Archive: News Story

• Quantum Mechanics for Everyone recognized as best MOOC of all time

  Quantum Mechanics for Everyone, and edX MOOC by Jim Freericks appears as the 7th best MOOC of all time on class central’s top 250 MOOCs of all time list.

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• Prof. Barbara and her colleague at New Mexico Tech, Prof. Nikolai Kalugin, awarded a three-year NSF collaborative grant

  Prof. Barbara and her colleague at New Mexico Tech, Prof. Nikolai Kalugin, were recently awarded a three-year NSF collaborative grant for a project titled Floquet-Bloch topological states in quantum Hall systems.

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• Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and collaborators have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation

  Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and collaborators have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to work on “Rheostructurally-informed Neural Networks for geopolymer material design”.

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• Daniel O’Brien and collaborators awarded NSF STEM education grant

  Graduate student Daniel O’Brien is a member of a team of researchers recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant to create and test a STEM education tool using smartphone-based LiDAR.

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• Professors Paola Barbara and Ed Van Keuren awarded an NSF grant

  Professors Paola Barbara and Ed Van Keuren were recently awarded a $350K grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Effects of Quantum Confinement in Photosensors from Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.”

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• Electrically Enhanced Exchange Bias via Solid State Magneto-Ionics

  Electrically induced ionic motion offers a new way to realize voltage-controlled magnetism, opening the door to a new generation of logic, sensor, and data storage technologies.

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• Class of 2019 physics major, Michael Rushka, publishes a second paper based on his thesis work

  Undergraduate Michael Rushka just had the second half of his thesis published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics.

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• Prof. Freericks publishes an article on partition function zeros and thermodynamics on quantum computers in Science Advances

  Prof. Freericks is part of a North Carolina State, University of Maryland and IonQ collaboration that reports the first use of quantum computers to determine partition function zeros.

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• Professor Peter Olmsted Awarded National Science Foundation grant

  Professor Peter Olmsted was recently awarded an National Science Foundation grant on the topic of  “Integrated Material Design and Processing–Application to Recycled Plastics”.

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• Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and Post-doctoral Researcher Abhay Goyal Publish Paper in Science Advances

  In a recent paper published in Science Advances, Emanuela Del Gado, Ph.D. and a professor in the Department of Physics and post-doctoral researcher Abhay Goyal create a novel model for studying the cohesive strength of cement in the hopes of creating greener infrastructure. 

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