Monthly Archives (November 2015)

I believe that your theory needs realism by being involved and being in close touch with experimentalists... Don't stray far from the experiments if you are working on theory, and if you have talent for experiments, do them."

—Hermann A. Haus
Institute Professor

Current and past recipients stand with President L. Rafael Reif and Vanu Bose, son of Amar Bose. (Left to right): Rajeev Ram, Janet Conrad, Jeffrey Grossman, Sangeeta Bhatia, Polina Anikeeva, Nicholas Makris, President Reif, Joel Voldman, Vanu Bose, Jacquin Niles, Joseph Checkelsky, Sara Seager, and Sylvia Ceyer. Photo: John Gillooly

Bose Grants fund bold and innovative visions
Posted November 24, 2015 at 6:17 pm

MIT mathematicians have identified the limits to heat flow at the nanoscale.

An extreme close-up on heat transfer
Posted November 24, 2015 at 6:15 pm

Towards graphene plasmon-based free-electron infrared to X‑ray sources (Nature Photonics)
Posted November 23, 2015 at 6:34 pm

Henry Thomas Tizard (center), British physicist and head of the Tizard Mission, visits with MIT researchers. The 1940 Tizard Mission introduced to the U.S. the newly invented resonant-cavity magnetron and other British radar developments, and helped establish MIT as a major federally funded research university. Photo courtesy of the MIT Museum.

How the Tizard Mission paved the way for research at MIT
Posted November 23, 2015 at 6:26 pm

By using plasmons to “wiggle” a free electron in a sheet of graphene, researchers have developed a new method for generating X-rays. In this image of one of their simulations, the color and height represent the intensity of radiation (with blue the lowest intensity and red the highest), at a moment in time just after an electron (grey sphere) moving close to the surface generates a pulse. Courtesy of the researchers

A new way to make X‑rays
Posted November 23, 2015 at 6:21 pm

Berggren, One of four MIT Faculty elected AAAS Fellows
Posted November 23, 2015 at 6:00 pm

Drori — Bio
Posted November 20, 2015 at 6:06 pm

Han, One of Three EECS faculty selected as Faculty Research Innovation Fellowships (FRIFs)
Posted November 6, 2015 at 4:00 pm

The Kenneth Rainin Foundation supports research of RLE Prof. Timothy Lu
Posted November 6, 2015 at 12:00 pm

M+Visión Fellow Carlos Castro named one of Spain’s top young innovators
Posted November 5, 2015 at 4:00 pm