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The event, held on Haverford's campus, brought out former students and longtime admirers of the renowned physicist.
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A team of international scientists working with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile have reported the discovery of 10 new galaxy clusters in a paper published in Astrophysical Journal. Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Bruce Partridge and several of his students contributed to the research.
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Alexander, an associate professor of physics at Haverford, is the subject of several videos debuting November 3 on “Secret Life,” a web video series and site created by the makers of the PBS science show NOVA. Aimed at students and teachers, the site features researchers talking about their work and their lives beyond science. Alexander’s secret? He’s a jazz saxophonist.
See the videos
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For its 10th-anniversary issue, The Chronicle Review asked scholars and illustrators to answer this question: What will be the defining idea of the coming decade, and why? Among the invited writers contributing to the debate was Haverford College Associate Professor of Physics Stephon Alexander.
Read the essay
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Over the break, the physics professor and Haverford alumnus traveled to his home country of Trinidad to give a presentation at the International School for Young Astronomers.
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The connection between music and quantum mechanics was the subject of a three-day event that brought a trio of renowned artists working at the crossroads of music and technology to Haverford.
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The recent graduate, currently studying in the UK, also received a Winston Churchill Scholarship in February.
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Brig Williams '66 and Stephon Alexander '93 are two of the many researchers contributing to this extensive physics project.
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The award is given annually to an undergraduate who has "demonstrated exceptional potential for scientific research by an original contribution to physics."
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From Trinidad to the Bronx to Haverford to the outer reaches of the universe...and back to Haverford
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Associate professor of physics Stephon Alexander explores the question "Just What is Dark Energy" in a new book that spotlights the work of top young scientists in a variety of fields.
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Pancoast will pursue a Ph.D. in physics at UC Santa Barbara with the help of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
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This March, Assoc. Prof. Stephon Alexander was the U.S. speaker on "String Theory and Geometry" at the Indo-US Frontiers of Science Symposium organized by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Kavli Institute.
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This March (2009), our physics faculty, along with many students, gave research talks at the American Physical Society's March Meeting in Pittsburgh PA.
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Haverford's newest faculty member in physics and astronomy, Associate Professor Stephon Alexander, has been awarded a 2008 "Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology" grant from the Foundational Questions Institute. A nonprofit organization created by an international group of scientific visionaries, the Institute aims to catalyze, support and disseminate innovative ideas and research in physics and cosmology.
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He will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the SPEAR (surface profile analysis reflectometer) facility, which uses neutrons to probe the physical characteristics of solids and liquids.
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After Haverford, I earned a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Caltech '03, applying advanced microscopy techniques to problems in early vertebrate embryology.
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Congratulations to Peter O'Malley, Jonathan Klein, Byron Drury, Michael Jablin, Evan Thatcher, Robert Stewart.
Gallery of Graduating physics/astro class of 2008
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Jonathan Klein (Astronomy '08) writes to say he will be working for the Secretary of State's office in downtown Boston doing software application support in close conjunction with the elections office.
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Jonnie Pober (Physics & Astronomy '07) spent a year at Cambridge University and will begin a PhD program in Astronomy at Berkeley in fall 2008.
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Steve Posner '03 (astronomy '03) is currently in a masters program at the University of Vermont in the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.
