School of Physics & Astronomy
College of Science and Engineering
Twin Cities
Award Year
2019
University Award
Distinguished McKnight University Professors
Section A
, Location 14
Searching for the beginning of time
Vuk Mandic has made significant contributions to the recent discoveries of gravitational waves with LIGO and Virgo detectors and to searches for Dark Matter, the missing mass in the universe that is believed to hide in the form of new massive particles. His experiments aim to illuminate the first moments of the evolution of the universe and to understand the physical laws that apply at very high energies that are not reproducible in laboratories.