News

  • 22 October 2021:
    Featured in the BBC
  • 22 October 2021:
    Brian Keating in Vox
  • 22 October 2021:
    Brian featured in the Union Tribune
  • 24 April 2018:
    Publication of Losing the Nobel Prize
  • 23 April 2018:
    Losing the Nobel Prize selected as one of Amazon’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Month”
  • 20 April 2018:
    Selected as one of Nature’s Six Best Books of the Season
  • 1 January 2016:
    Brian Keating piece for edge.org "Looking Where the Light isn't"
  • 29 October 2015:
    Brian Keating gives physics colloquium at MIT
  • 28 October 2015:
    Brian Keating and POLARBEAR featured in PBS NOVA story
  • 28 October 2015:
    Article about POLARBEAR and Smons Array on NOVA's blog
  • 26 October 2015:
    Prof. Brian Keating and Prof. Nick Spitzer (Biology) speak at UCSD Alumni Inspiring Minds event at the National Museum of Mathematics. Pictures here
  • 14 October 2015:
    Brian Keating speaks to the UC San Diego Chancellor's Associates
  • 4 January 2016:
    Brian Keating speaks to Caltech High Energy Physics group about The Twisted Universe: Cosmic Polarization Tests of CPT
  • 11 October 2015:
    Brian Keating speaks for the Harvard Club of San Diego
  • 16 August 2015:
    Brian Keating speaks to Aaron Price Fellows Class of 2018 in Julian, CA
  • 11 August 2015:
    Brian Keating invited speaker at SPIE Polarization Science and Remote Sensing
  • 6 August 2015:
    Brian Keating speaks about the Physics of Free Will as part of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination summer event series. Photos of the event
  • 30 July 2015:
    UCSD Cosmology to participate in $1M NASA funded Phase A study for the LiteBIRD CMB Satellite
  • 17 July 2015:
    POLARBEAR/Simons Array featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 13 July 2015:
    POLARBEAR/Simons Array face-to-face meeting at UC Berkeley
  • 4 June 2015:
    Congratulations to Dr. Darcy Barron for Successfully defending her Ph.D!
  • 13 May 2015:
    Brian Keating speaks at University of Washington Dark Universe Science Center Seminar
  • 26 April 2015:
    Brian Keating addresses UC Regents Scholars at the Inter Uc Conference at UCSD
  • 23 April 2015:
    Professor Brian Keating in conversation surround event at San Diego REP theatre
  • 22 March 2015:
    Brian Keating to speak at San Diego Sunday Assembly about the Physics of Free Will
  • 14 March 2015:
    Jonah Saidian featured in San Diego Union Tribune
  • 9 March 2015:
    Brian Keating's talk at Degrees of Freedom posted on UCTV and YouTube
  • 26 February 2015:
    Brian Keating speaks at Gilead Sciences as part of UC San Diego Alumni "Inspiring Minds"
  • 24 February 2015:
    Brian Keating recieves the 20th Annual Diversity Award. Photos
  • 11 February 2015:
    Brian Keating speaks to the Israel- U.S. Immesion Program at the Rady School of Business
  • 8 February 2015:
    Brian Keating's visit to NRAO's Very Large Array is featured in Santa Barbara news
  • 6 February 2015:
    Brian Keating speaks at NRAO Socorro campus
  • 29 January 2015:
    Brian Keating gives physics colloquium at UC Riverside
  • 22 January 2015:
    Brian Keating to speak at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma
  • 21 January 2015:
    Brian Keating speaks at Eleanor Roosevelt College series Degrees of Seperation. Tickets here: Links from the talk
  • 16 January 2015:
    Brian Keating quoted in Vancouver 24 Hours
  • 15 January 2015:
    Brian Keating invited to speak at Testing Gravity 2015
  • 7 January 2015:
    Brian Keating gives a TEDxSanDiego Talk: Going to the Ends of the Earth to Discover the Beginning of Time
  • 6 January 2015:
    Brian Keating moderates "The Art of Science" discussion between Alan Alda and Prof. Nick Spitzer
  • 6 January 2015:
    Brian Keating and Jon Kaufman win the 2014 Buchalter Prize and were featured in UCSDNews
  • 29 December 2014:
    Brian Keating featured in Union-Tribune top science stories of 2014
  • 4 December 2014:
    Brian Keating wins NASA Achievement Award from Administrator Bolden
  • 2 December 2014:
    Brian Keating on the death of Murph Goldberger
  • 13 November 2014:
    The UCSD Guardian article describes POLARBEAR's first detection of B-mode polarization at small scales
  • 8 November 2014:
    Brian Keating's TedxSanDiego talk written-up on the UC San Diego Extension website
  • 30 October 2014:
    Brian Keating gives the UC San Diego Physics Colloquium
  • 21 October 2014:
    Brian Keating speaks at Rotary Club of La Jolla
  • 21 October 2014:
    Numerous Press Releases about POLARBEAR's detection of gravitational lensing B-mode polarization
  • 24 September 2014:
    Brian Keating quoted in Union-Tribune obituary for Dr. Keith Brueckner
  • 15 October 2014:
    Jon Kaufman speaks at the SDAA Program Meeting
  • 15 October 2014:
    Brian Keating speaks at the Simons Foundation for UC San Diego Inspiring Minds
  • 7 October 2014:
    Brian Keating speaks at UCSD Town & Gown
  • 4 September 2014:
    Brian Keating speaks at I.N.A.F. in Arcetri Italy
  • 2 September 2014:
    Brian Keating speaks about BICEP2 at SISSA in Trieste, Italy
  • 26 August 2014:
    Congratulations to Dr. Chang Feng on the successful defense of his Ph.D. dissertation. Welcome to the club!
