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Get to know your galactic neighborhood with Prof. Kyoungsoo Lee, of Purdue Physics and Astronomy! She sat with Prof. Paul Duffell in the latest episode of the Astrophysics . Listen here: https://purduesci.com/4g4hmXT

Leaders from industry, academia, government along with faculty, staff and students will gather at Purdue University for the Competitiveness Conversation: The Indiana-Illinois Innovation Corridor — Chips, Qubits, and Molecules event Sept. 9.

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The world's smallest disco ball is levitated and spun at Purdue PhysAstro. The research group of Prof. Tongcang Li has set a new milestone for levitated . Learn more about this disco party: https://bit.ly/3WLUof6

Purdue physicists throw world’s smallest disco party: Department of Physics and Astronomy: Purdue University Physicists at Purdue are throwing the world’s smallest disco party. The disco ball itself is a fluorescent nanodiamond, which they have levitated and spun at incredibly high speeds. The fluorescent diamond emits and scatters multicolor lights in different directions as it rotates. The party contin...

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Proposed experiments will search for signs that spacetime is quantum and can exist in a superposition of multiple shapes at once. Scientific American discusses experiments including one (1974) from Roberto Colella and Albert W. Overhauser, both of Purdue University Physics.

Can Space and Time Exist as Two Shapes at Once? Mind-Bending Experiments Aim to Find Out Proposed experiments will search for signs that spacetime is quantum and can exist in a superposition of multiple shapes at once

Somewhere in the realm, a teeny, tiny rave is afoot. Researchers from Purdue University created ultra-small levitating diamonds, with diameters the size of 350 strands of human DNA, that reflect light like a disco ball as they spin over a billion times per minute. Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute - PQSEI https://purduesci.com/3YO9O5n

These Levitating Nanodiamonds Are the World's Smallest Disco Balls The microscopic diamonds spin a billion times per minute and could help reveal the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity.

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Unlocking celestial puzzles one code at a time! An international team of astrophysicists, including Prof. Paul Duffell, of , tested eleven astrophysics codes, addressing a big question in the field. Would they all give the same result? https://bit.ly/3Wq8KS9. Research at Purdue

Cracking binary mysteries: astrophysicists unify codes: Department of Physics and Astronomy: Purdue University An international team of astrophysicists recently met at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, which hosted a several months long program on binary accretion. At this meeting, a daunting question was posed: if scientists ran different simulation codes that are common to the i...

The world's smallest disco ball is levitated and spun at Purdue University Physics and Astronomy. The research group of Prof. Tongcang Li has set a new milestone for levitated . Learn more about this disco party: https://bit.ly/3WLUof6
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Purdue physicists throw world’s smallest disco party: Department of Physics and Astronomy: Purdue University Physicists at Purdue are throwing the world’s smallest disco party. The disco ball itself is a fluorescent nano diamond, which they have levitated and spun at incredibly high speeds. The fluorescent diamond emits and scatters multicolor lights in different directions as it rotates. The party conti...

Outreach Coordinator David Sederberg, of Physics and Astronomy, took K-12 students and members of the community on a vibrant year of fun with PhysAstro in 2023-24. Check it out! https://adobe.ly/3SjuNcg

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What is your favorite planet? What is an exoplanet and how do you take a photo of one? Prof. Jason Wang, of Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University sat down with Prof. Paul Duffell, of PhysAstro, to answer this question and more in the latest episode of the Astrophysics . Listen here: https://bit.ly/46xMLxB

Astrophysicists use codes to help solve the mysteries of the universe. But do the multiple codes out there yield the same results? An international team of scientists put eleven codes to the test and published their findings today. The lead author of this publication is Prof. Paul Duffell, of Purdue University Physics and Astronomy. Purdue University College of Science
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Cracking binary mysteries: astrophysicists unify codes: Department of Physics and Astronomy: Purdue University An international team of astrophysicists recently met at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, which hosted a several months long program on binary accretion. At this meeting, a daunting question was posed: if scientists ran different simulation codes that are common to the i...

