 17

More than 600 people filled 131 Hitchcock Hall to capacity last night to hear 2017 Nobel Laureate Rai Weiss from MIT present the 56th Annual Smith Lecture. Prof. Weiss’s talk entitled “Exploration…

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Results from Dark Energy Survey (DES) published in Physical Review D and in an APS "Viewpoint" Article

One year ago the Dark Energy Survey (DES) released the initial cosmological results from its first year of data using a combined analysis of weak gravitational lensing and the clustering of large-…

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John Beacom named Henry L. Cox Professor of Physics and Astronomy

John Beacom, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) has been named the second…

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Professor Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin is part of a multi-university collaboration awarded $218M grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) in the emerging field of Quantum Information Science

Ohio State researchers are among the scientific leaders that have just been awarded a total of $218 million in funding from the Department of Energy (DOE) in the important emerging field of…

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Can scientists solve the solar cycle?

Read about research done by our OSU astrophysicists studying data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. This information reported by ScienceNews will be published in Physical Review Letters…

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Prof. Phil Wigen (emeritus) receives award from the 2018 Conference on Microwave Magnetics

The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Microwave Magnetics conferred an honorary award on Emeritus Prof. Philip Wigen at their recent meeting.  He was recognized for his contributions to…

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OSU physics researchers’ VR expertise is virtually unmatched

Having just finished his first year teaching introductory electromagnetism to OSU freshman, in summer 2015, Prof. Chris Orban purchased a $10 “Google Cardboard” headset and immediately realized…

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CEM Researchers Awarded NSF iSuperSeed2

OSU Physics professors Daniel Gauthier, Jay Gupta, Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin and Roland Kawakami are collaborating with Prof. Michael Flatte at the University of Iowa and have recently been…