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Analysts are rapidly developing methods to map publications to SDGs in the face of policy demands. However, as reported by Armitage et al. (2020), a high degree of inconsistency is found when…
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Ismael Rafols Date
March 24th, 2021
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Join Professor Diana Hicks of the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy for a conversation about the Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics. There will be a high level overview of the 10 principles to…
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Diana Hicks Date
October 13th, 2020
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Do we live in a simulation? The School of Physics and the Society of Physics Students will host a public debate between faculty from the College of Science and the College of Computing to answer…
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Predrag Cvitanovic, Mary Holder, Hans Klein, Zeb Rocklin, Gregory Turk, Santosh Vempala Date
November 12th, 2019
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Cosmology studies the universe at the largest scales, applying the laws of physics over billions of light years and all the way back to the universe's infancy. In dozens of groundbreaking…
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John Wise, Gongjie Li Date
October 22nd, 2019
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How does a wombat produce cube-shaped feces? How long does it take an elephant to urinate? Answering these two questions have landed David Hu two Ig Nobel Prizes, awards given at Harvard University…
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David Hu Date
October 8th, 2019
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At the outskirts of the solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune, lies an expansive field of icy debris known as the Kuiper belt. The orbits of the individual asteroid-like bodies within the Kuiper…
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Konstantin Batygin Date
April 9th, 2019
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I knew from the time I was a very young child that I wanted to be an astronomer. The dream lasted until I got to college, where I learned to my dismay that I actually had no passion for doing what an…
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Michael Lemonick Date
March 12th, 2019
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What kinds of shapes can you make by folding a sheet of paper? How strong can you make them, or how flexible? Although we've been folding paper for centuries, we're still discovering…
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Zeb Rocklin Date
February 25th, 2019
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The creation of the elements in the universe took billions of years and required various processes.The first few minutes of the big bang produced only hydrogen (H) and helium (He). No new elements…
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James Sowell Date
February 6th, 2019
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In celebration of Black History Month, Ivan Allen College, Office of the Dean presented a panel discussion on African Societies in Development. Moderator, Georgia A. Persons, School of Public Policy,…
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Georgia A. Persons, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Michael L. Best, Date
February 20th, 2007
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Fluid turbulence is one of the greatest unsolved problems of classical physics (and the subject of a million dollar mathematical (Millenium) challenge). Centuries of research--including Leonardo da…
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Michael F. Schatz Date
November 26th, 2018
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The recent emergence of neuro-disciplines like neuro-economics, neuro-anthropology, neurophilosophy and neuro-politics is exciting for those working in these ‘neurofied’ disciplines, as…
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Machiel Keestra Date
November 8th, 2018
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes two breakthrough inventions in laser physics. The first, optical tweezers, allows scientist and engineers to use lasers like the tractor beams of Star Trek…
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Jennifer Curtis, Chandra Raman, Rick Trebino Date
October 23rd, 2018
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The 2016 confirmation of Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves has put the spotlight back on the importance of curvature for the physics of the universe. While the ability of mass to…
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Elisabetta Matsumoto Date
October 15th, 2018
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Are we alone in the universe? The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now well into its fifth decade, and we still haven’t discovered any cosmic company. Could all this mean…
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Seth Shostak biography
Seth Shostak is a Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute. Date
September 24th, 2018
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Scientists and journalists have similar, but not identical interests in getting information about their work to the public in an appealing, but accurate way. James Gorman will draw on his experience…
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James Gorman Date
March 27th, 2018
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