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ISM DAY 2026Oct. 15

  • 9:00 am
  • Healey Family Student Center & Regents Hall

Student Research Day 2026Oct. 20

  • 9:00 am
  • Medical and Dental Building and Preclinical Science Building

Physics Colloquium: When Topology Takes a Turn: Uncovering Three-Dimensional Skyrmion Transition Pathways via Neutron Tomography (Dr. Melissa Henderson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)Oct. 20

  • 3:15 pm
  • Regents Hall, Room 109

Physics Colloquium: The Twist in Next-Generation Computing: From Conventional Spintronics to Chiral Quantum Materials (Dr. See-Hun Yang, IBM Research)Oct. 27

  • 3:15 pm
  • Regents Hall, Room 109

Physics Colloquium: Prof. John Crocker, University of PennsylvaniaNov. 3

  • 3:15 pm
  • Regents Hall, Room 109

Recent News

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2026 Mayer Scholarship Recipients

September 2nd, 2026

The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Raheen Iqbal and Colin Langton are the recipients of the 2026 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship, which supports graduate students pursuing a Ph.D. in experimental physics…

Aya Ahmed

Georgetown physics major wins research poster award

August 11th, 2026

Aya Ahmad, a rising junior physics major, was recently named one of the top presenters at the 2026 Physical and Life Sciences Summer Student Showcase at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.…

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Professor Freericks authors new quantum textbook

August 7th, 2026

Quantum Mechanics Done Right: The shortest path from novice to researcher, by James K. Freericks, has been published by Springer Nature. The book introduces a representation-independent paradigm…