News | The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy

07/07/2016

Math and Physics Professors Named Simons Investigators

Lorinda Dajose

Anton Kapustin and Vladimir Markovic will each be awarded $100,000 annually for five years as part of the fellowship.

06/20/2016

2016 Distinguished Alumnus: Neil Gehrels

Gehrels received the award for his scientific leadership in the study of gamma-ray bursts as well as for his significant contributions to high-energy astrophysics, infrared astronomy, and instrument development.

06/09/2016

Shou Receives Fellowship for Studies in Germany

Lorinda Dajose

Senior Laura Shou has received a Graduate Study Scholarship to pursue a master's degree in Germany.

06/06/2016

Distinguished Alumnus: Eric Betzig (BS '83)

Betzig received the award for his groundbreaking contributions to microscopy. He pioneered a method known as single-molecule microscopy, or “nanoscopy,” which allows cellular structures at the nanoscale to be observed using an optical microscope, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014.

06/02/2016

Kavli Prize Goes to LIGO Founders

Whitney Clavin

The $1 million Kavli Prize in Astrophysics has been awarded to the three founders of LIGO.

06/01/2016

LIGO Founders Win Shaw Prize

Whitney Clavin

This year's Shaw Prize in Astronomy, worth $1.2 million, has been awarded to the trio of researchers who founded LIGO.

Aerial photograph of LIGO Livingston facility

05/12/2016

LIGO Team Receives Cosmology Prize

Lorinda Dajose

Caltech's Drever and Thorne receive the Gruber Cosmology Prize for their role in discovering gravitational waves.

05/11/2016

Ooguri Receives Chunichi Award

Robert Perkins

Hirosi Ooguri, the Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics and founding director of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, will be the 2016 recipient of the Chunichi Cultural Award.