Physics Archive

Announcing the First Results from Daya Bay: Discovery of a New Kind of Neutrino Transformation

March 8, 2012
Multinational Collaboration Includes Faculty and Students at Illinois Institute of Technology. The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, a multinational collaboration operating in the south of China, today reported the first results of its search for the last, most elusive piece of a longstanding puzzle: how is it that neutrinos can appear to vanish as they travel? The surprising answer opens a gateway to a new understanding of fundamental physics and may eventually solve the riddle of why there is far more ordinary matter than antimatter in the universe today.
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Physics Nobel Laureate Jerome Friedman to speak at IIT on March 7th

February 28, 2012
IIT Stuart School of Business and the MIT Club of Chicago will co-host 1990 Nobel Laureate in Physics and MIT Professor of Physics Emeritus Jerome Friedman, who will deliver a lecture at 6:15 pm on Wednesday, March 7 at the Downtown Campus, Ogilvie Auditorium.
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Northwest Indiana Times profiles IIT Associate Professor of Physics Jeff Terry in a “Where are they now?” article in the sports section. Terry, who played baseball and football at Gavit High School in Hammond, talks with the paper about teaching at IIT, his research at Argonne National Laboratory, and his role as chairman of the Advanced Test Reactor Users Organization.

January 3, 2012
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