  • 22 August 2014:
    Brian Keating speaks at the Aaron Price Fellows program in Julian,CA.
  • 15 August 2014:
    Morehouse College student Saidou N'gaidé and Brian Keating pose for UCSD-Morehouse Bridge Program Group photo!
  • 7 August 2014:
    Reece Akana (Harvard) and Saidou N'gaidé (Moorehouse) get data
  • 31 July 2014:
    Brian Keating announced as TEDx San Diego speaker
  • 30 July 2014:
    Brian Keating speaks at Qualcomm Inc.
  • 29 July 2014:
    Brian Keating speaks at Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination event
  • 29 May 2014:
    Brian Keating gives the UC Santa Cruz Physics Colloquium
  • 15 May 2014:
    Brian Keating is pictured in UCSD's Science Fiction Movie Series featured at the UC San Diego News Center.
  • 14 May 2014:
    Brian Keating and graduate student, Chang Feng, featured in RedOrbit, Phys.org, DailyGalaxy, LaboratoryEquipment and SpaceRef articles.
  • 14 May 2014:
    Recent discoveries by UCSD Cosmology featured in ANI/Yahoo News and DNAIndia.
  • 2 May 2014:
    Keating Cosmology Lab undergraduate researcher Guangyuan (James) Feng wins William & Kathy Hagan Award at Dean's Undergraduate Award ceremony!
  • 2 May 2014:
    Keating Cosmology Lab undergraduate researcher Daniel Gonzales wins Norm Taylor Award at Dean's Undergraduate Award ceremony!
  • 22 April 2014:
    Congratulations to Dr. Jon Kaufman for successfully completing his Ph.D.
  • 11 April 2014:
    Congratulations to Dr. David Boettger for successfully completing his Ph.D.
  • 26 March 2014:
    Graduate student, Jon Kaufman, explains inflation in a comic.
  • 23 March 2014:
    UT-San Diego interview with Brian Keating.
  • 23 March 2014:
    Graphic about POLARBEAR and Simons Array.
  • 22 March 2014:
    @BICEPTWO Twitter account reaches 1000 followers within 5 days of launching!
  • 21 March 2014:
    Top five most popular CMB papers of the past week about BICEP2 and POLARBEAR
  • 17 March 2014:
    Fox 5 News interview with Prof. Brian Keating on BICEP2 discovery.
  • 17 March 2014:
    BICEP2 collaboration reports detection of B-modes at degree scales.
  • 16 March 2014:
    Sky & Telescope article on Inflation, BICEP, and POLARBEAR.
  • 15 March 2014:
    "Atomic Layer Deposition of Tunnel Barriers for Superconducting Tunnel Junctions” published in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics.
  • 10 March 2014:
    POLARBEAR collaboration detects the B-mode power spectrum.
  • 1 March 2014:
    UC San Diego CASS physics graduate student Darcy Barron on ABC radio.
  • 21 February 2014:
    Professor Brian Keating speaks on the occasion of Galileo's 450th birthday.
  • 19 February 2014:
    Dr. Kam Arnold speaks at the San Diego Astronomy Association.
  • 15 February 2014:
    Brandon Wilson et al "A Robust Cooling Platform for NIS Junction Refrigeration and sub-Kelvin Cryogenic Systems" published in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics.
  • 15 January 2014:
    Barron et al. "The POLARBEAR Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Experiment" published in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics.
