The Institute for Fundamental Science (IFS) enhances the experimental, theoretical, and astronomy research activities at the University of Oregon. IFS is one of several centers and institutes supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, and maintains close relationships with the Department of Physics, the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Mathematics, and the Materials Science Institute.
The institute hosts visiting scientists, supports graduate and undergraduate student research, facilitates interaction between the experimental activities and theoretical investigations of IFS members, and fosters communication of research to the broader community.
IFS members have major involvement in international collaborations including the ATLAS and FASER Experiments at CERN, LIGO’s gravitational wave observatories, and others. We have vigorous programs of research in astronomy and astrophysics; condensed matter theory and statistical mechanics; data science; mathematics; particle theory; quantum information and quantum optics; and the International Linear Collider project.
Center Activities
A celestial trifecta: What to know about Tuesday’s lunar eclipse
16 September 2024
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Stargazers will be in for another celestial treat Tuesday night as three cosmic events will occur at the same time during the full moon.
After last month brought space enthusiasts a blue supermoon, September’s harvest moon will not only coincide with a supermoon, but also with a blood moon and partial lunar eclipse.
While harvest moons happen each year close to the start of fall and supermoons three to four times a year, all three events taking place at the same time are “quite rare,” astrophysicist Teresa Monsue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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CERN70: From physics to medicine
14 November 2024
Ugo Amaldi helped create a European network of cancer therapy centres using beams of ions, in particular carbon ions
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Technology developed at CERN for accelerators and detectors has found many uses in areas beyond the field of particle physics, not least in medicine, where there are applications in both the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Researchers at CERN have been contributing to medical research for nearly six decades, ever since radiobiology experiments began in 1965. Three years later, Georges Charpak invented
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