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Professor Peter Paul wins the highest civilian service award from the German government
Research Professor Peter Paul (Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus) won the highest civilian service award (Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse: distinguished Service Cross First Class) bestowed by the German government in 2008.
2009-03-13 13:37:25 by MainOffice

Dr. David Sayre, Adjunct Professor has won the 2008 Ewald Prize of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).
Prof. Sayre has collaborated for many years with Prof. Chris Jacobsen and Distinguished Prof. (Emeritus) and Research Professor Janos Kirz. He has played an important role in mentoring graduate students who have earned their Ph.Ds in the x-ray physics group first run by Janos and later by Chris. Much of their work has been done at the National Synchrotron Light Source at BNL. The IUCr awards this prize once every 3 years. It will be bestowed at the upcoming IUCr Meeting in Osaka in August, at the opening ceremony. See more details in the IUCr Web site.
2008-05-26 23:39:06 by MainOffice

Dr. David Sayre, Adjunct Professor has won the 2008 Ewald Prize of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).

Prof. Sayre has collaborated for many years with Prof. Chris Jacobsen and Distinguished Prof. (Emeritus) and Research Professor Janos Kirz. He has played an important role in mentoring graduate students who have earned their Ph.Ds in the x-ray physics group first run by Janos and later by Chris. Much of their work has been done at the National Synchrotron Light Source at BNL.

The IUCr awards this prize once every 3 years. It will be bestowed at the upcoming IUCr Meeting in Osaka in August, at the opening ceremony.

See more details in the IUCr Web site.

2008-05-26 23:39:06 by MainOffice

Department wins a SUNY-CRI grant for our redesign of PHY 121/123 and PHY 122/124.
Congratulations to Rod Engelmann and the rest of our team, helpers, and friends in the Physics and Astronomy Department, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Provost's office, Teaching, Learning + Technology, the Office of Student Affairs, and everyone else we've talked to, not least of all the SUNY Central staff and consultants running the CRI (Course Redesign Initiative) Award Program, for this happy state of affairs. This award ($40k) is one of ten grants awarded SUNY-wide.
2008-05-20 18:29:13 by MainOffice

Department wins a SUNY-CRI grant for our redesign of PHY 121/123 and PHY 122/124.

Congratulations to Rod Engelmann and the rest of our team, helpers, and friends in the Physics and Astronomy Department, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Provost's office, Teaching, Learning + Technology, the Office of Student Affairs, and everyone else we've talked to, not least of all the SUNY Central staff and consultants running the CRI (Course Redesign Initiative) Award Program, for this happy state of affairs.

This award ($40k) is one of ten grants awarded SUNY-wide.

2008-05-20 18:29:13 by MainOffice

Charles (Chuck) Pancake, the Director of our departmental Electronics Center, is the winner of an award, the 2007-8 President's Award for Excellence in Professional Service and a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service.
Chuck has earned the award through inspired and effective service to the research and teaching areas of the department, not to mention other areas of the university. This award will be conferred officially at the Awards Dinnner in October 2008.
2008-05-20 18:17:14 by MainOffice

Stony Brook University Announces $60 Million Gift From Renowned Financier And Former Math Chair James Simons And Wife Marilyn, A Ph.D. Alumna
The gift is the largest donation in SUNY history and it will Establish 'Simons Center For Geometry And Physics'. See more details here∞.
2008-05-20 17:59:31 by MainOffice

Adjunct Professor Ilan Ben Zvi wins 2007 Free Electron Laser Prize
Professor Ilan Ben-Zvi, adjunct professor of our department and physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has won the 2007 Free Electron Laser (FEL) Prize along with James Rosenzweig of the University of California-Los Angeles. Sponsored by the International Free Electron Laser Conference, which was held this year in Novosibirsk, Russia, the prize consists of an award citation, a plaque, and approximately $2,500 for each recipient. Ben-Zvi was recognized for his outstanding contributions to FEL science and technology. An FEL is a research tool that combines the focus of lasers and the intensity of synchrotrons, and it is useful for studying a wide variety of materials and chemical reactions. A synchrotron is an accelerator that produces various wavelengths of light for research at the atomic level. Ben-Zvi and Rosenzweig collaborated on some subjects and were acknowledged for similar contributions to the field. The press release is at: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=07-98∞
2008-02-20 18:54:14 by MainOffice

Adjunct Professor Ilan Ben Zvi wins 2007 Free Electron Laser Prize

Professor Ilan Ben-Zvi, adjunct professor of our department and physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has won the 2007 Free Electron Laser (FEL) Prize along with James Rosenzweig of the University of California-Los Angeles. Sponsored by the International Free Electron Laser Conference, which was held this year in Novosibirsk, Russia, the prize consists of an award citation, a plaque, and approximately $2,500 for each recipient.

