Undergrads create summer camp to support women in physics
The SPINWIP student organizer team: Amber Yang 21 (top left), Beatriz Yankelevich 21 (top bottom), Serena Debesai 22(bottom left) and Sophie Decoppet 21 (bottom right). (Photo courtesy of Beatriz Yankelevich)
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Women earn less than a quarter of physics bachelor’s degrees, but a group of Stanford undergraduate women are seeking to change that.
The Stanford Program for Inspiring the Next Generation of Women in Physics (SPINWIP), a virtual three-week summer camp for high schoolers, seeks to expose women and first-generation low-income (FLI) youth to the possibilities of careers in physics and STEM and is taught entirely by women.
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The FINANCIAL For the first time, DES scientists can combine measurements of the distribution of matter, galaxies, and galaxy clusters to advance our understanding of dark energy.
According to Stanford University, the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, and while no one is sure why, researchers with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) at least had a strategy for figuring it out: They would combine measurements of the distribution of matter, galaxies and galaxy clusters to better understand what’s going on.
Reaching that goal turned out to be pretty tricky, but now a team led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University and the University of Arizona have come up with a solution. Their analysis, published today in Physical Review Letters, yields more precise estimates of the average density of matter as well as its propensity to clump together – two key parameters that help physicists probe the nat
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IMAGE: A map of the sky showing the density of galaxy clusters, galaxies and matter in the universe over the part of the sky observed by the Dark Energy Survey. The. view more
Credit: Chun-Hao To/Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
The universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, and while no one is sure why, researchers with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) at least had a strategy for figuring it out: They would combine measurements of the distribution of matter, galaxies and galaxy clusters to better understand what s going on.
Reaching that goal turned out to be pretty tricky, but now a team led by researchers at the Department of Energy s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University and the University of Arizona have come up with a solution. Their analysis, published April 6 in