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Prof. Emanuela Del Gado Elected as APS GSOFT Executive Committee Member
Prof. Emanuela Del Gado has been elected as an GSOFT Executive Committee Member. GSOFT is a APS Topical Group on Soft Matter. The Executive Committee for GSOFT provides assistance and guidance to all
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Prof. Freericks Elected as AAAS Fellow
Professor James Freericks of the Department of Physics has been named a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Prof. Liu is theme leader of a newly funded SMART research center on Spintronics
A new research center named Spintronic Materials in Advanced infoRmation Technologies (SMART) with focus on novel materials for advanced computing systems has been funded by the Nanoelectronic Computing Research (nCORE) consortium.
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Prof. Freericks publishes research on a “quantum Cheshire cat” in prestigious journal Physical Review X
When quantum materials are highly excited by ultrafast lasers, the electrons exchange energy with phonons, and eventually, the system relaxes back to equilibrium at a well-known temperature. But the
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Prof. Freericks receives two grants for quantum information science as part of the Department of Energy’s recent $218 million initiative.
The Department of Energy has announced $218 million in funding for work in quantum information science. Georgetown is the lead for a project in the Basic Energy Sciences directorate with North Caroli
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Quantum Mechanics for Everyone named one of ten finalists for the 2018 edX prize
Since 2016, edX has offered a prize to the top MOOCs of the year offered on their sites. The selection criterion is based on a number of different areas including impact of the course, quality of the
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Profs. Liu, Barbara and Van Keuren receive a Major Research Instrumentation Award from NSF
The National Science Foundation has awarded a Major Research Instrumentation grant to an interdisciplinary team of Georgetown faculty.
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Grace Maglieri awarded 2018-19 Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Scholarship
Physics major Grace Maglieri (C’19) has been named a Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Scholar for the 2018-19 academic year.
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Quantum Mechanics for Everyone is rated the number 9 best MOOC of all time by class central
Prof. Freericks’ MOOC on edx, Quantum Mechanics for Everyone is a top ten MOOC of all time, as rated by the website class central
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Manuel Weber wins APS-IUSSTF Travel Award to India
Postdoctoral fellow Manuel Weber has won a 2018 APS-IUSSTF Travel Award for travel to India.
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