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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We’re #Hiring! Aspen Center for Physics is looking for a Development Officer & Donor Liaison to support a major capital campaign + donor engagement at a world-renowned science nonprofit. Based in Aspen, CO. 💵 $70–95K 🔗 aspenphys.org/home/staff/ #Fundraising #Science #Aspen #DonorEngagement #Jobs

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

On June 25, renowned physicist Gordon Baym delivered “A Century of Quantum Mechanics: From Blacksmiths to Smartphones” to a standing-room-only crowd in Flug Hall at the Aspen Center for Physics - the first public talk this summer for our Heinz Pagels Memorial Public Lecture Series

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🎙️ Legacy Conversations: Oral History Project of the Aspen Center for Physics by Bernice Durand, recorded from 1999-2006. Step into decades of science, community, and creativity—told by the people who built it. 🎥 Watch now: youtube.com/playlist?lis... #LegacyConversations #AspenCenterForPhysics

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Legacy Conversations: Physicist Video Histories - YouTube

The Oral History Project at the Aspen Center for Physics, initiated by Bernice Durand, is a valuable archival effort to preserve the stories, insights, and e...

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Seconding thanks to the organisers & the center staff for this great @aspenphysics.bsky.social workshop. I have a stack of notes that I’m hoping to digest into some highlights to post on here 🔭

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

After an afternoon of skiing/tubing/co-working at Snowmass, we finished off Day 1 with Kimberly Paragas telling us about smashing rock samples and taking their spectra and Amélie Gressier showing the thermal emission from the NIRSpec phase curve of K2-141b. More rocky planets tomorrow for Day 2!

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Starting off Day 2 in the winter wonderland of @aspenphysics.bsky.social with Renyu Hu telling us about the thermal emission of 55 Cancri e and Brandon Park Coy describing population-level hypothesis testing with rocky planet emission data.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

After a snowy conference photo outside @aspenphysics.bsky.social, we continue with terrestrial planet atmospheric dynamics with talks by Christopher Wirth on day-night heat transport on hot rocky planets and Eric Wolf on GCMs of temperate terrestrial exoplanets.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Kicking off Wednesday morning @aspenphysics.bsky.social with Drake Deming presenting lessons from Spitzer and Hubble thermal emission and Joost Wardenier presenting the recently observed WASP-76b phase curve.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Loving the public lecture by Prof. Zach Berta-Thompson (UC Boulder) @aspenphysics.bsky.social on The Glow of Distant Worlds. I’m especially enthralled by the IR camera, projector spectrum, and terrarium demos!

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Now accepting applications for our Summer Internship program for local Roaring Fork Valley high school students. Spread the word! Read more and apply at aspenphys.org/home/summer-...

Two high school students stand in the physics library at ACP with physicist Ganpathy Murthy.

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🚀 Explore the Glow of Distant Worlds! Join us for a public lecture with Zach Berta-Thompson (CU Boulder) on 4/2, 5:30 PM. Learn how #JWST is revealing the atmospheres & climates of exoplanets—and how we might find signs of life beyond Earth. RSVP @ aspenphys.org/event/the-gl...

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🚀 Step into the Quantum Age with MIT’s Vladan Vuletić! Learn how laser-cooled atoms & light beam arrays are revolutionizing quantum computing. 📅 Wed, Mar 26 | ⏰ 5:00 PM📍Flug Forum, Aspen Center for Physics. Free & open to all! RSVP @ aspenphys.org/event/the-qu...

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

#throwbackthursday to Murray Gell-Mann working in the triple office he shared with Daniel Z. Freedman and Sidney Coleman. #physics #aspen

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Tune into KDNK radio tomorrow, 3/19 at 4:30pm MT to hear our latest Radio Physics interview with theoretical physicist Chiara Toldo, interviewed by high school student and ACP summer intern Audrey Woodrow. #physics #radiophysics #blackholes www.kdnk.org/podcast/radi...