Take a look back at some of the hits of PhysAstro Outreach in 2023-24: notable firsts, continuing favorites, and building blocks of what is yet to come! Purdue University College of Science

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The Virial Theorem pops up in a vast array of problems in statistical mechanics, orbital mechanics or quantum mechanics. David Nolte, of Physics and Astronomy, tells you why in his latest edition of Galileo Unbound. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/3Ye09on

New images captured by the NASA's James Webb Space Telescope of two interacting galaxies dubbed by the space agency as the “Penguin and Egg.” Prof. Danny Milisavljevic, of Physics and Astronomy, explains in this Courthouse News Service article about how infrared helps the NASA team get such better pictures of the galaxies.
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Stunning images of cosmic dance between galaxies captured by Webb Telescope The findings released by NASA marked the telescope's second anniversary in space.

For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old stellar eruptions. This The New York Times article cites images of Cassiopeia A taken by the James Webb Space Telescope for research from Prof. Danny Milisavljevic, of Purdue Physics and Astronomy. (Subscription required)

Watch These Supernovas Explode Across Time For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old stellar eruptions.

Purdue researchers have trapped alkali atoms on an integrated photonic circuit, which behaves like a transistor for photons similar to electronic transistors. These trapped atoms demonstrate the potential to build a network based on cold atom-integrated nanophotonic circuits. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Lkvpu1 The team is led by Chen-Lung Hung, of Purdue University Physics and Astronomy, published their discovery in the American Physical Society’s Physical Review X. Purdue University College of Science Research at Purdue

Congratulations Dr. Penghua Chen for a successful PhD defense with Purdue Physics and Astronomy! His defense is titled "Quantum Information and Machine Learning." He is advised by Prof. Xingshan Cui.

Curious about Purdue University's legacy in ? There's a timeline for that! https://www.purdue.edu/space/history/

Purdue’s Space Timeline Take a journey through the university’s history, tracing the milestone events along a timeline that resulted in Purdue becoming known as the Cradle of Astronauts.

Planets orbit stars, and moons orbit planets, so what orbits a supermassive black hole? Dr. Rosalba Perna, of Stony Brook University sat down with Prof. Paul Duffell to answer this question and more in the latest episode of the Astrophysics . Listen here: https://rss.com/podcasts/astrophysics/

Students have fun with ! Last week, Purdue Physics and Astronomy Outreach (David Sederberg, Ph.D.) hosted 7th and 8th grade student in the annual summer program Physics Inside Out. Video by Jonathan Sullivan-Wood. https://youtu.be/DJke0B-XVro?si=h3K2KwaRagvJXbPk More about this program in the comments.

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Quantum gets quite a bit of press lately, but the concept of has been around for 100 years. David Nolte, of Physics and Astronomy, walks you through the history in his latest edition of Galileo Unbound. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/3VYsJIQ

Congratulations Dr. Miguel Alarcon for a successful PhD defense with Purdue Physics and Astronomy! His defense is titled "Theoretical investigations in photoionization: Ultra-fast pulses in noble gases, core excitation in ytterbium and relativistic systems." He is advised by Prof. Chris Greene.

Are we alone in the universe? Prof. Danny Milisavljevic is interviewed by CNN about his experiences with the NASA's Webb telescope on Anderson Cooper's The Whole Story. Watch here: https://cnn.it/45AB1ty

Congratulations Dr. Peng Ju for a successful PhD defense with Purdue Physics and Astronomy! His defense is titled "Levitated optomechanics near a surface." He is advised by Prof. Tongcang Li.

Purdue is a large contributor of computing power to a major particle physics experiment, which relies on the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Geddes community cluster, among others, to process and analyze large datasets in real time.

With the rise of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies in the last few years, there have been many impressive developments in computing infrastructure, which offer new ways to manage computing resources.

Using the Geddes Cluster, researchers can access the latest Kubernetes functionality locally, with their own hardware, customized software and infrastructure, as well as close user support.
Read more here ➡️ https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/6448

Congratulations Dr. Yuming Shi for a successful PhD defense with Purdue Physics and Astronomy! His defense is titled "Partition density functional theory: theory and implementation." He is advised by Prof. Adam Wasserman and Prof. Jukka Vayrynen.

Happening tonight: “The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?" on CNN (The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper)! The documentary follows Prof. Danny Milisavljevic's team at Purdue University and international collaborators. They take a deep dive into the first year of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope including Prof. Milisavljevic's supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. Tonight at 8pm ET or stream afterwards with HBO Max. https://cnn.it/4clqjte