Alumna Who Discovered Evidence of Dark Matter Inspires Global Symposium
June 28th, 2019
June 28, 2019 – A symposium honoring Vera Rubin (G’54), one of the most important American astrophysicists of the 20th century, took place t…
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2019 Mayer Scholarship Recipient
June 19th, 2019
The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Luke St. Marie is the recipient of the 2019 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship, …
Alumnus Max Lefcochilos-Fogelquist publishes work based on undergraduate thesis
May 31st, 2019
Max Lefcochilos-Fogelquist (C’17) is first author on the article “Substrate-induced suppression of charge density wave phase in monolayer 1H-TaS2 on Au(111)”
Undergraduate thesis work of Dylan Cutler ’17 and visiting student Lucas Vieira-Barbosa published in The Physics Teacher
April 29th, 2019
Dylan Cutler and Lucas Vieira-Barbosa each wrote their theses on a project that developed javascript tutorials, simulations and animations for the edX MOOC Quantum Mechanics for Everyone, taught by Prof. Freericks.
Freericks group publishes research on quantum behavior of periodically driven interacting materials.
April 17th, 2019
Research completed with a visiting graduate student from Germany (Mona Kalthoff) and her advisor in Germany (Gotz Uhrig) has recently been published in the high-profile journal Physical Review Letters.