News related to Publications

The paper titled "In Situ Structural Studies of Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin in the E. coli Membrane" is being featured in the New and Notable section of Biophysical Journal, Volume 108, Issue 7. The authors from the Department of Physics include graduate students Meaghan E. Ward, Rachel Munro, and Emilty Ritz as well as previous postdoctoral fellow Shenlin Wang, along with Professors Leonid Brown and Vladimir Ladizhansky.

Professor Eric Poisson received an honorable mention from the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence for his textbook "Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic",  co-authored with Clifford Will.

Congratulations Eric!

Please see the journal's front page to view the article as an Editor's Suggestion. The full article "Tidal deformation of a slowly rotating black hole" is also available online.

With collaborators Carlos Palenzuela and Steve Liebling, Prof. Luis Lehner discovered by numerical simulations that merging supermassive black holes can give rise to powerful emissions of plasma collimated into a single jet. This single jet is the result of the merger of the individual jets attached to each black hole, which merge together as the black holes merge. This effect has clear observational consequences, and will permit the precise localization of the system which hosts the merging black holes.

One of the figures from a paper by graduate student James LeBlanc has been selected for display on the front page of the redesigned journal web site of Physical Review B (http://prb.aps.org) under the new feature \"Kaleidoscope\" where it will appear (rotating with 11 others) on the main page for approximately one month, and will also appear (permanently) on the archive page (http://prb.aps.org/kaleidoscope). The figure is from the paper \"Signatures of superconducting gap inhomogeneities in optical properties\", by J.P.F. LeBlanc, E.J. Nicol, and J.P. Carbotte, Phys.