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Prof. Freericks part of a Quantum Leap Challenge Institute conceptual grant team led by the University of Florida.
Prof. Freericks is part of a team developing a proposal to create an institute in quantum biology with quantum computers centered at the University of Florida. The NSF recently funding this conceptua
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Prof. Freericks has his Quantum Information Science grant renewed by the National Science Foundation
NSF has funded a grant to examine reservoir engineering in Penning trap-based quantum computers. Experiments will take place at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, with theory work taking place at Georgetown.
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Postdoctoral researcher Oleg Matveev’s work on ultrafast thermometry is published in Physical Review Letters
One of the recent advances in experimental physics are ultrafast pump/probe experiments that pump a large amount of energy into a material over very short time scales (the time for light to move
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Alumna Who Discovered Evidence of Dark Matter Inspires Global Symposium
June 28, 2019 – A symposium honoring Vera Rubin (G’54), one of the most important American astrophysicists of the 20th century, took place this week at Georgetown, where she received a Ph.D. and bega
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2019 Mayer Scholarship Recipient
The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Luke St. Marie is the recipient of the 2019 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship, which supports a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D.
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Alumnus Max Lefcochilos-Fogelquist publishes work based on undergraduate thesis
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)”
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Undergraduate thesis work of Dylan Cutler ’17 and visiting student Lucas Vieira-Barbosa published in The Physics Teacher
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.
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Freericks group publishes research on quantum behavior of periodically driven interacting materials.
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.
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Eleni Hughes to participate in 2019 Expanding Horizons program
Eleni Hughes has been selected to participate in the 2019 Expanding Horizons: Ewha-Luce International Seminar (ELIS) for women in STEM.
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Faculty presenting invited talks at the 2019 APS March Meeting
Three Georgetown faculty members will be presenting invited talks at the 2019 March Meeting of the American Physical Society
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