Join Swati Ravi, a Physics PhD candidate at the MIT Kavli Institute for a conversation around List Projects 34: Brittany Nelson. How do we imagine what we cannot directly see? This lecture connects Brittany Nelson’s artistic practices inspired by space exploration with scientific methods used to study black holes, highlighting the shared roles of imagination,

The MIT Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research invites you to a symposium and memorial service honoring Professor Rainer Weiss, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2017) and longtime member of our faculty, whose visionary work made the discovery of gravitational waves possible. The morning memorial service will be gathering of family,

The MIT Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research invites you to a symposium and memorial service honoring Professor Rainer Weiss, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2017) and longtime member of our faculty, whose visionary work made the discovery of gravitational waves possible. The all-day symposium will include a full day of

NASA astronaut Chris Williams (PhD ’12) who completed his doctoral research at MIT in astrophysics, is launching to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on November 27th. A Roscosmos Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft will carry Williams on his first flight, as well as Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev of Roscosmos. Liftoff is