Archive:News Story

• Research work of an REU student Joseph Lee has just been published in Physical Review A.

  The research work of an REU student Joseph Lee has just been published in Physical Review A. The paper, entitled Decomposition of high-rank factorized unitary coupled-cluster operators using ancilla and multiqubit controlled low-rank counterparts.

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• Prof. Jim Freericks elected to join several committees

  Prof. Jim Freericks has been elected as the Section Representative for the Chesapeake Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers in addition to being elected for several other committees

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• Georgetown Society of Physics Students Recognized as Outstanding Chapter

  The Georgetown University chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has won an 2021 Outstanding Chapter Award from the SPS National Office.

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• Undergrads present at APS conference

  Four undergraduate physics majors presented posters at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Physical Society, held at Rutgers University Dec 3-5.

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• Prof. Kai Liu to Chair IUPAP Commission on Magnetism

  Professor Kai Liu has been elected Chair of the IUPAP Commission on Magnetism, at the 30th General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

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• Discrete topology and geometry refresh our understanding in intrinsic Hall effects

  A recent work by Prof. Gen Yin and collaborators identified a new perspective to resolve the k-space quantum geometry on the vertices of Fermi surfaces.

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• 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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