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Professor Cumrun Vafa Appointed the Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy

July 09, 2018

On July 1, 2018 Professor Cumrun Vafa was officially appointed the Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy in the Physics Department at Harvard University. While potentitally misleading, the chair was founded before "Mathematicks and...

Congratulations to the 2017-18 Physics Graduates!

June 12, 2018

PhDs: Anders Andreassen (HETG), Erik Bauch, David Bracher, Stephen Kam Wah Chan, Shubhayu Chatterjee, Soonwon Choi, Jake Connors, Erin Katrina Dahlstrom, Tansu Daylan, Yuliya Dovzhenko, Ruffin Eley Evans, Stephen Fleming, Christopher Frye (HETG), Wenbo Fu...

Darkness Visible - Shedding New Light on Black Holes: A Panel Discussion with Cumrun Vafa

June 08, 2018

This year, Professor Cumrun Vafa was invited to speak at the World Science Festival on a panel discussion titled "Darkness Visible: Shedding New Light on Black Holes." Moderated by the Chairman of the Board of the World Science Festival and Professor of...

2018 Merit and Goldhaber Award Winners

April 25, 2018

Ana-Maria Raclariu has won a Harvard Merit/Term Time Research Award. The Merit Awards are available to outstanding GSAS students in all fields. This year's Maurice and Gertrude Goldhaber Prize receipients are: Victor Buza (outstanding graduate student in...

The Complete Lifetime of the Standard Model

April 03, 2018

In a classically scale-invariant quantum field theory, tunneling rates are infrared divergent due to the existence of instantons of any size. While one expects such divergences to be resolved by quantum effects, it has been unclear how higher-loop...

Memories of a Truth-Seeker: Stephen Hawking 1942-2018

March 14, 2018

by Andrew Strominger, Gwilll E. York Professor of Physics, Harvard University I had the good fortune to meet Stephen Hawking in 1982. This was to be the beginning of a long and vibrant scientific interaction and friendship. I was fresh out of graduate...

Sachdev Receives 2018 Lars Onsager Prize

February 13, 2018

Prof. Subir Sachdev is a recipient of the 2018 Lars Onsager Prize "for his seminal contributions to the theory of quantum phase transitions, quantum magnetism, and fractionalized spin liquids, and for his leadership in the physics community." The prize...

Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes

October 27, 2017

In 1985, when Carl Sagan was writing the novel Contact, he needed to quickly transport his protagonist Dr. Ellie Arroway from Earth to the star Vega. He had her enter a black hole and exit light-years away, but he didn’t know if this made any sense. The...

Professor Cumrun Vafa Receives 2017 Ellis Island Medal of Honor

May 23, 2017

Please join us in congratulating Professor Cumrun Vafa, recipient of the 2017 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. The Ellis Island Medal of Honor award was founded by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organization (NECO) and is presented at a yearly ceremony on...

Cumrun Vafa 2016 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Recipient from American Physical Society

December 01, 2016

Cumrun Vafa Harvard University Citation: " For leadership in numerous central developments in string theory, quantum field theory, and quantum geometry; including the interplay between string theory and Calabi-Yau geometry and especially for their...

Andrew Strominger awarded 2016 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics from American Physical Society

December 01, 2016

2016 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Recipient Andrew E. Strominger Harvard University Citation: " For leadership in numerous central developments in string theory, quantum field theory, and quantum geometry; including the interplay between...

2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to Joseph Polchinski, Andrew Strominger, and Cumrun Vafa

December 05, 2016

We are pleased to formally congratulate Joseph Polchinski, Andrew Strominger, and Cumrun Vafa and all of the winners of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics. Breakthrough Prize marks 5th anniversary celebrating top achievement in science and...