Tzu-Chieh Wei, in collaboration with Department colleagues Angela Kelly and Dominik Schneble and with the Hall of Science Museum in New York City, have established an innovative education program QuEST, aimed in familiarizing educators and students at the secondary level with relevant quantum concepts. Their program has been funded by a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Partnering with the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics is co-sponsoring the first C.N. Yang Colloquium. The Yang Colloquium series is envisioned as an annual event, bringing distinguished speakers to the physics community at Stony Brook. The colloquium, 
Humboldt Fellowships are among the prestigious international awards for research and travel. They are designed to recognize internationally-leading senior researchers from all scholarly disciplines for their record of achievements, and to facilitate visits to university and research centers in Germany. Leonardo, who holds the Renaissance Chair of Theoretical Physics, was nominated by the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, and has been awarded a Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in recognition of his accomplishments in research and teaching. The fellowship will make possible flexible visits to Munich to lecture and develop collaborations.
The Institute is proud that its long-term faculty member Robert Shrock has been appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor in recognition of his numerous contributions to the theory and phenomenology of high energy physics. Robert's work helped establish the electroweak sector of the Standard Model of elementary particles and forces, and continues to provide guidance to experimental searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.
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We're proud that Sam Homiller will receive the American Physics Society's 2021 J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics