# News Sort & Filters close ## Filters Publish Date expand\_more 2013 (1) 2014 (7) 2015 (3) 2016 (7) 2017 (2) 2018 (12) 2019 (7) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 39 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 39 results [### Professor Cumrun Vafa awarded Honorary Doctors Appointment at Uppsala University ](/news/professor-cumrun-vafa-awarded-honorary-doctors-appointment-uppsala-university) December 11, 2019 Professor Cumrun Vafa has been awarded honorary doctors at Uppsala University. Nine faculties have appointed several honorary doctors in varying fields, including string theory, maternal healthcare, evolutionary biology, the European history of ideas... description [### ICTP Interview with Prof. Sachdev ](/news/ictp-interview-prof-sachdev) June 05, 2019 Prof. Subir Sachdev, one of the three physicists who shared the 2018 International Center for Theoretical Physics Dirac Medal for cross-disciplinary approaches to many-body systems, was at ICTP on March 28, 2019, for award ceremony, and sat down to... description [### Congratulations to the 2018-19 Physics Graduates! ](/news/congratulations-2018-19-physics-graduates) June 05, 2019 November, 2018, PhDs: Jae Hyeon Lee, Alexander Lukin, Oleksandr Shtyk, and Alexandra Thomson. March, 2019, PhDs: Andrei Levin, Xiaomeng Liu, and Cristian Panda. May, 2019, PhDs: Jesse Amato-Grill, Victor Buza, Andrew Chael, Christie Chiu, Karri DiPetrillo... description [### Students Win NSF GRFP Awards ](/news/students-win-nsf-grfp-awards) April 19, 2019 Congratulations to 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Winners! The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The program... description [### 2019 Merit and Goldhaber Award Winners ](/news/2019-merit-and-goldhaber-award-winners-congratulation-hofie-hannesdottir-and-georges-obied) April 19, 2019 Congratulations to Trond Andersen and Hofie Hannesdottir on winning Harvard Merit/Term Time Research Awards. The Merit Awards are available to outstanding GSAS students in all fields. Congratulations also to this year's Maurice and Gertrude Goldhaber... description [### Professor Vafa Discusses F-Theory in Scientific American ](/news/professor-vafa-discusses-f-theory-scientific-american) March 28, 2019 In the Scientific American article "Found: A Quadrillion Ways for String Theory to Make Our Universe," Professor Vafa discusses F-Theory and the standard model: “It’s very nice work,” says Cumrun Vafa, one of the developers of F-theory, at Harvard... ![Loading](/sites/g/files/omnuum11241/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hetg/files/screen_shot_2019-03-28_at_10.33.22_am.png?itok=v-TzZAuX) [### Professor Andy Strominger to appear in new documentary "Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking the Universe" ](/news/professor-andy-strominger-appear-new-documentary-einstein-and-hawking-unlocking-universe) March 06, 2019 A new documentary called "Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking the Universe" will air for the first time on March 10, 2019 on The Science Channel. The documentary commemorates the one-year anniversary of the passing of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking... ![Andy Strominger](/sites/g/files/omnuum11241/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hetg/files/strominger_photo.jpg?itok=rPgu0S-L) [### Mundy, Ni, Randall Receive 2019 APS Prizes ](/news/mundy-ni-randall-receive-2019-aps-prizes) October 24, 2018 left to right: Professors Julia Mundy, Kang-Kuen Ni, Lisa Randall Congratulations to Professors Julia Mundy, Kang-Kuen Ni, and Lisa Randall for receiving 2019 American Physical Society prizes! Mundy, Assistant Professor of Physics, has been awarded the... description [### Professor Andrew Strominger Participates in Press Conference to Promote Dr. Stephen Hawking's Final Book Release ](/news/professor-andrew-strominger-participates-press-conference-promote-dr-stephen-hawkings) October 24, 2018 On October 15, 2018, Professor Andrew Strominger participated in a panel discussion at the launch of the late Dr. Stephen Hawking's final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions. The book was published posthumously witht he help of Dr. Hawking's family... ![final book](/sites/g/files/omnuum11241/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hetg/files/capture_11.png?itok=rdAYZfwA) [### Latest work of Professor Cumrum Vafa Implies that Dark Energy's Value Changes ](/news/latest-work-professor-cumrum-vafa-implies-dark-energys-value-changes) October 17, 2018 "Harvard physicist Cumrun Vafa is one of string theory’s strongest proponents. But this summer, other string theorists have been reeling from his latest conjecture, which might invalidate their ideas built on a decade-long assumption that dark energy is... description [### Professor Daniel Jafferis awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize ](/news/professor-daniel-jafferis-awarded-new-horizons-physics-prize) October 17, 2018 Harvard University Professor of Physics Daniel Jafferis has been awarded the the New Horizons in Physics Prize for "fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory, and gravity." Among other works, this prize recognizes Daniel’s... description [### Cosmological Implications of the String Swampland ](/news/cosmological-implications-string-swampland) August 21, 2018 The problem with string theory, according to some physicists, is that it makes too many universes. It predicts not one but some 10 500 versions of spacetime, each with their own laws of physics. 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