Archive: News Story

• 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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• Jim Freericks (Physics) Answers: How Do You Engage Students—with no background in the sciences—in Quantum Mechanics?

  Jim Freericks (Physics) recently worked with CNDLS to design the MOOC, “Quantum Mechanics for Everyone”

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• 2019 REU Program

  The Georgetown REU Site in Materials Physics is accepting applications for summer 2019.

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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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