In July, Assistant Professor in Residence Howard Winston was awarded a patent, assigned to the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, titled “System and Method for Health Monitoring of Electrical Systems.”
Professor of Physics Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology delivered the 22nd Annual Katzenstein Distinguished Lecture. The title of his talk was “Exploration of the Universe with Gravitational Waves.”
Andrew Millis, a professor of physics at Columbia University and co-director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute, delivered the 2018 Reynolds Lecture in March of 2019.
In April, Professor of Physics Paul Corkum from the University of Ottawa presented the annual Edward Pollack Distinguished Lecture. The title of his talk was “Attosecond Pulses Generated in Gases and Solids.” The lecture is supported by an endowment established in 2005 by the family of the late UConn Professor Edward Pollack.
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