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ICTP Interview with Prof. Sachdev
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...

Congratulations to the 2018-19 Physics Graduates!
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...

Students Win NSF GRFP Awards
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...

2019 Merit and Goldhaber Award Winners
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...

Professor Vafa Discusses F-Theory in Scientific American
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...
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Mundy, Ni, Randall Receive 2019 APS Prizes
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...

Professor Daniel Jafferis awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize
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...

Cosmological Implications of the String Swampland
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. But with so many universes on the table, how can the theory...