Jonathan Riess named 2024 Goldwater Scholar
April 17th, 2024
Jonathan Riess (C’25) is one of four students in the Georgetown University College of Arts and Sciences to receive a 2024 Goldwater Scholarship.…
Recent News
Visit from St. Kevin’s College, Melbourne, Australia
April 9th, 2024
The physics department recently hosted a group of 40 high school students from St. Kevin’s College in Melbourne, Australia.…
Escape the Lab!
April 7th, 2024
Students from local schools engaged in an Escape the Physics Lab challenge during the 2024 GUMSHOE Discovery Summit.…
REU student Anna Mazhar publishes work as a cover article in Symmetry.
March 27th, 2024
Anna Mazhar collaborated with Prof. Jim Freericks and Jeremy Canfield on a research project detailing a new way to solve for quantum wavefunctions of bound-state energy eigenstates called the single-shot factorization method.…
New DEPSCoR Grant to Support Neuromorphic Computing Efforts at DC Universities
March 12th, 2024
Prof. Kai Liu is part of a team from DC universities led by George Washington University that has recently received a $1M Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) capacity-building grant from the Department of Defense…
Undergraduate physics majors publish their research
February 28th, 2024
Georgetown undergraduate students Sophie Taylor and Yuri Chung and REU student Sam Becker were recent co-authors on a paper that appeared in the journal Heliyon.…
Professor Emanuela Del Gado has been invited to become Affiliate of the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics of the University of Edinburgh.
February 12th, 2024
Professor Emanuela Del Gado has been invited to become Affiliate of the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics.…
Recently Published Graduate Students’ Paper Selected as Cover Story Article
January 22nd, 2024
Physics graduate students Eli Adler and Thy Le are the first and second authors of a recently published paper.…
Peter Olmsted and Amy Liu elected to APS Council
January 7th, 2024
Peter Olmsted and Amy Liu have been elected to the American Physical Society’s Council of Representatives.…
The Georgetown chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) recently won a 2023-24 Future Faces of Physics Award from the National SPS
January 4th, 2024
The Georgetown chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) recently won a 2023-24 Future Faces of Physics Award from the National SPS. Georgetown’s proposal, developed by physics majors Amada Paris (C’25) and Cecilia Ochoa (C’24), was focused on organizing events to bring together students, faculty, and staff for a discussion on how to improve the culture at Georgetown physics and physics as a whole.…