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Radio Physics

Radio Physics is for everyone! You don't have to be a scientist or even an aficionado to be fascinated by the questions and answers that you'll hear on KDNK. Radio Physics is a collaboration with top ...

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Check out our latest "On Physics" article in collab with Aspen Daily News, "Searching the skies for clues to our origins" by Joan Najita from NOIRLab! #astronomy #astrophysics www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/on-p...

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

George Stranahan’s vision turned Aspen into a hub for world-class physics. In 1962, he co-founded ACP, where thousands of scientists—including 66 Nobel laureates—have pushed the frontiers of knowledge. Now, ACP’s future hinges on solving Aspen’s housing crisis. www.aspentimes.com/opinion/irre...

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Irreligion: Schweitzer and Stranahan

Many famous people visit Aspen. Some stay, some don’t. A couple of those are heroes of mine: Albert Schweitzer, who didn’t stay, and George Stranahan, who did stay. Both were brilliant, gifted, and mo...

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Now Streaming! "How to Catch a Ghost: Neutrinos, Dark Matter & More" with Georgia Karagiorgi explores the invisible forces shaping our cosmos. From underground detectors to space observatories, discover the latest breakthroughs in this engaging lecture! #Physics #Neutrinos youtu.be/f2TvDb3OW8s

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How to Catch a Ghost: Neutrinos, Dark Matter & More with Georgia Karagiorgi

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Join Georgia Karagiorgi from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social for a public lecture on how scientists detect some of the universe’s most elusive particles: "How to Catch a Ghost: Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and More" 📅 Wed, Mar 5 | Tea & cookies at 5pm, lecture at 5:30pm sharp #Neutrinos #DarkMatter

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🔬✨ Join us for Meigan Aronson's public lecture on Quantum Phase Transitions—the hidden patterns in space & time at absolute zero! 🌌❄️ Wed, Feb 26 - tea & cookies at 5, talk at 5:30 sharp. RSVP here: aspenphys.org/event/quantum-phase-transitions-hidden-patterns-in-space-and-time/ #QuantumMaterials

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We are at capacity for reservations for tomorrow night's public lecture "Artificial Intelligence and the Age of Emergence" with Dr. Roger Melko. We will be recording the lecture, and we recommend you catch it on our YouTube on Friday: www.youtube.com/c/AspenPhysics #AI #Quantum #Emergence #Physics

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🚀🌕🔭 Astronomy from the Moon is coming sooner than you think! Telescopes on the lunar surface could revolutionize our view of the cosmos, unlocking mysteries hidden from Earth. Scientists are paving the way for a new era of space-based discovery. #MartinElvis www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/astr...

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Astronomy from the Moon, coming soon?

The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several landing craft have crashed or toppled over. With all the excitement...

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It's been one full year since we started our partnership with @AspenDailyNews, "On Physics" - if you missed any of the articles, we have them all here: aspenphys.org/home/in-the-... #news #physics #science #aspendailynews

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

How do we listen to merging black holes? Find out! Watch Dr. Jillian Bellovary's public lecture from Wednesday, "Unraveling the Cosmic Melody of Black Holes" - now streaming! #gravitationalwaves #supermassiveblackholes #blackholes #astrophysics #physics #aspen youtu.be/85oeuu9bvxI

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Unraveling the Cosmic Melody of Black Holes with Jillian Bellovary

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Vivian U @justtheletteru.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Day 5: Suvi Gezari "stirs the pot" in the last keynote of the conference, highlighting key takeaways from GW170817, era of large surveys (MMA landscape) - UV/optical TDA 2030; dry vs wet mergers - NUCLEAR GAS / F_AGN in MASSIVE GAL! recoil SMBH as smoking guns; roadmap (PTA / Theory / AGN / MMA)

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Vivian U @justtheletteru.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Good morning Aspen! Excited for the start of what looks to be a fantastic conference on "The Era of Binary Supermassive Black Holes" here in @aspenphysics.bsky.social this week! gwac.wvu.edu/aspen-physic... And oh, it'll be my first #AstronomyOnTap #AoT debut tonight at Mi Chola 🍻 #AspenCenter

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Tonight! Join us for "Unraveling the Cosmic Melody of Black Holes" with Jillian Bellovary. Come early at 5pm for tea & cookies. Lecture starts promptly at 5:30pm. aspenphys.org/event/unrave...