  • 15 January 2014:
    Suzuki et al published "Multi-Chroic Dual-Polarization Bolometric Detectors for Studies of the Cosmic Microwave Background" in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics.
  • 15 January 2014:
    Simons Foundation Story on POLARBEAR and the Simons Array.
  • 8 January 2014:
    Brian Keating teaching Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Class on Modern Cosmology.
  • 3 January 2014:
    Brian Keating spoke at the Sunrise Rotary Club of Del Mar/Solana Beach.
  • 31 December 2013:
    BICEP1 constraints on cosmic Birefringence and self-calibration released.
  • 23 December 2013:
    POLARBEAR first-season results released (paper1,paper2).
  • 4 December 2013:
    Brian Keating lectures at the Golden Door Spa.
  • 1 December 2013:
    Undergraduates Daniel Gonzales and Guanguan (James) Feng win two (of only six) Dean's Awards for Excellence!
  • 1 November 2013:
    Graduate student Fred Matsuda wins ARCS Foundation Scholarship
  • 29 October 2013:
    Physics Near You Colloquium presentation at Quantum Design Inc.
  • 27 October 2013:
    Brian Keating speaks for AFW Palm Springs Fundraiser.
  • 22 October 2013:
    Brian Keating is an invited speaker to the UCSD Biomedical Engineering Society BE Inspired
  • 17 October 2013:
    Brian Keating hosted and organized the Math for America, San Diego Fundraiser: The Changing Face of Mathematics
  • 16 October 2013:
    Brian Keating spoke at SD Lyncean Club.
  • 16 October 2013:
    Brian Keating organized ACCCHI on Math, The Body, the Mind.
  • 1 October 2013:
    Brian Keating speaks at gala for the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) honoring Jim Simons.
  • 1 October 2013:
    POLARBEAR featured in Sky and Telescope Magazine.
  • 26 September 2013:
    Brian Keating speaks at the Golden Door Spa Executive Retreat.
  • 23 September 2013:
    Brian Keating speaks at Cosmology after Planck at U. Michigan.
  • 11 September 2013:
    Brian Keating meets with NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, Dr. Michael Gazarik at the mm-wave spectroscopy lab in the SERF Building Room 370.
  • 9 September 2013:
    Brian Keating spoke about Constraining Fundamental Physics with CMB Polarization at TAUP 2013.
  • 8 September 2013:
    Darcy Barron presents POLARBEAR poster at the TAUP Conference at Asilomar, CA.
  • 10 May 2013 :
    Undergraduate Minyoung You wins Norm Taylor Award.
  • 6 May 2013:
    Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Moyerman for successfully completing her Ph.D.
  • 5 May 2013:
    UCSD Scientists to explore from Arctic to jungles.
  • 28 April 2013:
    Brian Keating presents at the UC INPAC-MRPI Asilomar event: "Seeing Cosmic Neutrinos through the CMB's Lenses with POLARBEAR".
  • 27 April 2013:
    Brian Keating featured as keynote speaker at Public Conversations Nourish event in San Diego.
  • 17-19 April 2013:
    Chang Feng, Amit Yadav and Brian Keating speak at LBNL's "Beyond the Power Spectrum" Workshop.
  • 15 April 2013:
    Brian Keating joins the Distinguished Lecturer series at UCSD's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
  • 12 April 2013:
    Students from Cal State University at L.A. Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (CSU-LSAMP) program tour the Keating Cosmology lab.
  • 26 March 2013:
    UCSD POLARBEAR team members present at the POLARBEAR-1, POLARBEAR-2 and Simons Array Face-to-face meeting at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan.
  • 14 March 2013:
    Brian Keating to give "UCSD Physics Colloquium near you" at Cymer Inc.
  • 13 March 2013:
    Graduate student, Frederick Matsuda, wins Inamori Foundation Fellowship.
  • 12 March 2013:
    Graduate student Darcy Barron participates in a Congressional Visit by Scientists and Engineers with Congresswoman Susan Davis.
  • 8 March 2013:
    PRESS RELEASE: Angel Flight West Event Features Volunteer Pilot, Astrophysicist Brian Keating.
  • 5 March 2013:
    Brian Keating speaks at an MIT Astrophysics Colloquium.
  • 1 March 2013:
    Brian Keating speaks at a Dartmouth Physics Colloquium.
  • 26 February 2013:
    Angel Flight Public Lecture by Brian Keating "Extreme Astronomy (and Aviation): Flying to the Ends of the Earth to Glimpse the Beginning of Time".
  • 14 February 2013:
    Brian Keating speaks at UC Irvine.
