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APS News: A visit to Mount Kilimanjaro spurs a career pivot – Cyrus Taylor, once a high-energy experimentalist, now sees climate change as his calling — and physics as a tool for the public good.
We're extremely happy to see the work and life of CWRU Physics Cyrus Taylor, Albert A. Michelson Professor of Physics, profiled in APS News in its feature: 'A visit to Mount Kilimanjaro spurs a career pivot.'Â Â Excerpt:Â Twice in his life, theoretical physicist Cyrus Taylor has stood at the base...
CWRU Physics Strategic Advisory Group member Al Green appointed the first president and CEO of public-private partnership QuantumCT
Congratulations are in order for Albert M. Green, PhD, the first president & CEO of QuantumCT, a public-private partnership tasked with driving innovation in quantum technology in the state. Universities, businesses, and industry partners comprise the innovation ecosystem. See Hartford Business Journal article here. Congratulations, Al! We're grateful for your continued engagement,...
Prof. Claudia de Rham, Imperial College, London, returns to CWRU sharing insights from ‘The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity’
World renowned physicist and author Claudia de Rham, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University, will be on campus this week for a public lecture and book signing on Friday April 18 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm....
2024 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Awarded to Chapin Korosec, PhD – MPPL Lectureship Begins April 7
Chapin Korosec, PhD, York University, Toronto, Canada, has been named the winner of this year’s MICHELSON POSTDOCTORAL PRIZE, and will spend one week in residence during the week of April 7, 2025, on the Case Western Reserve University campus. This year marks the 26th annual MICHELSON POSTDOCTORAL PRIZE LECTURESHIP,...
Professor Fileviez Perez Interview at the Galileo Galilei Institute
See Professor Pavel Fileviez Perez' interview at the Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) for Theoretical Physics. Pavel spent three months as a Simons Fellow at the GGI in Florence, Italy. See video here. See 'Congratulations to Professor Pavel Fileviez Perez, Simons Fellowship Awardee' here.Â
CWRU Physics’ Glenn Starkman, Craig Copi & Collaborators in Quanta magazine’s ‘Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe’
See feature story here Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe had a shape' EXCERPT: Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this...
