Accomplishments: Department of Physics and Astronomy
Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) was named a 2017 Sloan Research Fellow. He is one of 126 researchers from 60 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada 鈥 and the first 性视界传媒 scientist 鈥 to be awarded the prestigious fellowship. Awarded annually since 1955 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowships honor early-career scholars鈥
Qiang Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) recently had a research paper published in Angewandte Chemie. The paper, titled "The Structure of Glycine Dihydrate: Implications for the Crystallization of Glycine from Solution and Its Structure in Outer Space," looks at long-term puzzling crystal structure determination of glycine at low鈥
Zhaohuan Zhu (Physics and Astronomy) received a $444,188 grant from the NASA ATP (Astrophysics Theory Program) for Predicting Observational Signatures of Planet Formation in Realistic Models of Protoplanetary Disks .
He will hire a postdoc to be included in the research. The postdoc will work with Zhu and Jim Stone from鈥
Jason Steffen (Physics and Astronomy) will be a co-investigator on a $380,000 grant titled Architecture of Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems. He is working with Jack Lissauer of NASA Ames Research Center .
The project will study data from the NASA Kepler space mission to characterize the orbital properties of the thousands of鈥
Rebecca Martin (Physics & Astronomy) received a three-year, $297,116 grant from the NASA Exoplanets Research Program to study planet formation in binary star systems.
性视界传媒 half of observed exoplanets are estimated to be in binary star systems rather than around a single star like our Sun. Planet formation in binary star systems may be鈥
Bing Zhang (Physics & Astronomy) and Xuefeng Wu, former 性视界传媒 postdoctoral research associate now with Purple Mountain Observatory, China, and He Gao, a 性视界传媒 Ph.D. graduate now at Beijing Normal University, China, recently published a paper in Physical Review D to test Einstein鈥檚 weak equivalent principle using gravitational鈥
Jason Steffen (Physics and Astronomy) was a guest on NPR's Marketplace, talking about how to more efficiently board an airplane. He began researching the issue as a graduate student after being frustrated by slow boarding processes and flight delays.
The algorithm he used to find the optimal boarding method is called Markov Chain鈥
Michael Pravica (Physics and Astronomy) recently received a 2015 Stewardship Science Academic Alliances award through the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. The three-year, $780,000 grant is to develop a novel field of science Pravica has been developing, called "useful hard X-ray photochemistry."鈥
Ye Li and Bing Zhang (both Physics & Astronomy) recently published an article titled, "Can Life Survive Gamma-Ray Bursts in the High-Redshift Universe" in the Sept. 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. The work also was cited in a recent article in New Scientist.
In this paper, they investigated the 鈥渉abitability鈥 of鈥
Barbara Lavina (Physics & Astronomy) is the author of an article, "Unraveling the Complexity of Iron Oxides at High Pressure and Temperature: Synthesis of Fe5O6," which appeared in the June 26 issue of Science Advances.
Using laser heating in the diamond anvil cell and synchrotron microfocused X-ray beam, Lavina and Yue Meng from鈥
Bing Zhang (Physics & Astronomy) received a $400,000 research grant from NASA's Astrophysics Theory Program. The grant is to support his research group in developing novel theoretical models of relativistic astrophysical jets in the magnetically dominated regime. The models will use a relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code and conduct鈥
Bing Zhang (Physics and Astronomy) was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. This high honor is restricted to 0.5 percent of the membership in a given year. He was nominated for his significant scientific contributions to the understanding of the physical mechanisms of high-energy astrophysical sources, especially the prompt emission鈥