News | The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy

07/02/2015

Katz Receives Prestigious Award for Mathematics

Lorinda Dajose

Caltech professor of mathematics Nets Katz has received the 2015 Clay Research Award from the Clay Mathematics Institute. The award was given jointly to Katz and an MIT collaborator for their solution of the Erdős distance problem and for "other joint and separate contributions to combinatorial incidence geometry."

06/26/2015

New Dean of Graduate Studies Named

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

Doug Rees has been named the new dean of graduate studies at Caltech.

06/24/2015

Discovering a New Stage in the Galactic Lifecycle

Jessica Stoller-Conrad

A Caltech-led team, using the powerful ALMA telescope in Chile, has analyzed the clouds of gas and dust from some of the earliest galaxies ever observed—1 billion years after the Big Bang.

06/22/2015

PMA Announces a New Division Chair

Kimm Fesenmaier

Fiona Harrison, the Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics, has been named the new chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA). Her five-year term will begin on September 1.

06/17/2015

Caltech, JPL Team Up to Take On Big-Data Projects

Kimm Fesenmaier

The new Joint Initiative on Data Science and Technology strives to boost intellectual infrastructure and expertise for data-driven discoveries.

06/12/2015

Caltech Seniors Win Library Friends Thesis Prize

Lorinda Dajose

The annual award recognizes undergraduates for theses that "exemplify excellent research, writing and the effective use of library resources."

06/11/2015

Diversity Retreat at Caltech

Kathy Svitil

We recently spoke with Joseph E. Shepherd (PhD '81), dean of graduate studies and the C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and professor of mechanical engineering, about AGEP, the recent retreat, and Caltech's diversity initiatives.

06/04/2015

Celebrating 45 Years at Caltech

Kathy Svitil

Robert A. Taylor has worked at Caltech for the last 45 years, most recently in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA) for the Laser Interferometry Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project. We spoke with Taylor about his four-and-a-half decades at the Institute.

06/03/2015

Celebrating 11 Years of CARMA Discoveries

Ker Than

Known as the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy, or CARMA, the telescopes tucked away on a remote, high-altitude site in the Inyo Mountains formed one of the most powerful millimeter interferometers in the world.