In the Fall 2021 Hans Bethe Lecture, physicist Andrew Strominger will describe the compelling progress made towards understanding black holes as well as future prospects for our understanding of black holes. The lecture will take place Oct. 27.
While some returning students left behind long days at the beach and summer barbeques, the student entrepreneurs in the 2021 cohort of the Kessler Fellows program returned having completed 10-week internships with startups around the nation.
Associate professor Esteban Gazel and grad student Kyle Dayton will join a team of international researchers at the newly erupted Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands.
Cornell astronomers have published the final maps of Saturn moon Titan’s liquid methane rivers and tributaries, providing context for the next scheduled expedition in the 2030s.
President Martha E. Pollack on Oct. 18 announced the winners of Stephen H. Weiss Awards honoring a sustained record of commitment to the teaching and mentoring of undergraduate students and to undergraduate education.
Using a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Peter McMahon, assistant professor of applied and engineering physics, aims to harness the power of photonics to build processors for neural networks that are more than 1,000 times more energy efficient.
Once a cosmic trickle a decade ago now appears as a rapid-fire barrage from across the universe, as 1,652 fast radio bursts were found in the Cornell-discovered FRB121102.
To prep for missions to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, Britney Schmidt, associate professor of astronomy and earth and atmospheric sciences, is studying Antarctica’s ice and oceans.
The life and work of James Edward Oliver, a passionate supporter of women’s suffrage and a nationally recognized mathematician, will be celebrated in an evening of talks on Oct. 14.
