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2021: Year in Review
12/15/2021

2021: Year in Review

Kathy Svitil
A look back at the Institute news of 2021.
A collage of science images
Transforming Materials with Light
12/08/2021

Transforming Materials with Light

Whitney Clavin
Researchers have figured out a way to use lasers to alter materials without the creation of damaging heat.
A strong laser is seen illuminating a material in a low-temperature chamber.
New Quantum Measurement Center Launched by Sherman Fairchild Foundation Grant
12/06/2021

New Quantum Measurement Center Launched by Sherman Fairchild Foundation Grant

Ann Motrunich
A new grant enables construction of laboratories at Caltech that will integrate gravitational-wave science and quantum precision measurement.
Tabletop optics in a laboratory that steer laser light as it is used to measure vibrations in a glass disk that serves as an experimental stand-in for a mirror in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The experiment aims to improve LIGO mirror coatings. New coatings c twan reduce background noise in LIGO's mirrors by a factor of two, thereby increasing the volume of space that LIGO can probe by a factor of eight.
Exoplanet Bonanza
12/01/2021

Exoplanet Bonanza

New planetary candidates found by sifting through archival Kepler Telescope data.
Artist's rendering of two Saturn-sized planets orbiting a Sun-like star.
Watson Lecture on November 10: Xie Chen on Quantum Matter
11/03/2021

Watson Lecture on November 10: Xie Chen on Quantum Matter

Andrew Moseman
On November 10, Caltech professor of theoretical physics Xie Chen will give a Watson Lecture on "Quantum Matters."
Photo of Xie Chen
How Long Does a Neutron Live?
10/13/2021

How Long Does a Neutron Live?

Whitney Clavin
Physicists use "bottle" method to make most precise measurement yet of a neutron's lifetime.
Artistic image of a bottle with neutrons.
Extending LIGO's Reach Into the Cosmos
09/29/2021

Extending LIGO's Reach Into the Cosmos

Whitney Clavin
New mirror coatings will increase the volume of space LIGO can probe in its next run.
Pinkish mirror coating on a test disk.
Caltech Astronomers Win New Horizons Breakthrough Prize
09/09/2021

Caltech Astronomers Win New Horizons Breakthrough Prize

Whitney Clavin/Emily Velasco
Mansi Kasliwal, Gregg Hallinan, and two others have received the New Horizons Prize for their leadership in multi-messenger astronomy including the first neutron star collision in 2017.
Side-by-side images of Gregg Hallinan and Mansi Kasliwal
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) Decommissioning Draft Environmental Assessment Released
09/08/2021

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) Decommissioning Draft Environmental Assessment Released

Emily Velasco
Community meetings also announced
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
Felix H. Boehm, 1924–2021
09/03/2021

Felix H. Boehm, 1924–2021

Robert Perkins
Caltech mourns the passing of physics professor Felix Boehm
Felix Boehm working in a lab
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