Duke University QCD Group

01/05/2025

Tom Mehen, a highly regarded member of the faculty in the Department of Physics, passed away unexpectedly at his Chapel Hill home last weekend. He was 54.

11/22/2022

Steffen A. Bass

“Congratulations to QCD group graduate student Tianyu Dai for successfully defending her PhD thesis on a hard-soft factorized model of parton energy-loss! Well done, Dr. Dai!”

11/18/2022

Steffen A. Bass

“The Duke QCD group (Bass, Mehen and Mueller) anticipate openings for a postdoc and a research scientist at Duke effective September 1st 2023: The job ad can be found here: https://t.co/gJzhS6HMFO”

07/14/2022

Steffen A. Bass

“Congratulations to my student Wenkai Fan for successfully defending his PhD thesis today! Wenkai, we’re proud of you and wish you all the very best for the future!”

04/05/2022

Steffen A. Bass

“Back to in-person conferences - the excitement is palpable! Quark Matter 2022 in Krakow, Poland”

10/07/2020

Steffen A. Bass

“Congratulations to my colleague, mentor and friend Berndt Mueller for being awarded the 2021 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics! https://t.co/bFZfegTTox It’s a great recognition for his vast contributions to the study of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma ”

08/28/2020

Steffen A. Bass

“Here is a recording of the Colloquium I gave at and last week, summarizing our group’s work on the specific shear-viscosity of the : https://t.co/TQNMwYuKAA”

05/09/2020

Steffen A. Bass

“This weekend Duke celebrates its Class of 2020. Congratulations to our group's newly minted and now officially hooded PhDs Yingru Xu, Xiaojun Yao & Weiyao Ke. We wish them best luck & good fortunes for their future endeavors! https://t.co/JI2iJk4l7o and https://t.co/1Mc2trbv5v”

02/29/2020

Steffen A. Bass

“Congratulations to Physics Professor Kate Scholberg for being named Outstanding Referee by the Physical Review Journals https://t.co/Rdei5ABYsi This honor annually recognizes about 150 of the roughly 71,000 currently active referees for APS journals.”

11/11/2019

Steffen A. Bass

“I spend a fabulous day at Duke Kunshan University meeting with their academic leadership and physics faculty to discuss closer collaboration between and with DKU. I’m already looking forward to my next visit!”

11/08/2019

Steffen A. Bass

“This week, is celebrating first-generation/low-income ( ) students, but I have to be in Brighton for the collaboration meeting. I was also a , and now I’m a leader of DES and professor at Duke University. I can’t join today, so I’ll comment here.”

11/07/2019

Duke QCD group dinner at Quark Matter 2019 in Wuhan - this dinner has become a great tradition at Quark Matter conferences ever since QM2005 in Budapest