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  • 6/8/09: Evan Bierman and Brian Keating and their colleagues have released initial results from BICEP. For more information on BICEP's first data release, please click here

  • 4/28/09: Brian Keating and Hans Paar are featured in the "Voice of San Diego" online newspaper on 4/28/2009. Link to the article here

  • 3/13/09: Prof. Hans Paar has accepted delivery of the POLARBEAR telescope. The telescope and mount will be installed at the CARMA site in mid-2009

    Prof. Paar inspecting the telescope

  • 3/10/09: Prof. Brian Keating has received a US Patent for his "Faraday Rotation Modulators" which were used in BICEP

    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent #7,501,909

    For PDF version click here

  • 11/30/08: Hans Paar on The Naked Scientists

  • 06/12/08: Brian Keating has written a book chapter called An "Ultrasonic Image" of the Embryonic Universe: CMB Polarization Tests of the Inflationary Paradigm on the physics of gravitational wave polarization of the CMB to appear in VISIONS OF DISCOVERY: New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness, ed. R.Y. Chiao, M.L. Cohen, A.J. Leggett, W.D. Phillips, and C.L. Harper, Jr. Cambridge University Press.

    The chapter can be downloaded here or from astro-ph

  • UCSD's BICEP experiment was featured in a CBS News report about science at the South Pole. Video here

  • Physics professor Hans Paar and assistant professor Brian Keating are collaborating on the POLARBEAR telescope to measure gravitational waves generated at the beginning of the universe.

  • La Jolla Village News, December 2007 - A POLARBEAR will soon reside in the Inyo mountains, thanks to a couple of UCSD astrophysicists. Physics professor Hans Paar and assistant professor Brian Keating are building what they call a POLARBEAR telescope to measure gravitational waves generated at the beginning of the universe."

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