Ben-Zvi was recognized for his outstanding contributions to FEL science and technology. An FEL is a research tool that combines the focus of lasers and the intensity of synchrotrons, and it is useful for studying a wide variety of materials and chemical reactions. A synchrotron is an accelerator that produces various wavelengths of light for research at the atomic level. Ben-Zvi and Rosenzweig collaborated on some subjects and were acknowledged for similar contributions to the field.

The press release is at:

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=07-98∞

2008-02-20 18:54:14 by MainOffice

Discovery of Supergravity at Stony Brook Recognized by the American Physical Society
Distinguished Professor Peter van Nieuwenhuizen∞ of the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics∞ and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, along with Profs. Daniel Z. Freedman of MIT and Sergio Ferrara of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been named recipients of the 2006 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, of the American Physical Society (APS). The Prize recognizes the discovery of supergravity, announced in a series of papers in 1976, when Freedman was also on the faculty of the Institute and Ferrara was a long-term visitor there. In 1993, the trio received the prestigious Dirac Medal of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy for this work. Supergravity is one of Stony Brook's great contributions to science. It generalized Einstein's theory of gravity by incorporating the then-new idea of supersymmetry. The combination of these powerful ideas by Ferrara, Freedman and van Nieuwenhuizen showed that gravity may be unified with other forces in nature, and that in fact, this unification will predict as-yet unseen particles and forces between them. Supergravity quickly became a pillar of mathematical physics. In the following decades its many implications for physics beyond our "Standard Model" of known particles and forces, for string theory and for mathematics have become more and more evident. Indeed now, nearly thirty years later, supergravity is as much a subject of interest as ever. Many of its implications will be tested at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, soon to be completed at CERN. The Heineman Prize is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the American Physical Society's international prizes, and has been shared by many Nobel Prize winners and winners of the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal. Former Stony Brook winners are Distinguished Professors Barry McCoy of the YITP and James Glimm of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. The complete list, newly rounded out with Ferrara, Freedman and van Nieuwenhuizen, may be found at http://www.aps.org/praw/heineman/index.cfm∞ . The prize will be presented at the 2006 APS April Meeting in Dallas. With this Prize, YITP and Department of Physics and Astronomy faculty have received six major APS prizes over the past seven years: in 1999 the Lars Onsager Prize in statistical physics to Einstein Professor Emeritous Chen Ning Yang and the Heineman Prize to Barry McCoy∞, in 2001 the Bethe Prize for astrophysics to Gerald E. Brown and Panofsky Prize for experimental particle physics to Paul Grannis, in 2003 the J. J. Sakurai Prize∞ for particle theory to George Sterman, and now in 2006 the Heineman Prize once again.
2005-10-19 15:54:09 by MainOffice

Discovery of Supergravity at Stony Brook Recognized by the American Physical Society

Distinguished Professor Peter van Nieuwenhuizen∞ of the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics∞ and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, along with Profs. Daniel Z. Freedman of MIT and Sergio Ferrara of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been named recipients of the 2006 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, of the American Physical Society (APS). The Prize recognizes the discovery of supergravity, announced in a series of papers in 1976, when Freedman was also on the faculty of the Institute and Ferrara was a long-term visitor there. In 1993, the trio received the prestigious Dirac Medal of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy for this work.

Supergravity is one of Stony Brook's great contributions to science. It generalized Einstein's theory of gravity by incorporating the then-new idea of supersymmetry. The combination of these powerful ideas by Ferrara, Freedman and van Nieuwenhuizen showed that gravity may be unified with other forces in nature, and that in fact, this unification will predict as-yet unseen particles and forces between them.

Supergravity quickly became a pillar of mathematical physics. In the following decades its many implications for physics beyond our "Standard Model" of known particles and forces, for string theory and for mathematics have become more and more evident. Indeed now, nearly thirty years later, supergravity is as much a subject of interest as ever. Many of its implications will be tested at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, soon to be completed at CERN.

The Heineman Prize is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the American Physical Society's international prizes, and has been shared by many Nobel Prize winners and winners of the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal. Former Stony Brook winners are Distinguished Professors Barry McCoy of the YITP and James Glimm of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. The complete list, newly rounded out with Ferrara, Freedman and van Nieuwenhuizen, may be found at http://www.aps.org/praw/heineman/index.cfm∞ . The prize will be presented at the 2006 APS April Meeting in Dallas.

With this Prize, YITP and Department of Physics and Astronomy faculty have received six major APS prizes over the past seven years: in 1999 the Lars Onsager Prize in statistical physics to Einstein Professor Emeritous Chen Ning Yang and the Heineman Prize to Barry McCoy∞, in 2001 the Bethe Prize for astrophysics to Gerald E. Brown and Panofsky Prize for experimental particle physics to Paul Grannis, in 2003 the J. J. Sakurai Prize∞ for particle theory to George Sterman, and now in 2006 the Heineman Prize once again.

2005-10-19 15:54:09 by MainOffice

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