Physics SlideShow http://illinois.edu/lb/imageList/1353 slideshow on http://physics.illinois.edu Weissman Cited in NYT "Annual Year in Ideas" and here's some more information and you can keep typing and typing and typing http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/?hp#politics_policy-3 Celia Elliott slideshow http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/32980 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 CST Physics SlideShow Professor of Physics Michael Weissman's expertise employed in forensic polling analysis cited as one of the New York Times' annual "Year in Ideas" stories. Dahmen elected member-at-large http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/32522 Celia Elliott slideshow http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/32522 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:00:00 CST Physics SlideShow Karin Dahmen has been elected a new member-at-large of the executive committee of the American Physical Society's Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Her three-year term will begin March 2010. LHC breaks beam-energy world record http://press.web.cern.ch/press/lhc-first-physics/ slideshow http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/32285 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:30:00 CST Physics SlideShow UPDATE--Geneva, 30 November 2009. CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the worlds highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning. This exceeds the previous world record of 0.98 TeV, which had been held by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratorys Tevatron collider since 2001. It marks another important milestone on the road to first physics at the LHC in 2010. Geneva, 23 November 2009. Today the LHC circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time, allowing the operators to test the synchronization of the beams and giving the experiments their first chance to look for proton-proton collisions. Beams were first tuned to produce collisions in the ATLAS detector, which recorded its first candidate for collisions at 14:22 this afternoon. Superconducting probes reveal inner workings of CNTs http://www.physorg.com/news177934374.html slideshow http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/32295 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:00 CST Physics SlideShow Mason group develops technique to map out changes in conductance through a carbon nanotube quantum dot using superconducting tunneling spectroscopy Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome http://news.illinois.edu/news/09/1123microscope.html Diana Yates, UI News Bureau slideshow http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/32283 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:00 CST Physics SlideShow Professor of Physics Klaus Schulten and graduate student Leonardo Trabuco and postdoctoral researcher James Gumbart are using the computer as a microscope to decipher the chemical details of ribosome function. Two new studies reveal in unprecedented detail how the ribosome interacts with other molecules to assemble new proteins and guide them toward their destinations in biological cells. Annual Physical Revue http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/31935 slideshow http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/31935 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:00 CST Physics SlideShow The Physical Revue is the department's annual talent show. This year it will be held on Dec 9. In the past we have had musicians, dancers, actors, and even speed rubik's cube solvers. SSB shown to be dynamic, critical to DNA repair http://news.illinois.edu/news/09/1021dna.html Diana Yates slideshow http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/30947 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:00:00 CDT Physics SlideShow UI researchers report that single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB), once thought to be a static player among the many molecules that interact with DNA, actually moves back and forth along single-stranded DNA, gradually allowing other proteins to repair, recombine, or replicate the strands Phillips named to KITP Advisory Board http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/30407 Celia Elliott slideshow http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/30407 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:00:00 CDT Physics SlideShow Philip Phillips has been elected to the advisory board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Pieper and Wiringa to receive 2010 Bonner Prize http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/30409 Celia Elliott slideshow http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/30409 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:00:00 CDT Physics SlideShow Physics alumni Steven C. Pieper and Robert B. Wiringa have been named recipients of the Amerian Physical Society's 2010 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics. Campbell to share the 2010 Lilienfeld Prize http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=David%20Campbell&year=2010 Celia Elliott slideshow http://illinois.edu/lb/article/1353/30408 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:00:00 CDT Physics SlideShow Dr. David K. Campbell, former head of the Department of Physics and now Provost at Boston University, has been named the recipient of the 2010 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society.