News Archive: 2015

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08/21/2015

Post-doctoral Fellows Awarded APS IRTAP

Dr. Will Schumaker and Dr. Bhuvanesh Ramakrishna were awarded a USD$2,000.00 travel grant through the American Physical Society's International Research Travel Award Program (IRTAP). 

This program, established in 2004, seeks to promote international scientific collaborations between APS members and physicists in developing countries.

Warm dense matter at Jupiter's core
03/23/2015

Experiment Provides the Best Look Yet at 'Warm Dense Matter' at Cores of Giant Planets

From SLAC Office of Communications

Shock Wave Experiment at SLAC’s X-ray Laser Tracks Formation of a Mysterious Type of Matter

In an experiment at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientists precisely measured the temperature and structure of aluminum as it transitions into a superhot, highly compressed concoction known as “warm dense matter.”