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October 31, 2018

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 part…

October 18, 2018

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…

October 8, 2018

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-…

October 2, 2018

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…

September 28, 2018

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…