Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
The Maryland Space Grant Observatory and Johns Hopkins University are inviting star gazers of every experience level to an event that not only will allow them to view the transit, but also to learn more about it, beginning at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5 at the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, 3799 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, 21218.
June 4, 2012 Tags: Adam Riess, astrophysics, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, cosmology, Maryland Space Grant Consortium, Peter McCullough, Space Telescope Science Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, Venus transit
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University is hosting its 9th Annual Physics Fair from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, coinciding with the annual Spring Fair celebration on the Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. Events will take place in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, located on the north end of the campus near Homewood Field.
April 10, 2012 Tags: astrophysics, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins, N. Peter Armitage, Peter Armitage, Physics Fair, QuarkNet
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Education/K-12, Events Open to the Public, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
Nobel Prize winning physicist who is Associate Director in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will deliver the Robert Resnick Lecture at The Johns Hopkins University at 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2. Carl Wieman, who has conducted extensive research in atomic and laser physics and who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 for the creation of a new form of matter known as “Bose-Einstein condensation,” will present “Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Methods of Science to Teach Science” in Schafler Auditorium in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy on the Homewood campus. The event is free and open to the public.
November 28, 2011 Tags: Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Bose-Einstein condensation, Carl Wieman, Johns Hopkins University, Nobel Prize, Robert Resnick, science education, Technology, White House
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Education/K-12, Events Open to the Public, Physics and Astronomy
Financed by a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, one of the world’s fastest and most advanced scientific computer networks—one capable of transferring in and out of The Johns Hopkins University per day the amount of data equivalent to 80 million file cabinets filled with text—will be built on the university’s Homewood campus, with support from the University of Maryland, College Park.
November 7, 2011 Tags: Alexander Szalay, astrophysics, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, College Park, computer science, Data-Scope, datasets, genomics, Homewood High-Performance Computing Cluster, Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, Jonathan Bagger, large-scale computations, Mark Robbins, medical research, National Science Foundation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, petabytes, physics, San Diego Supercomputer Center, scientific computer network, turbulence, U.S. Senatory Barbara Mikulski, University of Maryland, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Social Sciences
Members of the last crew to fly aboard the Space Shuttle “Endeavour” — the second-to-the-last flight in NASA’s space shuttle program — will discuss their mission to the International Space Station from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, August 4, at The Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus. Presented by the Maryland Space Grant Consortium and NASA, the event is free and open to the public. The crew will give a video presentation about the mission and answer questions from the audience in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy’s Schafler Auditorium, on the campus’s north end. Free parking is available in the Muller parking deck on San Martin Drive, adjacent to Bloomberg.
July 28, 2011 Tags: antimatter, astrophysicists, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, dark energy, European Space Agency, Homewood campus events, International Space Station, Mark Kelly, Maryland Space Grant Consortium, NASA, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Schafler Auditorium, space shuttle, Space Shuttle Endeavour, spacewalks, strange matter, STS-134
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University is hosting its 8th Annual Physics Fair from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 16, coinciding with the annual Spring Fair celebration on the Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. Events will take place in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, located on the north end of the campus near Homewood Field.
April 8, 2011 Tags: Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Physics Fair, QuarkNet, Spring Fair
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Uncategorized, University-Related
Johns Hopkins researchers are preparing to build a powerful, energy-efficient computing center in a house-sized room that once served as the mission control center for a NASA astrophysics satellite.
October 27, 2010 Tags: Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, data archiving, high-performance computing, turbulent channel flow
| Category: Engineering, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Technology, University-Related
A British theoretical physicist doing groundbreaking work in developing “invisibility materials” (a la Harry Potter’s famous invisibility cloak) will deliver the inaugural Robert Resnick Lecture at The Johns Hopkins University at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 23. Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London will present “Invisible Cloaks and a Perfect Lens,” in Schafler Auditorium in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy on the Homewood campus. The event is free and open to the public. Call 410-516-7346 for information.
September 16, 2010 Tags: Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Imperial College London, invisibility, Johns Hopkins University, metamaterials, physics, Robert Resnick, Robert Resnick Lecture, Schafler Auditorium, Sir John Pendry, theoretical physicist
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Technology, University-Related
Steven Bramwell, the University College London physicist who discovered the concept of “magnetricity” will give a lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, August 5 at The Johns Hopkins University.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Schafler Auditorium in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy on the Homewood campus. The lecture is part of an international conference, “Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2010,” which is being hosted by Johns Hopkins’ Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy from Monday, August 1 through Friday, August 6.
July 29, 2010 Tags: Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, electricity, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2010, Johns Hopkins University, magnetricity, magnets, Steven Bramwell, University College London
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld has walked in space eight times and logged more than 800 hours floating in that deep, dark void over the course of five space flights, including three to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Now, he is about to explore a new frontier: The Johns Hopkins University. On July 1, the man nicknamed “the Hubble Repairman” became a research professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. While at Johns Hopkins, Grunsfeld, who is deputy director at the nearby Space Telescope Science Institute, will continue his research in astrophysics and the development of new technology and systems for space astronomy.
July 8, 2010 Tags: Adler Planetarium, astronaut, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Car Talk, Daniel Reich, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Mir Space Station, Mount McKinley, NASA, National Public Radio, NOVA, PBS, space shuttle, Space Telescope Science Institute, Third Small Astronomy Satellite
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, Uncategorized, University-Related
A public lecture by noted condensed matter physicist and renowned speaker Philip Phillips of the University of Illinois will be the centerpiece of a workshop on “Exotic Insulating States of Matter” to be hosted by The Johns Hopkins University’s Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy Thursday, Jan. 14 through Saturday, Jan. 16 on the Homewood campus. Titled “From the Vulcanization of Rubber, to Quarks and High-Temperature Superconductivity: Physics at Strong Coupling,” the lecture is set for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 14 at Schafler Auditorium in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy. It is free and open to the public. Call 410-530-7882 for more information.
January 7, 2010 Tags: Armitage, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Krieger School, Phillips, physics, quarks
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy
Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University, will give the 2009 Ferdinand G. Brickwedde Lecture in Physics at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at the Johns Hopkins University. Titled “The World as a Hologram,” Susskind’s lecture will take place in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy’s Schafler Auditorium on the university’s Homewood campus. It is free and open to the public.
December 1, 2009 Tags: Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Brickwedde, dark matter, Leonard Susskind, physics, string theory
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy
