Archive: News Story

• Prof. Mak Paranjape Receives NSF Grant for Collaboration with US FDA

  Mak Paranjape, Associate Professor of Physics, recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to collaborate with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on a project involving biom

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• Society of Physics Students (SPS) Organizes Event with Georgetown Institute for College Preparation (ICP) program

  Students from the department’s chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) recently spent part of an afternoon demonstrating physics concepts to students in the Georgetown Institute for Coll

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• Prof. Emanuela Del Gado’s Paper Recommended by Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

  The Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics recommended Prof. Emanuela Del Gado paper on Understanding Rigidity in Colloidal Gels

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• Prof. Freericks selected for the Slater Lecture Series of the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida

  James Slater Professor Freericks will give three lectures at the University of Florida from October 22-24, 2019. He is selected as the 2019 Slater Lecturer. Slater Lecturers are from the field of

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• Physics Faculty Win DC space Grant

  A group of physics faculty (Cothran, Del Gado, Freericks and Van Keuren) were recently awarded a grant from the District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium (DCSGC).

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• College Science Professors Pedal for a World Free of MS

  Jeff Urbach, photographed by Team Georgetown teammate Peter Olmsted, at the start of their three-day ride along the C&O canal towpath from Cumberland to Georgetown in May. Jeffrey Urbach, Professo

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• Shichen Wang and Kara Googins Receive TA Awards

  Graduate students Shichen Wang and Kara Googins received the 2019 Outstanding Physics Teaching Assistant Award for their exemplary service as PHYS-101/102 teaching assistants during the 2018-19 acade

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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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