Professor Emeritus Thomas J. McIlrath, long time faculty member of the Institute, passed away on December 20, 2020 of complications from Parkinson’s disease.

The book summarizes major developments in kinetic theory over the past fifty years, to which the authors have made important contributions

Nicole Yunger Halpern’s (IPST/ Harvard University) book “Quantum Steampunk:  The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow,” is to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2022

Distinguished University Professor Jan Sengers celebrated his 90th birthday on May 27 with tributes from his many friends and colleagues

Distinguished University Professor Mikhail Anisimov (IPST/Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) will present a paper titled “Thermophysical Properties of Liquids Obtained on the Basis of Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Fluctuations,” J. V. Sengers and M.A. Anisimov.

Tadmor was nominated “...For original, broad, and fundamental contributions to applied and computational mathematics, including conservation laws, kinetics, image processing, and social dynamics.”

“I would like to thank my IPST colleagues, staff and faculty for supporting my leadership this past year and Dean Varshney for his vision for the college,” Trivisa said

Garegin Papoian, IPST/Chemistry and Biochemistry, was one of the coaches for the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Team. 

Our research shows that nonclassical Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobabilities are more outlandish than quantum uncertainty.

Professor Tiwary awarded an American Chemical Society Division of Computers in Chemi