Posts Tagged Department of Physics and Astronomy

Humanity’s best looks at the universe so far were made possible by the contributions of scientists, engineers, and supporters—including University of Rochester community members.

The digital electronics designed, developed, and installed by Rochester researchers are an integral part of the world’s most powerful dark matter detector, now in operation at the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

By clarifying the role of “real” and “virtual” charge carriers in laser-induced currents, researchers at Rochester and Erlangen have taken a decisive step toward creating ultrafast computers.

A new study out of the University of Rochester shows that data collected from your acquaintances and even strangers can predict your location.

The long-time Rochester physics professor, who died in March, studied the building blocks of matter and the nature of quarks.

With new insights on the problem of noise in quantum computing, Rochester researchers make major strides in improving the transfer of information in quantum systems.

Petros Tzeferacos, an associate professor of physics and astronomy and a senior scientist at LLE, and colleagues from Chicago and Oxford have replicated in a laboratory setting conditions that exist within galaxy clusters.

This never-before-seen style of collective motion isn’t the only finding that surprised Rochester researchers about the organisms.

The professor emerita, known as the ‘mother of infrared astronomy,’ had a profound impact on research into astronomical phenomena and the origins of the universe and was a pioneer for women in science.

Adam Frank, the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor of Physics and Astronomy, asks, if a planet with life has a life of its own, can it also have a mind of its own?