Katherine Freese is the Director of the Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics as well as the Jeff & Gail Endowed Chair of Physics at the University of Texas, Austin. She is also Guest Professor of Physics at Stockholm University, where she received a $13M grant over ten years (2014-2024) for research in Cosmoparticle Physics.

In a creative panel format, Team Dark Matter (Katherine Freese, Elena Aprile, and Glennys Farrar) squared off against Team Dark Energy (Michael Turner, Saul Perlmutter, and Brian Greene) in an attempt to shine a flashlight on the nether regions of our universe.

The 2011 Isaac Asimov Memorial debate, moderated by Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson, featured a compelling discussion with six of the world’s leading voices on the subject: Dr. Katherine Freese, professor of physics at the University of Michigan; Dr. Jim Gates, professor of physics at the University of Maryland-College Park ...

Katherine Freese, Douglas Spolyar, Peter Bodenheimer, Paolo Gondolo, New J. Phys. 11:105014, 2009. e-Print: arXiv:0903.0101 [astro-ph.CO] “Positrons in Cosmic Rays from Dark Matter Annihilations for Uplifted Higgs Regions in MSSM.”

Freese’s work is in theoretical cosmology, at the interface of astrophysics and particle physics. This field has seen remarkable successes in the past decade, yet many questions remain, including: What is the universe made of? What is the dark matter? What is the dark energy?

Katherine Freese is a theoretical physicist and her area of focus is dark matter. Yes, just like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. She is currently a professor at The University of Texas, Austin. She was one of the first women to earn a BA in Physics from Princeton University.

A new research direction Freese and collaborators proposed in 2018 is Paleodetectors. In lieu of giant vats of xenon liquid or other detector material, the idea is to look for tracks in ancient rocks from 5 kilometers below the surface of the Earth.

2014年12月4日 · Katherine Freese, Associate Director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, explains how the nature of the universe on the largest scales and at the earliest times depends on the existence of strange subatomic particles.

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