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Illinois Physics Response to COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic presents complex challenges that bridge science and teaching with economics and politics. Illinois Physics faculty are hard at work addressing some of these challenges. Here are just a few examples. Physics faculty, teaching assistants bring hands-on labs to students online Cena y Ciencias outreach program continues to reach kids by delivering take-home science kits Weissman helps local medical residents with COVID-19 statistical analysis Research Funding Abbamonte and Madhavan named EPiQS investigators The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, through its Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative (EPiQS), has awarded substantial research funding to two experimental condensed matter physicists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Physics Professors Peter Abbamonte and Vidya Madhavan will receive EPiQS Experimental Investigator awards of $1.6 million each over the next five years.EPiQS prioritizes high-risk, high-reward fundamental research programs in quantum materials, to foster scientific breakthroughs. EPiQS experimental investigators have the freedom to pursue challenging and novel research directions of the scientists own choosing. research Researchers demonstrate transport of mechanical energy, even through damaged pathways Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign s Grainger College of Engineering have experimentally demonstrated a new way to transport energy even through wave-guides that are defective and even if the disorder is a transient phenomenon in time. This work could lead to much more robust devices that continue to operate in spite of damage.Gaurav Bahl, associate professor in mechanical science and engineering, and Taylor Hughes, physics professor, published their findings in Nature Communications. This important work was led by postdoctoral researcher Inbar Grinberg, also in mechanical science and engineering. In the Media In APS News : Physicists rise to the COVID-19 challenge Neither Goldenfeld nor Maslov had advised policymakers before. A 63-year-old bespectacled theorist originally from the UK, Goldenfeld began his research career studying superconductors and polymers. Over more than three decades at UIUC, he had branched into computational biology to study flocking and evolutionary patterns in various ecosystems, among other research interests.Maslov, a 51-year-old Russian-American who kept his hair long even prior to the pandemic, followed a similarly interdisciplinary academic career. Skipping around from magnetic materials to financial statistics to microbial ecology, the theorist arrived at UIUC in 2015 after nearly two decades at Brookhaven National Laboratory. As members of the same research team, they frequently chatted. Our offices are right next to each other, says Maslov. Both are APS Fellows and Goldenfeld is the winner of this year s APS Leo Kadanoff Prize. In the Media El-Khadra quoted in Quanta Magazine : "What goes on in a proton?" Theorists thought these digital laboratories were still a year or two away from becoming competitive with the collider experiments in approximating the effects quarks have on other particles. But in February a European collaboration shocked the community with a preprint claiming to nail a magnetic property of a particle called the muon to within 1% of its true value, using novel noise reduction techniques. “You might think of it as throwing down the gauntlet,” said Aida El-Khadra, a high-energy theorist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research Riedl, Aksimentiev awarded Frontera supercomputer time allocations The most powerful supercomputer in the world for academic research has established its mission for the coming year.The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced that the National Science Foundation has approved allocations of supercomputing time on Frontera to 49 science projects for 2020-2021. Time on Frontera is awarded based on a project s need for very large scale computing to make science and engineering discoveries, and the ability to efficiently use a supercomputer on the scale of Frontera. Our generous allocation of compute time on Frontera makes it possible to perform uniquely large-scale, data-driven simulations of key brain cell networks involved in memory with unprecedented biological realism, Soltesz said.Another awardee, Caroline Riedl, research assistant professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, is part of a large international collaboration analyzing particle collision data from the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN. Riedl was awarded 1.5 million hours to unravel the mass of hadrons and the quark structure of protons. Her work will analyze past particle physics experiments from the COMPASS experiment and explore new detectors for quantum chromodynamics research (COMPASS++/AMBER). We were very excited to learn that our request for an LRAC allocation on TACC s Frontera was approved, Riedl said.Alumnus gift continues legacy of excellence at Illinois Physics We deeply appreciate Gary Kelly s generosity and his investment in our department s core missions of research, teaching, and outreach, comments Head of Department and Professor Matthias Grosse Perdekamp. Unrestricted funds such as these are applied where they will make the greatest impact. Through his generosity, Gary Kelly s legacy at Illinois will include his support of important new opportunities directly in line with our core missions. A large portion of Gary s gift will support the research of exceptional women faculty early in their careers, enabling Illinois Physics to attract and retain promising women physicists. Give to the Engineering Visionary Scholarship. EVS attracts the brightest students, ensures a diverse and talented class, and helps reduce student debt. The relief of financial burden this scholarship has lifted from my family’s shoulders is truly a priceless gift, and the generosity of donors that have made this possible inspires me to want to give others this same gift of relief, security, and most of all educational opportunity, as it has done for me. Sara Shahid, Engineering Physics Class of '22, EVS Scholarship recipient Learn more Watch Professor Nadya Mason's TED talk! Curious how stuff works? Do a hands-on experiment at home, says physicist Nadya Mason. She shows how you can demystify the world around you by tapping into your scientific curiosity -- and performs a few onstage experiments of her own using magnets, dollar bills, dry ice and more. Watch the Center for the Physics of Living Cells video The Center for the Physics of Living Cells is an NSF Physics Frontiers Center. In true Urbana style, theoretical and experimental scientists collaborating at the CPLC are elucidating the fundamental processes at the core of life in quantitative physical detail. The CPLC Summer School is world renowned for its training of young scientists in leading-edge research methods, advancing this interdisciplinary physics frontier.

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