  • 9 January 2013:
    New telescopes to Give UC San Diego Researchers Glimpse of the Beginning of Time.
  • 14 November 2012:
    Brian Keating to speak at UCSD's Geisel Library.
  • 24 October 2012:
    Math for America San Diego benefit.
  • 15 October 2012:
    Brian Keating's work influences UCSD Professor (Pulitzer Prize-winning) poet Rae Armantrout to write a poem called "Accounts" which is featured in the Best American Poetry of 2012.
  • 19 September 2012:
    Brian Keating spoke at the University of Rome "La Sapienza."
  • 14 September 2012:
    Brian Keating spoke at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.
  • June 27, 2012:
    Brian Keating spoke at the Keck Institute for Space Science CMB workshop.
  • 23 May 2012:
    Brian Keating lectures on UCSD Cosmology from cold climates: Chile and Antarctica.
  • 21 May 2012:
    San Diego Union Tribune interview Brian Keating.
  • 18 May 2012:
    Undergraduate student Lisa Krayer wins $1000 first prize in UCSD Undergraduate Library Research Prize.
  • 1 May 2012:
    POLARBEAR featured in at UCSD Alumni magazine.
  • 26 April 2014:
    Undergraduates Minyoung You and Lisa Krayer participated the the UC San Diego Undergraduate Research Conference.
  • 15 April 2012:
    Graduate student Stephanie Moyerman wins AAUW Dissertation Fellowship.
  • 9 April 2012:
    UCSD Hosts POLARBEAR 1 and 2 collaborations face-to-face meetings.
  • 31 March 2012:
    Graduate student Jonathan Kaufman wins Antarctica Service Medal.
  • 22 March 2012:
    Undergraduate student Lisa Krayer wins National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) in the Material Measurement Laboratory/NIST Center for Neutron Research (MML/NCNR) Materials science program in Gaithersburg, MD.
  • 10 January 2012:
    POLARBEAR Achieves first light in Chile
  • 15 March 2011:
    San Diego Union Tribune reports UCSD's plans to build telescope in Chilean desert.
  • 16 February 2011:
    UCSD Cosmology's twitter feed went live.
  • November 2010:
    The POLARBEAR telescope has shipped to Chile.
  • October 2010:
    Math for America San Diego benefit.
  • August 2010:
    Prof. Keating featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune: "Meet the Scientist"
  • 24 May 2010:
    Hans Paar's book, An Introduction to Advanced Quantum Physics, is published.
  • May 2010:
    Brian Keating spoke at the San Diego Astronomy Association.
  • May 2010:
    On the 400th anniversary of Galileo's invention of the telescope, Brian Keating spoke at UCSD's Cal-It2 event: "Galileo Between Science, Science Studies, and Science Fiction," along with authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Mario Biogioli. Keating describes his observations of the early universe made with a version of Galileo's refractor telescope, which is sensitive to radio-waves, instead of visible light. This telescope (BICEP), located in Antarctica, has made ultra-sensitive images of the afterglow of the Big Bang. He showed imsages of the early universe as well as observations of Jupiter made with a new UCSD telescope (POLARBEAR). Link to YouTube video. [Keating starts at 1h6m]
  • 21 March 2010:
    "It’s not all relative when a nationally recognized physicist discusses two game changing geniuses of the 20th century. Join Dr. Brian Keating, who last wowed REP audiences with his provocative discussion of the birth of the universe, as he describes connections between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, not the least of which was Picasso’s attempt to represent multiple (spatial) dimensions in only two dimensions of the canvas—a highly mathematical endeavor! Dr. Keating received the Presidential White House Science Award."
  • 9 March 2010:
    UCSD alumni event at San Diego Science Alliance.
  • January 2010:
    Brian Keating spoke at the San Diego Repertory Theatre.
  • 8 June 2009:
    Evan Bierman and Brian Keating and their colleagues have released initial results from BICEP.
  • 28 April 2009:
    Brian Keating and Hans Paar are featured in "Race to the Beginning of Time" in the Voice of San Diego.
  • 13 March 2009:
    Hans Paar has accepted delivery of the POLARBEAR telescope. The telescope and mount will be installed at the CARMA site in mid-2009.
  • 10 March 2009:
    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.
  • 30 November 2008:
    Hans Paar featured on a The Naked Scientists podcast called "The Birth of the Universe, over coffee."
  • 12 June 2008:
    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 for 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.
  • 17 February 2008:
    UCSD's BICEP experiment was featured in a CBS News report about science at the South Pole.
  • December 2007:
    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. For complete story.