Remembering Joe Serene
May 10th, 2021
It is with sadness that we share the news of the death of Joseph W. Serene.
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Recents News
Professor Peter Olmsted elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology
May 7th, 2021
Professor Peter Olmsted has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology. Fellows are selected based on distinguished scientific achievement, significant technological accomplishment, and/or outstanding scholarship in the field of Rheology.
Atomic layer of hydrogen adds a new twist to nanomagnets
April 16th, 2021
In this work just published in PRX, Dr. Gong Chen, Prof. Kai Liu and their team report a fundamentally new way to induce the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), a handle to introduce topology into real-space magnetic configurations.
Victoria Boatwright publishes paper in the Georgetown Scientific Research Journal
March 29th, 2021
Biological physics major Victoria Boatwright (C ’22) has published the article “Biological and Physical Interactions at Local Ocean Scales: Coupled Systems” in the inaugural issue of the Georgetown Scientific Research (GSR) Journal.
Georgetown physicists develop nanowire-based foam filters for fighting COVID-19 and air pollution
March 24th, 2021
Georgetown physicists James Malloy, Alberto Quintana, Chris Jensen and Prof. Kai Liu have demonstrated light weight nanowire-based metal foam filters for capturing deep submicron airborne particulates.