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Justin Dowd: True Story of Nature's Chaos
What does your future have in common with your morning coffee, hurricanes, gambling, sports and the galaxy? All are intertwined by a mysterious property of nature called chaos.
September 10, 2012
In Memoriam – Eugene Saletan
Gene Saletan Physicist, teacher, writer, poet, translator, artist, linguist, drummer, trombonist, folk dancer, skier, airman, Gene Saletan lived many lives. Until his last days, he envisioned more work to do and new paths to follow, but he ran out of time. He died on July 3rd of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
September 07, 2012
Undergraduate Justin Dowd Published his Next Column in the Boston Metro
Justin Dowd (Math/Physics '13), winner of the the Metro newspaper's Race to Space, has created another chalk animation to go with his latest column in the newspaper.
August 27, 2012
New Technologies Beget New Science
Digital Epidemiology is an emerging field that has been developing over the last five years as a result of the data influx coming from new media and digital electronic devices.
August 03, 2012
Congratuations to Dr. Tarek Ibrahim who was Awarded the Doctor of Science Degree (D.Sc.) by the University of Alexandria
Tarek Ibrahim who received his PhD in particle theory at NU in 1998 was awarded the Doctor of Science degree (DSc) by the University of Alexandria on the recommendation of three Fellows of the Royal Society.
July 31, 2012
What is a Topological Insulator?
Professor Arun Bansil publishes two new articles about topological insulators in Nature Magazine.
July 19, 2012
Crystal and Graphene 2012 Meeting
The 2012 Crystal & Graphene Science Symposium 2012 is scheduled for September 5-6, 2012.
July 16, 2012
Observations of a New Particle Compatible with the Long-Sought Higgs Boson
The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle introduced by several physicists in the 1960s in the context of developing a theoretical model, the Standard Model Higgs field, which would explain why certain fundamental particles have mass and others do not. The Higgs boson itself is the only particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics that eluded experimental detection till now. Without a Higgs boson, or a similar particle,…
July 05, 2012
Forecasting the Spread of Emerging Diseases
In this new video, Alessandro Vespignani, Sternberg Distinguished Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences, explains how network science can not only predict the path of virus before it spreads around the world, but can potentially prevent it.
July 03, 2012
Professor Arun Bansil and Researcher Dr. Hsin Lin Publishes a Paper in Nature Physics
Professor Arun Bansil and Research Associate Dr. Hsin Lin are authors to an article published in Nature Physics on spin degrees and phenomena on surfaces of topological materials.
June 28, 2012
Visiting Research Professor Oleg Batishchev Awarded $800,000 Grant from US Department of Defense
Congratulations to Visiting Research Professor Oleg Batishchev who has been awarded an $800,000 grant by the US Department of Defense to simulate space and ionospheric plasmas.
May 18, 2012
A New Model for our 'Bursty Behavior'
It’s a rather unsurprising idea: Humans do things in bursts of activity. “We do not do things uniformly,” said Albert-László Barabási, a Distinguished Professor of Physics with joint appointments in the College of Science and the College of Computer and Information Science and founding director of Northeastern’s world-leading Center for Complex Network Research.
May 14, 2012
Magnetic Breakthrough May Have Signficant Pull
Northeastern University researchers have designed a super-strong magnetic material that may revolutionize the production of magnets found in computers, mobile phones, electric cars and wind-powered generators.
May 10, 2012
Nanotubes and Silicon: Unexpected Ingredients in a New Optical Device
"A lot of discoveries in laboratory are purely accidental," said Swastik Kar, an assistant professor of physics in the College of Science.
May 10, 2012