The European Research Council has awarded almost 9 million euros to MIT’s Nergis Mavalvala, the University of Vienna’s Philip Walther and Piotr Chruściel, and the University of Munich LMU’s Georgi Dvali to investigate the influence of gravity on light quanta. The ERC Synergy Grant “GRAVITES” will perform experiments at the interface of quantum physics and general relativity. GRAVITES aims to

Anna-Christina Eilers, a NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow with the MIT Kavli Institute, has won three prestigious awards for her thesis research at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. In her thesis work, Eilers studied extremely luminous galaxies called quasars that exist 13 billion light years from Earth. Light from these quasars takes so long to

Two graduate physics students at the MIT Kavli Institute have received $70,000 MathWorks Fellowships. The students, Nicholas Demos and Wenxuan Jia, work on projects related to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the lab of Matthew Evans, the MIT MathWorks Professor of Physics. “It’s a great thing for both of them and our lab