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

One more day to apply for our summer session! Make sure to read the instructions on how to apply on the new website :) We hope to see you this summer! aspenphys.org/summer-works... #theoreticalphysics #aspen #physics #physicsworkshops #applynow

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Come to "Astronomy on Tap" this Monday, Feb 3 at Mi Chola from 7:30-9:30pm. Hosted by Dr. Gautham Narayan. Featuring astro-themed bingo, pub trivia, prizes, and a special talk, “Cosmic Feedback: When Black Holes Talk Back” by Vivian U @justtheletteru.bsky.social #astronomyontap #astroontap #physics

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Check out our latest episode of Radio Physics, featuring physicist Volodymyr Takhistov, interviewed by high school students Will Jones and Grace Hassell, here: www.kdnk.org/podcast/radi... In partnership with KDNK Radio #physics #darkmatter

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Radio Physics | Volodymyr Takhistov

In this episode of Radio Physics, local students Will Jones and Grace Hassell interview Volodymyr Takhistov. Volodymyr Takhistov is a theoretical physicist, Principal Investigator, and Associate Profe...

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 27/01/2025

Stars form in super-cold clouds of gas and dust. Gas clumps collide, and build mass, eventually collapsing to form stars. #NASAWebb’s view of the Serpens Nebula shows a dense cluster of newly forming stars that is about 100,000 years old. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. 🔭 🧪

$A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. The upper left corner of the image is filled with mostly orange dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right, at the same angle. The center is filled with mostly blue gas. At the center, there is one particularly bright star that has an hourglass shadow above and below it. To the right of that is what looks a vertical eye-shaped crevice with a bright star at the center. The gas to the right of the crevice is a darker orange. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field, brightest stars in the field have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes.$

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Event Horizon Telescope @ehtelescope.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

How do black holes launch their powerful jets? This visualization shows the center of the galaxy NGC 1052. Researchers led by Anne-Kathrin Baczko from Chalmers University now show that the final close-up of the black hole is within the reach of the EHT. www.chalmers.se/en/current/n... #BlackHole

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🚀 Mark your calendars! This winter, dive into the wonders of physics with our FREE Nick & Maggie DeWolf Foundation Winter lecture series! 🌌 Select Weds, January–April. Topics include black holes, quantum physics, AI, and more. Open to all! aspenphys.org/community-ev...

This is the promotional image for the Nick and Maggie DeWolf Foundation Free Physics Talks. It has 8 circles with images from each of the upcoming lectures, including a scale, a person searching for neutrinos, balls representing quantum space-time, a clock and lasers for "the quantum age", an illustration of two sets of black holes orbiting each other causing gravitational waves, a graphic representation of a neural network, an infared image of Jupiter, and an image of a robot with a brain with a neural network emerging from the top of it. These are all the promotional images for the public lectures for the season.

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Now streaming! "How to Weigh Things by Looking at Them" with Dr. Philipp Kukura, University of Oxford. youtu.be/zNTPSjZwbls?... #physics #photometry #gravity #publiclecture

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How to Weigh Things by Looking at Them with Philipp Kukura

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Aspen Center for Physics @aspenphysics.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Calling all theoretical physicists! 📢 The 2025 Aspen Summer Program is now accepting applications. Join us in Aspen, Colorado, for a summer of collaboration and discovery. 📅 Apply by January 31, 2025 🔗 Details: aspenphys.org/summer/ #theoreticalphysics #physics #aspen

A view of the outdoor classroom at the Aspen Center for Physics, where a group of theoretical physicists participates in a workshop. Three physicists stand in front of the rest of the workshop. There is a canopy of green leaves above the slate chalkboard.

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